When a credit card authorization is processed, the first stop is the bank where the online store has a merchant account. This bank is the merchant's bank.

Products which offer a very basic set of commands for sending and receiving data over a network in real-time. Typically, application developers create application-specific functions on top of MOM services. Examples of MOM products include IBM MQ Series and Digital DECmessage.

The use of electronic mail (e-mail), voice mail, fax, electronic data interchange (EDI), and other messaging technologies for secure global electronic commerce.

Middleware processes network application requests for data, which can be stored in a variety of database types. Because some middleware is designed to be specific for a single type of application/ database connection, different middleware to manage each application/ database combination may be necessary. This means that managing middleware in environments with diverse database types can be complex.

The standard for how to send multi-part, multimedia, and binary data using the world-wide Internet e-mail system. Typical uses of MIME include sending images, audio, word processing documents, programs, or even plain text files when it is important that the mail system does not modify any part of the file. MIME also allows for labeling message parts so that a recipient (or mail program) may determine what to do with them.

E-commerce began with purchases paid by credit card - roughly $10 and higher. New Micropayment systems allow for purchases ranging anywhere from a fraction of a cent to $5.

(or Mailing List) A (usually automated) system that allows people to send e-mail to one address, whereupon their message is copied and sent to all of the other subscribers to the maillist. In this way, people who have many different kinds of e-mail access can participate in discussions together.

A million bytes. Technically, it amounts to 1024 kilobytes.

A (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) -- The standard for attaching non-text files to standard Internet mail messages. Non-text files include graphics, spreadsheets, formatted word-processor documents, sound files, etc.
An email program is said to be MIME Compliant if it can both send and receive files using the MIME standard.
When non-text files are sent using the MIME standard they are converted (encoded) into text - although the resulting text is not really readable.
Generally speaking the MIME standard is a way of specifying both the type of file being sent (e.g. a Quicktime™ video file), and the method that should be used to turn it back into its original form. Besides email software, the MIME standard is also universally used by Web Servers to identify the files they are sending to Web Clients, in this way new file formats can be accommodated simply by updating the Browsers’ list of pairs of MIME-Types and appropriate software for handling each type.

Generally speaking, "to mirror" is to maintain an exact copy of something. Probably the most common use of the term on the Internet refers to "mirror sites" which are web sites, or FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material Originated at another location, usually in order to provide more widespread access to the resource.
Another common use of the term "mirror" refers to an arrangement where information is written to more than one hard disk simultaneously, so that if one disk fails, the computer keeps on working without losing anything.

(MOdulator, DEModulator) -- A device that you connect to your computer and to a phone line, that allows the computer to talk to other computers through the phone system. Basically, modems do for computers what a telephone does for humans.

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