There will be better automatic translation, but in a lot of business-to-business e-commerce, language won't be very important.

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In fact, broad adoption of English as the language of commerce is the root of the challenge and opportunity looming.

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To borrow the language of the commerce clause debate, the federal government can now tax inactivity.

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Indeed, the concept of collaborative e-commerce makes sense only if applications have a common language.

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Another important building block of e-commerce infrastructure involves activities described by Web Services Description Language, or WSDL. Oriental Motor, a Japanese distributor of industrial motors, relies on one of these programs to update the inventories and prices of the many parts it offers online.

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Clearly not the problem set out by the legislative language in an attempt to relate it to the commerce clause.

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Indeed, the Banking Committee's proposed "carve-out" language does not represent a unified Administration position at all, but rather merely language desired by industry and some in the Department of Commerce.

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The tech world, including Google, won an approval-of-sorts to control its stream of commerce in 2010, when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said licensing language controls resales.

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