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The battle over getting to know you
News Third-party ad networks and agencies do the same, creating comprehensive pictures of consumer behaviour across multiple Web sites. They are questioning whether publishers should have the right to use data from individual campaigns to build...
[February 22, 2002, 6:31]
Tags track Japanese shoppers
News The ability to track a consumer's in-store behaviour holds immense business potential for store owners, as it allows them to do things like charging higher premiums for high-traffic locations or tweaking product placement to spur movement of less...
[May 8, 2003, 11:16]
Confusing jargon blamed for IT spending slump
News The AMD Global Consumer Advisory Board (GCAB), founded by processor manufacturer AMD, claims that the study is the first to quantify the effect that tech confusion has on purchasing behaviour. The survey also revealed details of the way confusion...
[July 7, 2003, 13:15]
Is your email watching you?
News By contrast, junk emailers and even some legitimate marketers have begun to use cookies and other techniques to link specific addresses to surfing behaviour, security experts said. The shame about this behaviour is that it's going on...
[April 5, 2002, 10:19]
Data mining: An e-commerce revolution?
News Data mining is a good predictor of consumer behavior based on past behaviour -- what people are likely to purchase based on previous transactions, demographic information and other data points. It is also entirely automated, reacting instantly to...
[February 8, 2001, 11:25]
What's hidden in your hard drive?
News Spyware," or "sneakware," monitors online behaviour or mines an individual's data without asking for consent before invading that person's PC. Many are later disturbed to find their computers coopted by little-known companies to distribute...
[April 18, 2002, 15:48]
Game firms look to the wiki ethos
News The game is created so that simple choices on the part of the consumer - mouth shape, leg placement and so on - will be amplified by the computer's physics and behaviour models to create creatures worthy of a Pixar movie, he said.
[February 6, 2006, 12:40]
Microsoft launches free Security Essentials package
News The software studies the behaviour of suspicious applications, then reports back to a central server to check the behaviour against that of known malware. The suite also emulates programs before they complete their execution, and looks for...
[September 29, 2009, 16:20]
The cast of the ongoing peer-to-peer drama
News The groups stop short of endorsing copyright infringement, but they've said consumer behaviour can be explained by record labels' "anticompetitive" behaviour. Consumer groups: Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America have spoken out...
[June 28, 2005, 18:10]
Consumer satisfaction with PCs drops
News We've seen a pretty strong correlation between customers and how satisfied they are and their future purchase behaviour. It probably means for the economy at large that we will see a slowdown in consumer spending [next quarter] and consumer demand...
[August 14, 2007, 9:47]
SOA as a Foundation for Open, Flexible Business Collaboration
White Papers The business world is changing rapidly: driven largely by factors arising from the impact of the Internet and the Worldwide Web on consumer and market behaviour, and on business-to-business communications.
[April 21, 2007, 1:00]
Customer Centric Targeting: Supercharging Your Campaign Response Rates
White Papers By understanding how circumstances and attitudes drive customer behaviour, this webcast shows how to uncover the key drivers of consumer response, such that one knows exactly which information is needed about which customers in order to meet their...
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
A: Blu-Ray, B: HD-DVD, C: none of the above
Blog Moral behaviour so often depends on perceptions of fairness and harm, rather than conformity to fixed rules: arrogance and contempt, especially by the powerful, tend to score low on the list of attributes that encourage people not to sin.
[August 22, 2007, 17:28]
UK home Internet usage levels off
News This is the first time that a dip in British home Internet penetration has been recorded by the telecoms watchdog since it began monitoring residential consumer behaviour in January 1999. Significant drops in Internet penetration were witnessed...
[November 6, 2001, 12:36]
Interactive TV: It's watching you
News Companies such as Microsoft, AT&T, Liberty Media, News Corporation, AC Nielsen, Gemstar, Procter & Gamble and Young & Rubicam are among those developing software or investing in technology that can monitor consumer behaviour through interactive...
[June 27, 2001, 11:46]
EU votes to restrict cookies
News Ad technology companies typically place cookies on individuals' computers when an advertisement is delivered, giving them the ability to track consumer behaviour online and gauge the effectiveness of an ad campaign or target marketing to consumer...
[November 13, 2001, 16:48]
One pound in six now spent online
News IMRG's chief executive, James Roper, said on Thursday that consumer behaviour had "changed dramatically over the last few years". According to Anthoula Madden, Capgemini's vice president for UK consumer products and retail, the figure prove that...
[January 18, 2008, 14:56]
Sony faces multiple lawsuits over DRM rootkit
News As a consumer organisation we have the power to go to court for an injunction in the case of companies that cause consumer detriment with their behaviour," Pierani told ZDNet UK. A large Italian consumer group is the latest organisation to consider...
[November 10, 2005, 16:35]
Data in space: no one can you hear you scream
Blog It focused on planning for events inside an RDBMS for the retail industry and dealing with unknown waves of data caused by unpredictable consumer behaviour. NASA’s own Intelligent Spacecraft Interface Systems lab works with data inside an...
[August 26, 2009, 17:41]
Intellect implores tech sector to go green by 2020
News The IT and consumer electronics sector needs to act now by keeping tabs on its CO2 emissions, pushing customers towards greener behaviour and accelerating the implementation of low-carbon technology and practices, according to the report by...
[February 13, 2008, 9:07]
