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How To Boost Consumer Confidence In Your E-Commerce Web Site
White Papers This feature instills consumer confidence in protected sites and boosts online sales. Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, available as a downloadable Podcast, featuring Ryan White, Product Marketing Manager of SSL for VeriSign, to learn how...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Government To Promote Consumer Confidence On Net
News The White Paper -- Modern Markets: Confident Consumers -- lays out a raft of initiatives to improve consumer confidence both on and offline. Consumer confidence has to highlighted and will determine the success or failure of e-commerce," a...
[July 23, 1999, 11:21]
FSA Raises Concerns Over Internet Banking
News The remarks come as research from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) found consumer confidence in online banking to be "fragile". Robinson added: "Banks need to look carefully at consumer attitudes and whether their initiatives are effective in...
[January 24, 2006, 9:50]
Government's Secure Shopping Scheme Condemned
News A government scheme to increase consumer confidence in buying online launched Tuesday has been overshadowed by stiff criticism from a former partner on the project. In terms of rigour and confidence, this is hardly the message we want to send out...
[July 18, 2000, 12:26]
Half UK's E-commerce Revenue Lost To Fear
News Concerns over consumer confidence in eBritain were confirmed Thursday with IDC speculating that continued security scares will cost the UK up to £3bn this year, exactly half its predicted e-commerce revenue.
[July 20, 2000, 17:52]
Powergen's Lax Security Condemned
News In what has been described as a gross breach of consumer confidence, consumer watchdogs condemned lax security at British utility service Powergen Wednesday, for exposing the credit details of over 7,000 customers on its Web site.
[July 19, 2000, 9:21]
FSA Endorses Offshoring
News The report warns that offshoring can contribute a material risk to market confidence, financial crime and consumer protection but the FSA said it is happy with the levels of governance and risk management it found at sites in India.
[May 6, 2005, 10:00]
Fear And Confusion Handicaps UK E-commerce
News Report author Alison Hopkins believes the recent spate of security blunders by big name organisations like Powergen and Barclays have had a negative impact on consumer confidence. Hopkins gave a cautious welcome to the recently launched TrustUK...
[August 3, 2000, 13:23]
News Roundup: 2001 Is The Year Of GPRS
News Fri, 23 Mar 2001 Security, which could hold the key to securing consumer confidence in future mobile phones, is the first thing on manufacturer's minds at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover this week.
[March 23, 2001, 14:50]
IT Workers' Mood Hit By Economic Slowdown
News An economic slowdown has led to a slump in IT industry confidence during the first part of 2005 but fears of a full-scale recession have been dismissed, according to the latest reading of the UK business optimism barometer.
[August 9, 2005, 9:15]
Barclays Breach Rattles Consumer Trust
News Consumer watchdogs and technical experts agree that security breaches such as that experienced by the online division of Barclays bank Monday and the recent Powergen fiasco are chipping away at the UK's confidence in Internet security.
[August 2, 2000, 8:11]
Early XP Sales Less Than Stellar
News But, he added, "given the economic situation and the twitchiness of consumer confidence, I would say that the launch was a success. Although sales may be somewhat slower than was hoped, the figures could have been worse considering the economy is...
[November 2, 2001, 9:29]
Action 2000 Calls For Bug Free Guarantee
News It is time to give confidence to the consumer that everything possible is being done. Generating confidence is the only way to avoid panic. Action 2000 has joined calls for products at risk from the millennium bug to be sold with some form of...
[January 11, 1999, 15:02]
Halifax Net Share Dealing System Breached
News In order to build consumer confidence you need to have dialogue. The spokeswoman confirmed the Halifax is doing its utmost to restore the confidence of its customers. The first thing a consumer should do if they feel they have been treated unfairly...
[November 29, 1999, 16:30]
Oracle, Siebel See Trouble Ahead
News A number of factors, including declining consumer confidence and the threat of war in the Middle East, are leading businesses to keep a lid on IT budgets, said Goldman. Consumer confidence hit a nine-year low this month, according to new data...
[October 30, 2002, 11:08]
Net Advertising Showing Signs Of Maturity
News But three new studies show advertiser confidence in the emerging electrosphere, a greater diversity of products, and important increases in the amount of time consumers spend online. Not only was the increase strong, it went against the slump that...
[October 24, 1997, 8:42]
Exclusive: Egg Admits Security Breach
News A Halifax spokeswoman claimed its online share dealing system is now safe and is confident the incident has not dented consumer confidence in the run up to Christmas. Jupiter analyst Nick Jones thinks the incidents could affect consumer confidence.
[December 1, 1999, 13:26]
HP Attributes Profits To Products
News HP expects a second-half recovery based on macroeconomic indicators such as interest-rate cuts, employment, consumer confidence and business confidence, chief financial officer Bob Wayman said in an interview.
[February 14, 2002, 12:37]
Attacks Shouldn't Shake Tech Industry
News One area that could be hurt are consumer tech sectors, if the terrorists have rattled consumer confidence. Morgan Stanley's economists believe that consumer confidence will be further impacted to the negative side and we agree," she said, adding...
[September 17, 2001, 16:03]
BT May Follow Freeserve With Price Hike
News Other worries from operators wishing to offer consumer ADSL services are the lack of service level agreements with BT, concerns over cross-subsidies between BT's network and ISP arms and lack of confidence in BT to smoothly roll out services.
[May 17, 2001, 17:29]
