US Report: FTC Study Takes Web To Woodshed Over Privacy
News The simple notice and consent the FTC looked for in the study "is an incredibly low baseline," said David Banisar, policy counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The latest study stands in stark contrast to nearly all previous FTC...
[June 4, 1998, 9:15]
US Study: No Link Between Mobile Phones And Cancer
News The study found no significant evidence that those with brain tumours had used a mobile phone for more time than the people in the control sample. Workers at five US academic medical centres carried out the work, which tested the hypothesis that...
[December 20, 2000, 14:38]
US History Study Guide
Downloads US History Study Guide from MobileReference is an ideal quick-study guide. The guide is a standard on the subject and covers what most U.S.history students study in high school and college. To see all Travel Guides, Phrasebooks, and Quick-Study...
[December 16, 2006, 1:32]
IBM Losing Ground In US Study
News Price/performance has become more important to users, although the study reveals it is still behind reliability, service, and customer support, areas in which HP and IBM did well. IBM is absolutely not the primary player it used to be," said John...
[March 17, 1998, 9:20]
Idtechex Case Study: European And US Laundries
White Papers The clients were European and US laundries. Developers wanted to improve processing throughput on garment identification systems originally implemented with barcode. The challenge as originally posed for RFID was to provide a means of automatically...
[December 23, 2004, 23:00]
US Portals To Storm Europe - Study
News Only three European companies have reached a level at which they can continue to compete with top US portals such as America Online and Yahoo! All but the largest European portals are likely to be defeated by larger, more aggressive American rivals...
[November 1, 2000, 14:37]
US Study: IT Salaries Take A Tumble
News The study by Janco Associates, of Park City, Utah, found an overall decrease in the benchmark salaries paid to IT professionals in the first six months of 2001 compared to the last six months of 2000.
[June 14, 2001, 12:27]
US Study: E-commerce Hits The Mainstream
News The new study is part of a growing body of research that suggests consumers' concerns about buying products online are easing, and that e-commerce is achieving mainstream acceptance. The study, based on January interviews with 2,500 consumers...
[March 23, 1999, 9:29]
Study: US Out Ahead On E-commerce
News That's according to a University of Utah professor who offered preliminary results on Tuesday of what may be the first study of consumers' experience of international e-commerce at the Federal Trade Commission's "Consumer Protection in the Global...
[June 9, 1999, 9:44]
PalmOne Case Study: US Navy Medical Department
White Papers Graduate Medical Education Selection Board Palm Application is an initiative for the Naval School of Health Sciences Command (NSHS) to capture military medical students' intern information. Upon completion of medical school, military medical...
[April 22, 2004, 0:05]
Privacy: A Study Of Attitudes And Behaviors In US, UK And EU Information Security Professionals
White Papers Then, new survey data from Sun’s study of user behavior and technical facilitators of privacy are presented. The study focuses on users’ attitudes toward privacy and their responses to some globally applicable privacy-related threats.
[May 1, 2004, 1:03]
Study Suggests Vista Will Boost US Jobs
News A Microsoft-commissioned study estimates that Windows Vista could create 100,000 new IT-related jobs in the US. The study, which was performed by IDC, also estimates that for every dollar of Vista-related revenue that Microsoft takes in next year...
[December 11, 2006, 7:39]
ICANN Under Fire For Dodgy Domains
News More than 8 percent of all Internet domain names are registered with false or incomplete information, according to a US government study into the prevalence of phoney Web sites. The study, released Wednesday by the US General Accountability Office...
[December 8, 2005, 8:40]
Portal Commerce Deals Lack Results
News E-commerce sites aren't getting the bang for their buck out of portal deals, according to a new study from US analyst firm Jupiter Communications. The study, presented at the research firm's Shopping Forum here, found that less than 5 percent of...
[April 7, 1999, 9:24]
Red Hat Disputes CERT Vulnerability Figures
News Open source experts have hit back at a study published by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) that said more vulnerabilities were found in Linux/Unix than in Windows in 2005, labelling the report misleading and confusing.
[January 6, 2006, 13:45]
US Tightens Grip On IT Leadership - Report
News The US will stay at the helm of the global technology scene for years to come, despite the rise of Asia as an IT manufacturing powerhouse, says a US government-funded study. Hundley, the lead author of this study.
[July 18, 2003, 8:00]
Euro Firms Losing Out On IT Value
News US companies are getting better value for their IT dollar than their European counterparts, according to a new study that says the top companies don't necessarily spend more than their competitors. According to the study, which looked at about 9...
[March 6, 2003, 10:52]
US Dot-coms Going Bankrupt Faster Than Europeans
News The US study conducted for US financial publication Barrons, predicts the bankruptcy rate of US startups will continue to increase over the next 12 months. A comparison study by London based business consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found...
[October 4, 2000, 14:54]
PwC Finds Mixed Reaction To Outsourcing
News The study, done in the third quarter, is based on interviews with 127 chief financial officers and managing directors of European companies and 151 of such executives at US companies. About 44 percent of companies that have outsourced financial...
[October 29, 2004, 9:09]
US Kids Are Most Net-savvy
News The study found that 30 million US children to have online access, translating to 45 percent of those under the age of 18. A comparative study by Jupiter MMXI showed British boys to be keener Internet users than girls.
[February 26, 2001, 11:36]
