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Study: New mums apt to alter Web habits
News Women change their Web habits more than men when they become parents, according to a new study by an Internet market research group. The study examined the surfing habits of people who had become new parents in the past six months or were expecting...
[September 27, 2002, 16:45]
Surfing's up for mamas and papas
News Parents are enthusiastically embracing the tech wave, according to a new study on the Web habits of moms and dads. Pew researchers said some of the findings about parents' Web habits can be explained by the respondents' overall demographics.
[November 18, 2002, 8:37]
Developers launch anti-Phorm 'noise' tool
News Phorm aims to serve targeted adverts to people by observing their anonymised web-browsing habits, and sending them tailored ads. The AntiPhorm group, which launched its AntiPhormLite tool on Thursday, said their efforts were directed towards making...
[May 19, 2008, 17:55]
Google Desktop 2 review
Reviews Because we allowed Advanced Features to track our Web-surfing habits, Sidebar rotated through our content, with mixed results. Google Desktop 2 may not please you if you feel too uneasy to entrust your computing and surfing habits to an outside party.
[November 7, 2005, 9:40]
Napster clones spy on P2P users
News Dubbed "adware" or "spyware" by their critics, these software programs run in the background even when the original file-swapping software isn't operating, popping up advertisements while people surf online, and sometimes quietly uploading...
[May 15, 2001, 7:45]
Privacy watchdogs mull Engage's future
News Like many other online ad networks, it uses technology known as cookies to track consumer habits on the Web and to build profiles based on their preferences, while maintaining visitor anonymity. Privacy advocates are concerned that if the company...
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
Adware company loses its links
News Outside of the search flap, WhenU is already the subject of a thorny debate over the legality of software used to monitor Web surfing habits and deliver ads -- or what's called adware. It sells ads that can be targeted to people's tastes, thanks to...
[May 14, 2004, 13:00]
Cyberslacking pays handsomely for some
News At the Productivity Summit 2000: Cyberslacking at Work on Thursday, he released a new IDC white paper, "Employee Internet Management", which mapped out the current and future thinking on Net access control -- from Web filtering to real-time...
[March 11, 2000, 6:57]
DoubleClick cases could reshape US law
News Deploying "cookies" -- data files that it stores on users' hard drives to track individual Web-surfing habits -- it has been able to personalise ads that people see when they pull up the sites. Recently, DoubleClick figured out a way to cross...
[March 1, 2000, 11:51]
Surveillance 2: We know where you live
News Your Internet habits reveal a lot about who you are, and your movements are easier to track than you think. With the information available from the most basic people searches, your financial records can even reveal your daily habits, such as where...
[February 24, 2000, 16:19]
Set top boxes poised to dethrone the PC in Xmas rush
News Users will have to complete a detailed questionnaire about their shopping habits each month, including details of items they are thinking of purchasing such as holidays and cars. Each month users will have to submit details of their shopping habits...
[October 31, 2000, 10:31]
Consumers face digital TV privacy threat
News Web users have grown used to the idea that companies collect information about their online habits as a price for providing them with all that free content -- but now TV viewers will have to grapple with the same issues.
[March 27, 2001, 17:15]
Survey: Web use trends ever upward
News Significantly more people are using the Web to send pictures and videos, shop, download music, play games and do their banking, according a study that compares last year's habits with those of 2000. The dot-com economy is long gone, but that hasn't...
[February 14, 2003, 7:57]
Study: Web is the No. 1 medium
News The OPA-commissioned study also used census data to determine the spending habits of its 350 monitored subjects. The Web is the dominant at-work medium and is No.in the home, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association.
[June 6, 2006, 9:30]
Web bug swarm grows 500 percent
News Web bugs, or clear GIFs, are nearly undetectable tracking tags used mainly by marketers to monitor consumer habits online. Research released on Monday shows that the use of surveillance technology popularly known as Web bugs is on the rise, putting...
[August 15, 2001, 10:09]
Web beats other media for youth
News At the conference, marketers and media experts will examine the media consumption habits and lifestyle of today's youth, which have turned into a hot market for some tech companies. Smart marketers will use the Web if they want to harness some of...
[July 25, 2003, 11:38]
GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server: Real-Time HTTP/FTP Monitoring, Anti-Virus & Access Control
White Papers Companies must exercise some control over the users' web browsing habits - not only to ensure productive use of the Internet but also to safeguard the users from adult sites and to ensure that downloads are virus free.
[September 21, 2006, 0:00]
Is the Web sending you subliminal ads?
News Privacy advocates are resurrecting the spectre of subliminal advertising to battle against surreptitious corporate tracking of consumers' Web-surfing habits and preferences. Under fire is a widespread practice that uses special software to track...
[December 10, 1999, 6:30]
Dynamic Spyware Analysis
White Papers Once active, it silently monitors the behavior of users, records their web surfing habits, and steals their passwords. This paper presents a novel dynamic analysis approach that precisely tracks the flow of sensitive information as it is processed...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
NebuAd in the dock
Blog People are angry that they had their web-surfing habits tracked, said the article, and are demanding compensation to the tune of $5m. Targeted behavioural advertising company NebuAd is the subject of a class action lawsuit in the US, according to...
[November 14, 2008, 13:39]
