comparison sites
RSS comparison sitesMobile shoppers hunt high street bargains
News The ease with which customers can go online to price comparison sites to inform their buying decisions puts added pressure on high street retailers to offer the best prices and wider product ranges. A fifth of all shoppers surveyed said the most... [18 Aug 2008]
Benefits of a Content Management System
White Paper Web surfers visit sites that interest them and without content there would be no point in surfing the web. This white paper provides a comparison between content managed within a costly and timely traditional website management process and content... [03 Jul 2008]
Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Adaptive Evolution in HIV-1 Gp120 ENV Gene
White Paper The maximum likelihood analysis identified a number of sites under positive selection, some in the conserved regions of the protein. This paper applies the likelihood models to analyze a data set of 186 HIV-1 gp120 env gene sequences for comparison... [03 Jul 2008]
A Comparison of Mobile Agent and Client-Server Paradigms for Information Retrieval Tasks in Virtual Enterprises
White Paper In next-generation enterprises it will become increasingly important to retrieve information efficiently and rapidly from widely dispersed sites in a virtual enterprise, and the number of users who wish to do using wireless and portable devices... [10 Apr 2008]
Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition
Case Study beatthatQuote.com is one of the increasing numbers of financial services comparison sites that have blossomed in the last few years.silicon.com Financial Services When they entered the market, established brands had already proved that price... [29 Jan 2008]
Super-speed broadband heads to Kent
News BT said it would like to make greater use of fibre for hooking up suitable new build sites - but said this investment depends upon an agreement with Ofcom which is currently consulting about the best regulatory framework for future fibre deployment. [10 Jan 2008]
The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment One of the biggest challenges, not only for eSure but the rest of the insurance industry right now, is the aggregator and price comparison sites and ensuring the company can respond in real-time to requests for quotes on the web. [27 Nov 2007]
Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual - Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
White Paper If Web designers had only HTML to make their sites look great, the Web would forever be the ugly duckling of the media world. What one sees on a Web page when one uses garden-variety HTML tags like, and, pales in comparison to the text and styling... [10 Oct 2007]
Shopping.com tops retail ranking
News eBay's Shopping.com network has spent its fourth consecutive month at the top of two rankings for online comparison sites. Further data from ComScore Media Matrix found a 30 per cent year-on-year growth within the shopping comparison market as a... [18 Sep 2007]
Smart Client Application Searches Multiple Airline Sites From the Desktop, Updates Automatically
White Paper SeekNet wanted to build a comparison shopping engine to run on a user's desktop, with an initial target market of airfares. SeekNet's vision is to create desktop-based personalized, intelligent search agents that assist users in their online... [03 Jul 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in security
News This year community sites such as MySpace were targeted more frequently than before as they reached a critical mass which made them very tempting for the criminals. With increasing amounts of information about individuals on social networking sites... [14 Dec 2006]
Ofcom launches price-comparison services scheme
News Ernie Cormier, chief commercial officer of service provider NTL:Telewest, said: "Price-comparison sites are a useful research tool for consumers but ensuring their objectivity and accuracy is essential if they're to remain a trustworthy source of... [08 Dec 2006]
Online insurers let down by poor sites
News According to the survey, consumers are let down by a lack of comprehensive comparison data and the lengthy process of obtaining a quote.silicon.com Financial Services Poorly designed motor insurance websites are creating dissatisfied customers... [12 Oct 2006]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment A media centre device has long been predicted by analysts, media outlets and Mac enthusiast sites alike. By comparison the recent Unbox movie download service from Amazon has a catalogue of well over 1,000 movies and TV shows from six major... [09 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Yes, China is different
Comment None of the sites I was trying to access were political, historical or in any way provocative or indeed subversive toward the governing regime as far as I could see. Of course, I couldn't do a direct comparison without a direct line back into the... [07 Aug 2006]
