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Microsoft Online Customer Story: Nissan

whitepaper Companies like Nissan are betting that while eye-catching graphics are generally a great way to get consumers' attention, they can go beyond the flash to provide a service. The consumer-geared potential for that progressive technology goes far...

Tags: gps - gis

[02 May 2008]

Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment Who is the real loser, asks lawyer Sian Croxon - the trademark holder, the consumer or the law itself? Trademark protection vs consumer choice. If you're like me, you've never given much thought to how search engines work - you're happy to enter...

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards

News As a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers. Photos: Smart posters and the 'seeing eye phone'

Tags: linux, red hat, microsoft, eye

[21 Apr 2008]

Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?

Comment Because most internet crime cases involve misuse of bank accounts and bank or credit cards, how banks treat losses to the customer's accounts is paramount to maintaining consumer confidence in online trading.

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Why O2 isn't willing to share

News He said the iPhone has caught the eye of a number of corporates - but characterised this interest as "individuals in corporate organisations" rather than companies themselves seeking to deploy their email applications on iPhones.

Tags: o2, 3g, iphone, coverage

[05 Feb 2008]

Macs no longer safe from cyberattacks

News If [Mac users] learn what happened to PC users over the last few years, it may be an opportunity to poke cybercriminals in the eye by having them write malware for no effect. While Mac penetration remain relatively low in the enterprise, the...

Tags: apple, malware, mac, exploit

[23 Jan 2008]

E-tailers beware: OFT web sweep is imminent

Comment On the cancellation of a contract, any sum paid by the consumer must be repaid as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 days of cancellation. Unless the parties agree otherwise, the supplier must perform the contract within 30 days from the...

Tags: e-tail, regulation, oft, regulations

[14 Dec 2007]

The Conversion Funnel and Persuasion Architecture

whitepaper There is one metric that nearly all marketers keep an eye on: conversion rate. In this paper, we'll discuss how you can use SiteCatalyst to help push more traffic through your conversion funnel, and how to infer consumer motive from data.

Tags: conversion, thumbs, measure, measurement

[12 Dec 2007]

iPhone in the UK: Hands up who wants one?

News And while analysts are in agreement the device is certainly very easy on the eye, they are less certain of the extent to which it will penetrate the mass market - for a variety of reasons. For the moment, the company is concentrating on the...

Tags: o2, apple, iphone, coverage

[05 Nov 2007]

Jonathan Ive

AS Profile Although Ive has a reputation for keeping out of the public eye, he was awarded a CBE in the 2006 New Year Honours list. More than that, he has established levels of design in consumer electronics that the rest of the industry has been forced to...

[12 Oct 2007]

Naked PCs: The naked truth

News Would anybody use an angle grinder without eye protection? For example, software engineer David Fletcher blamed "the likes of Microsoft" for dumbing down PC users by encouraging them to adopt a 'toaster-style' mentality towards their PCs: "They don...

Tags: microsoft, linux, naked pcs

[02 Oct 2007]

Automated Red-Eye Detection and Correction in Digital Photographs

whitepaper Caused by light reflected off the subject's retina, red-eye is a troublesome problem in consumer photography. Although most of the cameras have the red-eye reduction mode, the result reality is that no on-camera system is completely effective.

Tags: digital cameras, eye, reality, subject

[19 Jul 2007]

Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities

Comment The current figures are truly eye-watering. Over in the retail banking and insurance sectors the challenges are based around new consumer trends and changes in the way people find, choose and buy financial services products - largely due to...

Tags: esure, mark foulsham, graham yellowley, financial services

[19 Jun 2007]

Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities

CIO Analysis The current figures are truly eye-watering. Over in the retail banking and insurance sectors the challenges are based around new consumer trends and changes in the way people find, choose and buy financial services products - largely due to...

Tags: financial services, gartner, graham yellowley, mark foulsham

[06 Jun 2007]

Terabyte storage heading for consumer market

News That's something we have our eye on building products for," he said. EMC is considering entering the consumer market with its storage products because of the predicted digital information explosion over the next three years.

Tags: terabyte, storage, emc

[22 May 2007]

Leader: Why we keep our eye on the iPod

Leader As the device has proved, there's no longer such a clear defining line between enterprise and consumer hardware.iPods are regularly turning up in offices and finding their way onto corporate networks, as sys admins will testify, along with any...

Tags: apple, ipod

[11 Apr 2007]

Dell snaffles Motorola exec

News Dell executives have admitted the company took its eye off the ball last year in being slow to respond to customer support and quality concerns. Dell has hired Motorola's Ron Garriques to run the company's entire consumer business.

Tags: garriques, motorola, dell

[19 Feb 2007]

HP Branded Print Supplies Press All the Right Buttons for Bang & Olufsen

whitepaper Achieving a turnover of DKK4,225 million (£569 million), Bang & Olufsen has 2,422 employees and with its eye for style and reliability, its preferred printer supplier is HP. Founded in 1925 in Struer, Denmark, Bang & Olufsen is world renowned for...

Tags: style, printers, renowned, cost effective

[19 Dec 2006]

The New Apple of Malware's Eye: Is Mac OS X the Next Windows?

whitepaper But as Apple's Macintosh OS X operating system (Mac OS) gains ground in the market and Apple's consumer technologies, such as iPod and iTunes, continues to enjoy widespread popularity, security researchers and hackers will increasingly point their...

Tags: os, apple, mac os, attacks

[18 Dec 2006]

Symbian: Microsoft has got it wrong

News Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford has hit out at arch-rival Microsoft's marketing strategy and business model - but has his eye on Gates-style US success. Microsoft, however, favours a more 'look at me' attitude to the mobile OS, running a high profile ad...

Tags: nigel clifford, symbian, microsoft

[17 Oct 2006]

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