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Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Retailers need to wake up to the potential of social networks in order to tap into the...

Tags: gartner, marketing, traffic, retailers

[02 May 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Social trends and the zeitgeist are more important than how good a new technology...

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

US no longer king of the PC?

News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets…  Google Android  Video: ID cards  BBC iPlayer  Galileo  CRM  Biometrics Like the US, buyers in the region are moving toward more inexpensive portable PCs...

Tags: asus, dell, us, pc

[17 Apr 2008]

RIM doubles quarter profits

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. However, Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM, noted on a conference call that RIM is starting to develop more of a following among consumers, expanding beyond its typical business users.

Tags: iphone, facebook, blackberry, rim

[03 Apr 2008]

Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits

News Cheat Sheets  Cheat Sheet: Google Android  Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV  Cheat Sheet: Galileo  Video Cheat Sheet: Femtocells And commenting on the number of Facebook downloads, Mark Guibert, VP of corporate marketing at RIM...

Tags: facebook, blackberry, rim

[02 Apr 2008]

Watch out - here comes Generation Virtual

News Cheat Sheets ¦ Web 2.0 ¦ Mash-ups Consumers are increasingly going online and developing anonymous online personas, meaning selling methods based on demographic information - such as age, social group and geography - will become less...

Tags: crm, sell, web 2.0, gartner

[20 Feb 2008]

Commerzbank gets ready for Sepa

News Cheat Sheets  Basel II  MiFID  Sarbanes-Oxley It should pave the way for cheaper cross-border payments charges for consumers across Europe and allow European banks to move into new markets much more easily.

Tags: sepa, money laundering, commerzbank, transactions

[15 Jan 2008]

Online retailers rated on customer satisfaction

Online retailers rated on customer satisfaction

News Cheat Sheets  Web 2.0  Mash-ups A survey of 10,500 consumers on the top 30 retail websites in the UK, conducted by online satisfaction measurement specialist ForeSee results, revealed non-high-street retailers occupy six of the top...

Tags: amazon, b&q, hmv, play

[02 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... More data breaches and Google vs Wikipedia…

Comment ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Biometrics The recent spate of data breaches illustrates just how vigilant both companies and consumers need to be when dealing with personal data. What? More lost data? Data breach hits thousands of motorists

Tags: driver, google, hmrc, encryption

[20 Dec 2007]

Top 10 mobile & wireless stories of the year

News Cheat Sheet: Femtocells So brush up your knowledge of tiny telly with our Cheat Sheet before it gets a bit bigger. Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV may well go down in history as the year that kick-started mobile telly in Europe - or at least tackled the...

Tags: mobile, wi-fi, wi fi, fi

[13 Dec 2007]

Half of online shoppers dissatisfied with purchase

News Cheat Sheets  Web 2.0  Mash-ups According to a survey of 2,314 UK online consumers, static images of products are often not enough to give the buyer the full information they need to be satisfied with their purchase.

Tags: christmas, video, ebay, camera

[28 Nov 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV

Cheat Sheet At the moment it's not clear whether consumers will or won't fall over themselves to watch mobile TV - although Juniper Research has predicted tiny-screen broadcasting will garner revenues of $6.6bn by 2012 - because it's a bit of a chicken and...

Tags: dvb-h, dab-ip, mobile tv, nokia

[22 Nov 2007]

Three-quarters of world to have mobile by 2011...

News Cheat Sheets ¦ Mobile location-based services ¦ FMC ¦ 3G Three-quarters of consumers around the world will have a mobile phone by 2011, it has been predicted. Around 1.5 billion new mobile consumers are forecast to emerge over the next...

Tags: users, market, growth, asia pacific

[25 Oct 2007]

Mobile roaming costs down 60 per cent

Mobile roaming costs down 60 per cent

News Cheat Sheets ¦ Mobile location-based services ¦ FMC ¦ 3G By 30 August this year, around 200 million consumers had switched to a Eurotariff with many operators offering lower rates sooner than required.

Tags: europe, mobile, ec, roaming

[05 Oct 2007]

MiFID - will the banks be ready in time?

News Cheat Sheet: MiFID ¦ The FSA plans to take a risk-based review of implementation in the first quarter of 2008 and will focus on areas where more significant risks to consumers and market confidence are likely to arise.

[03 Oct 2007]

Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...

Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Exclusive: AA terminates Ł50m IBM deal This is a good combination of some breaking news and an on-the-spot interview ¦ CIO Essentials: Nerdy...

Tags: nuclear, naked pc, geek, vista

[27 Sep 2007]

Leader: BBC iPlayer broadband row - who's really to blame

Leader Cheat Sheets ¦ Web 2.0 ¦ Mash-ups But there is certainly a sense that now the iPlayer has arrived, something that might actually make consumers want to use the high speed home broadband they have been sold, that the ISPs are turning round...

Tags: on demand, bandwidth, iplayer, isps

[16 Aug 2007]

Mobile tracking services get parental thumbs-up

News Cheat Sheets  Mobile location-based services  FMC  3G The report suggests operators should try to educate consumers as they become more interested in the technology, to capitalise on the growing consumer base.

Tags: jupiterresearch, tracking, mobile, lbs

[09 Aug 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Grey nets

Cheat Sheet A grey net tends to grow as emerging technologies register with consumers long before corporate IT departments formulate a plan for dealing with them. Well, a bit of bicarbonate of soda in your wash will get those curtains sparkling.

Tags: grey net, security, im

[06 Jul 2007]

Recycling directive finally bites

News Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. WEEE is an EU legislation aimed at forcing businesses and consumers to dispose of electronic gadgets in a responsible fashion - namely through increased recycling and reuse.

Tags: environment, green, green it, environment agency

[02 Jul 2007]

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