interaction in news
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News He said: "[Students] need to be taught something about techniques for looking at structures, tracking data through complex networks, how to understand the basic economics and social psychology of interaction so they've got some appreciation of how... [14 Jul 2008]
Get a Lively life, with Google avatars
News According to Wang, Lively intends to bring better social dimension to online interaction. Google has unveiled an online 3D social arena called Lively, the internet giant's take on Second Life. Second Life requires users to download and install a... [09 Jul 2008]
Microsoft gets touchy-feely in Windows 7
News Gates said: "We are at an interesting juncture where almost all of the interaction is with the computer and mouse, today, and, over the years to come, the role of speech, vision, ink, all of those will become huge. [28 May 2008]
Google lays out mobile future
News Chang said making navigation and interaction as simple as possible is vital. The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and unveiled its own mobile operating system, Android, last year. [13 May 2008]
Google and Salesforce.com team up to serve business
News An email response from a customer can be appended to the customer information stored within Salesforce.com, meaning all customer interaction can be accessed from a single place, for instance. Salesforce.com and Google have announced they're linking... [14 Apr 2008]
Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction
News Web services are becoming an increasingly important way for citizens to interact with local government and councils are responding with improved websites. The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more than 10 per cent in the... [04 Mar 2008]
Open source Ubuntu announces 'need for an adventurous mountain goat'
News Intrepid Ibex developers will also concentrate on user interaction in the release, to offer the same user experience on both desktops and UMPCs [ultra-mobile PCs], according to Shuttleworth. Shuttleworth wrote: "Our desktop offering will once again... [22 Feb 2008]
Microsoft's 'patch Tuesday' releases six 'critical' plasters
News Security vendor Symantec warned that exploits for the vulnerabilities would not require much user interaction to execute. Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager at Symantec Security Response, said: "While the batch of critical vulnerabilities all... [14 Feb 2008]
BBC gets savvy with web 2.0 kids
News The BBC is keen to stress My CBBC is not a social networking site in the traditional sense in that there is no potential for any private or unmoderated interaction between users. The BBC is launching an online community for six to 13-year-old... [29 Jan 2008]
'Gov 2.0' the future of government?
News Teresa Bozzelli, COO and managing director of Government Insights, which produced the report, said in a statement: "Gov 2.0 will replace e-gov as governments seek to gain additional value from citizen interaction and business transactions. [11 Jan 2008]
'Boring' e-learning fails to engage staff
News Another barrier is limited interaction. Cultural and technological barriers are hindering the wider use of e-learning among UK organisations. A survey of 998 managers by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Centre for Applied Human Resource... [06 Dec 2007]
Mobile banking doesn't do it for Europe
News The findings differ from a UK-only survey which put face-to-face or voice interaction as the preferred method of accessing banking services. Mobile banking could be failing to capture the imagination of consumers, according to a survey of 2,500... [09 Nov 2007]
Small firms snub videoconferencing
News There is still little demand for videoconferencing technology among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to a senior BT executive. BT's general manager of broadband, VoIP and software services, Chris Lindsay, said acceptance of... [05 Sep 2007]
Bank websites don't satisfy curious customers
News Transversal said customers are being pushed towards the telephone channel, irrespective of their preferences, and this reflects a failure by many banks to adopt a "cohesive online customer interaction strategy". [23 Aug 2007]
First Choice picks call centre monitoring system
News According to First Choice UK Specialist Division IT and ecommerce director, Mark Thompson, there is an interaction with these customers that goes beyond just taking orders over the phone. Tour operator First Choice has boosted customer service at... [01 Aug 2007]
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