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White Paper Today's consumer electronics and digital media companies need to differentiate their products with more and better features but at the same time reduce their product development costs. Toward this end, a growing number of businesses are partnering... [03 Dec 2007]
Consumer rights win follows Virgin Wine whine
News The OFT also had concerns that a number of terms were potentially unfair under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations with regards to liability for defective or wrongly described goods. All companies trading online are being encouraged... [14 May 2003]
Consumer Media Capture: Time-Based Analysis and Event Clustering
White Paper This paper presents an analysis of consumer media capture behavior based on timestamp metadata. It also presents an algorithm for splitting consumer media into event clusters based on capture-time metadata, an algorithm for minimal labeling of such... [08 Jan 2007]
Consumer-Driven Health Plans (CDHPs)
White Paper A Consumer-Driven Health Plan is a powerful new strategy for offering products that address employers’ concerns with rising healthcare costs as well as consumers’ increasing demands for service, flexibility and access to health-related information. [01 Mar 2004]
Michael Dell: Consumer electronics, utility computing and Linux
News Q: You're crossing over into consumer electronics. We launched this consumer business in 1997 and went to like 30 per cent share in five or six years. Are you beefing up R&D to make your consumer products more unique, or is it more the case of... [24 Nov 2003]
Consumer Sentiment and the Stock Market
White Paper This paper examines the relationship between movements in consumer and stock prices. At the aggregate level, the two share a strong contemporaneous relationship - an increase in equity values boots sentiment. [24 Feb 2004]
Consumer-Centric Service-Oriented Architecture: A New Approach
White Paper This paper extends the current Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to introduce a Consumer-Centric Service-Oriented Architecture (CCSOA) paradigm. The current SOA is producer-centric, because the basic idea is that service providers publish... [20 Mar 2007]
Consumer JRE: Leaner, Meaner Java Technology
White Paper The Consumer JRE consists of several important pieces of functionality. One of the keys to getting this out quickly as an update to the Java SE 6 release is to make only those changes that do not affect the APIs. [06 Jul 2007]
Industry Focus: Consumer Goods & Services
White Paper Accenture Technology Labs is developing prototypes to help consumer products companies get ahead by staying tuned into customers' buying patterns and feedback, and by improving supply chain functions. [15 May 2004]
Consumer Response to Changes in Credit Supply: Evidence from Credit Card Data
White Paper First, credit cards play an increasingly important role in consumer finances. This paper utilizes a unique new data set on credit card accounts to analyze how people respond to changes in credit supply. [01 Mar 2004]
Consumer Protection and Quality of Service (QoS), Including Network Neutrality and Cyber-Security Issues
White Paper The deployment of Next Generation Networks (NGN, using IP connectivity to support fixed, wireless and mobile voice, video, data, and broadcast TV services, provides new opportunities to increasing consumer choice. [17 Jul 2008]
Consumer Credit Provider Boosts Employee Productivity With Desktop Software Upgrade
White Paper COFIDIS is a leading provider of consumer credit in Portugal. As part of its strategy to capitalize on advances in technology, the company recently upgraded all of its 430 computers to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. [09 Jul 2008]
Consumer Goods: Harnessing the Benefits of RFID
White Paper RFID is a powerful technology capable of delivering substantial business value to consumer goods companies. How the RFID data is harnessed and collected can make a big difference in helping you address the challenges you face everyday. [05 Jan 2006]
"Unstoppable" consumer tech revolution on the way
News Gartner's 10 year IT vision predicts a fundamental shift in the balance of power between big business and the consumer and between supplier and customer, leading to significant challenges for all organisations regardless of size and business sector. [09 Mar 2006]
Consumer Finance Company Improves Customer Care With Avaya and ScanSoft Solutions
White Paper A major consumer finance corporation based in the Northeast United States provides branded credit cards to major retailers and other consumer service companies. The corporation's objectives are to continue to grow its client base by providing... [12 Apr 2007]
