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Category Archives: E-Commerce
Upcoming GAO Report Details Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE) Program
Washington Post, February 28, 2007: New Profiling Program Raises Privacy Concerns: “The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations.” Christian Science Monitor, February 9, 2006: US plans massive data sweep – Little-known… Continue Reading
RIAA Launches New Initiatives Targeting Campus Music Theft
RIAA press release: “The recording industry today launched a new and strengthened campus anti-piracy initiative that significantly expands the scope and volume of its deterrent efforts while offering a new process that gives students the opportunity to avoid a formal lawsuit by settling prior to a litigation being filed. The Recording Industry Association of America… Continue Reading
Commentary on Our Increasingly Digitized Lives
Envisioning the Whole Digital Person, by Jonathan Follett, Published February 20, 2007: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitizedfrom the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster, we are doing more and more onlineand in the process, saving a… Continue Reading
Web Capacity Encounters Limits With Increased Global Demand for Rich Media
Deloitte Telecommunications Predictions 2007 (TMT Trends 2007) – “This study examines 10 emerging developments sure to make 2007 another eventful year for the telecommunications industry”: 1. “Reaching the limits of cyberspacegrowth in video traffic on the “superhighway” means the Internet is approaching gridlock. 2. The net neutrality debate needs resolutionthe Internet, fundamental freedom for all… Continue Reading
Implications of Service Offshoring for Metropolitan Economies
The Brookings Institution, The Implications of Service Offshoring for Metropolitan Economies, by Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial, February 2007. [Full Report in PDF] “An examination of service offshoringthe movement of service jobs overseasforecasts higher than average job losses in twenty-eight U.S. metropolitan areas between 2004 and 2015. Information technology jobs, and the metropolitan areas where… Continue Reading
Former NASA Engineer Leads Google Book Search Project
Google’s Moon Shot, by JEFFREY TOOBIN – The quest for the universal library. New Yorker, Posted 2007-01-29 “Every weekday, a truck pulls up to the Cecil H. Green Library, on the campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books, which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into… Continue Reading
China's Impact on the Semiconductor Industry: 2006 Update
China’s Impact on the Semiconductor Industry: 2006 Update: “PricewaterhouseCoopers began the study series Chinas Impact on the Semiconductor Industry in 2004 in response to our clients interest in the rapid growth of the semiconductor industry in China. Specifically, clients wanted to find out whether Chinas production volumes would contribute to worldwide overcapacity and a subsequent… Continue Reading
Zillow Releases Quarterly Home Value Reports
Fourth Quarter: October-December 2006: Our statisticians look at zillions of data points each and every day, and are able to spot housing trends based on that information. Read our press release to learn about the trends we saw across the nation in Q4.” Continue Reading
Election Assistance Commission Prepares to Launch Voting System Test Lab Program
“The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today heard testimony during a public meeting about the launch of its accreditation program for laboratories that test voting systems, including discussion about the first two labs that will be considered for accreditation. The Commission also voted to stop accepting applications or additional information related to pending applications to… Continue Reading
Web Search Queries Used to Drive E-Commerce
WSJ free feature, The New Benefits of Web-Search Queries – Companies Use Research To Develop Products, Trail Consumer Interests: “…companies…are figuring that what users type into search boxes offers insight into what people are actually interested in buying.” Continue Reading
National Consumer Protection Week: A Time to Read Up and Reach Out
“The Federal Trade Commission has launched the ninth annual National Consumer Protection Week, February 4-10, 2007, in cooperation with federal, state, and local agencies and national advocacy organizations committed to consumer protection and education. This years theme, Read Up and Reach Out. Be an Informed Consumer, encourages consumers to arm themselves with knowledge. By gathering… Continue Reading
