“On Dec. 9, Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, will be launching Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, an innovative public education project that will help you find prescription drugs that fit your budgetespecially if you are a senior or have no prescription drug coverage. Visitors to the Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs website… Continue Reading
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Survey of How Top Companies Rate in Online Transactions With Consumers
The current Online Customer Respect Study, conducted by the Customer Respect Group, provides data on how prominent firms in the U.S. are rated in their online interactions with consumers. “…more than 50 percent of sites say they share personal data without users’ explicit permission. This should concern high-tech firms greatly, since research shows that more… Continue Reading
Survey Rates Best Global Websites
An useful addition to a compendium of competitive intelligence resources, the The Web Globalization Report Card 2005 ($$) “…identifies those companies that have developed Web sites that combine global reach with local usability. In all, this report rates the Web sites of 200 companies across 16 industries.” [Link to press release and website]. “The top… Continue Reading
Consumer Reports’ Survey on Int’l Travel Website Fares
A Cross-Border Examination of 20 Travel Web Sites – Selling International Airline Tickets in the United States and Six Western European Countries: “The flight and fare data provided by sister travel sites such as the Expedia, Travelocity and Opodo brands varied widely from country to country, completely dispelling any notions that these sites… Continue Reading
Reminder That Online WSJ Access is Free This Week
And to take a look at this article on how companies large and small are cutting technology costs by using open source applications, VoIP, scaling back on hardware purchases. In addition, there is less corporate focus on next “killer app.” See also Paid Placements Hit Travel Booking Sites Continue Reading
Yahoo Enhances Shopping Site
For those who are beginning holiday shopping, or others who are working on gadgets presentations (this one is for you b.f.), take a look at the new features available on Yahoo! Shopping. Continue Reading
WSJ Posts Transcripts of Google and Amazon Earnings Conference Calls
If you are a subscriber, this data, available in PDF format, is linked on the WSJ Technology homepage. Continue Reading
Pew Internet Study on Purchasing Prescription Drugs Online
“Prescription Drugs Online: One in four Americans have looked online for drug information, but few have ventured into the online drug marketplace.” [Link to press release] Precription Drugs Online (17 pages, PDF) Continue Reading
Leading Scientific Publisher Plans to Digitize Content Dating Back 100 Yrs.
From Reuters: “German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of its 1,250 scientific journals on the Internet, some of which date back to 1886, it said on Wednesday.” [Link] Continue Reading
Google Launches Feature to Read Book Excerpts and Links to Purchase
This news may remind readers of Amazon’s Search Inside the Book service, launched last October. But this time the source is Google, who announced that their Google Print service is no longer in testing mode: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since a lot of the… Continue Reading
Consumer Reports’ Surveys Competition in Online International Airfares
Global Concerns: An In-Depth Examination of Travel Web Sites Selling International Airline Tickets “Consumer WebWatch wanted to determine if competition was more or less intense in the international market. The conclusion of this test is that online competition within the international airfare arena is indeed robust. Despite relatively high ticket prices, many of the sites… Continue Reading
Spyware and Adware Present Challenges and E-Commerce Opportunities
Barbarians at the Digital Gate Continue Reading
