NY Times Articles Will be Featured in Topix.net Search Results
AP reports that the New York Times has a sponsorship agreement with Topix.net to prominently feature its articles on the news aggregator’s site.
Category «E-Commerce»
Business.com Now Offers People Search
Press release: “Business.com… announced the addition of “People Search” to its core business search capabilities. “People Search” allows business professionals to easily locate and learn about sales prospects, potential business partners, and job candidates on the Web by searching summaries of 24 million business people via a database… (that) continually scans millions of corporate websites, …
Washington Post Examines Data Aggregator ChoicePoint
In Age of Security, Firm Mines Wealth Of Personal Data (reg. req’d): the Post provides an overview of ChoicePoint, described as a “little-known information industry giant.” However, many librarians and researchers are well acquainted with the company’s products, and it has been in the bulls-eye of privacy advocates for selling its vast databases of personal …
E-Commerce Gaining Ground With Consumers
Survey: Web Sites Building Better Brand Loyalty Than Physical Stores
Report Examines Digital Business Models and Copyright Implications
From Harvard’s Digital Media Project, a new report, Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries (83 pages, PDF): “To prevent unauthorized copying of their works, copyright holders have traditionally relied on practical barriers as well as their legal exclusive rights to control reproduction and distribution. …
Will New York Times on Web Remain Free?
From Reuters, via Yahoo News: New York Times Mulls Charging Web Readers and from Business Week, this extensive review of the paper’s business plan.
Industry Launches Initiative to Address E-Waste
Learn how to safely dispose of, donate, sell or reuse PCs and tech gadgets, from this new website, the Rethink Initiative, co-sponsored by eBay, Intel and other industry leaders. Related Resources: From the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition survey, “…only 15 percent of Americans are aware that electronic items can be recycled,” and from Gartner research …
List of Top 100 Digital Content Providers
“The fourth annual EContent 100 – our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.”
Google Examined By 60 Minutes
CBS News 60 Minutes, January 2, 2005: Defining Google: “What began as a school project is now worth about as much as Ford and General Motors combined, thanks to a stock that has roughly doubled in price since the company went public last August. And for the first time since then, Google has opened its …
Desperately Seeking Customer Support
Having recently been caught on a treadmill to nowhere in my quest for “customer care” and “technical support” from two major vendors for hardware issues, this New York Times article hits home. It describes the frustrations of trying to locate a support telephone contact number on the websites of a range of product websites. This …
Advocacy Group Lists Privacy Resolutions
From EPIC, Top Ten Consumer Privacy Resolutions.
Survey Documents Significant Privacy Issues in 2005
This InfoWorld commentary details previous consumer data compiled for the Ponemon Institute’s Privacy Trust Surveys on e-commerce and government related developments. From this data, the author concludes that in 2005, major privacy issues will be ID authentication technology, phishing, net advertising, the collection of airline passenger data, and earning consumer trust.
