All Posts Tagged With: "consumers"
The New York Times reports that a number of retailers and manufacturers have a gift for Christmas shoppers: product packaging that will not result hospitalization due to lacerations and stab wounds.
The companies, including Amazon, SONY Corporation, and Microsoft Corp, have begun to create alternatives to the infuriating plastic “clamshell” packages and cruelly complex twist ties that make products like electronics [...]
Consumers are increasingly using electronic payments at the expense of cash and checks, according to a new nationwide consumer payment preferences study conducted by BAI and Hitachi Consulting. The research was sponsored by First Data Corporation and its STAR® Network, Harland Clarke, MasterCard Worldwide, Metavante, and PULSE.
The 2008 Study of Consumer Payment Preferences found that [...]
I got a mail-shot from Friends of the Earth picking up a pitch from a small electricity supplier called Good Energy. They are a small outfit of 50 people who contract with large and small green energy providers to trade in renewable electricity. I just thought it was a cool grass roots way of changing the world [...]
I have been catching up on press releases that have come in since I have been on holiday and picked up one from Secerno.
Perimeter application firewall requirement leaves customer data vulnerable to growing insider threat, claims database security expert
Secerno’s products are designed to protect the database by implementing a set of perimeter controls and rules [...]
Want to see the future of electronic payment systems, then have a look at the First Data GO-Tag.
During this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC), Denver’s Pepsi Center will serve not only as a focal point of American politics, but also as an arena for the future of how people will pay for goods and services.
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