Keeping Better Track From Factory to Checkout
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Using radio scanners to wirelessly identify consumer products is simple in concept but dauntingly complex in reality.
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Don't want pay a credit monitoring service? Do it yourself.
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Can a piece of software make a difference in the lives of factory workers in the Far East?
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Researchers are developing an RFID-enabled watch system to help the memory-challenged find their stuff. But making sure it doesn't track too much is a big privacy concern. By Michael Bradbury.
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Three tips to tell when to buy, and when to pass.
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Data Deposit Box service makes off-site data storage easy, inexpensive.
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How to steer clear of "free checking" pitfalls.
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Information Commissioner checks it out Shops which use RFID tags and CCTV cameras must tell shoppers every time an RFID tag is used and must tell shoppers how to remove them. The order comes in guidelines produced by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are used for inventory management in many shops but are increasingly used on shop shelves to identify products. The ICO said that shops must comply with the Data Protection Act when RFID information is collected alongside personal identifying information, such as CCTV footage.â¦
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Q How can I keep track of updates for the programs that I've added to my computer?
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The store adds such features as details of an expected dispatch date it the point where shoppers select a product. For example the Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5GHz is &quot;usually dispatched 1 - 3 Weeks
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Company introduces a lower-cost way to keep up with data growth without the need for IT expertise.
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Sears Holdings has come under fire from privacy advocates for making the purchase history of its customers publicly available on its Managemyhome.com Web site.Manage My Home is a community portal where Sears shoppers can download product manuals, find product tips, and get home renovation ideas.The Web site has a feature called &quot;Find your products&quot; that lets users look up past purchases. Ostensibly, this is designed to help customers keep track of items they&#39;ve bought from the retailer, but the site also lets them look up the purchase histories of other people.&quot;Sears offers no security whatsoever to prevent a Manage My Home user from retrieving another person&#39;s purchase history by entering that person&#39;s name, phone number, and address,&quot; wrote Ben Edelman, an assistant professor with Harvard Business School, in a blog posting.This is a violation of Sears&#39; own online privacy policy, which does not allow the company to share users&#39; purchase history with the general public, Edelman said.The information could be misused by scammers, said Benjamin Googins, a CA senior engineer who has also written about the issue. &quot;A potential burglar or scam artist could quite easily sit at home with a phone book, checking to see what people in a given neighborhood had purchased,&quot; he wrote.Googins said that he was able to track purchases as far back as 1978 on the site.One Sears customer said he was upset by the disclosure.&quot;It&#39;s pretty amazing that in 2008 a major corporation such as Sears Roebuck can show such blatant disregard for the privacy of its customers. It definitely will make me think twice before ordering from them again,&quot; said Doug Fuller, an Oakland, Calif., realtor. &quot;It&#39;s not like it is some rinky-dink company. This is a major corporation. And with all the identity theft going on, this is the best they can do?&quot; he said via instant message.A Sears spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment. Sears Holdings, the owner of the Sears Roebuck and Kmart department stores, is the third-largest retailer in the United States.This is the second time Sears has come under fire for privacy concerns in recent weeks. In December and early January, Googins and Edelman blasted Sears for&#160;downloading invasive comScore Web tracking software&#160;to some users of its MySHCcommunity.com Web site without adequate disclosure.Sears has defended its use of the tracking software, pointing out that users are notified of the software&#39;s features before they download it.
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Have you ever ordered, say, a new laptop online, and you were so excited about it that you kept hitting Fedex.com&#39;s package tracker nine times an hour, day after day, like a lab rat flicking a lever to get his next hit of smack?
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Organized labor is starting to track companies that ship U.S. jobs overseas and will make the information available to the public in a database.
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It's on track to meet sales targets, but profits might not keep pace.
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How to avoid a post-holiday meltdown and keep momentum going for customers and employees.
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Auto-industry inventory numbers do not look terrible, but what if there is a storm coming?