Web Shops Take Know-How Off Net
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When Verizon wanted visitors to its Verizon Experience store to have a wholly different encounter than they would at a typical cell phone retailer, it took cues from an unlikely source. The company entrusted its interactive agency, R/GA&#x2014;better known for its work in cyberspace than anything consumers can actually touch&#x2014;to incorporate the principles of e-commerce. The result was 70 touch-screen kiosks of production demonstrations in the store, which opened outside Dallas Oct. 31.
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For those who want to get their blogging feet wet quietly, several easy-to-use tools for setting up Web pages, with privacy filters included, are on the market.
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People are searching online for everything from free games to free money
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Alternative browser features protection against online scams.
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Face it, shopaholics -- the Internet drains much of the fun out of holiday shopping and replaces it with ice-cold efficiency. Who wouldn't rather stroll through Neiman Marcus or Best Buy with their best buddy than sit solo in front of a computer, eyeballing page after page of tiny pictures showing what you could reach out and touch at real malls?
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The first raw data on Internet usage yesterday indicate shoppers rode heavy on the net. But there's one important question outstanding: Were those shoppers also purchasers?
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U.K.-based technology retailer, Ebuyer.com, supposedly runs its Web site with a variety of early-1980s computers -- at least according to a site report prepared by Internet monitoring company Netcraft.
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Beware the Internet's meat puppets. And sock puppets. And trolls and shills and astroturfing and other forms of dubious online marketing.
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The Internet is changing the way consumers complain about companies, products, and services. Instead of grumbling to a neighbor or filing a complaint with the company, a regulator, or the Better Business Bureau, more and more consumers are taking their beefs online, either contributing to gripe sites or setting up their own. There's even a website called Webgripesites.com that catalogs ...
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It&#39;s a great time to be an Internet shopper, but the same search technology that is transforming the Web into a bargain-hunter&#39;s paradise is putting the squeeze
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Think you're safe from Internet fraud? Think again.
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Spend time online and odds are you'll have to type a username and password to check your e-mail, access your bank account or read a newspaper story.
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Also: Electronic devices seized at border searches. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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By Mick Zawislak Daily Herald Staff Writer  The holiday shopping season has begun and many purchases will be made online. Finding merchants you can trust and taking steps to protect your privacy are important this time of year, according to the Chicago Better Business Bureau.
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We help you save money, time, and headache by examining how online shopping comparison engines gather prices for you and make money for themselves.
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By James Daley The internet has proved both a blessing and a curse when it comes to shopping around for the best financial products. While consumers now have instant access to more information than ever before, this has also made it much harder to find exactly what you're after.
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Web services that plumb for consumer views, helpful and hurtful.