Posts Tagged ‘Consumers’

PowerReviews to offer social product reviews to brands

PowerReviews, a company that provides white-label customer review tools for retailers and brands, is preparing to release a new service called BrandConnect. BrandConnect features two elements: Listener and Megaphone. According to Darby Williams, the vice president of marketing at PowerReviews, “Listener will help brands track and understand what their customers really want out of their products.” ListenerTo do so, PowerReviews first asks users to review a product in more detail than they might be accustomed to.

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Browser-based Office shows its face

The technology preview of Office Web Apps allows users to edit Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations and view (but not edit) Word documents.(Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft plans on Thursday to start public testing for the first browser-based version of Office, although the technology preview is at least as notable for what it doesn’t include as what it does offer.

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The future of social media (in context of the Facebook – Friendfeed marriage)

The Facebook and the Friendfeed marriage could have much larger future implications on social networking, content indexing and real time search. In the triangulur contest between Google, Facebook and Twitter, each of these players had one big speciality. Facebook has bad search for the vast quantity of content generated by its users worldwide.

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Facebook admits mistake

In just a few days, over 108,000 Facebook users signed up in protest to the group “People Against the new Terms of Service” because Facebook took ownership of all uploaded material. Now pull Facebook change back. It is a great victory for consumers.A few weeks ago, Facebook revised their “Terms of use” and it meant that when you put pictures on your profile in Facebook, so you surrendered the rights to Facebook.

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Lifestyle Changes Could Prevent A Third Of Cancers: Report

From The CBC News:An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure when it comes to cancer, according to an exhaustive international report.The report by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund was released Thursday in London, England.It calls on governments to legislate healthy living, such as: * Mandate walking and cycling paths that encourage physical activity.

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Lifestyle Changes Could Prevent A Third Of Cancers: Report

From The CBC News:An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure when it comes to cancer, according to an exhaustive international report.The report by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund was released Thursday in London, England.It calls on governments to legislate healthy living, such as: * Mandate walking and cycling paths that encourage physical activity.

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Mobile phones can not withstand cold temperatures

Modern mobile phones do not work at low temperature. Some models will stop working when the temperature falls down to zero, because the battery is too weak, “said Swedish experts.They believe that the producers did not provide enough information about the problem and it is relevant and important knowledge, especially to consumers in countries with damp and cold, such as in Scandinavia.The instructions for phones from Nokia of Finland says that the phones must be handled at temperatures between 15 and 25 plus degrees.Competitors LG, Siemens and Sony Ericsson say that their phones can withstand temperatures from minus 10 to plus 55 degrees.

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Mobile phones can not withstand cold temperatures

Modern mobile phones do not work at low temperature. Some models will stop working when the temperature falls down to zero, because the battery is too weak, “said Swedish experts.They believe that the producers did not provide enough information about the problem and it is relevant and important knowledge, especially to consumers in countries with damp and cold, such as in Scandinavia.The instructions for phones from Nokia of Finland says that the phones must be handled at temperatures between 15 and 25 plus degrees.Competitors LG, Siemens and Sony Ericsson say that their phones can withstand temperatures from minus 10 to plus 55 degrees.

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