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- Consumer Protection and Quality of Service (QoS), Including Network Neutrality and Cyber-Security Issues
- The deployment of Next Generation Networks (NGN, using IP connectivity to support fixed, wireless and mobile voice, video, data, and broadcast TV services, provides new opportunities to increasing consumer choice. It also raises new challenges for Quality of Service QoS and for consumer protection. Consumers have certain expectations of the...
- Tags: International Telecommunications Union, QoS, Network, Consumer Protection, Network Neutrality, Cybersecurity
- White papers 2007-02-07
Additional Resources
- The Consumer Driven Supply Chain
- For their businesses to survive and thrive, executives in the retail and consumer products industry must understand how dramatic changes in consumer demand are transforming the retail landscape. Download this white paper from IBM to read about three trends that are having a profound impact on the consumer product and...
- Tags: Supply Chain, IBM Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Privacy-Enhancing Radio Frequency Identification Tag: Implementation of the Clipped Tag
- As the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, tagging of pallets and cases for the retail supply chain proceeds, attention is being given to the possibility of RFID tagging for individual retail items. The privacy-protecting tag, called the "Clipped Tag" has been suggested by IBM as an additional consumer privacy...
- Tags: Tagging, Privacy Protection, IBM Corp., RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-05-03
- File Protector (exe)
- File Protector is a utility that protects your files and folders. Protection is achieved through various protection options, such as no-access protection, read only protection, and fully hidden protection. This new File Protector has been enhanced to include registry protection, logging unauthorized access, alert, and more. Version 7.0707 adds driver...
- Tags: Protection, File Protector, Hacking, Security
- Software downloads 2007-08-31
- Smith: The Carrot-and-Stick Approach - Federal Agencies Should Reward Companies That Ensure the Privacy of Consumer Data
- As evidenced by the Federal Trade Commission's FTC record-setting fine against ChoicePoint, the federal government is getting serious about holding businesses responsible for the protection of consumer information. In addition to the actions taken by FTC and other governing bodies, several members of Congress have introduced bills designed to protect...
- Tags: Agency, Credit Card, Privacy, FTC, Social Security, Identity Theft, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Federal Government, Operational Accounting, Government, Security, Sales, Finance
- White papers 2006-04-03
- Windows OneCare has Spyware Protection
- In a previous post, I talked about how much I like Windows Live OneCare. I like it even more now that it includes Spyware protection. An automatic update happened last night that required a reboot and I now have the option to install Windows Defender.With Microsoft Onecare, you have the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Spyware Protection, Windows OneCare
- Blog posts 2006-03-10
- The Identity Guardian
- Despite years of media coverage and frequent dire warnings by consumer protection groups, identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the United States. Many new programs are now appearing on the market, to take advantage of the fear and confusion around identity theft. Many of them are very overpriced, and...
- Tags: Identity, Identity Guardian, Identity Theft, Security
- White papers 2005-12-29
- Write Protection
- Hi, I found many times write protection on usb flash drives, SD cards and MMC cards. Why it happen? I just want to remove write protection of my MMC. Please guide me. ThanksBest Wishes, Only AsadData protectionThe write protection is often set as an initial property protect files from accidental...
- Tags: mian_nabi@..., MMC Cards
- Discussion threads 2007-07-14
- Art-Copy Consumer (exe)
- With Art-Copy Consumer you can use our simple one button style front end, with scan-to buttons that support scanning directly to printers, faxes, files, or even applications. Art-Copy Consumer is perfect for users who don't want to go looking through complex option menus to scan with the best quality results....
- Tags: Art-Copy Consumer, Fax, Printers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Software downloads 2007-03-12
- Oracle Retail BI Accelerator and ABC Stores
- With the numerous choices available to the consumer, what brings them back? What makes the first time consumer interested in ABC Stores? What merchandise are they interested in? What merchandise are they not interested in? How many spending cycles does a returning consumer have? All these questions about the dynamic...
- Tags: ABC Inc., Oracle Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Consumer Finance Company Improves Customer Care With Avaya and ScanSoft Solutions
- A major consumer finance corporation based in the Northeast United States provides branded credit cards to major retailers and other consumer service companies. The corporation's objectives are to continue to grow its client base by providing leading consumer finance products with leading customer service programs. The consumer finance corporation's biggest...
- Tags: Corporation, ScanSoft Inc., Avaya Inc., Consumer Finance Corporation, Financial Accounting, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Finance
- Case studies
- Microsoft Client Protection
- The Redmond Giant is taking on top dogs such as Symantec, Trend Micro, and Mcaffe as it makes its entry into corporate desktop security. Microsoft has been very successful with its beta consumer desktop security product Windows OneCare Live. It is a subscription-based model that handles your antivirus/antispyware protection, combined...
- Tags: Microsoft Client Protection, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, security
- Blog posts 2006-04-24
- RFID in Retailing - The Consumer in Control
- RFID has become a hot topic in news media around the world. Retailers and large organizations are already seizing the opportunities it offers for efficiency and cost savings in their supply chains, and they are keen to bring the benefits into the consumer domain as well. Consumer organizations on the...
- Tags: Retail Company, RFID, Retail, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- Case studies
- Cisco and Microsoft's tricky partnership
- What is best for the IT consumer?As partners Cisco and Microsoft increasingly find themselves competing, can their relationship withstand the "competition"? Cisco CEO John Chambers puts it this way: "Both companies are moving into markets aggressively, and sometimes we don't always look to see what the other guy is doing."...
- Tags: cisco, Cisco Systems Inc., Editdesk, microsoft, Microsoft Corp., networking, partnership, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-06-30
- #1-Rated Web Mortgage Broker Keeps Their "House" Safe With Mi5 Webgate
- Since its 1997 launch, E-LOAN has originated over $27 billion in consumer loans. E-Loan's reputation depends on how well it safeguards its customers' data. The IT department had desktop anti-spyware protection in place, but it needed a second level of protection that would monitor the network and block spyware traffic...
- Tags: Web, E-Loan, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- Case studies
- Integrating Consumer Demand to Improve Shipment Forecasts
- Integrating consumer demand to improve shipment forecasts has become a high priority in the Consumer Packaged Goods CPG industry over the past several years. Until recently, many factors such as data collection and storage constraints, poor data synchronization capabilities, technology limitations and limited internal analytical expertise have made it impossible...
- Tags: Shipment Forecast, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-12-01
- VBOLock Copy Protection (zip)
- VBOLock Copy Protection stops hackers from making copies of your programs. Wrap powerful protection to any VB application in seconds using just four lines of code. Invisible software-based protection requires no dongles or key disks. Version 4.0 is NET compatible.
- Tags: Protection, Microsoft Development Tools, Hacking, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Security
- Software downloads 2005-01-25
- Disabling RFID Tags With Visible Confirmation: Clipped Tags Are Silenced
- Existing solutions to protect consumer privacy in RFID either put the burden on the consumer or suffer from the very limited capabilities of today's RFID tags. This paper proposes the use of physical RFID tag structures that permit a consumer to disable a tag by mechanically altering the tag in...
- Tags: RFID Tag, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-08-31
- OpenOffice Password Recovery (exe)
- OpenOffice Password Recovery is an all-in-one solution to the problem of lost passwords for OpenOffice documents. With its refreshingly simple interface, users can recover passwords and remove all types of document protection, including document ReadOnly protection, revision marking protection, protection of sections in OpenOffice Writer, protection of cells in OpenOffice...
- Tags: Protection, Password, Recovery, OpenOffice Password Recovery, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-04-19
- Windows Vista data protection features (Explore Windows Vista's data protection features)
- Real data and privacy protection or just against simple theft ?Does anyone know, for shure, that there is or isn't any backdoor in any of WinVista's encryption and/or protection schems and methodes. It is after all a US product and not an early GPL version of PGP (the one that...
- Tags: Disaster recovery, Backups, Microsoft Windows, bop@..., data protection, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
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