International guidelines to protect consumers who buy goods on the Internet are long overdue according to the global federation of consumer organisations. The consortium plans to debate guidelines for electronic commerce at a Paris meeting of the...
The number dialed is answered by a computer, which contacts the drinks machine over the internet telling a local embedded chip to release the selected can of drink. However, the modes of interaction in the electronic economy are slightly different...
Robert Bond, a lawyer specialising in IT at Hobson Audley, said that users do not take email seriously because companies fail to set clear guidelines on its use within the corporate environment. The majority of our readers said that as a result of...
While this may be adequate for making and receiving telephone calls, receiving text messages and playing very simple computer games - or perhaps even watching some moving images - it's wholly inadequate for looking at spreadsheets, timetables and...
ART, along with other embedded systems vendors like IBM and Scansoft, are also working with automotive manufacturers to put similar capability into cars, where the safety and convenience of hands free control of climate, entertainment and...
Content is uploaded and then contacts, friends or colleagues have to be notified or have to be sufficiently adept to be using a syndication service. That means reaching the individual with content, services and contacts of value at the right moment...