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"Online sales growth to be measured by a new indicator"- BRC

Online retail sales growth will be measured for the first time by a new sales indicator to be launched by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG from Tuesday.

Online retail sales growth to be measured for the first time

Online retail sales growth will be measured for the first time, with a new indicator to be launched by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG next week.

Google CEO promotes new version of government

WASHINGTON — There is an 800-pound gorilla sitting at the table as President-elect Barack Obama plans his transition to the White House. But this gorilla isn't measured in pounds; it is measured in dollars - a little more than $90 billion, the market cap of Google Inc., arguably the Internet's most successful company.

BBC newsreaders raise smiles and money for kids with Abba turn

Their usual attire and measured expressions replaced by the bellbottoms and platform shoes of the Eighties supergroup, BBC newsreaders presented a whole new side of themselves as they performed a medley of Abba hits as part of this year's Children In Need fundraising drive.

Researchers construct highest frequency silicon cantilever

Researchers in Canada have constructed and measured the highest frequency silicon cantilever yet reported.

Arianna Huffington: The Big Tease

The most popular places in the blogosphere, according to Technorati, as measured by the number of links to those blogs during the past six months.*

Microsoft Claims 3:1 360 to PS3 Black Friday Sales

Microsoft claims to have had "record" Xbox 360 sales for Black Friday, and measured the retail performance against that of of rival PS3.

Mac share wobbles, Linux dives

Whence we last looked at online market share data, Mac users accounted for 8.23% of those measured. Net Applications numbers for October show a small retreat to 8.21%, but the data regularly see-saws from month to month. Still, if we add in iPhone users (0.33), then OS X-powered devices account for more than 8.5% of online traffic, which is about where things were last month.

Has an alien comet infiltrated the solar system?

Comet Machholz 1 isn't like other comets. David Schleicher of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, measured the chemical makeup of 150 comets, and found that they all had similar levels of the chemical cyanogen (CN) except for Machholz 1, which has less than 1.5% of the normal level. Along with some other comets, it is also low on the molecules carbon

I hate going there. I hate everything about it. I hate going to that atmosphereless corporate cake tin of a stadium where every time you look up that middle tier is a poke in the eye that reminds you that it's money that rules football these days.

The ground is designed so that you bow down in awe to those in the posh seats whose support is measured in currency and is therefore more valuable and more valued than yours. So what if they missed the goals either side of half time? At least they got first go at the Peter Storey Carvery. I hate their nicking of behaviour from other fans. The announcer reading out only the first names of the players expecting the crowd to shout back the rest, nicked from Roma. The scarves held aloft during Elvis Presley, a la the Kop and the twirling of scarves patented by the Geordies. I really hope we never play in a ground like that.

Mysterious electrons may be sign of dark matter

Dark matter is proving less shadowy than its name suggests. Its signature may have been detected by a balloon-borne experiment that measured a surprisingly high number of energetic electrons streaming in from space.

iPhone ranks high in satisfaction

A report on smartphone satisfaction ranked Apple’s iPhone as having the highest customer satisfaction. Released today by J.D. Power and Associates, the report measured five factors when it came to customer satisfaction, ranging from ease-of-use to battery life. On a 1,000-point scale, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) received 778 points; Blackberry receive 703 points and Samsung received 701 points. Although satisfaction ranked high, the study still said one-fourth of users report having to reboot the device when it freezes and issues related to touch screen problems. Rather than thinking this is a runaway victory for Apple, it’s worth pointing out that they are all grouped together at a fairly comparable level that leaves plenty of room for improvement.

Apple's iPhone Ranks High In Smartphone Customer Satisfaction

imageA report on smartphone satisfaction ranked Apple’s iPhone as having the highest customer satisfaction. Released today by J.D. Power and Associates, the report measured five factors when it came to customer satisfaction, ranging from ease-of-use to battery life. On a 1,000-point scale, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) received 778 points; Blackberry receive 703 points and Samsung received 701 points. Although satisfaction ranked high, the study still said one-fourth of users report having to reboot the device when it freezes and issues related to touch screen problems. Rather than thinking this is a runaway victory for Apple, it’s worth pointing out that they are all grouped together at a fairly comparable level that leaves plenty of room for improvement.

Apples iPhone Ranks High In Smartphone Customer Satisfaction

A report on smartphone satisfaction ranked Apple’s iPhone as having the highest customer satisfaction. Released today by J.D. Power and Associates, the report measured five factors when it came to customer satisfaction, ranging from ease-of-use to battery life. On a 1,000-point scale, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) received 778 points; Blackberry receive 703 points and Samsung received 701 points. Although satisfaction ranked high, the study still said one-fourth of users report having to reboot the device when it freezes and issues related to touch screen problems. Rather than thinking this is a runaway victory for Apple, it’s worth pointing out that they are all grouped together at a fairly comparable level that leaves plenty of room for improvement.

ESA Paves The Way To Understanding Snow In-Depth

An ESA campaign carried out in Austria has demonstrated how snow, a key component in the Earth's water cycle and important source of fresh water, can be measured from space using radar. The campaign supports one of the main objectives of the candidate Earth Explorer CoReH2O.

Panasonic Intros "No. 1 Energy Efficient" Refrigerator

panasonic_ref.jpgPanasonic is slated to release what it touts is the number one energy efficient refrigerator to hit the market thus far, the NR-F503TE. A refrigerator's efficiency is measured by its power consumed annually. The Panasonic NR-F503TE promises 350 kilowatt hours (kWh) per year of consumption that's less than half what the old Panasonic refrigerators use. In fact, according to the US Department of Energy, a typical fridge consumes a little over 1,000 kWh/year.

Digital camera benchmark based on RAW image quality

DxO LabsDxOMark Digital camera benchmark database : At the Image Sensor 2008 conference in San Diego, DxO Labs unveils the DXOmark, a new website delivering key objective metrics of sensor performance for a variety of cameras measured directly on the RAW image. Available as a free online resource, dxomark.com makes it possible for the first time to assess the intrinsic quality of a camera before the impact of any RAW conversion. “There are many valuable resources reviewing the image quality of digital cameras, but none of them consider the actual RAW signal straight from the camera sensor,” explains Nicolas Touchard, Vice President of Marketing, DxO Labs Image Quality Evaluation business.

Fifth Straight Month of Slowing E-Commerce Sales Growth

E-commerce sales growth slowed in September to 5%, the fifth consecutive month in which the growth rate has moderated. Take a look at the year-over-year growth rates for the last six months, as measured by ComScore (SCOR). The data excludes, auctions, autos and large corporate purchases:

Verizon tops J.D. Power cellular retail study

A J.D. Power study released on Thursday has revealed that the percentage of salespeople aid during a buyer's purchase of a wireless service or handset has been decreasing since 2006. At the same time, the survey measured overall customer satisfaction based on four factors, each with a different weight or importance associated with it. Sales staff was first with 51 percent of the weight, store display was at 17 percent with store facility and price/promotion close behind at 16 percent each. Based on these factors, Verizon was tops, scoring 715 out of 1,000 points, with Alltel not far behind, at 710. T-Mobile was third with 696 points, AT&T had 691 points and Sprint Nextel was last among the major carriers, at 669. The industry average was 698.

New Study Shows Violent Games Make Mornings Worse

"The paper, published in Acta Paediatrica, used 19 boys aged between 12 and 15 and told them to play one violent, and one non-violent game for 2 hours before bed. Measurements of their heartbeat and movement were measured whilst they played, and during the following night of sleep."

43.3% of U.S. iPhone users make more than $100,000 a year, comScore says

More than 1.1 million U.S. iPhone users have incomes in excess of $100,000 a year, new research finds. This group represents 43.3% of all U.S. iPhone users, according to comScore Mobile. The research firm measured income demographics of iPhone users in August, shortly after the release of the very popular second generation of the mobile device, the iPhone 3G.

Reduce String Literal Overhead with Eclipse

The ideas for these articles come from the successes, failures, and discoveries in real-world projects. In this particular case, all three inspirations are at play. The unconventional process described in the first section has proven successful, with success measured by everyone going home on time and the projects delivered on time and under budget. The failure that led to the specific problem and solution covered here was an application that continually required more memory and additional hardware at regular release intervals. A random check of code while looking for re-usable assets revealed that a good percentage of the problem was the inefficient use of String. The discovery of the Eclipse feature that makes this issue easy to track and address was the result of randomly trying different settings (which is less efficient than reading

New Website Offers First Digital Camera Benchmark Based on RAW Image Quality

San Diego, California, USA, and Paris, France -- Nov 17th, 2008 -- At the Image Sensor 2008 conference in San Diego, DxO Labs today unveils www.dxomark.com, a new website delivering key objective metrics of sensor performance for a variety of cameras measured directly on the RAW image. Available as a free online resource, www.dxomark.com makes it possible for the first time to assess the intrinsic quality of a camera before the impact of any RAW conversion.

A Toolkit for Silicon-Based Quantum Computing

"Bit" is a contraction of "binary digit," but unlike a classical bit, which is plain-vanilla binary with a value of either 0 or 1, a quantum bit, or qubit -- the theoretical basis of quantum computing -- holds both 0 and 1 in a superposed state until it is measured.

Mels Picks November 2008

For an excellent, thorough discussion of what capacitive sensing is, how it works, and how to make it work as well as possible in your application, I would suggest a visit to Lion Precision's online capacitive sensor tutorial. You'll find information on what capacitance is and how it's measured; how targets affect your measurements (and how to make that work in your favor); and how to maximize accuracy as well as definitions of sensitivity, various types of errors, bandwidth, and resolution.

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