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Website Market Research

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Market research has been around for decades. Certain industries tend to rely on it more than others. Kitchen appliances and gadgets, toys, and food are all products that usually get extensive testing both of the product and of the marketing being designed for the product. Most advertising agencies live and die by the focus group as do television networks and movie production companies. The reality is that anyone launching a major website would do well to conduct their own market research in order to ensure the site’s ultimate success.

There are two major types of market research. The first is conducted before the site is designed. Many companies will research their markets prior to designing new product lines. Business plans for new companies will include research into the potential market for a company’s services or products. This type of research for a website can be invaluable in deciding on graphic elements, linguistic considerations, and even the best font to use.

The second type of research comes after the site is designed. User Research monitors how potential visitors interact with a site. This includes everything from how much time it takes them to complete a desired action on the site to their overall impression of the product or company before and after interacting with the site. This type of testing analyzes how usable and effective a site is. It gives the site owner and developers a chance to correct problems and enhance features before the site goes live — which goes a long way to ensuring the site is a success rather than a laughingstock.

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Amendments to the U.S. Patriot Act

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:21:15 +0000

One of the sections of the U.S. Patriot Act is specifically designed and written in regards to the amount of funding provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and their technical support systems. This means literally that more money will be allotted to the government surveillance program with regards to electronic monitoring. Over the coming three years, two billion dollars will be distributed to the FBI to expand and improve upon their methods of surveillance.

The FBI’s center of technical support as been the government’s principal means and source of initiatives regarding surveillance and could serve to speed up further funding of such proposals. This Act allows expands upon and broadens the terms for the use of and the authority granted to the Internet service providers in terms of the interceptions of electronic, oral, or wire communications when subjects are suspected of abuse charges or cases of fraud and corruption.

What this basically does is to expand the service providers ability to ask for government assistance when they feel that activities of computer hacking are taking place, or when the call on the subjects with questions and the subjects deny the hacking. This is an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and adds to the Act the methods for obtaining such surveillance techniques as wire taps in order to facilitate the investigations into the offenses of hacking and allows further involvement of the governments and their resources.

This also grants the companies to share the information they have gained through their own investigations that have used the wire taps, with a broader range of officials and government offices. The information is legally allowed to be used in grand jury cases and proceedings as well as with a variety of federal enforcement agencies including the protective agencies, the immigration and intelligence agencies as well as with the personnel of the defence and security agencies. This expansion of the laws is and attempt to put and end to the corruption and abuse that takes place on in the Internet today.

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Internet Crime is a Major Commercial Activity

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:55:55 +0000

Internet crime has become a major commercial activity, reveals a report by computer security company Symantec.

The report said cyber crime had become increasingly professional and was now a multi-billion dollar industry.

The underground economy has its own auction sites and marketplaces that sell valuable data such as credit card numbers and bank accounts.

They also sell toolkits for novice cyber criminals who lack technical know-how to craft their own attacks. Read more

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