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More shoppers went online to retailers’ Web sites this holiday season, and overall they were happier with their visits than they were in 2008, a survey by ForeSee Results found. For the second straight year, Amazon.com led ForeSee’s pack of top 40 U.S. e-retailers in terms of customer satisfaction.
Enterprises expend considerable effort to understand their customers and provide a superior experience and enhanced services to them, but still they see an enormous difference between their understanding of customers’ requirements and their customers’ actual expectations.
Hopes that Apple would close out 2009 with a resounding bang were dampened somewhat with Tuesday’s news that Nokia is widening its patent lawsuit against the company. It sent Apple’s share prices down from Monday’s record high closing of $211.61 to $209.10 at close Tuesday, a slip of about 1 percent.
The recent lull in smart meter deployments and smart grid projects has come to an end with an announcement from the Obama administration last month. The Department of Energy announced over $3 billion in funding for smart grid projects, which will be matched by private-sector funding to push the total amount of investment in smart grid project over $8 billion.
Google’s plan to acquire mobile ad network AdMob in a $750 million deal announced last month is under fire from two consumer groups, Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital Democracy. The two have asked the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal, arguing that it would substantially lessen competition in the mobile advertising market.