Stories about: ACNielsen

ASX-listed digital marketing company BlueFreeway has completed agreements to acquire Viva9 and the BlueArc Group.

The Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has introduced a one time password and transaction signing for its Internet security token.

When Premier Inc's medical databases began bogging down last year, the provider of clinical data put its data warehouse in a box -- literally. Premier sells access to clinical data it gathers from 400 hospitals to pharmaceutical manufacturers. Last year, the company's IBM Red Brick data warehouse had grown to 3TB, and one table included 3 billion entries. "When you go through 3 billion rows of data, you get long runtimes," says Chris Stewart, director of data warehouse architecture.

Small businesses continue to sign up to broadband services, but many are being swayed by price and not product, a new broadband report claims.

The results of an independent evaluation of Australia's own automated border control system, SmartGate, show it is delivering world-leading performance in terms of facial recognition.

Many Australian small businesses still use consumer broadband products instead of business plans according to the second installment of the Pacific Internet Broadband Barometer that was recently unveiled.

More needs to be done by ISPs to ensure they develop broadband products which are appealing to Australia’s small business community, an industry representative claims.

The online publishing industry is to put out a request for information on a new way of measuring web ratings some time in the next month.

The pending merger of Compaq Computer Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. is expected to face intense scrutiny here and in Europe and involve an examination of the competitive effect on product lines ranging from desktops to high-end servers, legal experts said today.

The contingency plans of Xtra Ltd., Telecom New Zealand Ltd.'s Internet arm, for increased traffic to the new XtraMSN.co.nz website have been "blown out of the water" by huge visitor numbers.

Auckland-based online shopping mall ArmadilloNet is to close its virtual doors, blaming its small business members for not changing or updating their entries.