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Consumers who shop online for digital cameras and TVs spend 10% more on in-store purchases than consumers who do not search online, according to survey sponsored by Yahoo! Search Marketing and conducted by ChannelForce. Shoppers were interviewed when entering big box electronics stores like Best Buy and Circuit City.

Cable companies, which lead the customer satisfaction rankings for telephone service in all six U.S. regions for the first time, are proving to be tough competition for traditional telephone providers, as the impact of bundled service packages steadily reshapes the telecommunications market, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 Residential Regional Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study.

As virtualization goes mainstream and becomes an integral part of the IT infrastructure, there are increasing opportunities for IT services to help customers implement and support this expanding technology.

Due to the presence of Novo Nordisk, Denmark is a major global supplier of insulin in retail form. This has resulted in a long standing balance of trade surplus. Imports and exports have experienced double-digit growth since 2000.

The e-paper display business will surpass $2.0 billion ($US) in annual revenues by 2012 and surpass $4 billion in 2014 according to a new report from NanoMarkets.

A comprehensive survey in 12 countries of more than 7,600 young people between the ages of 16 - 29 shows that 77% of today's online youth would sooner live without television than live without the Internet. China has the most devoted young Internet users, with 87% choosing the Internet compared to 13% favoring television. In the United States the figures were 77% for the Internet and 23% for TV.

South Africa’s it infrastructure outsourcing market will continue to show healthy levels of growth but will need to focus on the requirements of the SMME sector in order to effectively capitalise on existing opportunities.

In 2006, the price level of a comparable basket of food and non-alcoholic beverages was two and half times higher in the most expensive EU27 Member State than in the cheapest one. The range was similar for alcoholic beverages, but was much greater for tobacco where price levels were seven times higher.

A report from the European Commission's in-house scientific service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), indicates that overall electricity consumption is growing in the EU. According to the report, electricity consumption in the tertiary (service) sector increased by 15.8%, and industry consumption by 9.5%. The average consumption for a single household in the EU-25 was 4098 kWh in 2004. This could be reduced by 800 kWh per house per year, or about 20 % less electricity consumption in each household, if replacement of existing appliances and equipment and a full phase out of incandescent lighting were to be actively promoted in all EU Member States.

With an ageing population and expensive drugs driving healthcare costs upwards, generic medicines are gaining significance in Europe. The governments are under tremendous pressure to reduce healthcare expenditure. In this scenario, generics are widely regarded as the best method to allow access to safe, effective and high quality drugs at affordable prices to a vast majority of patients.