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Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the review site Retrovo has launched some new tools for product recommendations that could be a big help for confused consumers.
In what Manish Rathi, co-founder and vice-president marketing calls the site’s ‘blue book value’ feature, Retrovo now applies artificial intelligence to sift through masses of information to come up with its recommendation on the price that represents good value for the item you’re thinking of buying... Click Here to read more. |
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Netbook manufacturers, including ASUS, HP and Toshiba, have chosen to put Windows 7 Starter on the newest crop of netbooks and, without a doubt, did so with a push from Microsoft. (Don’t forget about the higher profit margins on Windows 7 netbooks.) In fact, Retrevo.com, which is similarly evidencing dissatisfaction with Win 7 Starter, reports that 23 of the 28 netbooks on sale at Amazon.com right now are preloaded with Starter edition. And it doesn’t surprise me that Retrevo’s survey on netbooks with Windows 7 Starter found that 54 percent of consumers would be unsatisfied with a new netbook equipped with Windows 7 Starter Edition because of limitations in the OS. I am, without a doubt, in the same camp as that 54 percent... Click Here to read more. |
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RetrevoQ, sends instant product shopping advice to a shopper s cell phone. Shoppers simply send a text message (SMS) or Tweet to Retrevo s service with the name of the product they re considering. Retrevo instantly sends back a response that tells them three pieces of shopping advice:
Real-Time Recommendation – Whether or not it s a good product to buy
Fair Price – The reasonable price one should pay for the product based on its feature set
Online Price Range – The price range available on the Internet for the product... Click Here to read more.
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Now imagine this scenario: You are at Best Buy at 7:30 p.m. on December 24. You can barely see the camera display through the throngs of last-minute holiday shoppers. Waiting for you at home is the most delicious turkey dinner since Thanksgiving, but you can’t make a decision about the camera you need to buy for Aunt Sally. Luckily, there is no need to panic since you can use Retrevo to help you make this important and urgent decision. Retrevo provides in-store product and pricing information instantly using SMS or Twitter... Click Here to read more. |
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Retrevo uses a proprietary technology to make sense of the vastly huge consumer electronics market and help electronics shoppers decide what to buy, when to buy, and where to buy it. Today, the site is launching several real-time and on-demand product recommendation features that lets consumers access product reviews on the fly... Click Here to read more. |
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A recent study by shopping site Retrevo showed that 54 percent of people in the market for a netbook would not be satisfied with Windows 7 Starter, which is stripped of many performance-dependent features. In fact, according to the survey, 41 percent of the 1,100 respondents didn't know about the different versions of Windows 7... Click Here to read more. |
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According to online shopping site Retrevo, Windows 7 Starter Edition (which was found in 23 of 28 new netbooks) actually lacks many features standard in Windows XP. The site asked 1,100 of its users if they were aware that Windows 7 Starter Edition lacked multi-monitor support, desktop personalization, and DVD playback, and 61% said they were not. Unsurprisingly, this made those same users reconsider Windows 7 Starter Edition as a positive quality of a new netbook... Click Here to read more.
November 10, 2009
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According to online shopping site Retrevo, Windows 7 Starter Edition (which was found in 23 of 28 new netbooks) actually lacks many features standard in Windows XP. The site asked 1,100 of its users if they were aware that Windows 7 Starter Edition lacked multi-monitor support, desktop personalization, and DVD playback, and 61% said they were not. Unsurprisingly, this made those same users reconsider Windows 7 Starter Edition as a positive quality of a new netbook... Click Here to read more.
November 10, 2009
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That disclosure comes from a recent survey by Retrevo, a web site that amalgamates consumer electronics product reviews. "We think consumers will be unpleasantly surprised when they discover all of the features they're missing with Windows 7 Starter," says Andrew Eisner, director of content at Retrevo... Click Here to read more. |
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Retrevo’s survey found that 79 percent of the 1100 respondents surveyed were not planning on purchasing a netbook this year. Of the remaining 21 percent, 54 percent knew that Windows 7 came in different versions—such as Starter and Ultimate—but only 39 percent knew that the Windows 7 Starter edition lacked some Windows XP features such as desktop personalization and DVD Playback... Click Here to read more.
November 10, 2009
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In a blog post entitled “Is Microsoft Trying to Kill the Netbook Market?” Retrevo officials outline their findings, based on responses from 1,100 of its “users.” Among the claims are users aren’t aware of the limitations of Windows 7 Starter Edition (like no desktop personalization, no multimonitor support, no DVD playback).Retrevo said 54% of respondents would not be satisfied if their new Netbook only came with Windows 7 Starter Edition. XP Starter was a better choice, Retrovo’s respondents said... Click Here to read more.
November 10, 2009
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Sixty-one percent of consumers do not know that Windows 7 Starter lacks some features standard in any version of Windows XP, such as support for multiple monitors, DVD playback — even the ability to change the desktop image from the Microsoft logo, according to a survey by electronics shopping site,Retrevo.com... Click Here to read more.
November 10, 2009
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Sixty-one percent of consumers do not know that Windows 7 Starter lacks some features standard in any version of Windows XP, such as support for multiple monitors, DVD playback -- even the ability to change the desktop image from the Microsoft logo, according to a survey by electronics shopping site,Retrevo.com... Click Here to read more.
November 10, 2009
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A recent survey by Retrevo, which revealed that 21% of respondents were planning on purchasing a netbook this coming year, found that many consumers don’t understand the differences in Windows 7 editions... Click Here to read more.
November 9, 2009
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A few weeks ago, I did a completely non-scientific study to see if I could learn about a person based on their iPhone apps - specifically, the ones on the first screen.
Seems I'm not the only one conducting surveys and studying. Retrevo, which says it uses artificial intelligence to analyze and visually summarize more than 50 million real-time data points from across the web, tried to find out what makes iPhone users tick... Click Here to read more.
November 9, 2009
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A recent survey released by Retrevo (an electronics shopping site) comparing iPhone and Blackberry users paints an interesting picture. The respondents are 445 iPhone and BlackBerry owners distributed across gender, age, income, and location in the US. Highlights include... Click Here to read more.
November 6, 2009
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According to Retrevo's Gadgetology report on iPhone users, there are several reasons to run in the opposite direction if a potential partner pulls out one of those sleek, slim devices... Click Here to read more.
November 6, 2009
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Apparently, 35 percent of iPhone users would find it a turn-off if a potential partner was using out-of-date gadgets. They're also suspicious - a quarter of iPhone users and 17 percent of Blackberry users said they'd broken off a relationship because their partner spent too much time on their mobile device... Click Here to read more.
November 6, 2009
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Avid Softpedia readers may remember that an analytics company, going by the name of Retrevo, once released a Gadgetology study revealing that US students were less into netbooks than into regular-sized laptops. This time around, the Retrevo Gadgetology report holds evidence that one in three iPhone owners sees out-of-date gadgets as a turnoff... Click Here to read more.
November 6,2009
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US-based Retrevo recently conducted a survey to try and get inside the minds of the 'typical' iPhone user in it's Gadgetology Report, an ongoing study of people and electronics from the consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo.com. The results were somewhat interesting although it's accuracy can be questioned. Are you one of the statistics? Click Here to read more.
November 6, 2009
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