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September 2002
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The Usability Company was judged as a national semi finalist in the T-Mobile UK and the Sunday Express Women Mean Business awards 2002. The new award is designed to recognise 'the growing importance of independent businesswomen. ' The award, which is sponsored by T-Mobile and presented by the Sunday Express, will celebrate the achievements of women running their own Business.
Read more about Mean Business Awards
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As we all know Interactive Digital TV, or iDTV, is growing and at a pace that hasn't been seen since the uptake of Internet access through computers by the general public in the early nineties. The BBC, BSkyB and the consortium of ITV and cable TV companies are the main proponents in the UK. Each is now offering a range of services on the back of their digital broadcasts. The BBC for example has had interactive services for their major sporting events such as the World Cup, the Open and Wimbledon. These services are supposed to allow users to choose the match they wish to see rather than the one that the BBC decides to show on BBC2, or view a wealth of stats and opinion. The content providers on BskyB's SkyActive Platform offer a more diverse range. On this platform there is interactive shopping with high street stores, betting, and information as well as interactive programming such as Premiership football. The real question is not whether people will use the services but whether they will be able to?
Read more about iDTV
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In June's edition of Useworthy we discussed the use of online tools, which would compliment usability testing. We touched on the idea of opt in surveys. This month Laura Marr looks further into The Usability Company's latest offering of online research solutions: The E-Mission Scorecard, which is part of the WebIQ suite of products.
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