People aged over 55 now make up 17% of the UK internet population, a survey for consumer magazine Which?
Consumer magazine spending took a 3.9% hit, while local newspapers slid an even bigger 5.6% during the period.
British experts, tasting an array of expensive bottled waters for a consumer magazine, awarded top marks to a humble sample of tap water from Thames Water, a less-than-fashionable utility.
Jake Fisher, head of automotive testing for Consumer Reports magazine, says the newfangled designs can present problems for drivers.
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Consumer Reports magazine also tested some of the home testing kits and found that some of them could provide some help.
That spot may be especially timely given renewed criticism of the MyFord Touch infotainment platform by the influential Consumer Reports magazine.
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Not a meaningful difference, says John Santa, director of Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, a research arm of Consumer Reports magazine.
Although the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) assigns a fuel economy rating to all new vehicles, Consumer Reports magazine conducts its own independent testing.
Second, go read the April issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
Its latest winning strategy is the success of its coffee, which has won approval from Consumer Reports magazine who rated McDonald's coffee higher than Starbucks based upon both taste and price.
Power and Associates and Consumer Reports magazine, he said.
"Now the problem with that, of course, is that if you're not reading, watching or listening in the right place, you're gonna miss the news, " says Donald Mays, senior director for public safety planning for Consumer Reports magazine.
Specifically, Ford is dealing with the fallout from the latest chapter of a prolonged campaign by Consumer Reports magazine to shame the MyFord Touch infotainment system, which essentially is Version 2 .0 of Sync with lots more features.
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An extensive study in 2012 by US magazine Consumer Reports, including rice and rice-based products such as rice cakes and drinks available in the US, measured lead levels even lower, with a majority of samples measuring less than five parts per billion.
Last year Consumer Reports, a trade magazine, rated its filter coffee more highly than that offered by Starbucks.
"An insurer could contend that a subscription to 'Hang Gliding Monthly' is predictive of highly dangerous behavior, but I'm not buying that theory: The consumer may be getting the magazine for the pictures, " says Thomas Considine, New Jersey's commissioner of banking and insurance.
The magazine also highlights ten consumer products that represent milestones in design and engineering.
The Association of Magazine Media, which represents consumer magazines, said it was taken by surprise.
Meanwhile, magazine publishers are carefully parsing consumer behavior data to learn how they might make digital magazines more attractive to readers and advertisers.
Key titles include the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme, Newsnight, noted for its in-depth analysis and robust cross-examination of senior politicians (available within a week of the UK broadcast), as well as HARDTalk, Click (a popular technology magazine show covering news and developments in consumer technology), Fast Track and Talking Movies (a guide to the best in film, from the most recent Hollywood blockbusters to ground-breaking world cinema).
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While consumer sites like Groupon were getting all the glamor of magazine covers and morning show segments, technology companies were steadily building a behind-the-scenes business in full-service daily deal solutions for niche and local publishers.
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There is a pent-up demand for tablet devices that will support various business applications as well as the many consumer applications they were designed for, and as book, magazine, and newspaper readers.
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They have an interesting blog post and info-graphic on How to Calculate the ROI of Enterprise 2.0 from an HR perspective, and an article in CIO magazine by Maarten de Vries, CIO of Dutch consumer and healthcare products giant Philips , on four key steps necessary to roll out microblogs on corporate networks.
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The report is currently available on the Consumer Reports website and will appear in the October issue of the magazine.
Ford once again is being put in a harsh light by Consumer Reports, this time over mileage claims for Ford hybrids that the magazine says are about 20 percent higher than its real-world tests revealed.
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Commenting on Mr. Alan Greenspan's crafting of U.S. monetary policy, a recent magazine article warned against the obsessive drive to achieve some arbitrary consumer price index rate, and compared it to Captain Ahab's fatal pursuit of Moby Dick.
The highest-performing businesses regularly use consumer insights in 80% of sales and merchandising decisions, according to an article in GOOD Magazine.
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Glimpses of the third generation are on display this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show, where manufacturers are previewing e-readers with color screens, interactive graphics and magazine-style layouts.
Aidan Walker, a critic with Blueprint, a design magazine, points to the fact that this expansion in the industry is matched by an increasing consumer appetite for styling and design.
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