One potential remedy is to create a face-to-virtual-face interaction with a helpful, friendly looking, online sales assistant in the hope that, seeing a human-like figure who responds in a human manner, the customer will forge a relationship with the online business.
Although the techniques of cyber crime have evolved, online criminals prey on human vulnerabilities like criminals throughout the ages.
According to the New York Times, more and more online companies are eschewing the human voice in favor of the virtual one.
In the experiment, reported online in the Journal of Human Evolution, a human adult first attracted the attention of the non-human ape or the human child, and then looked up at the ceiling.
Recruiters say the percentage of online applications viewed by an actual human being ranges from 5% to 25%.
Liz Ryan, a former human resources vice president who now runs the online career community asklizryan.com, advises interns to confirm their expectations in an e-mail exchange before they start for the summer.
Cohen, who represented the company targeted on MoneySavingExpert, says more people are realizing that while online trolls can argue for the human right to privacy and (in Britain) call on the Data Protection Act to protect their identities, plaintiffs can call on the High Court to unmask them.
Mr Ashiri, a Shia Muslim, ran an online news website with a focus on human rights, business and culture.
Census reports are easily searchable, campaign polling is expertly parsed and analysed, and online dating behaviour provides a glimpse into human sexuality.
To take the online shopping experience to the next level, human engagement must be added back into the equation.
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The limits of the robotic online superstore are drawn by old-fashioned human fallibility.
Instead of submitting users to a test, the Atlanta-based company's technology plugs into Web sites and invisibly analyzes users' online behavior to determine who's a human and who's a bot.
Michael Peterson, a vice president at the HR Policy Association, a trade group for human-resources executives, argues that employees' negative online postings could damage a company's reputation and that the agency needs to offer clearer guidance.
Recruitment materials invite people with disabilities sounds as simple as including people with visible disabilities in pictures in your human resource materials and on the website as part of the online application process.
At the same time, a new breed of online financial advisory firm is out to do what human advisers do, only with software and without the mazes of fees and conflicts of interest that can plague traditional brokerage firms.
These range from microwave ovens and laser light shows to home security systems and medical imaging devices. (CDER even regulates laser pointers but not online presentation software, if ever a true risk to human health).
Busy signals while trying to get online were as common as the frustration of reaching a human being at the company, despite the blanketing of the nation with free AOL installation CDs in every magazine and at every convenience store.
The Home Office told BBC News Online that the Data Protection Act and the European Court of Human Rights considerations had to be fully taken into account before DNA profile information could be released overseas.
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Social Intelligence Corp. is essentially taking the traditional background checks that are commonly used by corporate human resource departments to look for things like criminal records and moving them online to track social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, LinkedIn, and individual blogs.
Reportedly written in response to one disappointed online fan ( not really), A Small Turn of Human Kindness marks somewhat of a return to Harvey Milk's weirdest and challenging music, but with every release, Harvey Milk has brought its disparate sonic worlds closer together.
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Whether a trade is submitted by telegram, as was done at the turn of the twentieth century, or through the screen of an online broker, as is the case today, it still has a human originating it.
"The consortium see the mouse genome as the sort of basic, pre-competitive resource that should be available to all scientists, without restriction, in order to assure that the potential of the human genome is realised as rapidly as possible, " a spokesperson told BBC News Online.
This summer, CrowdGather, a company that specializes in working with and improving online communities, will be launching Erox, a unisex fragrance created with synthetic human pheromones.
But as technology made possible large virtual arenas like Second Life or World of Warcraft, an online game with millions of players, so the overlap between cyberspace and real human existence began to grow.
Michael Mosley presents Guts: The Strange and Mysterious World of the Human Stomach on BBC Four at 21:00 BST on Thursday 12 July or watch online afterwards via iPlayer at the above link (UK only).
The availability of online translation services such as Google Translate has not put a dent in the demand for human services.
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For all the talk about investing online, a lot of folks still like the idea of picking up the phone and finding a human being at the end of the line.
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