The online Britannica won the 2005 Codie award for " Best Online Consumer Information Service "; the Codie awards are granted yearly by the Software and Information Industry Association to recognise the best products among categories of software.

Consumer Safety Officers, more commonly called Investigators, are the individuals who inspect production and warehousing facilities, investigate complaints, illnesses, or outbreaks, and review documentation in the case of medical devices, drugs, biological products, and other items where it may be difficult to conduct a physical examination or take a physical sample of the product.

GE then sold the rights to make RCA-and GE-branded televisions and other consumer electronics products in 1988 to the French Thomson Consumer Electronics, in exchange for some of Thomson's medical businesses.

Consumer groups argue that statutes of repose on consumer goods provide a disincentive for manufacturers to build durable products and to notify consumers of product defects as the manufacturers become aware of them.

* Consumer products:

Consumer products include direct product sale of chemicals such as soaps, detergents, and cosmetics.

One magazine devoted to providing consumers with accurate reviews of products is Consumer Reports, not to be confused with Consumers Digest.

Prior to E3, most game publishers went to other trade shows to display new products, including the Consumer Electronics Show and the European Computer Trade Show.

* The Consumer Advocate Lady is a dour, austere woman who rigidly inspects and tests products for their alleged value.

In 1993, Aldus bought After Hours Software and incorporated its products, TouchBase Pro and DateBook Pro, into the Aldus Consumer Division.

* Mobile Multimedia Communication: Consumer, multimedia, wireless and wireline products.

Product markets tend to focus on the comparison of sellers ' products with other sellers ' products-the adversarial process itself making trustworthy information, e. g. as published in Consumer Reports or the Better Business Bureau, hard to compile and to obtain.

In Australia, where the same products were on sale, GlaxoSmithKline issued a statement one week before the New Zealand court case confirming labelling discrepancies on its Ready to Drink range to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and undertook to remove all references to vitamin C from its labels.

Consumer products such as toys and cosmetics may contain phthalates or parabens, which disrupt androgen synthesis.

Also part of PSEB is the Autodesk Consumer Product Group, which was created in November 2010 to generate interest in 3-D design and “ foster a new wave of designers who hunger for sophisticated software .” The products from the group include 123D, Fluid FX, Homestyler, Pixlr, and SketchBook.

* Consumer Goods and perishables, such as fruit and dairy products

Consumer products such as baby alarms have been available at least since 1940.

Not open to the public, the Consumer Electronics Association-sponsored show typically hosts previews of products and new product announcements.

The Consumer Business Unit markets voice products and services, internet and television, both on fixed and mobile networks, for residential clients.

* Consumer products

The Consumer Consultative Panel, in December 2009 said that they were unable to function for almost a year because officials ignored requests for meetings and " we believe it is unacceptable that the board of the financial regulation section has failed to take responsibility for their stewardship of the organisation during the last six years. They did not understand many of the sectors and financial products it regulates.

In June 2008, the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety suspended the registration of eight neonicotinoid pesticide seed treatment products used in oilseed rape ( canola ) and sweetcorn, a few weeks after honeybee keepers in the southern state of Baden Württemberg reported a wave of honeybee deaths linked to one of the pesticides, clothianidin.

Additionally, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Consumer Reports, and the trade website ApplianceAdvisor. com, have released statements claiming that Energy Star test procedures contained loopholes that allow many inefficient products to receive Energy Star labels.

All claims about the organic status of products sold in Australia are covered under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

As offerings have evolved to include multiple services and data operators have increasingly given consumers the opportunity to rent additional devices like access modems, internet gateways and video extenders that enable them to access multiple services, and distribute them to a range of Consumer Electronics devices around the home.

The Consumer Advocate Lady is something of a variation of Mrs. Beasley, much like Tomlin's " male vocalist " characters Tommy Velour and Pervis Hawkins.

The chip, like the first product using it ( the Commodore 64 ), was finished in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in the first weekend of January 1982.

In practice, the difference between the deflator and a price index like the Consumer price index ( CPI ) is often relatively small.

Both chips, like the Commodore 64, were finished in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in the first weekend of January 1982.

* In April 2005, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission warns of a domain name renewal scam where domain name holders have received a letter that looks like an invoice for the registration or renewal of a domain name, where the domain name in question is very similar to your actual domain name except has a different ending, for example it will end in “. net. au ” instead of “. com ”

* In March 2006, Consumer Fraud Reporting reports about about a company called “ Domain Listing Service ” sending out emails to domain name holders that look like a bill to register / renew their domain name listing a “ final notice ”.

** Consumer products and services where part of the cost goes toward television advertising and sponsorship ( in the case of Japanese television broadcasters like TV Asahi and TV Tokyo which relies on sponsorship heavily, similar to Philippine Television like ABS-CBN, TV5 and GMA )

According to the Consumer Federation of America and the National Consumer Law Center, RALs are controversial because, like payday loans and title loans, RALs are high-profit, low-risk loans marketed toward the working poor.

Opponents of RALs, like as the National Consumer Law Center, argue that the profit motive of the lender results in RALs being issued too often to low-income individuals who are made to believe the wait for their refund is longer than it really is, who do not realize they are taking a loan, do not understand the high interest rates charged by the loan ( often exceeding 100 % APR until the last two tax filing seasons ), and who do not actually need the funds immediately.

Consumer organizations are advocacy groups that seek to protect people from corporate abuse like unsafe products, predatory lending, false advertising, astroturfing and pollution.

After this disclosure The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights sent a letter to the Senate stating that Perata's payments for consulting work looked " like a complex and illegal money-laundering mechanism.

Australian Consumer Association ( CHOICE ) confronted their concern about the consumers growing interest from green consumption to food production, like, use of pesticides, organic production, and genetic modification etc.

Consumer prices on items like various frozen foods, soda, and potato chips are increasing at half the rate of fresh fruits and vegetables, which mass preparation makes for lower costs and more food consumption.

Lucy Siegle, Ethical Living correspondent to UK Sunday newspaper The Observer, has said that " Ethical Consumer approaches ethical issues with a mind-boggling thoroughness and integrity that makes everyone else look like a charlatan.

** Consumer: From camcorders to digital video recorder ( DVR ) and set top box models like TiVo to personal computer based recorders.

Consumer communities have suffered at the hands of the productive interests.

They have three ministers in Berlin: Hans-Peter Friedrich ( Federal Ministry of the Interior ), Peter Ramsauer ( Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs ) and Ilse Aigner ( Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ).

The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame inducted him in 2000, " in recognition of his contributions and pioneering spirit that have laid the foundation for consumer electronics.

Consumer organizations, environmentalist groups, and opponents to food irradiation refer to some studies suggesting that a large part of the public questions the safety of irradiated foods, and will not buy foods that have been irradiated.

Consumer Price inflation have also curtailed since 2008, when Nicaragua's inflation rate hovered at 19. 82 %.

There were plans to release the G7400 in the United States as the Odyssey³ and later as the Odyssey³ Command Center ; the system was demonstrated at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show and some prototypes have been found.

Consumer equipment, and in particular compact audio cassette recorders have the bias set at a compromise level ( usually a little higher ) to give good frequency response and acceptably low distortion.

Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, said, " We have not seen any evidence of the kind of massive desecration that being alleged ... The kind of activity they're alleging not easily hidden, especially on a willful, large-scale basis.

The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act ( or CBDTPA ) was a United States bill proposed in 2002 that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management ( DRM )— which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner.

Throughout 2010 and 2011 a number of authorities around the world including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Bank of Namibia and the Central Bank of Lesotho have declared TVI Express to be a pyramid scheme.

Over the years, many academic settings have adopted other names for the study of home economics, such as Human Sciences, Human Ecology, and Family and Consumer Sciences.

According to the auto editors of Consumer Guide it had " an unusually long option list for the era " so owners could have luxury and conveniences typically found in more expensive cars, and these options " came with a much higher profit margin " for the automaker.

Consumer prices have risen marginally over the past few years.

According to Consumer Reports, as many as 56 % of Americans don't have a will.

Price fixing is illegal in Australia under the Consumer and Competition Act 2010 which have considerably similar prohibitions to the US and Canadian prohibitions.

Consumer DIMM vendors have recently begun to distinguish between single and dual ranked DIMMs.

Consumer analog cassette tapes may have a dynamic range of 60 to 70 dB.

4173, the bill that became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, Representative Maurice Hinchey ( D-NY ) proposed an amendment to the bill that would have reenacted Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32 and also prohibited bank insurance activities.

Since these accounts include the equivalent rental value of owner-occupied dwellings, the equivalent rental approach would have to be applied in the Consumer Price Index too.

Recent developments in U. S. trademark law have included the adoption of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995 ( see Trademark dilution ), the 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, and the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 ( see Trademark dilution ).

In the United States, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the American National Standards Institute have created a Standardized Document and Training System for certification of Playground Safety Inspectors.