Online merchant Amazon is working on a method to send merchandise to customers before they order it, based on knowledge of previous orders, the Wall Street Journal reports. The method also involves positioning certain products closer to the customers who might buy them, so that the products can be delivered faster. Here’s the story by Greg Bensinger.
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Information scooped from smartphones connecting to Wi-Fi could help retailers predict what their customers want as they come into a store or restaurant. But those customers might not necessarily know that their information is being scooped, a Globe and Mail story reports.
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Google has introduced a system where Google+ social network members, under certain conditions, can send you an email without knowing your email address. This is active by default. If you don’t want this new feature from Google, you have to turn it off. Ian Paul at Macworld.com shows you how in an article titled How to prevent strangers on Google+ from flooding your Gmail inbox.
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