Doubleclick points out that it's common for plain old catalog retailers to link names with retailing habits. That's a perfectly logical and understandable thing for a marketing company to want to do. Doubleclick basically just changed their privacy policy one day on their website and said from now on, we plan to mesh this data and soon we will be delivering targeted advertising. They didn't give consumers an adequate opportunity to opt out, they didn't tell the privacy people that they were doing this, and so there was this huge outcry over what Doubleclick decided to do. Deborah Aho-Williamson at the Industry Standard.
Any child knows the difference between a car and a truck.
But increasingly auto-makers are coming up with crossover vehicles that combine features of both. But car companies also need help meeting the U.S. government's Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards, otherwise known as CAF . From the transportation desk at Michigan Radio, Bill Poorman explains. But in the last few years, with the gas guzzling pickup and sport utility craze in full swing, auto makers have struggled to meet that rule, especially DaimlerChrysler and Ford, which sell lots of pickups and SUV's. DaimlerChrysler's great hope is it's new 50's style PT Cruiser.