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As any US resident will tell you, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, which is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. This Friday, Apple is likely to offer discounts on some of its products. The Mac maker has started sending out emails to those subscribed for recei... |
23 November 2009
03:39 GMT |
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It’s mid-November, but stores have already hung up the Christmas lights and a variety of special offers have been made available for eager-beaver shoppers. Nevertheless, chances of anyone actually starting the Christmas preparations this month are slim to none, which is why countless websites have started poppi... |
12 November 2009
14:21 GMT |
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It has often been argued that a woman’s best way to cope with stress or any kind of strong and negative emotion is to hit the shops armed with nothing but a credit card and plenty of patience. It’s called the wonders of a little retail therapy and, according to many, it’s guaranteed to boost spirits... |
4 November 2009
14:51 GMT |
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SkyMall has announced an application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Bearing the company’s name, the SkyMall app is available as a free download via Apple’s iTunes App Store. Featuring the complete SkyMall catalog, the application allows users to browse their way around even without a network connection, a... |
22 October 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Even in recession, women continue to spend their money on trifles and, as studies have shown, make expenses they can’t afford and refuse to keep on a budget. Although it was initially believed this had more to do with their need to spend money to boost their mood, analysts estimate the increased expenditure is ... |
30 September 2009
13:21 GMT |
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There still are many who believe that women’s compulsive need to buy something new is the stuff that myths are made of and that all so-called shopaholics wouldn’t have a problem to speak of if they only kept themselves in check. Still, the problem is widespread, even if it doesn’t manifest in all wo... |
24 September 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Retail therapy is not a myth as we might have believed five or so years ago, since it has been scientifically proven that women (and some men too) take comfort in the act of shopping, because it helps them deal with emotions, being used as some sort of safety net. That is not to say though that shopping doesn’t... |
7 August 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Even if his publicist repeatedly said that there was no “joke” and no “hoax” about Joaquin Phoenix’s decision to quit acting and start a career as a rapper, almost no one believed him. Most fans chose to go with that he was making a mockumentary like British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as... |
7 August 2009
11:40 GMT |
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They say there is nothing – or close to nothing – women know how to do better or enjoy more than shopping. According to a new survey by OnePoll and cited by the Daily Mail, it seems they, whoever that may be, might have been wrong, since it’s not the shopping itself that women enjoy, but rather the... |
22 July 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Shopaholics are addicts and, as such, when the going gets tough, they turn to the only thing they believe can bring them comfort and some sense of security. Case in point: women in recession spend more money on shopping sprees than they would when they’re not financially strained, the findings of a new survey i... |
22 May 2009
13:21 GMT |
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New research suggests the fact that, although people tend to be attracted by crowds in shopping centers and come in themselves to look around, they are not very likely to buy things that they haven't planned for. In addition, individuals have proven to be less likely to purchase items from very crowded locations... |
21 April 2009
08:51 GMT |
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There are many things that women can blame on “that time of the month,” from uncontrollable cravings to moodiness and depression. However, this is not all that menstruation does each month to millions, as a new study has just linked it to overspending and compulsive shopping. Going out to buy new stuff is... |
30 March 2009
16:11 GMT |
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Economy experts draw attention to the fact that parents who carry their small children to shopping malls with them are very likely to purchase more than they have planned to, as they fall under the “influence” of the little ones, who always ask for something else. This fact, they say, should be remembered... |
19 March 2009
07:46 GMT |
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ifoAppleStore, the source dealing exclusively with news and information about Apple retail stores, reports that the Mac maker has adopted yet another strategy to speed up the process of making an acquisition in its stores – placing shopping bags under the display tables.“Apple now have a complete purchasi... |
10 February 2009
08:42 GMT |
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Women spend a lot of money, mostly on shopping – this is by now a universal truth and no longer some myth of sorts that men came up with, so as to explain why their credit cards are always missing or their back accounts are on zero. Psychologist Professor Karen Pine and financial adviser Simonne Gnessen have ac... |
26 January 2009
16:21 GMT |
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A new system, developed by TransactionTree, promises to take paper receipts out of circulation, and to replace them with electronic counterparts. For those of you who feel that waiting in line for your printed copy of the receipt takes too long, this is nothing but good news. The company already announced that the sy... |
17 January 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Two people were arrested at a Wal-Mart store in Muncie, Ind., after a police officer who was off-duty saw them cutting a line. He stepped up to them and asked them to move to their place, but the two refused. An altercation followed, and the two ended up in arrest, charged with serious crimes each. However, the two, ... |
14 January 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Researchers learned that the debts, mortgages, loans and mid-life crisis sports cars that many men experience or buy sometime during their lifetime are linked to a hierarchy race, for the best position in the mating game. As it has been for thousand of years, whoever displays the most signs of wealthy living has the ... |
9 December 2008
05:03 GMT |
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Shopping during the Christmas season can be a very difficult and even deadly task, so before you set out make sure that you are armed with a few basic tips on how to minimize the time you spend in the store, or standing in line. The first time-saving thing you can do is to go out and buy the gifts you want as soon a... |
6 December 2008
04:15 GMT |
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On Friday, 34 year-old Jdimytai Damour, an employee at a Wal-Mart store in Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y., was trampled by a large crowd, numbering over 2,000 people, who busted through the glass door and stampeded inside the store, in search of holiday bargains."When they were saying they had to leave, that... |
1 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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Ever since the problem of “vanity sizing” was first brought to the public attention, it has been considered an interesting topic as it concerns us all, as well as the way we think and feel about how we look. Discussions on the subject, much debated already, have so far led to pointing the finger at the pr... |
26 November 2008
08:06 GMT |
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With the financial crisis wreaking havoc in all areas, most expected the fashion industry to be at least half as affected as other fields. However, the situation is far from that, as a new study performed by British "Grazia" magazine and cited by "The Daily Mail" reveals. Not only are women not about to give up on be... |
12 November 2008
14:51 GMT |
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Shopping cards are soon to be pushed into oblivion, as the researchers at Barclaycard, a division of Barclays, announce the possibility to replace them with "contactless payment" tech. They claim to have invested a seven-digit sum for the development of this technology, which is said to allow shoppers to use com... |
10 September 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Recent Marshal poll results show that 29% of Internet users buy products of whose existence they find out via spam. The percentage is incredibly large if we don't take into account the fact that the Marshall survey included only 622 respondents, a sample that can hardly be held as sufficient. Moreover, the quest... |
20 August 2008
06:54 GMT |
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What's new on the Britney front? Well, that's a good question. In fact, I'm almost stunned to report that the troubled popwreck actually seems to be doing better these days. OK, that really didn't come out very well. Let's try again. See, when a regular person (and by that I mean one that... |
13 February 2008
06:34 GMT |
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November and December are being known as the busiest months of the year, as lots of people from all over the world go online looking to buy gifts and all kinds of stuff at special prizes. Although everybody was expecting to see huge online spending on Cyber Monday (November 26th), Black Friday (November 23rd) or Than... |
8 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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A recent survey sponsored by Get Safe Online revealed that 20 percent of the respondents are still afraid to connect to the web for shopping, because of the security threats, "The Register" reported today. The research included approximately 2,000 British adults and showed that one in five Britons were still scared t... |
17 December 2007
08:55 GMT |
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It was a warm morning of May 2014 when I went out shopping with my old 10 Megapixel Nokia cell phone. I took pictures of almost anything I wanted to buy and then headed towards a library to buy "The Masterpiece", a classic novel by Émile Zola that I wanted for some time. While photographing the book through the libra... |
17 December 2007
07:29 GMT |
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The Holidays seem to come with the biggest hunger for dough from Google, who's been trying to promote its service for online shopping harder and harder. When Froogle didn't turn out exactly what they wanted it to be, they worked on it and re-branded it "Product Search". Apparently, this is not really appeal... |
17 December 2007
06:51 GMT |
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Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, although merchants have launched their special offers and promotions since Thanksgiving. Because of that, the online sellers expected huge sales and profits especially on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two days that became famous as the busiest shopp... |
10 December 2007
08:10 GMT |
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Market researcher Hitwise Today released a report concerning the most popular websites on Thanksgiving Day and on Black Friday, revealing that this year's traffic was well increased since 2006. According to Hitwise, the Thanksgiving traffic grew up with 20 percent in comparison with the same period of the last y... |
27 November 2007
01:38 GMT |
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Nowadays, a powerful security solution is more than a 'must have', since there are thousands of hackers waiting for a vulnerability in your system. Although it's well known that most attackers want to get control over your computer, many of them are now aiming to steal your financial information and ge... |
24 November 2007
07:15 GMT |
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A recent survey shows that this holiday season sales will still pick up, despite the extremely slow kick-start. Good news for the online sales department of any firm, but still not so good because it will actually be a drop in an ongoing on the rise trend."It's true that this year's growth rate will be a dr... |
23 November 2007
09:55 GMT |
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Quick! Get some money together and pay an army of lawyers to write about a dozen laws forbidding Paris to come back to the States! Our favorite hotel heiress is abroad, and it's really the best time to act. Kidding. OK, so I don't really want Paris out of the country for too long, because then we'd all... |
22 November 2007
04:54 GMT |
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With Cyber Monday almost here, it's very important to equip your computer with powerful and well-developed technologies which would be able to defend you and keep your data secure during the entire holiday shopping season. Today, the Zone Alarm developers, Check Point Software Technologies, offered several piece... |
22 November 2007
03:22 GMT |
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Security vendor Webroot Software Inc. conducted a new survey to find out how many Internet users prepared their computers for the upcoming online holiday shopping season and how many of them are really vulnerable to the attacks. The findings are at least surprising: 70 percent of the respondents had no concern when i... |
19 November 2007
16:36 GMT |
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When it comes down to holiday sales and advertising Santa has moved online. Microsoft, via the Atlas Institute, revealed that the Internet is a crucial influence over holiday sales. The Seventh Annual Holiday Online Shopping Report, put together by Microsoft Advertiser & Publisher Solutions' research and educati... |
19 November 2007
10:05 GMT |
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Yes, well, I was actually wondering what was going on with Lindsay Lohan these days. And the answer is, she's still reformed (or doing a very good job acting as if she were...reformed, that is), still apparently boring and still trying to act out that principle according to which every day is a blessing. The pro... |
14 November 2007
04:20 GMT |
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The upcoming Christmas shopping season is about to bring impressive revenues in the United Kingdom as the total online spending for 2007 is expected to reach £40 billion, Web User News reported today. The UK residents are expected to spend no less than £14 billion in the holiday season around Christmas, statistics is... |
12 November 2007
06:59 GMT |
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Although McAfee is one of the top security companies on the market, the firm struggles to get new technologies which might bring new consumers to their products. Today, McAfee announced that it has reached an agreement to buy ScanAlert Inc. for no less than $51 million and get new solutions designed to protect users ... |
31 October 2007
18:06 GMT |
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Ask.com and PriceRunner announced they have reached an agreement to launch a UK shopping portal which is supposed to allow the local consumers to buy stuff straight from their computer. The juicy part is that the two companies plan to offer 200 different product categories which might represent one of the largest UK ... |
30 October 2007
16:31 GMT |
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A few days ago, the market researches revealed that the online shopping websites are expecting an impressive number of customers seeking for gifts and presents for friends and families. Today, another study states that many of these pages are not ready for their clients because they are full of bugs which might make ... |
25 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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We all know that the online shopping industry grew up a lot and it is going to become even more popular very soon, the analysts think. Market researcher JupiterResearch said that it expects to see a huge number of US online shoppers in the upcoming holiday season which might spend no less than $39 billion on the thin... |
23 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Oh, man, and there was me hoping Rihanna had more brains than Paris and Britney do. I mean, don't bet me wrong, this isn't about her talent - she's got plenty of that, more than the other two put together and multiplied by about a million. But the fact is, I was sort of hoping for her to go on being a ... |
5 October 2007
05:10 GMT |
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No, it's not about the general term of "hacker", it's about Hacker Safe, a company that signed a deal with Yahoo to provide better security for its shopping search engine. This is quite a smart move as most of the Internet giants are looking for powerful partners able to improve the security of its products... |
16 August 2007
06:47 GMT |
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New possibilities are now available for mobile phone users with the release of the Alcatel-Lucent 5965 Mobile Content Platform. The delivery of handset entertainment experiences will take place from now on considerably easier with the release of this software platform.Among the main advantages that Alcatel-Lucent has... |
13 June 2007
09:37 GMT |
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