Tuesday - December 30, 2008
For those who like to feel like they've gotten a bargain whenever they make a purchase, 4Sale4Now.com could be a dream come true. The site lets retailers discount their products and services regularly, and it lets buyers to monitor these discounts and buy when they're deep enough to suit their fancy. It's akin to an auction model, but unlike sites like eBay, the prices on 4Sale4Now always go down. "With typical auction sites, the price goes up, with 4Sale4Now, the price goes down," Nicky Di Nicola, an executive with 4Sale4Now, told the E-Commerce Times.
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Wednesday - December 24, 2008
Celebratory excess marks the holiday season, with its freewheeling use of credit cards, mountains of new toys, and piles of discarded packaging and wrapping paper after it's all over. The tree is green, the money's green, but the overall effect of the season is not particularly, well, green. So what's an environmentally conscious shopper to do?
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Monday - December 22, 2008
A wall here, a door there. A sunroom stretching out from the back of the house, just so. Recessed lighting in the kitchen. A custom-designed fireplace in the living room. And outside, a deck, a curving walkway, and a strategic planting of a few yews and Japanese maples. If playing with such details of home, interior and landscape design sounds like a good time to you, you're not alone.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
If you've used an in-flight entertainment system, known in the airline industry as an "IFE," to watch movies, listen to music, or order food lately, chances are it used Linux as an operating system. You might not know that Linux is the operating system behind what you see on your screen, but it probably is.
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Wednesday - November 26, 2008
You might not think you have robots in your house, but think again. There's your dishwasher, for instance; you put dishes in it, walk away, and a half hour later they're clean. Same thing with your washing machine. Or your programmable coffeemaker. Though these everyday mechanical devices aren't humanoid, they are on the robotic spectrum, in the sense that they perform functions with minimal human involvement.
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Thursday - November 20, 2008
Everything's going open source nowadays. Why not government? That's precisely the question that some analysts and consultants are asking, along with citizens themselves. President-Elect Barack Obama has begun to implement a bit of open source thinking with his Presidential Transition Project Web site.
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Tuesday - November 18, 2008
Online shoppers looking to save a few bucks have plenty of options this holiday season. Those looking to save on shipping costs in particular might find themselves at FreeShipping.org, a new Web site that lists free shipping deals for hundreds of retailers. "We noticed how many retailers were offering free shipping, and that shoppers were wanting it," said Luke Knowles, cofounder of the company.
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