December 2009
Americans Spend 13 Hours A Week Online
Adult internet users in the U.S. are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online, and half of adult internet users have purchased something online in the last month, according to the results from a recent poll from Harris Interactive. The Harris Poll found that over the years the average number of hours spent online has increased from seven hours in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, to between...
“No way. think they are totally completely wrong; models do not bear this out....”
– Expect to see job growth in the Jan. 8 jobs report and say goodbye to 10 percent unemployment in the New Year, John Herrmann, president of Herrmann Forecasting, told CNBC Tuesday.
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While the blue-skinned Na’vi are shooting arrows out of the screen toward the audience in the 3-D movie “Avatar,” another battle is being fought in the theater - over the goofy-looking glasses that moviegoers must wear to see the three-dimensional effects.
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Researchers have found a clear correlation between inflexible bodies and inflexible arteries in subjects older than 40.
Texting Is Replacing The Phone
R u kidding me? Americans punched out more than 110 billion text messages last year, double the number in the previous year and growing, as the shorthand communication becomes a popular alternative to cell phone calls. The nation’s 270 million cell phone subscribers each sent out an average of 407 text messages in 2008, according to government statistics released Tuesday by the Census...
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The earlier you start, the better off they will be. So, this year, instead of buying your kid the hottest toy that’s going to make her friends drool, consider giving the gift that could keep on giving - stocks! Here are Jim Cramer’s 10 stocks for 2010 for kids under the age of 10, or under 100 for that matter!
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Police can't search you cellphone without warrant! →
The Ohio Supreme Court has struck an important blow for privacy rights with the ruling that police need a warrant to search a cellphone.
Hollywood Reporter: Apple Won't Kill Cable
Floating even the faintest possibility of Apple and Disney collaborating on the digital front is enough to have anyone salivating. When these companies came together to bring video to iTunes in 2006, it was a bona fide gamechanger. No wonder new reports of Apple and Disney, as well as CBS Corp., entertaining the possibility of a $30 subscription TV service is whipping up a new frenzy. And while...
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Bush Asked Daschle To Limit Sept. 11 Probes →
Then President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN.
“We are not going to have a second wave of financial crisis. We cannot afford to...”
– Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday the Obama administration is confident it will prevent a repeat of last year’s financial crisis, the worst to hit the country in seven decades.
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