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Cyber Monday S.O.S. - 3 Quick Tips

According to the National Retail Federation , citing a study by BIGresearch, nearly 60% of office workers will shop online over their lunch hour on Monday. And depending on your target demographic, it may be more - 70% of those ages...

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Panorama: In-Depth Analysis Within Google Docs

If you needed another reason to use Google Docs, Panorama has one for you: deep analysis. In short, it's a simplified way of creating pivot tables on spreadsheets. Start by setting up a spreadsheet in Google Docs, just like you...

Can't-Miss Black Friday Websites and Resources

According to the National Retail Federation's 2008 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, 72.0 percent of consumers have completed less than 10 percent of their shopping. So, that means the upcoming weeks are going to...

Free iPhone TouchType Email App

If you don't know about TouchType, it's an iPhone app that gives you a larger, horizontal keyboard to use for typing out emails. It also has the ability to save text snippets so that if you're sending the same response...

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While eBay Freefalls, Consumers Move To Online Classifieds

For a very long time, eBay has owned the alternative marketplace. It has been a place for consumers to find good deals and for sellers to unload product in a seemingly user-friendly environment. But things have changed. Whether because...

Mint.com Sends Detailed Information via SMS

With budgets tight this holiday season, Mint.com's SMS service could come in handy. By texting "Bal" or "Balance" to MYMINT (696468), users can get real-time balances of their checking and savings accounts,...

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Xobni Extends Functionality to Yahoo, Facebook, Hoovers

Xobni gained some attention at initial launch, and with good reason. The Outlook plugin indexes email, enabling users to quickly organize their messages, search for attachments and follow conversations much more effectively than standard...

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Twitrratr: Search Emotions on Twitter

There are plenty of Twitter search tools out there, and here's another: Twitrratr . Here, you can enter a search term and get results back broken out in positive, negative or neutral tweets according to that topic. It works through...

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Google Voice Search is Finally Here

Voice-enabled search has been long anticipated, and who better to deliver than Google? The iPhone is the proud recipient of a new Google voice search app, available at the iTunes store, through the updated Google Mobile app. And early...

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Cyber Threats to Spike This Holiday Season

Security Solutions provider Webroot is warning shoppers of the increase in security threats for online shoppers in the upcoming weeks and months. “Last year we saw an 87 percent increase in malicious URLs between October and...

Consumers Flock to FreeShipping.com - Take Note

The holiday season is heating up, and consumers are warming to the idea of savings wherever they can find it. And that includes shipping costs. FreeShipping.com saw a record surge in enrollments in October, rising 300% over 2007 totals...

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UK Consumers Spend More Online - Where to Find Them

JupiterResearch has released a study that shows UK consumers will spend 40 percent more online than the average U.S. consumer, on their way to making 24 percent more purchases. Another revealing finding is that UK consumers are eight...

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Twittering With Consumers

Within the past 12 months, Twitter has moved from a curious time waster to a serious business tool. To some consumers, that's a problem - another user-oriented tool being invaded by business. To others, it's a way to connect...

Workstir: A New Breed of Online Classifieds

Craigslist is a crap shoot. Angie's List is good, but charges a fee. Now there's Workstir , an online classified site with a user-friendly design. As a consumer, you simply post your need. When a matching service provider is...

Yahoo! Deals Launches

It's time for holiday shopping, and consumers are in the mood to save money this year. So, Yahoo launched Yahoo! Deals . The site is an extension of Yahoo Shopping and features daily deals from sites like Woot!, Amazon and DealNews...

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