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Health
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Highest Traces of Cocaine and Dirtiest Money Found on U.S. Bills
Jeanna Bryner / Senior Writer LiveScience.com
Tue Aug 5, 2008 10:10 AM ET
Paper money contains high traces of cocaine, regardless of whether or
not the paper money came into direct contact with the drug. And U.S.
bills take the top spot, covered in the greatest amount of the illegal
powder, while Spanish notes are the most highly contaminated in Europe,
a new study finds.
The findings, detailed in the latest issue of the journal Trends in
Analytical Chemistry, reflect the popularity of the illicit drug, the
researchers say.
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Skyward Innovations Launches the TripChill™ Beta Website, an Automated Travel Assistant for Frequent Travelers
Skyward Innovations launches the TripChill™ service (www.tripchill.com)
to take the pain of out travel for frequent flyers. The service
proactively alerts travelers to issues with their travel itinerary and
provides the best options to correct each problem. Travelers can book
hotel and car reservations while on the road from any type of cell
phone; there is an advanced mobile interface for smartphone browsers
such as the BlackBerry, iPhone, and Treo.
Stratham, NH August 5, 2008 -- Skyward Innovations has announced the availability of the TripChill™
consumer website, a mobile passenger concierge service that proactively
monitors itineraries for potential issues and decisively implements
user approved corrections upon request. Accessible via text messaging,
email, or a smart phone web browser, the service targets those business
travelers employed by small to mid-size domestic companies without a
corporate travel office and provides intelligent situational assistance
such as prioritized alternate flight listings, contact notifications,
inbound aircraft status, and the ability to book a hotel or car when
stranded at an airport. To begin the process, travelers email their
reservation details to TripChill where they can quickly organize, edit
and print their complete itinerary from the website. Once the service
receives and chronicles travel plans, it immediately begins monitoring
the itinerary for travel updates.
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Biz Models
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Primetime TV Online
AUGUST 5, 2008
TV on the Web is no cannibal.
The total amount of TV US consumers watch keeps rising. While online TV is
not cutting into total viewing hours, those who mainly watch primetime
TV online may not be the biggest fans anyway.
More than 20% of US consumers ages 13 to 55 surveyed watched
some primetime television programming online during spring 2008,
according to Integrated Media Measurement Inc.'s (IMMI's)
"Online Viewership Brief." Those who tuned in to primetime TV online
were likely to watch fewer total hours of programming per month.
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MoneySavingGuide.com -- A New Online Resource to Help You Save Money
MoneySavingGuide.com
was launched today by a group of friends committed to sharing tips and
strategies that help consumers save money wisely. The online resource
and community publishes insightful articles and blog posts, helpful
how-to guides and links to the best money-saving resources on the Web.
Chicago, IL August 5, 2008 -- MoneySavingGuide.com was launched today by a group of
friends committed to sharing tips and strategies that help consumers
save money wisely. The online resource and community publishes
insightful articles and blog posts, helpful how-to guides and links to
the best money-saving resources on the Web. The Website editors
research time-tested ways to save, combine them with real-world
experiences and distill the information to deliver advice in language
that is easy to understand.
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Next Generation of Flight Search Engine Coined 'Meta-Meta Search'
New flight comparison site departs from the previous model of directly
searching numerous OTA's and airlines in favour of comparing multiple
flight comparison sites.
London, UK August 5, 2008 -- Cheap-Flights-Finder.com
was officially launched today with an exclusive tool that compares
prices from multiple flight comparison sites, performing a so called
"Meta-Meta search". The new site compares flights from Kelkoo, Kayak,
Dohop, Mobissimo and Skyscanner with one single user query, scanning
hundreds of different travel agents and 660 airlines. The aim of the
new search engine is to offer a practical solution to the problem which
affects current day flight comparison sites, namely the inability of a
particular meta search engine to compare every single travel site
online.
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Chinese entrepreneur dreams of a global brand
By JOE McDONALD / AP
BEIJING (AP) — His company's gadgets are barely known abroad. But
Aigo CEO Feng Jun, a boyishly exuberant walking advertisement for the
fast-growing Chinese electronics maker, is out to change that.
Seconds
after meeting a reporter at a business conference, the burly,
baby-faced 39-year-old whips an Aigo computer memory card out of his
wallet and throws it to the floor to show its durability. He plucks an
Aigo digital camera off his belt and snaps pictures. Then he plays back
the conversation on his MP3-equipped watch, also from Aigo.
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Tracking a Shopper's Habits
Infosys's sensor network turns stores into mini-Internets.
By Michael Fitzgerald / MIT Review
Monday, August 04, 2008
Infosys may
have solved a $100 billion problem for companies in the retail
business: how to tell whether their promotions really work. In the
process, Infosys has also created the potential for stores and
consumer-goods companies to track things like traffic and inventory in
real time.
Consumers like Procter & Gamble
and the retailers they sell through spend more than $100 billion per
year to promote products in stores, according to Forrester Research.
They pay fees for shelf space in stores, including premiums to have
their products at eye level. They pay for special promotion stands. And
although they pay for armies of checkers to see whether retailers
follow through on the deals, it's a system fraught with error, says
Forrester analyst George Lawrie.
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