Web coupons likely to alter holiday shopping landscape
As shoppers get ready for another tough holiday season, more will be using coupons - but not your mother's old-school, cut-on-the-dotted-line version.
Internet
Nov 4, 2010
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Cable subscribers flee, but is Internet to blame?
(AP) -- Cable companies have been losing TV subscribers at an ever faster rate in the last few months, and satellite TV isn't picking up the slack.
Telecom
Nov 4, 2010
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Long-term lake study suggests ecological mechanism may control destructive crayfish
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few years ago, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's research station in Boulder Junction, Wis., were growing sick of a crustacean delicacy - the rusty crayfish. Roughly 90,000 of the ...
Ecology
Nov 4, 2010
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Activision 3Q earnings more than triple
(AP) -- Continued strong demand for the latest "Call of Duty," "StarCraft" and "World of Warcraft" video games helped more than triple Activision Blizzard Inc.'s third-quarter net income and pushed overall results well above ...
Business
Nov 4, 2010
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Music insider shatters model of digital distribution
The music industry may be bellyaching about how tough times are as revenue continues to sink like a rock for traditional music companies, but don't tell that to Jeff Price.
Internet
Nov 4, 2010
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Ants compete, recruit to identify best colony (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Stephen Pratt studies how small ant colonies pick a new nest when theirs is destroyed or is no longer viable, and has found that the "brain" of the colony is distributed throughout the group of ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 4, 2010
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Grad student simulates 100 years of farming to measure agriculture's impact on land and water quality
Estimating the long-term impact of agriculture on land is tricky when you don't have much information about what a field was like before it was farmed. Some fields in Missouri started producing crops more than a century ago—long ...
Environment
Nov 4, 2010
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Herschel's hidden talent: digging up magnified galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- It turns out the Herschel Space Observatory has a trick up its sleeve. The telescope, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions, has proven to be excellent at finding magnified, faraway ...
Astronomy
Nov 4, 2010
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1.5-million-dollar verdict in US music piracy case
A US jury has ordered a Minnesota woman to pay 1.5 million dollars for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.
Internet
Nov 4, 2010
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Rain delays space shuttle launch; now set for Fri.
(AP) -- NASA will try again Friday to send Discovery off on its final journey, after a series of postponements for the oldest and most traveled space shuttle.
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2010
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