Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
You already love the one-stop convenience of shopping online at Amazon.com, but chances are you're not getting everything you can out of this feature-packed shopping engine. Did you know Amazon can email you suggestions from Mom's wish list two weeks before her birthday? Automatically ship you a new case of ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
If tax-hungry politicians get their way, the days of ordering items over the Internet and not paying sales tax may become just a fond memory.
Right now, if a California resident orders something from Seattle-based Amazon.com, for instance, he or she won't be charged sales tax at the time of purchase. ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Consumers will be able to purchase the first major update to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system starting on Wednesday, if Internet retailer Amazon.com is to be believed. Amazon's Web site shows that both the full and upgrade versions of Vista SP1 are currently available for pre-order and will ship ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The people in my personal focus group (my wife, my mother, and some coworkers at CNET) agree that this is one of the creepiest things they've ever heard of: a new service that will tell your correspondents exactly when you opened the e-mail they sent you. It will also tell ...
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