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Psychologist studies how product messages influence our willingness to pay

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As retailers bombard holiday shoppers with a blizzard of product bargains and layaway options, they should probably be concerned with the power of the words being used to promote their products to consumers. ...


Sony hopes online service will build brand loyalty (AP)

Sony hopes online service will build brand loyalty

Technology / Business

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.


School textbooks have political purpose, finds study

School textbooks have political purpose, finds study

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The simple school textbook is used by states to mould loyal citizens, according to a new study.


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Mum's the word at Vegas blogging convention

Technology / Internet

created Oct 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For years, the stereotypical blogger was a geek yammering on about the latest technoglogy or a celebrity-obsessed scribe dishing about Paris, Lindsay and Madonna.


Scores of teams applied to compete in this year's decathlon, but only 20 were accepted

Changing focus leads Dell to close NC plant

Technology / Business

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A massive Dell Inc. computer assembly plant once seen as a job generator worthy of the promise of more than $300 million in state and local inducements will go dark in four months, a victim of new ...


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Loyal alligators display the mating habits of birds

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Alligators display the same loyalty to their mating partners as birds reveals a study published today in Molecular Ecology. The ten-year-study by scientists from the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory reveal ...


Home-help staff stretch the rules for the good of the service

Home-help staff stretch the rules for the good of the service

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new thesis from the University of Gothenburg reveals that out of loyalty to the people for whom they provide care, groups of home-help staff sometimes break the rules dictating how their work should be performed.


New generation of coupons means users clip less (AP)

New generation of coupons means users clip less

Technology / Internet

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Electronic coupons, arriving by cell phone, Twitter, e-mail and Facebook, are helping generate an old standby's comeback and bringing in new, younger customers.


Employee's loyalty to workplace damaged by unfair treatment

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A new study reveals that unfair treatment of employees is damaging to mental health.


The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California

Google users loyal: comScore

Technology / Internet

created Aug 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

The planned Microsoft-Yahoo! online search tie-up has promise but must overcome people's fierce loyalty to market king Google, industry tracker comScore said Friday.


A US computer chip giant Intel factory is pictured in Leixlip, near Dublin, Ireland in July 2009

EU defends action against Intel after report leaked

Technology / Business

created Aug 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The EU Commission on Saturday defended its record-busting anti-trust action against Intel, following a report that it missed evidence which could have boosted the US computer chip giant's case.


The paradox of loyalty

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

In the wake of the Iraq invasion, many U.S. citizens who disagreed with the Bush Administration's decision detached themselves from politics. On the other hand, a surprising number of people became more patriotic in spite ...


Definitely, not your mother's maternity ward

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, Minn., women can now give birth in rooms with whirlpool tubs and wi-fi. At Fairview Southdale in Edina, Minn., new moms can hire a massage therapist or a portrait photographer.


A view of the headquarters of the internet search engine company Google in Mountain View, California

Rosetta Stone sues Google over trademark

Technology / Internet

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Rosetta Stone, a language-learning software producer, on Friday filed a federal lawsuit against Google for infringing its trademark through Google's AdWords online advertising program.


Individuals with family history of genetic disease at risk of discrimination

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People with a family history of genetic disease are often discriminated against by insurance companies and their relatives and friends, according to research published in British Medical Journal.