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Extended service contracts: When and why do people buy them?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Consumer experts have long recommended against buying Extended Service Contracts (ESCs) with products, since they are rarely cost effective. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines the reasons why so man ...
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More Consumers Say No to Retailer Warranties
Apr 18, 2007 |
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If you're fed up of listening to a blue-shirted electronics store employee explain why an extended warranty will help with the increasingly likely problem that a cat will pee on your new big-screen TV, thus setting off a ...
In Brief: Telenor to launch 2G broadband in Norway
Jun 09, 2006 |
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Norwegian telco Telenor will launch its second-generation broadband service next week, providing Internet speeds up to 16,000 kilobits per second.
Twitter to show whereabouts of tweeters
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Twitter is adding location to its globally popular microblogging service in a move that will let people see where "tweets" are coming from.
In Briefs: TiVo, DirecTV extend service agreement
Apr 13, 2006 |
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DirecTV and TiVo have extended the agreement that allows U.S. satellite television subscribers to digitally record programming for another three years.
Multiplying like bunnies? Not this jackrabbit
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Rabbits are certainly known for their propensity to multiply, but one species of jackrabbit is having trouble keeping up. There are an estimated 150 white-sided jackrabbits left in the United States, and federal ...
Drought leaves Tenn. town dry
Nov 09, 2007 |
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Rain brought some relief this week to the Tennessee Valley but a serious drought persisted throughout most of the Southeast United States.
Verizon sees door open to airliner WiFi
Dec 13, 2005 |
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Verizon is ready to start offering in-flight broadband service to airline passengers in 2007.
White House considers listing polar bears
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Feb 04, 2008 |
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The U.S. Interior Department is considering whether to list the polar bear as an endangered species, it was reported Sunday.
Happy New Year for astronauts
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 01, 2007 |
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The director of Russia's Federal Space Agency wished the crew of the International Space station a happy New Year.
Fed rules urged to protect black abalone
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Jan 14, 2008 |
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A U.S. federal agency has proposed listing black abalone -- a marine mollusk sought by fishermen -- as an endangered species.
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