News tagged with home shopping network


IAC shares surge despite $28M quarterly loss (Update)

Technology / Business

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The recession took a bite out of IAC/InterActiveCorp in the first quarter, as revenue fell 22 percent in the Internet company's media and advertising unit, which includes the Ask.com search engine.





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Supermarket robot to help the elderly

Supermarket robot to help the elderly (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robovie-II, a retail-assistant robot designed to help elderly and disabled people shop in supermarkets, is being tested in Kyoto, in Japan.


A new language could improve home computer security

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Korean computer scientists have developed a security policy specification for home networks that could make us more secure from cyber attack in our homes. They report details in the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ub ...


Next: the pill bottle cap with a cell phone

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- IPhones aren't the only cutting-edge devices on AT&T Inc.'s wireless network. A startup is set to announce that it's making pill-bottle caps that use Ma Bell's network to remind you to take your medicine.


Male and female shopping strategies show evolution at work in the mall

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Male and female shopping styles are in our genes---and we can look to evolution for the reason. Daniel Kruger, research faculty at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, says it's perfectly natural that men often ...


Beware of highway robbers on Wi-Fi

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

As the number of Wi-Fi hot spots grows, travelers might want to heed a word of caution from the Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit industry group that promotes Wi-Fi technology: Think security.


Building the smart home wirelessly

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a report published in the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications device ...


Online retailers rev up deals to keep up momentum (AP)

Online retailers rev up deals to keep up momentum

Technology / Business

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Retail Web sites kept amping up the deals Monday, the first day after the Thanksgiving holiday, to try to maintain the long weekend's strong online sales.


'SensorNet' surveillance network studied

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created Feb 15, 2006 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fort Bragg, N.C., might become the model for a national network of sensors, alarms and video surveillance to help protect against terrorism.


Computer scientists work to strengthen online security

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother's maiden name? Where were you born?


Plugging into an electric vehicle revolution

Plugging into an electric vehicle revolution

Technology / Energy

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, is underway. Over the next three months, staff from Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet ...



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