No holiday e-mail break for Americans: survey
Americans will take a break from the office over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays but most won't stop checking their work emails, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Americans will take a break from the office over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays but most won't stop checking their work emails, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Internet
Nov 23, 2010
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Standing before a display of heart-rate monitors at Sports Authority, Robert Dries of Brookfield, Wis., was ready to buy the one he'd heard about at his health club. But before making the purchase, he decided to pull out ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not even professional athletes would consider running a marathon without any training, but this is essentially what Christmas Island red crabs do every year, according to new research from the University ...
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2010
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On Christmas Day customers bought more electronic books than hard-copy books on Internet retail giant Amazon.com, the company said in a statement Saturday.
Internet
Dec 27, 2009
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(AP) -- To Steven Walls, it's beginning to look nothing like Christmas, anywhere he goes.
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 21, 2009
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(AP) -- Stores in the snow-battered East Coast may have been sparse this weekend, but shoppers kept spending online. Retailers spurred sales with new discounts and shipping offers to make sure gifts arrive by Christmas.
Business
Dec 21, 2009
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In this year's myriad discussions of stimulus and jobs programs, no one has yet publicly raised the idea to ask Santa Claus to take Christmas Eve off. Outsourcing his job by asking mere mortals to deliver presents to the ...
Other
Dec 17, 2009
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After chasing the perfect Christmas tree for three decades, Gary Chastagner could be getting close.
Biotechnology
Dec 17, 2009
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When Sheila Effan found a Kindle electronic reader among her gifts last Christmas, one of her first thoughts was whether she would miss the smell and feel of real paper. She got her answer five months later.
Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 3, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The well-publicized toy recalls of 2007 took potentially harmful toys off the shelves and affected the companies that made them.
Economics & Business
Dec 2, 2009
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