| How to save money on your medications
EAR SAVVY SENIOR: Can you recommend some tips that can help lower my prescription medication costs? I'm 58 years old, and currently take four drugs that I can barely afford. What can you tell me? -Underinsured Susan DEAR SUSAN: For the millions who are uninsured or underinsured, there are several ways you can reduce your medication costs without cutting quality. The following tips can also help seniors with a Medicare prescription drug plan avoid their "doughnut hole" coverage gap, or reduce their costs once they reach it. Cost cutters: Most people don't comparison shop for their prescription drugs. They get a prescription from a doctor, go to their favorite pharmacy to fill it, and usually don't even ask the price. But, you can save money - sometimes lots - if you shop around.
Six Pack: Find the Right Site Search
For the online retailer, few things are more important than your site search functions. Customers use it to find products, naturally, browse as they shop and to find add-on and similar products as well. An effective site search is necessary, but it will also enhance an online shopper's experience, and in return, potentially boost your sales and tell you more about how customers use your Web site. According to a recent study by Aberdeen Group, a Web site search is the minimum competitive requirement for online commerce. In fact, the research firm says that 59 percent of the e-commerce Web sites it surveyed currently have a search tool in place and over the next two years that number is expected to jump to 96 percent. Much like Internet search engines, e-commerce-based search engines all offer a different combination of search options, results displays, organization formats and other options.
Internet safety expert arms parents with information
Sexual predators. Pornography. Addictions of all sorts. Hazards on the Internet are enough to give parents the willies. David Delmonico, a Duquesne University associate professor, is filling a need among parents and young people for reliable information in the confusing world of cyberspace. Armed with 10 years of experience working with online sex offenders, Delmonico offers consultation and training to groups looking to safeguard themselves and their children. He spoke recently to parents at St. Elizabeth of Hungary School in Pleasant Hills. He started with a slew of troubling statistics 70 percent of kids have accidentally stumbled across Internet porn, 1 in 5 children report receiving unwanted sexual solicitation, 58 percent admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online.
Manhattan Design Store Grows With CORESense
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 24, 2007 -- CORESense, the leading provider of on-demand multi-channel retail management software, today announced that Moss, the internationally regarded design store, has deployed CORESense to manage its multi-channel retail operations. Since engaging CORESense to synchronize its New York City store, web and phone sales channels, Moss has increased revenue, net profits and office productivity significantly. "We are extremely proud of the success Moss has enjoyed since implementing CORESense," said Jason Jacobs, CORESense president and CEO. "Moss had a plan for expanding through process automation and sales channel integration, and CORESense was the perfect fit. Our solution is ideal for SMB retailers with aspirations of growing into a multi-sales channel business." Since its opening in 1994, Moss has evolved from a boutique to a leading retailer of designer furniture and products.
Swapping is the New Shopping as Hitflip.co.uk Opens for Business
London, UK (OPENPRESS) April 4, 2007 -- Online media exchange, www.Hitflip.de, the market leader in Germany and Austria, has acquired Swopex, the UKs biggest CD, DVD and game exchange portal and fused the two leading brands together to create hitflip.co.uk, Europes largest online swapping destination. UK swappers can now join Hitflip.co.uk online to enjoy the unique Hitflip experience then begin swapping their unwanted DVDs, games, music CDs, audio books, and books simply, securely and cheaply. Adam Finlayson, general manager for Hitflip UK, said, The Hitflip swapping phenomena has been an instant success in mainland Europe with customers taking the attitude that its better to exchange used or unwanted media titles rather than always buy something new. The popular Eighties morning TV show for children, Noel Edmonds's Swap Shop, became essential viewing for millions and for some, a way of life , so we know the UK is a nation of would-be swappers; people just need the right medium to help them do it.
Back of the net!
In the new July issue of PC Zone out this Thursday 26th April, we bring you the world's first exclusive playtest of Sports Interactive's new footy game Football Manager Live. However, now that we've played it, we're giving you the opportunity to win one of 25 Beta keys for the new game. Yep, you could actually be playing FM Live months before release! Details of the competition and Martin Korda's extensive hands-on with Football Manager Live is in PC Zone issue 181 out Thursday.Also free with the new issue is a unique Guild Wars mini-pet and a special World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade trading card. Plus in the mag we have unmissable previews of Valve's zombie killer Left 4 Dead, NCsoft's latest MMO Guild Wars 2 and a special 16-page feature on PC Zone's 101 Best Games Ever - find out if your favourite game is number one...
Reinventing the way we eat
EDMONTON - So here's the question: In this toxic fast-food age and a whacky global economy where Caribbean mangoes are shipped to snowbound Canadians all winter long, is it still possible to live off the land that surrounds us? Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon are vital, healthy proof that it is, give or take a few lost pounds and a nagging cold Smith was nursing when the couple visited Edmonton this week. Smith and MacKinnon were here as part of a national promotional tour for their new book, The 100-Mile Diet (Random House Canada, $32.95), an account of their year-long attempt to consume only foods and beverages produced with a 100-mile radius of their walk-up apartment in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver. The idea sprang from a gut feeling MacKinnon had one day back in early 2005 that the world had "gone sideways," an anxious moment reinforced by a single ugly statistic from World Watch -- that the food we now eat in the average North American meal typically travels between 2,500 and 4,000 kilometres from farm to plate.
Two Thirds of Kiwis Online are Buying Online
Online shopping mall Ferrit today revealed that more New Zealanders than Australians buy online and on average spend more when they purchase. The data comes from the first Nielsen//NetRatings Online Retail Monitor – research primarily sponsored by Ferrit to understand New Zealanders’ internet shopping behaviour. The research canvassed 759 New Zealand internet users over a month during December and January. Key findings include: .
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