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Thank you, Steve Jobs and the iTunes Music Store, for a jump in podcast downloads. The Pew Internet & American Life Project discovered in a recent poll

Computer and application developers have long talked about the “grandma test”: If their hardware or programs were intuitive enough for older relatives to use, they knew they had something a broad swath of the everyday online public could find value in.

Long before travelers pull their suitcases down from the top shelf, RCI Global Vacation Network has begun modeling where they will go. Not on an individual

AAA Insider, one of AAA Southern New England's newest member programs, is also one of its most effective. A year in, free-to-paid memberships are converting at nearly 95%, compared with the club's general renewal rate of around 89%.

And now here's where we make the obligatory joke about selling boldly where no continuity program has sold before The William Shatner Sci-Fi DVD of the

Collette Vacations had a powerful marketing tool at its fingertips: A database of customer satisfaction survey responses, which also held information

But why do you want to save? Are you putting away pennies for a sailboat, or to pay your daughter's way through college? Maybe you're dreaming of taking a trip to Italy to see the village where your grandfather was born. All of these reasons are emotional as well as fiscal, a theme HSBC Direct…

Sure, many people maintain that the older you get, the better you get. But that doesn't mean a makeover wouldn't hurt. Godiva Chocolatier did just that

When kingdoms vanish in the night. . . -- and nations wake to find the enemy within their gates. . . Millions of people snap up each extra as it comes off the press and scan each headline in fear and horror

Dear American: Ours is the tragic privilege - - The tragic privilege of living and taking part in the greatest worldwide military crisis since Napoleon, the greatest American election crisis since Lincoln, the greatest economic crisis since Adam Smith