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KATHY'S DESIGNING HER NEW restaurant's kitchen and is looking to buy several new high-end stoves, refrigerators and the like. As the salesman prepares

The New England-New York rivalry plays out regularly on baseball diamonds and football fields. But online, who wins? We spent some time perusing the sites

Leslie C. Bacon has been named group publisher of Prism Marketing Media Strategies, a new unit that includes Direct, Multichannel Merchant, Promo and

E-MAILBOX PROVIDERS blocked 19.2% of all permission-based commercial e-mail during the first half of 2006, according to a study by e-mail delivery firm Return Path. This average is a slight improvement over the 21% reported in the second half last year, the firm noted.

The U.S. Postal Service's proposal to change flats into parcels will drive BMG-Columbia House away from the mail channel, vice president Clifton B. Knight Jr. said in a letter USPS chief operating officer Pat Donohoe.

Mail order sales in the Czech Republic have been growing, mainly owing to e-shopping, said Tomas Hajek, secretary of the country's Direct Marketing and Mail Order Sales Association ADMAZ, according to the Prague Post.

Today we meet Rich Eldert, senior list broker at VentureDirect Worldwide. Eldert does brokerage work for trade publishers, professional associations and other clients involved in the human resources, teen and health products markets.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said it will not comply with a proposed order by an Illinois judge to shut down anti-spam Web site Spamhaus.org.

The Ontario Pharmacists' Association has issued an open letter to the Canada's Minister of Health expressing its grave concern that a recent ruling by the U.S. Congress that will again allow U.S. citizens to cross the Canadian border in order to purchase cheaper prescription drugs, according to Halifax Live.