Q&As

LOVE THE SINNER, HATE THE sin is good, compassionate advice. But there are times when the sins of the direct marketing industry make me sothat love is

SCIENCE SAYS THE ABILITY TO navigate was developed to enable early humans who stumbled on a bountiful berry bush or well-stocked watering hole to find

May 11, 2006 KODAK agreed to pay more than $26,000 to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that e-mails sent by its photo-sharing unit to 2

Time Warner’s Road Runner High Speed Online service is on the move, but it isn’t Wile E. Coyote that’s on the ISP’s tail it’s DSL. To win the race, Road

Baskin-Robbins’ is taking its iconic pink spoons out of its stores and putting them into a multi-city mobile tour and an interactive game that lets consumers search for hidden spoons for a chance to win a host of prizes.

Local youth baseball teams have a chance to be featured on ESPN, win cool merchandise and a KFC party thanks to a partnership between the restaurant chain, ESPN and ABC Sports.

Sprint Nextel is driving its sponsorship of a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race in Michigan this month with a sweeps that gives the state’s residents a chance to win a trip to the event and receive racing merchandise.

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and Turner Network Television have teamed up for a one-of-a-kind sampling effort in which guest can get a sneak peek of the network’s second season premiere episode of The Closer days before it airs nationally this month.

For the second time in three years, Lillian Vernon Corp. has changed hands. Direct Holdings Worldwide, which bought the gifts and housewares cataloger in July 2003, has sold it to investment firm Sun Capital Partners. Sale terms were not announced.