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New growth pains for online shopping

A few years ago, online shopping began to boom as the increasing number of broadband connections and better understanding of online security issues sent more and more people online to make purchases. Now, however, the online boom is finally starting to slow, with year-to-year growth having dipped to single digits. That's in part the result of the slowing of the economy but also a factor is a new generation of internet shoppers with expectations that are actually ahead of what some sites can deliver. Web sites’ relationship with customers has become a key part of online shopping, says a new report from eMarketer, and consumers’ expectations have risen as sites look to add features like video capabilities, 3-D displays and virtual dressing rooms.

Faulty chip pains iPhone

NEW YORK: An Infineon chip could be at the root of complaints from around the world that Apple Inc's new iPhone drops calls and has unpredictable Internet links, according to a research report from Nomura.

Week in review: Google's growing pains

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08/07 Medical Blogs May Threaten Patient Privacy

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U.S. Trying To Seal Leaks To China's Space Program

As China ramps up its space program in a bid to catch the United States, Washington is taking pains to make sure that it is not helping China along in that quest.

Esquire: With iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is making his final bid for immortality

"First, he is mortal. Second, the odds against him are not only actuarial -- the inevitable odds we all face -- they are clinical. Four years ago, he announced in a memo to his employees that he had undergone surgery, that the surgery was for the removal of a malignant tumor, that the tumor was on his pancreas, and that the surgery was, as he put it, successful. An exceptional man who specializes in exceptionalizing himself -- he has been an economic force for thirty years, and it's still hard to put him in a category, or even to say exactly what he does -- he responded to his disease by exceptionalizing it as well. He was at pains to say that the pancreatic cancer he had was not that kind of pancreatic cancer -- not the kind that kills you, without much room for exception, in six months or so -- but rather 'a very rare form of pancreatic

Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans

Pickens writes "City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning — the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago — as Hurricane Gustav grew into what the city's mayor called 'the storm of the century' and moved toward the Louisiana coast. 'This is the real deal. This is not a test. For everyone thinking they can ride this storm out, I have news for you: that will be one of the biggest mistakes you can make in your life,' said New Orleans mayor, C. Ray Nagin. Already, hundreds of thousands of residents had begun streaming north from New Orleans and other Gulf Coast areas stretching from the Florida Panhandle to Houston. Bush administration officials took pains not to be caught as flatfooted as they were in Hurricane Katrina, announcing that President Bush had called

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