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Shopping agents, better known as bots, are practically prehistoric in Internet terms. They've been around in one form or another for four years. Their basic purpose is to search the Web and compare all the prices you can possibly pay for the same item, making you an expert bargain hunter in a single click. Once considered a threat to e-business--after all, sellers benefit when the consumer has incomplete knowledge of prices--bots are now on the buying list of every major player in the Internet industry. They're into their second generation and much improved. And they...
...former astronauts held the first-ever auction of U.S. space memorabilia at Christie's in New York City. The final bids for used Apollo and Gemini space junk were wildly extravagant but still pale next to the budget of the space program today. Perhaps NASA should have done some bargain hunting...
...Bargain shoppers beware! Filene's Basement, which filed Chapter 11 last month, announced it would close 17 locations in under 132,480 minutes...
Serious anime fans who are interested in more than just bargain-priced video rentals can also try their hand at drawing their own anime-style cartoons with fellow club members. If you'd like to learn to subtitle anime, though, Widener's copy of "Spoken Japanese Simplified" might be a place to start...
...legal secretary, the kind who wears her glasses on a chain around her neck, got into the virtual-assistant business after taking an online course from AssistU.com She set up Katmango with health insurance, a bookkeeper and office equipment--some free, all used. Right now, she's a bargain at $35 an hour...