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According to an annual e-tailer survey to be released in October by Gartner, a research and consulting firm based in Stamford, Conn., the percentage of U.S. e-tailers surveyed that have stopped accepting foreign transactions has more than doubled, to 12%, since the last survey was published, in September 2001. "For some merchants, fraud for international transactions was 2 1/2 times higher than for domestic," says Avivah Litan, a Gartner vice president...
...narrative, craftsmanship and delivering prolific amounts of work that connect viscerally with the masses and are roundly ignored by the academy. While he's capable of making the sensuous and almost cozy little bays of Philadelphia's Pod restaurant, his piece de resistance, the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., is pure spectacle. "What drives us is invention," he says of his firm. "We're specifically looking for something...
Business professionals who have to juggle e-mail, cell phones, landlines, pagers, faxes and now instant messaging are in danger of becoming "multitasking junkies," says Tom Austin, a vice president at Gartner, a technology consultancy based in Stamford, Conn. He believes IM social chatting is less of a threat to productivity than is the splintering of focus that the technology encourages. While bouncing from one conversation to another, Austin says, distracted workers are more likely to miss key points and make mistakes. He likens the risk to eating and talking on a cell phone while driving. "It can create...
...list is being "very intuitive or very creative." Another is "poor handwriting." When did it become a warning sign to be creative? And if I had a nickel for every person in Fairfield County who has poor handwriting, I would be the next Bill Gates. DIANA LYNN, 15 Redding, Conn...
...call bipolar a disease, not a disorder, because it can kill. If I had known all the facts sooner, my daughter might still be alive. I hope that every doctor in the country will read this article. LORRAINE A. GFELLER Fairfield, Conn...