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...used its near monopoly in operating systems to foist Explorer on Windows users - despite the fact that the browser is widely derided by computer experts and everyday users alike as being clunky. Critics say this brutal marketing strategy explains why Explorer accounts for about 64% of global Internet traffic, followed by Firefox at 25% and Safari and Google Chrome at 4% apiece, according to Web-analytics company Net Applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In E.U. Deal, Microsoft Allows Rival Browsers | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...series of intricately designed experiments, psychologists at Tufts University demonstrate that subtle racial biases are often expressed by characters on popular television shows, and that viewers not only pick up these attitudes but allow them to shape their own outlooks on race. The most insidious part of this cultural traffic, the researchers found, is that the transmission of race bias appears to occur subconsciously, unbeknownst to the viewer. (Watch a video of the best television series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...gift this year, the highest figure in the 16 years the organization has tracked holiday shopping patterns. On Monday, Dec. 13, Citigroup analyst Kate McShane raised her price target for Best Buy, the country's dominant electronics retailer, from $40 to $45 per share. "We are seeing stronger traffic at [Best Buy] in its laptop, Geek Squad and video-game sections, while traffic remains healthy in TVs and digital cameras," she wrote in a research note. (See the best netbooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consumer Electronics Light Up the Holiday Season | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

...developed modern rocketry here in the 1930s; in 1947, a mysterious object crashed to earth outside Roswell, making the town synonymous with UFO conspiracy theories. Thanks to the restricted airspace over the neighboring White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base, there's also hardly any commercial air traffic. (Watch an interview with Branson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Las Cruces | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...shopping districts. Its two main arteries, Regent and Oxford streets, and its capillary-like maze of side streets, are crammed with some of the biggest and trendiest names in retailing. But shopping in the West End can be downright exhausting: sidewalks heaving with humanity; the constant din of noise; traffic fumes; foul weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London Shopping Stressful? Try Virtual Oxford Street | 12/12/2009 | See Source »

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