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Walmart beats Target in online shopping satisfaction

2012-05-09 05:43:00

Online shoppers prefer Walmart to Target. That's one of the findings of an index released today that scores the top 100 online retailers on customer satisfaction. ForeSee's Top 100 E-Retail Satisfaction Index based its analysis on nearly 21,000...

Lutherville: LTRC ballet program set to dance to Mount Olympus

2012-05-06 15:03:00

Where can you see Muses and Sirens cavorting with the Fates and Graces? Where else, but Mount Olympus. These characters from Greek Mythology take the stage at the "Ballet From Mount Olympus," which will be presented by the dancers in the Lutherville-...

Friday Buffet: $99 Xbox bundle and 'The Avengers' game that time forgot

2012-05-04 08:01:00

News Roundup •••• Wouldn’t it be fun to buy a monthly fee for your Xbox and Kinect like you do with your cell phone? It looks like that’s going to be an option for folks who want to pay $99 for hardware then shell out...

Best Buy to close Inner Harbor, Hunt Valley stores in May

2012-04-14 16:03:55

Best Buy will close its Inner Harbor and Hunt Valley stores in May, part of a move to shutter 50 locations across the country. Company officials said in a news release that the stores were temporarily closed to inform employees of the decision Saturday,...

Game cash: the current economics of buying, selling and renting

2012-04-19 11:07:00

Even if the rumors about the next-generation consoles not supporting used games are false, we appear to be entering a problematic stage in physical videogame media. The growing ease of digital distribution as well as mandatory online passes and DRM have...

House plan would cut Senate income tax hike in half

2012-03-19 13:31:00

A budget plan moving through the House of Delegates calls for an income tax increase of�less than�half the size of the hike passed by the Senate last week and would spare taxpayers who make less than $100,000. A�House committee approved amendments...

House panel would raise taxes-- but less than Senate

2012-03-19 17:18:00

A Maryland House committee voted Monday to raise income taxes — but by a significantly smaller amount than either Gov.Martin O'Malleyor the Senate has proposed. The House plan, backed by SpeakerMichael E. Busch, would spare taxpayers who make...

Apple rolls out its new iPad, with no fancy name attached

2012-03-07 16:38:00

Apple unveiled its new iPad, but it's not called iPad 3 or iPad HD as widely speculated for weeks. Rather it stuck with simply calling it the iPad, a move that speaks to the company's ambitions to have its blockbuster tablet supplant the ubiquitous...

Monday Meltdown: Tiger's well-timed comeback and 'The Hunger Games' in your hands

2012-03-26 09:17:00

News Roundup� •••• "Angry Birds Space" did more than 10 million downloads in under three days. In my professional opinion, that’s a lot of flippin’ downloads. [@AngryBirds] •••• Some simultaneous...

Harry Potter ebooks finally available -- on Pottermore

2012-03-27 09:30:00

Harry Potter fans, who have waited years for a wizard to transform his tales into digital form, can finally buy ebooks. J.K. Rowling's new website, Pottermore, began selling the ebooks this morning, with prices ranging from $7.99 for the first three in...

Best of Howard County 2011

2011-12-08 05:41:00

What better honor than to be voted the best of the best by your customers and colleagues? In August, we asked Howard Magazine readers to tell us the most notable businesses, people and places from Marriottsville to Savage and from Elkridge to...

Which retailers provide the fastest returns? Not Dell

2011-12-28 07:44:00

So, the reindeer sweater from Aunt Emma this Christmas isn’t quite your style, so you and thousands of others are now in the process of returning gifts. Which retailers provide the speediest returns? STELLAService, which rates the customer service...

appears to be the "it" designer label of the moment. After a strong showing of its fall collection in Milan, the brand has also released a collection in conjunction with HM.

2012-03-08 00:00:00

A new version of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet computer sits on display during an Apple event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Apple Inc. introduced a new version of the iPad, beefing up its two-year-old mobile computer with a sharper screen to widen its lead over Amazon.

2012-03-07 00:00:00

If Amazon.com has its way, people in India will do less shopping in brick-and-mortar stores and more online.

2012-02-02 09:22:07