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Carnival Cruises With Co-op Gift Packs
Along with the lavish meals, poolside fun and pleasure stops, Carnival Cruise Lines gives away a co-op sampling bag to each of its on-board vacationers.Some
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SWEEPS HAT TRICK
JVWeb, Inc., a Houston-based Internet strategy company, acquired a majority interest in privately held NewsUSA, which provides news and information about
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Idiots’ Delight
As readers of these diatribes know so well, I haven’t been a fan of Cadillac’s advertising.Certainly the introduction of the Catera – the car whose name
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CUSTOMER CONTACT: Smiles Without Service
The setting was the Tower Air terminal in New York’s JFK Airport at 6:30 in the morning. The players were Tower airline staffers, the recently betrothed
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HHonors System
As a marketing channel, a Web site’s biggest advantage is that it can offer customized content. But a site’s biggest stumbling block can be its passivity,
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NBCi Picks Up Husdawg
NBC Internet Inc. (NBCi) has bought Husdawg Communications Inc., a customer relationship management service and electronic registration company geared
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LEGAL ACTION: 24/7 Sues DoubleClick
Internet advertising network 24/7 Media Inc. has sued competitor DoubleClick Inc. for patent infringement. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court
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ON TRACK: Amtrak to convert phone centers to interactive speech recognition
Hoping to catch up with airlines and with railroads overseas, Amtrak plans to switch to interactive speech recognition technology this fall.The move will
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SkyMall Lays Off 15%
On-flight cataloger SkyMall Inc., Phoenix, has trimmed its work force by 15%, or about 50 employees, with some of the cuts taken from its technology sectors.
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TALES FROM THE NET: Weaving Onto the Web
E-commerce has found its way into the backwaters of the world, and threatened to disrupt some traditional ways of life and lines of authority. At the