BOSTON - One of the cheapest places to buy software is on eBay, where merchants sell programs that come directly from manufacturers, saving them from paying a mark-up to distributors.
But it may also be a risky place to shop, as it can be tough to discern good values from scams.
Consumers Union — which tracks Web retailers and advises consumers on Internet shopping through its ConsumerWebWatch.org service — urges buyers to use common sense. (more…)
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Today, IBM announced a new and emerging technology that can help the blind and visually impaired people “see” Internet multimedia. This new technology that enables blind people to experience streaming video and animation on the Internet has been designed at IBM’s Tokyo Research Laboratory.
This new multimedia browsing accessibility tool developed by IBM has the potential to open a world of rich content to visually impaired people all over the globe.
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With a family of four, I’ve lately been trying to figure out how to wedge my crew into a single car. Sounds easy, but have you seen how big car seats are now? The one for our toddler consumes so much space that the front passenger seat in my Subaru Forrester is pushed all the way forward and can’t be moved back. My four-year-old daughter, who sits behind me on the driver’s side, is wedged in to the point where here feet are constantly in my back. Isn’t the point of an SUV (even a small one like the Forrester) to avoid such cramped spaces?
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