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AppLabs eCommerce Survey: Holiday Season, 2008

A survey by AppLabs finds that more than 25% of respondents are concerned that their websites are at risk for failure. AppLabs is the largest independent global IT services company specializing in quality management, testing, and certification solutions.

| Research | Business | 11/04/08 at 7:47 pm |


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Practical Web sites and services

We all have favorite Web sites that we depend on and visit regularly. Here are some really practical Web sites that you might want to add to your collection.

| Opinion | Internet | 10/07/08 at 3:29 pm |


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100 incredibly useful and interesting Web sites

Even as the Web has become more entertaining--and certainly better looking--over the past 15 years, it has also become much more useful and practical, as the 100 sites in this feature will demonstrate.

| Opinion | Internet | 10/02/08 at 2:20 pm |


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The bottom 10: The Web's most useless sites

While locating the most useful sites on the Web, we felt it only fair to call out the some of the most useless, too. We found no shortage of sites that are poorly designed or boring, but we list here some of the sites that go that extra mile--the dazzlingly ugly, the patently offensive, and the mind-bogglingly pointless.

| Opinion | Internet | 10/02/08 at 2:10 pm |


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