Perhaps most usefully, television listings could be transmitted to television sets as Web pages.

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But the site has classifieds that could generate revenue, as well as local event listings and crime and safety postings that could be monetized.

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Bankers are hoping that deals like these could help Singapore's listings scene recover from last year's tepid run.

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Listings would be accessible and editable and could include pictures and videos of the property, says Chief Executive Andrew Fischer.

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In the future, when people search eBay for items, the site could present results in two different ways: online listings from sellers located anywhere in the world and local listings from nearby stores, said Marks.

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Famously, author and investing legend Burton Malkiel suggested in A Random Walk Down Wall Street that you could get monkeys to toss darts at the financial listings in a newspaper and do just as well as a pro stock picker.

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This could be embedded in a news article about a company or a job listings website, for example.

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The business-to-business listings are even more troubling, says Felman, because each offer could be a source of contaminated toys that end up on store shelves.

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Strangely, while we were able to find listings for the first three systems on Panasonic's US online store, we could only find the SC-HTB65 over on the UK side.

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