For many consumers, particularly the big spenders, the personalities matter almost as much as the brands.
But for many consumers, slates will be held the way books are, in the hands.
This will also affect the bottom line for many consumers, again limiting their sources of cash.
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For many consumers, that imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery, or winning any real friends.
He explained that in the emerging economies, Apple products were still very expensive and out of reach for many consumers.
The bonanza has ushered in lower prices for many consumers and businesses.
Its automotive and aviation products led the way for many consumers, and allowed the company to rise to prominence over the past few years.
Broadband is becoming pervasive enough that it is feasible for many consumers to keep their media on the cloud and access it on demand.
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Chocolate, in particular, is an emotional issue for many consumers.
"As personal cloud services become ubiquitous and broadband speeds increase, there's very little reason for many consumers to use an optical drive on their computer going forward, " Gartenberg said.
In response, Ann Robinson, chair of the gas and electricity consumer group, said that mis-selling was still a bugbear for many UK consumers.
There are no national statistics for how many consumers are switching from cellphone subscriptions to prepaid services, since the plans don't require you to sign a contract or provide much personal information.
For now, many consumers' best option is to seek out an experienced and reputable insurance agent to cut through all the confusing language, says Amy Bach, who runs United Policyholders, a consumer-advocacy group in San Francisco.
Mr. Slome said one of the trickiest elements for insurers to handle amid low interest rates is inflation protection for consumers, which many want to make sure the policies will cover the rising cost of nursing-home care.
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Rebecca Lindland, the director of research at IHS Automotive, says that while there will certainly be a short-term decline in sales (no one shopped for cars this week), many consumers will need to buy replacement vehicles for the ones totaled in the flood.
The company didn't respond to requests for figures on how many consumers requested air bags.
In fact, an experiment showed that greater Facebook use was associated with a higher body-mass index and increased binge eating, as well as a lower credit score, and higher levels of credit card debt for consumers with many close friends in their social network.
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Last year, China decided to cool the property market, by making it harder for many banks to lend and more difficult for consumers to get home loans.
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The Z10 has just reached the US market, and while we wait for the sales figures to come in, many consumers will be considering the handset for purchase.
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There are two reason for this: First, many consumers have no idea what they should do to secure the products they use and, second, manufacturers try to make installation as painless as possible by allowing devices to work with default configurations.
America Online--a division of Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people )--has more than 29 million subscribers worldwide, and a reputation for being user-friendly, making it the Internet service provider of choice for many otherwise tech-phobic consumers.
For the time being, many Japanese consumers are still focused on threats to their finances.
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The move will also raise costs--which are likely to be passed on to consumers--for many exporters operating in China, including U.S. businesses.
In the US, the practice which is known there as "dumpster diving" has been identified as a real risk to consumers and businesses for many years.
The combination of the two should simplify online ordering for both consumers and restaurants, many of whom currently split their online business between not just Seamless and GrubHub, but other similar services as well.
They pointed out that rich nations like the UK and US had already experienced their own periods of rapid population growth during industrialisation - and blamed Western consumers for appropriating too many of the planet's resources.
Consumers for years have had many avenues to check on, complain about and even grade businesses.
Unfortunately for consumers, there are so many lists and they have become subjective that they lack any true information utility.
"'Misleading doorstep energy sales have been a nightmare for consumers for years, leaving many switching to a worse energy deal, " she said.
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This could be a real problem for Google over the holiday season because many consumers want to be connected regardless of their location, and that requires cellular connectivity.
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