One of the ways that we stay on top of the news here at Engadget is by subscribing to a couple of different services that mail out tech-related press releases to journalists (to sign up we had to lie and pretend we weren't just some crappy weblog).

ENGADGET: Tiger Telematics goes overboard with Gizmondo press releases

In an e-mail to a tech blogger he said the misdeed was the work of a hacker who had broken into his computer.

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He created the genetic algorithm that runs the app after reading programming books and forums, writing the code during his summer vacation and sending mail shots to the tech press to get coverage.

FORBES: Interview: Teenager Sells His Mobile Startup To Yahoo! For $30 Million

Even in these high-tech days of voter profiling and targeted e-mail, there's no better way to reach out to those people than by standing on their front stoop.

NPR: Hillary Clinton Seeks Rebound in New Hampshire

They found Honan's home address and e-mail address online, and after some back and forth with Amazon tech support, used it to get the last four digits of Honan's credit card number.

CNN: Heather Kelly,

These specialists can also prescribe an exciting array of high-tech optical devices such as software and screen-reading programs that enlarge e-mail and Web site copy, as well as handheld devices that enlarge printed material of any size.

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Glider, as well as other tech firms such as Sanebox, are developing tools that will be able to pick out bacn mail before it reaches the inbox.

BBC: Why your inbox fills with bacn instead of spam

But, after studying a high-tech corporate-services provider, a French grocery group, a German broking house and an American mail-order company, the authors found little correlation between loyalty and profitability.

ECONOMIST: Not all loyal customers are profitable��or vice versa