ADVISORY/Consumer Reports Breakfast Briefing - November 12.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1998-- Everything Consumers Need to Know This Holiday Season About Shopping Online WHAT: CONSUMER REPORTS BREAKFAST BRIEFING ON HOW CONSUMERS CAN SAVE TIME, MONEY, AND SANITY Reasonable understanding; sound mind; possessing mental faculties that are capable of distinguishing right from wrong so as to bear legal responsibility for one's actions. SANITY, med. jur. The state of a person who has a sound understanding; the reverse of insanity. WHEN SHOPPING ONLINE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. Online shopping this year is expected to exceed $5.8 billion - and sales on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the are doubling every 12 months. Cybershopping may be the biggest change in the way consumers make purchases since the advent of the department store 100 years ago. It is expected that millions of first-time cybershoppers will go online between now and December 25. Based on its own investigations and research into Web shopping, Consumer Reports magazine will present a Guide to Holiday Shopping Online and answer these and other questions: o Are Using your Credit Card and Making Payment Online Safe? o The Pros and Cons pros and cons Noun, pl the advantages and disadvantages of a situation [Latin pro for + con(tra) against] of Shopping Online o What about Bargains? What about Fraud? o How much Privacy are you Giving Up? o What are the Features that a Web site should have to make Cybershopping Fast, Safe, and Hassle-Free? o Much more WHO: Lou Richman, Finance Editor of Consumer Reports and editor of the article "Shopping Goes Online," in the current issue of the magazine Nancy Macagno, Director of New Media at Consumer Reports and driving force behind Consumer Reports Online at www.ConsumerReports.org Julia Kagan, Editor of Consumer Reports magazine WHERE: The Equitable equitable adj. 1) just, based on fairness and not legal technicalities. 2) refers to positive remedies (orders to do something, not money damages) employed by the courts to solve disputes or give relief. (See: equity) EQUITABLE. Tower, The Tower Room - between 51st and 52nd streets 787 Seventh Avenue New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New York 10019 WHEN: Thursday, November 12, 1998 9 AM To RSVP (ReSerVation Protocol) A communications protocol that signals a router to reserve bandwidth for real time transmission. RSVP is designed to clear a path for audio and video traffic, eliminating annoying skips and hesitations. or for more information, contact: Rana Silver at (914) 378-2434 |
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