While prices are soaring in super markets it seems as if the bill for daily shopping is not far away from eating out in a restaurant. Adding the convenience of not having to do the cooking or the cleaning afterwards, it seems to be worth those extra pounds - or is it really?

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Digital television (DTV) adoption will show strong growth over the next 2 years as consumers demand enhanced features, greater breadth of content and bundled communications offerings. According to a new report, a further key driver in the transition to DTV services is the switch-off of analog transmission in the US and Western Europe. With the US analog switch-off date mandated for February 2009, and most Western European countries terminating transmission before the 2012 deadline, the next 2 years will see a rapid increase in new digital TV households. Continue reading “Digital TV set to reach 274 million households in Western Europe and the US by 2012″ »

Eternal youth, anti-ageing skin creams and botox – these could be the products that scream boldly at you from hoardings. Hang on a moment though, there’s another segment in the cosmetics industry that’s doing really well, driven, not by well-heeled adults seeking eternal youth, but kids with spending power and a love of premium brands. According to a new report, the U.S. ‘teen’ (age 15-18) and ‘tween’ (age 8-14) grooming products market is expected to yield $8.5 billion by 2012.

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A new report shows that more than $2 billion is estimated to be spent on social network advertising in the US by 2010. Social networking and user-generated content will feature prominently among a range of new applications in the Web 2.0 world. But also flourishing are travel-related services, gambling, adult content, music and health services.

Solid new business models, backed by spectacular growth in online advertising, are quickly laying the foundations of the new internet economy.

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Are social networking websites like Facebook, which is allowing users to draw on the system to launch their own services and make money ushering in a new era of social networking? More importantly, is it going to force companies like MySpace and MSN to follow suit?

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The 2008 Olympics in Beijing will be instrumental in boosting the number of tourists visiting China. The world’s most populous nation is rapidly becoming a much-preferred tourist destination, having completely recovered from the signs of a slowdown in 2003 and 2004 caused by the SARS outbreak.

A new report has revealed that tourism in China has outstripped the GDP growth rate since 1990. It finds that China is now Asia’s largest outbound tourist source nation, having outranked Japan, the previous leader in the Asia-Pacific region.

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If you’re not a video game fan, don’t expect to see any of your gaming friends for a while. Halo 3, one of the world’s most anticipated computer games, launched last night in London, in true Hollywood film style.

Industry analysts are proclaiming that last night’s launch could be the biggest event this year in entertainment history. Microsoft is hoping to set the cash registers ringing; they hope to make about $150 million on just the opening day of sales. That figure would put Halo 3 ahead of the largest-ever film opening record, currently held by Spider Man- 3

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