Most people are attracted to choice; the more options the better. But research tells us that too much choice makes it harder for us to choose—and less satisfying after we do.
As BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion prepares to report its latest financial results, the device once so ubiquitous in business circles has been eclipsed.
If there’s one thing that the mad rush on $99 HP TouchPad tablets proved in late summer, it’s that there are plenty of price-sensitive consumers in the marketplace. They’ll bite on tablets and e-readers, but only if the price is right—i.e., less than half the price of an iPad.
On Thursday, the maker of the once-ubiquitous Blackberry devices, Research in Motion, reported its quarterly results. They were not pretty.
During a six-hour shopping excursion in Dallas-area malls, three shoppers armed with three different smartphones—Android, Blackberry, iPhone—scan, search, and take advantage of every app under the sun on a two-prong online-real world quest for great gifts and the best prices. What do they find out? While smartphone-enhanced shopping comes with its share of frustrations (Droids [...]
Here’s one of those weird-yet-fascinating, quirky-yet-perhaps-helpful research findings: People who clench their muscles—by, say, making a fist or tensing their biceps—show a brief spurt of improved willpower. So, if one of your long-term goals is to save money, you might be able to fight off the impulse buy urge when shopping by giving a store [...]
For some smartphones, the fee for jumping ship and canceling your service plan early is now a whopping $350.
With few exceptions, people are spending less nowadays. But there are exceptions to the spend-less rule. So what sorts of things are we actually spending more on of late?
