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Resistance is Futile: 10 New Reasons You Must Have a Smartphone

Apple's iPhone and app store have entirely changed how we view these ubiquitous rectangles. Smartphones provide access to the Internet access and seemingly billions of apps.

24 Secret Restaurant Menus Revealed

If you're looking to impress a date or just like that feeling of "knowing the chef," here are 24 restaurants that offer secret menus. Remember, not all may participate in the hidden menu. However, if you try to order something and the server looks at you with a blank look, don't give up. Describe the dish and usually they'll make it for you anyway.

10 Ways to Spot Diet Quackery

If you fell off that New Year's diet before the end of January, here's your second chance. March is National Nutrition Month and what better time to give healthy eating another chance?

Top 11 Nutrition Trends for 2010

America's fascination with self-improvement shows no signs of waning, and there's no shortage of new diet trends to help us reach our goals. The road to better health is paved with new trends -- along with some old ones poised to make a comeback.

Consumers Buy Newspapers for Coupons - Not News

The New York Daily News stopped printing coupons and circulars for several months during a feud between owners. When the battle ended and coupons returned, circulation increased 100,000. Clearly, many people buy newspapers for coupons, not for news.

Clip This: Top 22 Coupon Trends

It's no surprise coupon use is on the rise. Coupons are one of several economically-focused promotional tools stores and manufacturers can use to get shoppers in the door and spending, despite these uncertain economic times.

9 Cell Phone Charges That Will Eat You Alive

Cell-phone service carriers make billions by bilking their customers. Not that this is unusual in the corporate world, but the public is beginning to catch on and is voicing their anger.

The End of the Mall as we Know It

Strolling through the enclosed walkways at a local mall invokes the same question from every shopper. Is this place going out of business?

Top 10 Lame & Funny Super Bowl Quotes

Football players, coaches and commentators are rarely the pithiest of speakers. They tend to spout the same hackneyed phrases week after week.

8 Reasons Your Groceries Cost More

Remember when a single brown bag of groceries cost just $10? Maybe $15 if we had expensive tastes? Now you can spend that much and more on bread, eggs and milk for one week.