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Many companies are still hiring eye candy to staff their booths at trade shows. What do you think of this widespread practice? For decades, the high tech industry, the computer game industry, the car industry, the tool industry and numerous others have hired "booth babes" to draw customers into their booths at trade shows.

Evocative is taking on non-biodegradable and toxic polystyrene by mixing agricultural products with a fungus. Can it compete when it has to grow a product instead of churning it out from a factory?

Virtual-network computing is a no-fuss way to remotely view and interact with any computer. RemoteVNC provides secure log-on data encryption so that you can access your main machine even when on the road—and it's simple-to-use interface works between different operating systems, so you can use a notebook running Mac OSX to access a home machine running Windows 7 or Vista. (Unix is also supported.) Both Personal and Enterprise editions are available; customers who choose the latter also have access to the Viewer application for both Android and iOS, which lets users interact with their computer via certain handheld devices

Buy others' unused, unwanted Groupons with a new iPhone app.