With marketers and consumers feeling less frightened about the economy, retailers are dabbling with new technology and promotions to lure shoppers to stores and websites.

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Metro Tech, a 1990s-era office park, has been trying to lure technology companies with cheap rents and a site in the heart of a borough where many of their employees live.

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Heyer, who has asked NTM to identify new ways to lure guests to Starwood Hotels with the distribution of entertainment and technology.

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For Apple, one likely lure of the technology is to help it keep up with other mapping products as the company and its rivals strive to one-up each other on features.

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Kubodera said scientific research, technology and the right lure all came together to make the encounter possible, and that this case will shed more light on deep-sea creatures going forward.

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As for why children aren't getting enough sleep, present-day experts mostly point to the same culprit as their early 20th century counterparts, according to the study: the lure of modern technology.

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Leeds is aiming to cement its position as the regional capital and to lure in the same kind of high-technology firms that Sheffield hopes will be its future economic backbone.

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But now the dollar's value against the yen is more than 30% higher than in early 1995, and so a link to the dollar is no longer such a lure for Japanese investment and technology.

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Hence the crusade for technology: Ross is a businessman, first and foremost, so he needed to find a way to lure spectators back in the field.

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