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by Brooke Yan - 2007-01-17
A network allows a single broadband account to be shared throughout the home. Unfortunately, such networking is impractical with dial-up Internet service--one of several reasons you might want to ...
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by Brooke Yan - 2007-01-17
Laptops account for about 25 percent of sales. It's not hard to understand why. Small screens and cramped keyboards have been replaced by bigger, crisper displays and more usable key layouts. Proc...
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by Brooke Yan - 2007-01-17
With audio and video gear taking center stage in many households, it's bound to happen: You're relaxing to a classical CD when your kids start blasting MTV or a DVD movie. Rather than resorting to...
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by Brooke Yan - 2007-01-17
At the highest-quality setting, the quality of most DVD video recordings is better than that of a VCR. DVD recorders also offer more ways to navigate recordings, with no need to rewind or fast-for...
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by Brooke Yan - 2007-01-17
The DVD has come to dominate video even more quickly than the CD conquered audio in the 1980s. Along with changing what we watch--discs rather than tapes--DVDs are changing how we watch. The digit...
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by Brooke Yan - 2007-01-17
It's easier than ever to have a phone where you want one. The newest breed of cordless phones lets you put a handset in any room in the house, even if no phone jack is nearby. However, manufacture...
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by Ronald Simons - 2007-01-17
The manufacturing, distribution logistics and sales business:The best thing we learned about business is to "know a little about a lot." Trying to take in everything is just too time consuming. We l...
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by John Hartnett - 2007-01-19
Valentine's Day is coming up in a few days but I'm betting you know that already. Probably completely prepared, right?Me? I got some ideas working. Might head out to the mall. Pick up a box of cand...
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by Brooke Yan - 2007-01-27
Deciding whether to buy a flat-panel LCD or a standard, fairly fat CRT monitor comes down to this: Do you need more space on the surface of your desk or on the screen? If freeing up space on your ...
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by Brooke Yan - 2007-01-27
Once available only with small screens, LCD TVs now come with screens as large as 50 inches (and climbing), which makes them suitable for a household's primary TV set. Regardless of screen size, t...