iPhone Sales Top 500,000 In Weekend Rush

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iDay has passed and with a weekend of frantic iPhone selling under the belt, has the iPhone managed to live up to the hype?

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Running Old Programs on a Vista PC

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Most older software will run on Vista, but plenty won’t. Fortunately, Vista includes a system called “Compatibility Mode” that gives older programs a fighting chance to run on the new OS.

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Makeup For … Men?

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Don’t be surprised if very soon your toiletry kit contains not only shaving cream, deodorant and toothpaste, but concealer, oil-absorbing face powder and brow gel.

That’s because guys are relying on an increasing number of made-for-men products like these to put their best face forward.

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Rent or Own? The New Cable-TV Dilemma

Soon, Subscribers Will Have Option to Buy Set-Top Boxes;
Pros and Cons of Cablecards

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A generation ago, federal regulators opened the way for consumers to buy telephones rather than rent them from the phone company. Now, the government has its sights on the television set-top boxes that consumers rent from cable or satellite companies.

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2007 Ford Shelby GT500

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The Ford Shelby GT500 is the result of Carroll Shelby and the Ford Special Vehicle Team joining forces to produce a successor to the Shelby GT500 of the late 1960s.

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Much Ado About Apple’s iPhone

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Few mobile phones have created more buzz before becoming a reality than Apple’s iPhone — even in Europe and Asia, which will not see the talked-about handset for many months.

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Sprint’s New Samsung Phones: What Difference Does $100 Make?

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Today Sprint introduced a pair of thin, attractive Samsung phones, the Sprint Vision M300 and its big brother, the Sprint Power Vision M510. One buzzword was “colorful”—the M300 comes in dark silver or the above “misty rose red” while the M510 is available in hot pink with black accents and black with blue accents (shown here). Another buzzword was “advanced”: they both have Bluetooth, built-in cameras, VoiceSignal voice recognition and reported talk times of over 3 hours. But while the M510 will be out in June for $129.99 with 2-year contract, the M300 is out now, for just $29.99 with the same agreement.

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