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Cut the Cord: LCD TV goes portable with the arrival of Sharp's 15-inch wireless Aquos LC-15L1U-S television. The battery-operated set can detach from its base station, and a built-in handle on the top simplifies carrying it between rooms or outside. You transfer content to the set from a video source (like a cable box or a DVD player), using Sharp's 802.11b-based SmartLink wireless digital audio transmission system. The $1799 TV includes a rechargeable battery that Sharp claims should power the set for 3 hours at a time.
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Napster Reborn: Are Web surfers ready to embrace the reincarnation of Napster? Roxio certainly hopes so: The company has just launched Napster 2.0, a legal, fee-based version of the original song-swapping site, which was shut down by the courts in 2001. Napster 2.0 offers downloadable songs for $1 each and albums for $10, as well as a $10 monthly subscription. This follows the successful model used by Apple's ITunes, which itself is now available for Windows PCs as well as for Macs.
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Mini Megapixels: Interested in a truly tiny digital camera? The new Veo Mini Capture is a 1.3-megapixel digicam in a package that measures 1.5 inches by 2.4 inches--that's about the size of a typical car alarm remote. Designed to fit on your key chain, the $70 Mini Capture comes with a sliding cover to protect the lens and viewfinder from getting scratched by your keys. The device has 8MB of built-in memory, and also comes with a slot for adding an SD memory card.
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Could you be to blame for the spam epidemic? Even if only a few people respond to a piece of junk e-mail, it's still worth the spammer's time to send out that unrequested message. To help put a halt to the onslaught of unsolicited commercial e-mail, we all need to stop replying. That's the central message of a consumer awareness campaign launch-ed by Australia's Internet Industry Association. The research involved was supported by AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo, among others. The IIA hopes to spread its message of "Don't Try, Don't Buy, Don't Reply" to consumers around the world.
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