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...Wireless, Cingular and Sprint PCS, $50 is the going rate for 500 anytime minutes plus 3,500 or more night (generally starting at 9 p.m.) and weekend minutes. Verizon Wireless offers a similar plan with 400 anytime minutes for $45 a month. VoiceStream offers what looks like the best price: $40 for 500 anytime minutes. But there's a catch: its plan gives you unlimited weekend calling but no free nighttime minutes during the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Plan is Best for You? | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Cingular, Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless offer 2,000 anytime minutes with 3,500 or more night and weekend minutes for $150. AT&T adds a little more value: 2,200 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends for $150. If you're trying to downsize, AT&T offers 1,300 anytime minutes with unlimited nights and weekends for $100; VoiceStream has a 1,400-minute plan with unlimited weekend calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Plan is Best for You? | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

LOOK, MA, NO WIRES! Amazing Technology BlueGear networking kits ($129) offer one of the simplest ways to share files, peripherals and Internet access among several home PCs. Plug one into a PC's USB port, and it can wirelessly relay files to as many as eight Bluetooth-enabled devices. It's not the fastest wireless option, but it's the easiest on the wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology May 27, 2002 | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...their computer's hard drive) and burning (creating a new CD from scratch). In the U.S., last year saw a whopping 90% rise in the number of owners of computers with a drive that burns CDs (called a CD-RW drive, short for recordable/writable). A third of all PCs have one; 54% of new computers come with one installed. Half of CD-burner owners, reports Forrester Research, create at least one disc a month. Blank CD-Rs (discs on which you can record only once) bought in bulk cost as little as 25[cents] each. Making your own CDs--from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Burn, Baby, Burn | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Americans bought 635,000 digital-audio players last year, up from just a few thousand in 1999, according to the market-research firm NPDTechworld. Electronics retailers sold 10.4 million CD burners (half of them installed in PCs), a 50% increase over 2000. Computer makers increasingly market their machines as rip-and-burn ready. Come June, you won't even need a PC to do the job. A firm called QPS is launching the first portable CD burner, called Q007, that copies directly from a CD player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainment: Gearmakers Cash In | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

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