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============================================================ ********** Sponsored by AT&T ********** Get unlimited calling in the U.S. and to Canada through your broadband connection and save at least $200 with AT&T CallVantage(sm) Service. Just $19.99/mo. for the first 6 months. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121634-0-0-0-1 ************************************************************ ============================================================ Welcome to today's edition of Inside PCMag.com. It's survey time. We'd like to know which high-tech gadgets or doodads you plan to buy for some lucky friends, coworkers, or loved ones. Just list the possibilities and how much you plan to spend. Perhaps our other readers can help you make your final decision. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121637-0-0-0-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Feature: Small-Business Survival Guide * Security Watch: Beware the Not-So Merry Phishmas * Review: Not Just Another Label Printer * Holiday Gift Ideas: The Caring Case Collection * Holiday Gift Ideas: A Really Affordable Digital Camera * Review Roundup: Super Scanners * Review Roundup: 3.8-GHz: The P4's Final Speed Bump? * Build Your Own Digital Home: Your High-Tech Bedroom * Tech Edge: TV Over IP Beats Digital Home Hype by a Mile * Review: A Powerful Personal Firewall ============================================================ Feature: Small-Business Survival Guide We'd be hard-pressed to come up with a simple reason that so many small businesses fail, but there are things owners can do to give their enterprises more than a fighting chance. Powerful software and services can help with accounting, employee management, customer support, e-commerce, data management, and more. We have a guide to the valuable tools that could keep your business from becoming just another sorry statistic. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121640-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Security Watch: Beware the Not-So Merry Phishmas The holidays are considered a time to celebrate togetherness and the brotherhood of humanity. They're not, unfortunately, a time to let your guard down. Cheerful e-mail from people you never met or companies you may or may not know could be come-ons for identity--theft schemes. We tell you how to enjoy the electronic cheer without getting hurt. Plus: Your WEP wireless security just won't cut it. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121643-0-0-0-1 http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121646-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review: Not Just Another Label Printer Over the last decade, the Brother P-Touch, in all it's varied forms, has become one of the most well-known and popular label printers on the market. Brother spends less time touting the "P-Touch" brand these days, but the company's label-printing business is by no means dead. Hence the new Brother QL-500 label printer. It's fast, versatile, and a little oversized for the office. Read our review for the full story. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121649-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Holiday Gift Ideas: The Caring Case Collection Mobile Edge offers stylish new computer bags, and a percentage of the sales go to charity. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121652-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Holiday Gift Ideas: A Really Affordable Digital Camera At just $99, the Concord 3346z shatters the price barrier for 3.1-megapixel digital cameras. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121655-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review Roundup: Super Scanners All-in-One devices that combine printers, faxes, and copying machines are fine for simple scanning tasks where image quality is not a major consideration. But a dedicated scanner is just about the only way to achieve the ultimate in document and image verity. We have a collection of five super-cool scanners that can help you transform those mounds of printed material and transparencies into spiffy and great-looking electronic documents and images. Read all the reviews and then decide which scanner is right for you. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121658-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review Roundup: 3.8-GHz: The P4's Final Speed Bump? The 3.8-GHz Pentium processors--Intel's fastest desktop CPUs ever--would seem to be the final stop on the upgrade roadmap for this line, and we took at look at the latest systems built around the P4's last hurrah. Are the results worthy of a spectacular final send-off before the world goes dual core? Read our reviews of the Alienware, Velocity, and HP Media Center PCs to find out. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121661-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Build Your Own Digital Home: Your High-Tech Bedroom The bedroom is not just for sleeping anymore.... That's right-- you can wire it up, throw in a hot PC, add an LCD display, and you're in business. We have all the details on how to save money on your boudoir PC and get more out of it. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1267-1-53-371668-121664-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Tech Edge: TV Over IP Beats Digital Home Hype by a Mile Alice Hill and Bill O'Brien, our two newest columnists (who love to write together) take a close look at Intel's Digital Home push and the buzz around TV over IP, pronouncing one hot and one very not. 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