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Amazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.
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Jonathan Takiff: We shouldn't even need laws - already on the books in 14 states and about to be enforced in Philadelphia, starting Nov. 1 - that make it a crime to hold a mobile phone to your ear while driving. What we do need is a good performing and relatively cool looking Bluetooth wireless headset.
New rules for Individual Retirement Accounts should induce you to see if 2010 is the year to convert any traditional IRA into a Roth IRA. It depends on when you'd rather pay the taxes.
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As I mentioned in my Modern Warfare 2 pick, the game will probably dominate most sales charts for the next couple of months. If anyone needed further proof, how about the remarks of GameStop's executive vice president for merchandising and marketing, Tony Bartel?
Let's face it, COD:MW2 is the first big holiday title of the year, and by the looks of it, Infinity Ward's latest entry in the mega-popular franchise has all other developers under the gun, and rightfully so.
For the first time in a while, I was totally blown away by a video game.
No, it wasn't the new edition of Madden NFL 10 (although that's an impressive game if you are an NFL fan). Nor is the game that captivated me from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, or any of the other major publishers. Oddly enough, this amazing game is offered by a team of Dutch influenza researchers. It's called the Great Flu.
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