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Tell us your thoughts in the forums. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123713-0-0-0-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Review: Lexmark Improves All-in-One Printers * Personal Technology: Streaming-Audio Capture Tools * Opinion: Still in Love with Pop-Up Games * Security Watch: New Sober Worm Doubles the Trouble * Review: High-End PDA Packs in Great Power * Special Report: Reader Satisfaction Survey--Home Printers * Review: The Motorola V505 Phone: Beautiful Inside and Out * Review: A Not-So-Sweet Suite ============================================================ Review: Lexmark Improves All-in-One Printers All-in-One printers used to mean "all in one," but lately we've seen more and more multifunctions that leave out faxing. Perhaps this is not such a big deal, since we do less faxing than we used to. The Lexmark p6250 is one of those AIOs. Otherwise, it's a pretty strong sub-$200 ink jet with some nifty ease-of-use features, but somewhat sub- par performance. We have all the details in our review. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123716-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Personal Technology: Streaming-Audio Capture Tools You have a portable digital music player and you love to listen to streaming music from your favorite music Web sites. Is there a way to get the streaming music from the Internet to your portable player? Yes. Is it legal? Maybe. Read our roundup of these semisanctioned software products. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123719-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Opinion: Still in Love with Pop-Up Games Executive editor Lance Ulanoff just doesn't learn. Last year he revealed to readers that he actually liked Orbitz's pop- up games. Now that the pesky ads are back, he's taken a new look at them and describes a conversation with the guy who created them. Read his column and then tell him in the forums if he's crazy or not. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123722-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Security Watch: New Sober Worm Doubles the Trouble The Sober.J worm adds a another wrinkle to the Sober infection arsenal to make it almost twice as hard to remove it. Still, we're experts and we have all the details on how to sober up this worm. We also have the details on a surprising new mobile-phone worm that only attacks Symbian OS-base smart phones. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123725-0-0-0-1 Plus: Antivirus Response Report Just how quickly do your favorite antivirus vendors respond to the latest virus attacks? http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123728-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review: High-End PDA Packs in Great Power The Dell Axim X50v is an elegantly designed, VGA Pocket PC that offers excellent Windows Media Player 10 performance and has the potential to be a nifty portable gaming device. Now if there were only some decent games to play. We have more details in our review. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123731-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Special Report: Reader Satisfaction Survey--Home Printers Printers are really the workhorses of our computing environment. They're about the only peripheral that produces something physical and has to do it over and over again. That means that printer reliability is no small issue for consumers. We asked our readers to tell us their experiences with their printers and to rate the products and companies on key criteria to measure satisfaction and reliability. The results are not only fascinating, but of critical importance to you if you plan on buying a new printer any time soon. Read the story and get the results. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123734-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review: The Motorola V505 Phone: Beautiful Inside and Out This Motorola V505 phone blends one of the best VGA cameras we've seen yet with a beautiful design. Is it perfect? Of course not. We'll tell you the good and the bad in our review and let you get up close (virtually) with the new camera in our slide show. http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1282-1-53-371668-123737-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Review: A Not-So-Sweet Suite The benefit of suite solutions for productivity applications and utilities is that you get all that you need in one neat, not-so-little package. The problem is that most suites are pretty uneven affairs. Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2005 is that kind of suite. It offers antivirus protection that's as effective as any competitor's, but the now-critical antispam, antispyware, and firewall modules are not exactly industry leaders. 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