With a vacancy rate of less than one percent across the city, moderately-priced housing is getting hard to find.

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Many more moderately-priced phones have basic calendar and contact functions, but carriers do a miserable job of helping consumers synchronize those phones with the computers that manage them today.

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In an interesting variation on this theme, last year construction giant KB Home struck a deal with a Chinese solar company, BYD, to build new, moderately-priced homes with solar panels already installed in Lancaster, California.

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As of now, I'm using a basic pair of Sony sport headphones, but is there a pair of moderately priced ear-buds that do the trick of actually staying in your ear while running?

ENGADGET: Ask Engadget: best earbuds for fitness use?