According to a survey of American bank customers in 2007 by Gartner, a research firm, more than half rate security features as extremely important when deciding whether to go online.

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Cricket's 4G LTE Android Double Data rate plans offer all the features of the value-rich 3G rate plans and, for a limited time, double the monthly full speed data allowance.

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If Apple wants to overtake Samsung, it will need to come out with newer versions of the iPhone at a faster rate and bring new hit features like Siri to its new lineup.

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Paint Shop Pro: The latest version of this popular program features several first-rate painting and drawing tools, and it supports more than 30 image formats, including Photoshop's .psd.

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Quad-core Qualcomm SnapDragon S4 Pro features a 40% higher performance rate than the existing quad-core chip.

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The Voodoo 5 5500 AGP features dual VSA-100 chips, a fill rate of 667-733M pixels per second and 64M bytes of video memory.

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If rate hikes are unavoidable, consumers should look at other card features to decide which one to choose, says Arnold at cardratings.com.

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The Vengeance K95 also features full anti-ghosting, 20-key rollover, and a 1ms reporting rate.

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The mobile HDVC system delivers high-definition visuals with MPEG4-AVC technology and features 360-degree full duplex stereo sound quality, stable connectivity with QoS, and rate control forward error correction.

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