Apple's iPhone is the first reader-friendly mobile phone, and the latest update to its software, due shortly, will enable news providers that currently give away content on the iPhone to start charging for it.

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And despite all their quirky arches, carved niches, and cave spaces, the rooms live quite well (the interior designer overnighted in each to make sure): They have intuitive and reader-friendly lighting, good-size bathrooms, comfortable furniture, and wood-burning fireplaces.

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There are four more Landmark editions in the works: A new translation of Herodotus by adjunct professor Andrea Purvis of Duke University, with 21 appendixes and 123 maps, will appear in late 2007, to be followed by reader-friendly volumes of Xenophon's Hellenica, Arrian and Polybius.

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Other perks include a 5-in-1 memory card reader and a PCMCIA slot, but it really seems Toshiba left a lot of the usual media-friendly suspects out to make room for those dual 120GB SATA drives.

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