Also, with an upcoming add-on product called the Phone Port, you'll be able to do some new things with your home's telephones that weren't easily accomplished before.

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It's well past midnight, you're home with your brand new Nintendo Wii U -- now what?

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If an allergy test comes back positive, it's decision time: Should you find a new home for your pet?

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Given how in-your-face HTC's new Sense 5 UI is (its BlinkFeed home page manages to be reminiscent of Flipboard, Blur and Windows Phone), we feel a bit silly kvetching about something as unobtrusive as carrier bloatware.

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Feature-wise, preferences and other desktop settings imported easily with Firefox Sync's shared password system, and the unfortunately named "Awesome Screen" is the new home page shown above, from which it's fairly simple to launch your preferred sites.

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Lucent's 30, 000 techies work on such advances as plastic fiber flexible enough to wire your home, a new over-the-air laser system for local optical transmission and routers with mind-boggling capacity.

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Make sure your policies cover any recent changes in your life--that new at-home business, for example, may require a rider on your homeowner's policy in case the FedEx man slips on your front walk.

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Bringing your friends home to show off a new Ham radio or your great-great-great grandfather's rebel flag probably won't boost your popularity in high school.

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