Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dust are paying a high price for tardiness. That's the conclusion of a new Consumer Action study, which shows that banks have increased late fees 75% since 1995, to $21 on average. To avoid stiff penalties, according to Bank Rate Monitor, try a local credit union or a low-fee national lender like Cleveland's Metropolitan Savings Bank or Chicago's Pullman Bank & Trust...
...steady drop in cost and rise of swifter, sleeker products are pushing another trend as well: the expanding corps of small businesses that can act bigger than their size by going online. With quick 56K modems and low-cost servers, lots of businesses see the Web as an opportunity that has arrived...
...sales over the next few years. The new "Jupiter class" notebooks that run on the Windows CE operating system are just as svelte but cost a mere $1,000. They can run only limited "pocket" versions of Windows applications, but their long, 10-to-12-hr. battery life and low cost make them a good fit for lots of mobile workers...
Adhering to the mantra that simpler is better, cell phones and pagers have always had one primary function, respectively, but they got even better at it in 1998. The launch of Iridium's worldwide satellite paging and cellular-phone service was the flashiest advance, but the new low-cost calling plans (of just 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute) on regular cell phones will do much more to increase their use. The Yankee Group predicts that these lower-priced calling plans will bump up average cell-phone usage, from three to five hours a month, by 2007. Pagers...
While CDnow www.cdnow.com and Tunes.com www.tunes.com are loaded with features and a pleasure to browse, sites like BestBuy www.bestbuy.com and CD Universe www.cduniverse.com give you the bare bones at low prices. And if you don't mind buying used, SecondSpin www.secondspin.com is an audio- and videophile's dream. It will give you a decent price for trade...