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Car Rental Companies Ranked If you are planning to rent a car for holiday travel later in December, be sure to check out this report from JD Power. They had nearly 13,000 consumers who rented cars at airports rate their experience. JD Power then ranked the companies high to low, based on cost, the pick-up and drop-off process, and the reservation procedure. Topping the list for the sixth year in a row is, surprise, Enterprise! Cell Companies' 3G Networks Tested Smart phone users have to rely on their advanced 3G cell networks for speedy connections. PC World tested the cell networks in 13 cities around the country, and seemed to give Verizon the nod for speed and reliability. AT&T only had an 68% reliability rate. Surprisingly, the number of bars you see on your phone has little to do with the quality of the connection you are going to get according to researchers. 1 in 3 Laptops Fail in First Three Years For those of you who just bought a laptop on Black Friday, keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't turn into a lemon. A new research report says that one in three laptops will have a hardware failure [pdf] in the first three years of ownership. Topping the list of the most repair-prone notebooks is Hewlett-Packard, with one of four projected to fail. 
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