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Article: `Digital Duo' Gives Tech Advice Weekly on PBS.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- October 5, 2000
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Oct. 5--Technology is fun. Buying technology, however, can be tantamount to playing Russian roulette with your wallet.
Do you really need that $4,000, Internet-enabled, Linux-based toothbrush? Digital Duo, a tell-it-like-it-is technology show airing on PBS, manages to give nongeeks of the world a little help and, hopefully, save them a little money.
Stephen Manes, a columnist for Forbes and PC World, and Susan Gregory Thomas, a nationally syndicated columnist and contributor to U.S. News and World Report, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Time Digital and other publications, form the titular duo.
They spend each show focusing on a particular ...