Online Gift Centers Help Holiday Shoppers

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Help Holiday Shoppers (NAPSA)—Many companies are taking the guesswork out of holiday shopping with wish lists and online services that help consumers save time and reduce stress during one of the busiest seasonsof the year. ole Low-priced personal CD play- ers maketerrific holiday gifts. Compaq, for instance, just announced the “Gifts That Go” Gift Center and Wish List Web site that offers tech gifts for today’s busylifestyle. Found at www.compaq.con/gtg, the site allows visitors to browse portable digital audio and computing products and choose items to receive as gifts. Then visitors can send an e-mail, including information about how to purchase the gifts chosen, to friends and family. For instance, available on the Gifts That Go site is Compaq’s iPAQ PM-1 Personal Mini-CD Player. Small enoughto fit in a holiday stocking, this $99 mini disk player stores six hours of MP3 music burned on a CD half the size of a traditional CD. A perfect gift for the gym is the $149 iPAQ PA-2 Personal Audio Player, which provides two hours of music and 64MB of memoryin a three-ounce package. The $169 iPAQ PCD-1 Personal CD Player stores over 300 songs in MP3 for- mat on one CD, plays regular CDs, recordable and rewritable CDs and features an AM/FM tuner. Compaq’s low-price products are also available at retail establishments or by calling 1-800-8880263.