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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 11--LACK OF CUSTOMER SUPPORT TOPS LIST OF HIGH-TECH BEEFS: Good golly Miss Molly, there are a lot of you out there, and most of you are fed up. When I asked you to send me your beefs about technology, I expected a sizable response. But I heard from literally hundreds of readers overnight.

Holy cow, that's a lot of beef. So we'll take two columns to at least skim the surface of your complaints.

By far, the most common complaint was lack of good customer s

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