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3:54 AM ET, December 27, 2006

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phx.corporate-ir.net:
Amazon.com's 12th Holiday Season is Best Ever  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the 2006 holiday season finished as its best ever, with its busiest day being December 11th.  On this day Amazon customer orders exceeded 4 million items.
Discussion: GigaGamez and digg
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
65nm Xbox 360 CPUs delayed until mid-2007  —  According to industry sources, plans to produce CPUs for the Microsoft Xbox 360 game console on 65nm at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will be pushed back until the middle of 2007, at least one quarter behind the original schedule.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
65nm Xbox 360 CPU refresh delayed until mid-2007?
Discussion: TechSpot
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
comScore to take Web 2.0 seriously  —  Television has Nielsen, but the web has no clear leader for ranking the world's busiest websites.  There's no shortage of competitors in the space, of course, and you've probably heard of many of them: Alexa, comScore, HitWise, and the newcomer, Compete.
Discussion: A VC, Mark Evans and HipMojo.com
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:   Comscore Clings to a Page View World
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Skype Subverts T-Mobile  —  Many a writer, analyst and blogger have put the label of "disruptive" on Skype.  —  I think NOT.  —  The proper term, as I have said before is "subversive" and what the following will prove and point to that exact claim.  Now for those who don't see the fine points …
Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Presence for your presents  —  You've probably got the paper and boxes cleaned up by now.  Did you get that new gadget you've wanted?  A new phone?  A Zune?  A new MacBook?  Regardless of what it was, chances are that its stated purpose was to make you better connected.  Is that really want you want?
Discussion: Alec Saunders .LOG
Tony Long / Wired News:
2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards  —  Welcome to Wired News' 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards program.  You, the readers, have sent us your picks for the lamest quotes from or about the world of technology during this eventful year.  We have selected the "best" of those and present them to you now.
Discussion: digg
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
HD disk format wars are over  —  Opinion A clear victor emerges  —  THE NEXT GENERATION disk format has been settled once and for all.  Thanks to the due diligence, hard work and unprecedented cooperation between the media companies, the hardware vendors and the OS vendor, we finally have a solution.
Discussion: digg
Computerworld:
How I nuked mobile spam  —  Here's how to keep spam off your phone  —  Mike Elgan Today's Top Stories or Other Mobile/Wireless Stories  —  On Jan. 24, 2004, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates famously announced that by 2006, "spam will be solved."  He was right.
Discussion: PalmAddicts and The Raw Feed
Jeffrey Gangemi / Business Week:
Fine-Tuning Local Search  —  Small businesses may soon be able to target their online ads to prospective customers who are within a few blocks of their shops  —  Karl Murphy, president and co-owner of Carolina Auto Spa, a car wash and automotive detailer with two locations outside Raleigh …
Fimoculous.com:
30 Predictions for 2007 in Media/Tech/Pop  —  The usual caveats apply: I have no inside knowledge on any of this stuff.  I talk to media+tech people about trends all the time, but nobody ever tells me anything important.  And I only have mutual funds, so don't try to play that angle.
Discussion: Lost Remote
Wired News:
Biblio Tech … The new library at Chicago State University has one ironclad rule: No students allowed in these stacks - only robots.  Every book, CD, and DVD in the school's $38 million facility is tagged with a radio-frequency ID chip.  When a borrowed item slides through the return slot, the system identifies and sorts it.
Discussion: Gadgetell, Gizmodo, digg and Slashdot
Karen J. Bannan / New York Times:
Online Chat Is a Grapevine That Yields Precious Fruit  —  When MD Moms was introduced to market baby skin-care products a year ago, it had plenty going for it.  The founders are pediatricians who are also mothers.  The company has a strong distribution strategy and the baby products are cleverly packaged.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Verizon to Allow Ads on Its Mobile Phones  —  VERIZON WIRELESS, among the nation's most widely advertised brands, is poised to become the advertising medium itself.  —  Beginning early next year, Verizon Wireless will allow placement of banner advertisements on news, weather …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Rush at End, but Holiday Sales Fall Short  —  There is always next year.  —  Shoppers swarmed discount stores and mobbed suburban malls over the crucial holiday weekend, but the final burst of buying is expected to fall short of retailers' expectations.  —  Visa USA, the credit card company …
Discussion: Seeking Alpha and Blogging Stocks
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Wikipedia Founder Plans Search Engine  —  The search engine, code-named Wikiasari, would combine open source technology and human intervention to deliver more relevant results than the algorithm-based systems used today.  —  Jimmy Wales, founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia …
 
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Joshua Freed / Associated Press:
Star Tribune to Be Sold to Private Group
Discussion: PaidContent and Lost Remote
Blake Ross / Blake Ross on Firefox:
Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Cingular Does the MySpace hardsell
Discussion: Digital Alchemy
Smaran / Torrentfreak:
Illegal Video Downloads Surpass Legal Alternatives 5 to 1
Ernesto / Torrentfreak:
BitTorrent Tutorial Roundup
Mike / Techdirt:
Korea Doesn't Want That Virtual Currency To Be Traded For Real Money
Lora / What Is New:
CES Gathering update: Tablet PC & UMPC Community Gathering
Michael Gartenberg:
Lessons in Analyst Relations
Discussion: Web Strategy
 Earlier Items: 
Frank Barnako:
Video bloggers head for World Econmic Forum
Forbes:
Google, China Mobile to launch mobile search service - report
Discussion: Search Engine Land
level3.com:
LEVEL 3 TO ACQUIRE SAVVIS CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK
Discussion: GigaOM and NewTeeVee
Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
A decade of NeXT and Apple
Discussion: Joystiq and digg
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Ad Costs on the Web Are Rising, but Perhaps a Bit Irrationally
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Hewlett-Packard, Recasting Itself, Is Looking Beyond PCs and Printers
Discussion: Blogging Stocks
Michael Hickins / internetnews.com:
Google to Write an 'Integrated Story'?
Valleywag:
NAMING NAMES: The tech reporters who flack for Second Life