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Amazon announced that Kindle has become the most gifted item in Amazon's history and for the first time ever customers purchased more e-books that physical books. With kindle being such a popular gift most people who got one must have simply gone online and ordered some e-books the read. It just works that easy. With 390,000 books to choose from is it any wonder. We have added the list of the bestsellers this Christmas season from Amazon. Amazon Worldwide 2009 Holiday Facts (includes  www.amazon.com ,  www.amazon.co.uk , www.amazon.de ,  www.amazon.fr ,  www.amazon.co.jp  and  www.amazon.ca ): Amazon shipped to over 178 countries. One of our most remote shipments contained the  EMU Australia Toddler Boot  and was delivered to Atqasuk, Alaska. On the peak day this season, Amazon's worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 7 million units. Amazon shipped over 200,000 units to APO/FPO addresses. Amazon shipped more than 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worl...

Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch Reported that when he tried to buy an iPhone online from AT&T's online store he received the message " Sorry this package is not available in your city". This is now the big story, they are not selling iPhone's online. You can still buy an iPhone from a physical store or directly from Apple's online store.  Found on the Consumerist . AT&T has apparently found a workable solution to the reported data congestion in New York City. They've quietly stopped selling the iPhone to customers in the New York metropolitan area, at least from their web site. I guess that's one way to solve the problem. Reader Stephen in Brooklyn made the discovery while shopping for a new phone today. "I was on the AT&T Wireless website trying to get an iPhone. However, when I put in my zip code 11231, the site says the iPhone is unavailable. This seemed a little odd so I started punching in other famous zip codes: 90210, 60609 (spiegel ...

This New Year's Eve we are going to see a blue moon. It has nothing to do with the shade or hue of the moon. It is simply a colloquial term for something that is very rare. There will be two full moon's this month the first having appeared on Dec 2.  It's the first time this is happening from 1871 and only the fourth from 1900.  On very rare occasions the moon can actually sport a bluish tint due to atmospheric conditions caused by forest fires or volcanic eruptions. It’s even happened fairly recently. The moon was a little blue across many sections of eastern North America in September 1950, because of smoke from widespread forest fires in western Canada. Also, after the massive eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in June 1991, there were many sightings of a physically blue moon all around the world. Fortunately these calamities don’t happen that often, and that lends itself to the creation of the phrase “once in a blue moon.” The astronomical definition of a bl...

The would-be terrorist who attempted to ignite an explosive on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit confessed to authorities that he is a follower of Bin Laden but only on Twitter. According to authorities that twitter link does not prove that he is working on instructions from Bin Laden. "We looked at his Twitter account," one interrogator said. "And while it's true that he follows bin Laden , he also follows Alyssa Milano and Shaq." Investigators further refused to comment on whether he accepted Bin laden's request to play Farmville on Facebook. An original post by Sociolatte

Jeremy Gilliam 22, was caught after playing a stolen game console online . Allowing cops in Pelham where the device was stolen to track him to his grandmothers house through the IP address. A kid whose Xbox was stolen saw someone playing with his user name online and told his parents who informed the police. On the day of the burglary when the kid who had logged in with another Xbox he noticed that he was already logged in. When the cops tracked him down they found Xboxes, playstations, GPS units and Laptops. A total of 53 items including stolen credit cards. Gilliam was already under investigation for 13 robberies Pilham detective John Hayes Said. Hayes further said that he believed that the stuff found was from about 200 car break-ins and multiple home burglaries. An original post by Sociolatte

The misco-blogging site Twitter has announced that they have bought Mixer Labs, the makers of GeoAPI. This translates into Geo-location on Twitter. Now when users post content they can more accurately give a geographical location to the tweet. This is very helpful for people who are reporting incidents as and when they are Happening. User who are following these tweets will better understand and make sense of these tweets because they are being tweeted at some times from Ground-Zero. Twitter had this to say . The Mixer Labs crew has been working on harnessing the power of local information for a couple years and just recently launched GeoAPI, a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications. As of today, they're part of Twitter and will be working to combine the contextual relevance of location to tweets. We want to know  What's happening? , and more precisely,  Where is it happening?  As a dramatic example, twittering "Earthquake!" ...

There are plenty of Apply rumors on the web. But when a major news site says something we stop to listen. The Financial Times  begins to speculate people start to listen. It is being reported that Apple has rented a stage in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for several days in late January.  Where Apple is expected to make a major announcement. Stories about this mythical touch screen device better than a iPhone and cooler than a Netbook could be actually launched. Yes after all the speculation that Apple has explored making of the Tablet device for years it might become a reality. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today speculated that an event was imminent. “We believe there is a 75 per cent likelihood that Apple will have an event in January and a 50 per cent chance that it will be held to launch the Apple Tablet,” he wrote in a new research note. “If Apple announced the Tablet in January, it would likely ship later in the March quarter.” An original post by Socio...