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Last Bytes The Christmas Count

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by Mark Stein
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Dec 29 2008 5:37pm EDT

Last Bytes: The Christmas Count

Christmas came to Apple this year via its iPod Touch, which saw its Web browser market share soar four-fold. [SAI]

But Sony's PS3 isn't having quite the same luck. (Wii!) [WSJ]

Meanwhile, refurbished iPhones are available for $99 from AT&T--beating Wal-Mart's $197 price tag (albeit for new ones). Can you trust a refurb iPhone? And who's getting rid of them already? [Bits]

Elsewhere, Twitterers are starting a rumble over the algorithm behind their ranking... [TechCrunch]

...and a label-owned "MTV" is coming to the Web. [Wired]




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