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• AT&T, NYC, and the Disappearing iPhone Mystery Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves: We have a new twist in the slow-news-day-driven mystery of the vanishing iPhone in the state of New York.
• Amazon: E-book Sales Surpass Paper on Christmas Day With so much enthusiasm—aided by a good dose of marketing and technological evolution—surrounding e-book readers, it was bound to happen sooner or later: sales...
• IPhone Once Again Available on AT&T Website for New Yorkers When we talked to AT&T earlier Monday about the unavailability of iPhones for New York shoppers using the AT&T Website, a company spokesman told us that...
• How the Amazon Kindle May Evolve in 2010 E-readers were a hit this holiday season, but the e-reader market is likely to change dramatically next year. To stay on top, Amazon may need to reinvent the Kindle--or at least tweak it a bit.
• Apple Tablet Could Attract Business Users Sure, it's a consumer product, but Apple's widely-rumored tablet computer could, finally, popularize the slate form factor for business, too.
• Frequently Asked Photo Questions for December Dave answers reader questions about printing oversized photos, choosing the right exposure for close-up photos, eliminating corrupt photos from a memory card, and more.
• Photo Contest: Hot Pics for December Subscribers to Dave Johnson's Digital Focus newsletter took these shots.
• Chrome Netbook Specs Stretch Believability Google's plans for its mobile OS are again the subject of illogical speculation.
• Report: IPhone Unavailable to New Yorkers via AT&T's Website Ah, New York... the city that never sleeps. The town so nice they named it twice. The metropolitan area where, according to a report on Consumerist, you can't...
• Don't Steal This: Xbox 360 Thief Tracked by Gamertag Bronx man apprehended after stealing Xbox 360 and signing in with misappropriated Xbox LIVE login id.
• Top 10 Tech Stories of the Decade While the computer industry in the 1990s thrived as corporations re-engineered business processes to incorporate IT, this decade has seen technology truly become...
• AT&T Cuts Off Online iPhone Sales in NY AT&T has stopped online sales of the iPhone to New York residents in its latest PR debacle.
• Amazon: Kindle Is Most Gifted Item Ever More e-books were sold than traditional ones -- but who's shopping on Christmas, anyway?
• Make Your New PC Hassle-Free, Part 1: Create a System-Repair Disc If you've got a few spare minutes and a blank CD or DVD, use Windows 7's built-in recovery-disc maker to create a get-out-of-disaster-free card.
• The Five Essential Security Patches of 2009 If you install just five updates this year, these are the ones you need, security experts say.