Last holiday season, it was incredibly difficult to get your hands on the Nintendo Wii. This year, it looks like nothing much has changed. The $250 gaming console is so popular that Nintendo is having trouble keeping up with the demand. After a very successful November (selling 981,000 units in the US, 200,000 more than the XBox 360 and twice as many as Sony Playstation 3), Nintendo is still having a shortage across the US.
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Like most people, I started experimenting with blogging on free platforms. In my case, I started with Blogger (now owned by Google). I still have a couple of non-commercial blogs hosted on Blogger, in fact. If you want full control of your web presence, then you need a dedicated web hosting service. It will cost you money, but it is cheaper that what you might think.
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Apple’s runaway success with the iTunes Store has attracted both positive and negative attention. Its disagreement and fallout with NBC is the most recent. Apple has been most successful with music and to a lesser extent TV shows. The selection of movies available on iTunes, however, has been limited at best. Now for some good news : 20th Century Fox movies might be coming to iTunes.
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