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Last year it was Office Max’s ElfYourself, but my prize for this year’s best Xmas online gag is the “Channel 6 TV News” – a clever Google-powered gadget that allows you to place a friend’s name into a TV news report about a Christmas crisis surrounding the naughtiest person in the world. Very clever and bound to bring a smile to desktops everywhere.
The iPhone is Apple’s Netbook: Almost Half of All Traffic from WiFi Networks – ReadWriteWeb
If there’s one product that seems to be missing from Apple’s product range, it’s a netbook – something in the handy 9-10-inch screen range. Steve Jobs has said in the past that Apple doesn’t go in for making budget hardware and maybe these figures about the wi-fi usage of iPhones back him up. Certainly the growing functionality of the iPhone means I may buy one instead of a MacBook. But to me these figures also indicate that Apple could make a killing by just beefing up the iPod Touch (call it the iTouch or MacTouch) and giving it a slightly larger screen. Do that and it surely opens up the whole netbook/tablet market to them.
If you’re looking for more Best of 2008 lists, here are two good ones. NPR listeners voted for Fleet Foxes while The Guardian critics went for Bon Iver.
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