Surprise! Consumers Dreaming of an Apple Christmas.

This just in: You want an iPhone for Christmas.
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Square Slides Into Apple’s Passbook With Digital Gift Cards

Jack Dorsey’s Square gets into digital gift cards. But will you use them?
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LittleBits Wants to Babysit Your Tech-Savvy Kids This Holiday Season

LittleBits has a new kit for tinkerers.
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Food for Thought: Apps That Indulge Your Inner “Top Chef”

Move over, Martha.
My Recipe Book lets you import recipes from other food Web sites.

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Kindle Fire Heats Up Holiday for Amazon

Amazon said this holiday season was the best ever for its Kindle, with more than four million Kindle devices sold in the month of December. The company also said that its new tablet, the $199 Kindle Fire, has become the best-selling and most-gifted product across all of Amazon.com since its introduction to the market 13 weeks ago. Amazon rarely releases unit sales numbers of its e-readers, but said earlier this month that it had sold more than one million Kindles a week for three consecutive weeks.

Santa’s Digital Downtime (Video)

It’s another Siri + Santa video, only this time, we learn more about what he actually does during the other 11 months of the year.
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Apps for Last-Minute Holiday Shoppers

Here are 10 mobile shopping apps for the holiday procrastinators out there.
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Youth Is Wasted on the Young, and So Are Consumer Electronics

Ah, to be young again, spending that precious disposable income on gadgets.
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