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Is it cool to not shop?

Here's an idea that's sure to strike fear into the hearts of retailers everywhere -- it's becoming cool to not shop.

Consumers are spending less, but are they cutting back because they have to, or because they want to? Both.

Joe Tartakoff on Microsoft
· Q & A: Keith Curtis on Open Source
· Microsoft added 500 employees in November
· Microsoft: Xbox 360 outsold PS3 over weekend

Andrea James on Amazon
· One product, great placement, how it's done
· Anti-retail: Is it cool to *not* shop?
· Amazon.com completes AbeBooks acquisition

Brian Chin Buzzworthy
· Free speech in the age of Google
· The birth of 'celebrity terrorism'
· The 'Napoleon Dynamite' problem

Around the Web

SFGate Tech Chronicles
· Netflix gets inside new Samsung Blu-ray players
· LinkedIn Raises Another $22.7 million
· How cybercriminals profit from stock declines

Chron.com TechBlog
· Updated: Apple tells Mac users to install antivirus software
· Linkpost | 12.2.2008
· Report: Windows Vista Service Pack 2 coming in April

All Things D: Digital Daily
· The Wii Version Will Come With a WiiBong and WiiSyringe
· Xohm: No Long-Term Commitments Besides Baltimore Residency
· Black Monday

Ars Technica
The art of technology
· First look: can Songbird 1.0 replace iTunes, WMP?
· Report: Online to be larger piece of shrinking music pie
· Hands-on: KDE 4.2 beta 1 brings impressive improvements

Epicenter
From Wired
· Ning, YouTube Crack Down on Porn
· As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow
· Digg Traffic Has Questionable Monetary Value

Slashdot
News for nerds, stuff that matters
· Making BitTorrent Clients Prioritize By Geography?
· European Police Plan to Remote-Search Hard Drives
· Look What's Cooking At Microsoft Labs

IN THE NEWS

A walk on the Web is good for the brain

Can Googling delay the onset of dementia? Maybe, suggests a UCLA study.
San Francisco Chronicle

Yahoo-Microsoft rumors stir doubts
SeattlePI.com

State shuts down dummy financial services site
SeattlePI.com

To VC or not to VC
Xconomy

Workplace Coach: Don't let hard times take toll on staff
SeattlePI.com

More technology news

From the Tech Wire

· Yahoo shares climb on news of possible buyout bid
· Skyworks stock tumbles after cut in 1Q forecast
· Nokia device to challenge RIM and Apple next year
· Ahead of the Bell: Analyst cuts Yahoo price target
· ASE warns of 25-28 pct 4Q revenue drop
· Regulators hang up on cell tower backup rules
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