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Geek Up Your Tree, Tracing the Rise and Fall of the Boombox

by Thomas Houston on December 9, 2009 at 06:46 PM

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • Geek up your tree Christmas morning with these eight techie ornaments. [From: Unplggd]
  • NPR traces the rise and fall of the eponymous boombox, one of the original portable music players. [From: NPR]
  • The tech world tends to hype new products and sites to a ridiculous level (which makes failures all the more spectacular), and 2009 was no exception. ReadWriteWeb counts down the 10 biggest crashes of the year, ranging from Google Wave to music service Spotify still not launching yet in the U.S. [From: ReadWriteWeb]
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