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Faulty shopping cart software is leaving consumers stranded at the checkout of many UK websites.
The majority of shopping carts provide consumers with an unpredictable and unsatisfactory experience - making Web shopping a lottery, according to a survey by web testing specialist SciVisum out this week. SciVisum found that 80 per cent of websites perform inconsistently with widely varying response times, timeouts and errors - leaving consumers at best wondering what to do next and at worst unable to complete their purchase successfully.

Amazon.com congratulated itself on a bumper holiday shopping season, saying more than 2.8m items were ordered on a single, record-breaking day

“We are extremely grateful to our customers,” said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

I got an iLap for christmas. I had considered one and thought it was a bit gadgety, but actually it makes sitting on the sofa with my laptop amazingly comfortable. Highly recommended.

Its all over the news that Amazon have hit problems with some orders. I’m waiting on a book that seems to be delayed at the publishers google hacks - its not for christmas, but they sent me a ?5 voucher anyway this morning. Amazon used to send out out vouchers like candy, but they stoppped this a few years ago, and they lowered the general value to ?2 unless something awful had gone wrong, so it looks like anyone with a delayed order got a voucher this morning. Ouch.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Apple sues ‘Tiger’ file sharers

Apple sues ‘Tiger’ file sharers - don’t use torrent for p2p dowloads of Tiger then. Am looking forward to macworld though and a potential new g5 purchase once the new products are announced.