Final score: e-commerce holiday spending up 4%.
ComScore released final numbers for all of November and December, and the results were up 4% over 2008. This is a slightly lower increase than had been measured previously, and significantly where 2009 came up short was in the post-Christmas time frame. This may reflect the fact that retailers discounted so aggressively that shoppers did not find it necessary to wait for after-Christmas sales.
Google's browser moves past Apple's.
In the same week that Google launched its new Nexus One device to compete with the iPhone, Google passed Apple in browser popularity. Google's Chrome browser moved past Apple's Safari into the #3 slot, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox.
E-Marketer projects smartphones as leading the online future.
In 2009, smartphones pulled even with notebook PCs into second place for the number of newly-shipped internet-enabled devices, behind only 3G conventional cellphones. E-marketer projects smartphones to grow into the number one spot by 2012, with shipments of 491 million new units that year.
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