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Christmas Is For Online Shopping Too. In a sign that online shopping is an exploding phenomenon far beyond Black Friday and Cyber Monday, IBM has a study showing online shopping in the U.S. shot up 16.4% on Christmas day 2011 versus 2010, and the dollar amount spent on mobile purchases rose 173%--Monday too saw more spending than in 2010. In a good sign for Apple, nearly 7% of all online buys were made via an iPad. --KE
--Updated 11:50 a.m. EST
Lieberman Asks Twitter To Block Taliban Tweets. U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman has requested that Twitter voluntarily block several accounts used by the Taliban that broadcast anti-U.S. and anti-British propaganda. The Taliban's Twitter presence, which includes feeds such as @abalkhi and @alemarahweb, regularly celebrates the death of U.S., British, and Afghan troops. The Taliban is not considered a terrorist organization by the State Department. The quasi-Al-Qaeda-affiliated Somali terror organization Al-Shabaab also has a Twitter feed. --NU
--Updated 11:00 a.m. EST
Indian Court Orders 22 Social Networks To Remove Comments. A Delhi judge has ordered companies including Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook to remove content on their websites that the court described as "anti-social" or "anti-religious." This comes just a few weeks after the companies met with IT minister Kapil Sipbal to talk through similar issues, though those talks reportedly reached a stalemate. The companies have a month and a half to act according to the court order, the Hindustan Times reports. --NS
Google Releasing iPad 3 Competitor In 6 Months? There's no sure sign of the iPad 3 yet, but it appears its Android competition is already waiting in the wings. Eric Schmidt told an Italian publication Corriere della Sera that the long-rumored Android answer to Apple's next-generation tablet expected in the next six months. --NS
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