Amazon has done well during the holiday season as their track record shows.  With the debut of cool trendy products such as the Amazon Kindle, a wireless eBook reading device that connects to EVDO cell networks for updates and downloads that book worms go GaGa over, they’ve been hot this year over any previous year since founded in 1994.

TechCrunch has the stats, but here’s a brief overview:

Peak Items Order on a single day:

2008: 6.3M
2007: 5.4M

Items ordered per second:

2008: 72.9
2007: 62.5

These are some impressive numbers, and I’m sure with Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform, their website has no problems with traffic spikes.

I have setup a twitter account and linked the blog posts to auto create new tweets.

The new AMD Phenom II processors are shipping to distributors starting December 29th.  They will be available for purchase by the 2nd week of Jan 2009.  Softpediareports that there will be two flavors, Phenom II 940 at 3GHz and Phenom II 920 at 2.8GHz.  Didn’t Intel already go through 920 and 940 naming schemes with their Pentium D lineup a couple years ago?  Oh well, hopefully they’ll finally hit the nail on the head this time around, unlike the first Phenom’s.

I couldn’t help it.  I just HAD to post on this one.  The Washington Postreports that adultfriendfinder.com has filed with the SEC to go public and hopes to raise $460 million in the IPO.  They claim their subscriber base is 946,598 for their adult services.  Penthouse acquired AFF in Dec 2007 for around $400 million.

But isn’t AFF one of the biggest adult scam sites on the net?

Hey everyone, just wanted to apologize for the unreliability of the blog for the past couple of days.  We have changed hosts and are now residing on a Rackspace Cloud Site.  Yes, Compaholics.com is now ‘in the cloud’ literally.

Happy Holidays everyone.

I guess the Apple TV’s market share traction is about to hit a slow bump.  According to The Inquirer, Intel has a prototype of a new Internet TV hybrid.  Intel says they will unveil this new device at CES in Las Vegas.  Intel plans to add widgets which will allow users to chat with friends, order food, and shop online without needing to leave their seats.  The Intel developer toolkit will allow developers to make TV Internet apps using Javascript, XML, HTML, and Flash.  In reality, the gaming consoles are also a competitor in this market segment.  The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 already have some of these features.  Time will tell what Intel’s true intentions are.

I just love the smell of malware in the morning.  According to The Reg, researchers from Websense have caught on to some disturbing news.  Apparently some of Google’s sponsored links bring innocent visitors into the pit of malware infested sites.  Some of these sites have malware that hijack your web browser to block out the top search engine websites and coincidentally, Google’s site too!  The Reg reports.

This comes as no surprise, adding to the arsenal of issues walloping the Xbox 360 series.  According to this article over at Gizmodo, Microsoft knew about the Xbox 360’s scratching discs and did not correct them prior to launch in 2005.  Most likely because it was already so close to the launch date that any proposed solution would of increased production costs and most likely delayed the launch all together.  There were several proposed solutions and all were rejected.  These included increasing the magnetic field of the disc holder(which could interfere with the disc tray’s functionality), slowing down the disc speed(increase load times), and install small bumpers(keep the disc from bouncing around, but costly).  I personally am a victim of the Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death.  Since then I purchased a PS3 and have yet to have any problems.

For a whopping $999.95 you can own the Kodak 7.6″ Wireless OLED Digital Photo Frame from Amazon.com.  Great technology, once its reliability and production costs are reduced in a couple of years we can actually afford some decent sized TV’s! Engadget.com reports.

EDIT: I found it cheaper at Provantage, $752.62 at time of this writing.  Link

According to The Reg, the top 3 Touchscreen Phones for 2008 are the HTC Touch HD, LG Renoir KC910, and the Apple iPhone 3G.  I somewhat agree to the list except that there are some credible missing phones(ex. Blackberry Storm & Bold) but I assume this is because they’re too new.  What’s even more humorous is the responses in the comments for this article.  Everyone posted in disgust regarding the anti-iPhone raves.  This is the normal response for any “Top X” article.