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Believe it or not, the holidays are right around the corner, and while the shopping season doesn’t officially kick off until the Friday after Thanksgiving, it’s never to early to find the perfect gifts.

Amazon.com is more than willing to help shoppers out, unveiling its picks for Best Books of 2010. This annual feature includes the Editors’ Picks for the Top 100 Books of the Year, the Top 100 Customer Favorites and Top 10 lists in nearly two dozen categories, from Literature & Fiction to Children’s Picture Books. To

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From Japan Real Time:

Last year’s holiday season was disappointing for the videogame industry as the recession tightened consumers’ purse-strings, and gamers got choosier about the titles they chose to buy.

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Sony’s Peter Dille speaks at E3.

This year, however, the industry is re-energized with new motion-based accessories and 3-D games, and the atmosphere at the E3 industry tradeshow was decidedly more upbeat.

Kazuo Hirai, head of Sony’s videogame unit, which announced several 3-D games and a motion controller, said its PlayStation 3 game console is finally hitting its stride, and it was optimistic about the holidays.

“We’re poised to have a great year and obviously a great holiday season as well,” he said in an interview on Tuesday.

Mr. Hirai said th

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With Black Friday just around the corner we thought it would be a great idea to highlight some of the products that we think buyers will have on their lists this holiday season. You will notice that some of these products have not been released yet, but can be pre-ordered. Which of these is on your list?

1. Nintendo Wii Console

As the console wars continue with Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, the reduced price of the Nintendo Wii continues to drive sales of this family oriented console. The release of Beatles Rock Band and Wii Fit Plus should help boost sales of the device for consumers looking to get back in shape for 2010 and extending the number of songs in their Rock Band library (see #9). Read more…

If you’re buying a PC this holiday season, virtually every vendor will try to up-sell you a license for some version of Microsoft Office 2007. Not only should you not buy MS Office 2007, you shouldn’t pay for any office productivity suite this year. Here are five reasons why.

1. Microsoft Office 2010 went into beta release this week. This mean we’re only a few months away from the proper release of Office 2010 — so you’d be effectively paying full price for a three-year-old app if you buy MS Office 2007 today — but you can snag a free beta copy of MS 2010 right now.

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