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\nThe AllThingsD<\/strong> tech team was on call this week with a whole slew of posts to help you ring in the new decade in the know. Even if queen-bee Kara was still off in the islands with her famously fun family, Walt, John and Peter kept their offices humming and their fingers typing with all the news and reviews you need. <\/p>\n
Walt was back in action after a week off and delivered a new year\u2019s review of a different sort of net book<\/a>. The Litl\u2019s big twist on the now-ubiquitous net book is its absence of a standard OS, in favor of complete reliance on the cloud. While Walt praised the device for innovative features and thinking, he thought it wasn\u2019t quite there. Also a strong sticking point, the Litl is about twice the price of a standard net book and doesn\u2019t deliver as much. <\/p>\n After a week on hiatus, John was back, and Digital Daily delivered some awesome year-end perspectives. Early in the week, John posted that Nokia\u2019s (NOK) official new year\u2019s message read something like, \u201cDear Apple; It\u2019s on.\u201d The Nordic electronic behemoth filed legal documents stating that Apple (AAPL) violated Nokia patents on virtually every mobile device it makes<\/a>. Sounds like it\u2019s going to be a good year for the legal industry. The costs of future litigation may be high, but Apple\u2019s fourth-quarter profits<\/a> may take some of the sting out. John reported that everyone\u2019s favorite brushed aluminum retailer was expected to post huge Q4 sales figures for 2009, buoyed by record iPhone sales and brisk Mac shipments. John rounded out the week with a post-mortem of the year in venture backed IPOs<\/a>. The short version is that they were DOA. With only one more venture-backed IPO than in 2008, John is sure it\u2019s going to be a long climb out of the hole. <\/p>\n Media Memo was a little more positive last week with some posts about the new tech world we\u2019ve created. This new decade may see dollars spent on ebooks outpace those spent on hard copies<\/a>, but Peter reminded all the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle-heads out there that that doesn\u2019t mean that book sales are going up. 2009 saw a major move from buying a book to licensing an electronic copy. It\u2019s a line in the digital sand that etailers may never again want to cross. In a post that brought just the right amount of luster to the old year, Peter reported that retailers had an all right quarter to round out a so-so year<\/a>. The superlatives continued. He added that they did a little better than predicted, though only on comparison to last year\u2019s colossally dismal numbers. And to round out the old year and ring in the new, Peter took the reliably self-obsessed temperature of twitter and delivered some tweets bearing the novel hashtag, #10yearsag<\/a>o. It wasn\u2019t all about peoples\u2019 cats, or whatever else people tweet about, as all the worlds\u2019 tweeps seemed to be reflecting on what they were doing back when Y2K was king. <\/p>\n In a year when downs outnumbered ups, Weekend Update’s resolution is a net book for every lap and a smartphone in every pocket. Happy New Year. <\/p>\n Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n