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According to the TheStreet, a market research source crunched the estimated sales numbers for Windows Phone and came up with the shockingly low figure of 40,000 as the final tally of handsets that were sold on launch day. This number is based on estimated sales only and was not confirmed by Microsoft, who refused to comment. A T-Mobile spokesperson would also not comment on the number of handsets sold but did confirm that T-Mobile was “already receiving strong interest from our customers right out of the gate.”

Google has given all of its employees $1,000 cash "holiday bonuses" and 2011 salary increases of at least 10%, a loyal reader tells us. The 10% company-wide raise will take effect on January 1, 2011.