He wants help to find Tessa the Beagle, who has been missing since Christmas Eve.

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In March, Microsoft said it was delaying its release - missing the crucial Christmas sales period - to tackle security and other issues.

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"People are missing two post-Christmas shopping days instead of one, " he says.

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There are some signs that the first Motorola phone using it might hit the market around December-January period, though probably missing the bulk of the Christmas season.

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He once called a fellow director on Christmas Day to complain about a missing comma in a memo.

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The 29-year-old indicated before Christmas that he would not consider missing the birth, a view supported at the time by national selector Geoff Miller.

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But that routine faded as Ebay grew, and the loyalty was obviously missing when Ebay's mail rooms were flooded with Amazon boxes in the weeks leading up to Christmas in 2006.

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