The Luddite dream of Jeff Bezos  —  Writes Jeff Bezos today, on the Amazon.com home page: … It’s this decidedly old-fashioned experience - this pre-Web experience - that Bezos says he sought to replicate with Kindle, Amazon’s pricey new ebook.  No reading-by-committee.  No the-crowd-is-the-author rigmarole.

Source:   Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog
Author:   Nick
Link:   http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/11…

Notebooks and servers continue to lift HP earnings  —  Emerging nations are buying notebooks by the bundle, and HP is reaping the benefits.  —  HP reported its fourth quarter earnings Monday, and revenues were up across its business units, but the PC business was again the star.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Erica Ogg
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9820252-7.html

Liveblogging the Amazon Kindle E-Reader Show with Jeff Bezos  —  Amazon has summoned the NY press and blogger corp to the W Hotel on Union Square to watch Jeff Bezos unveil it electronic book reader, the Kindle.  We’ll see if there is anything left to learn.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/19/liveblogging-the…

15 Things I Just Learned About the Amazon Kindle  —  • Its eBooks have DRM (filetype: .AZW), but it supports unprotected Mobipocket books (.MOBI, .PRC), .TXT files, HTML, and Word.  Some files can be transferred over USB, while others have to be emailed to the special per-device Kindle email.

Source:   Boing Boing Gadgets
Author:   Joel […]

Survey: Google search share climbs even higher  —  Google’s stock price wasn’t the only thing climbing last month.  The search giant’s share of the U.S. Internet search market grew to more than 64 percent in October, from 61 percent a year earlier, according to results released by Hitwise today.

Source:   Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
Link:   […]

Introducing Amazon Kindle  —  Revolutionary Portable Reader Lets Customers Wirelessly Download Books in Less Than a Minute and Automatically Receive Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs  —  No PC Required, No Hunting for Wi-Fi Hot Spots  —  Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today introduced Amazon Kindle …

Source:   Amazon.com
Link:   http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p…

Microsoft struggling to convince about Vista  —  Another survey highlights business concern about migration  —  The majority of IT professionals worry that migrating to Windows Vista will make their networks less stable and more complex, according to a new survey.

Source:   Computerworld UK - The Voice of IT Management
Author:   Denise Dubie
Link:   http://www.computerworlduk.com/management…

Microsoft struggling to convince about Vista  —  Another survey highlights business concern about migration  —  The majority of IT professionals worry that migrating to Windows Vista will make their networks less stable and more complex, according to a new survey.

Source:   Computerworld UK - The Voice of IT Management
Author:   Denise Dubie
Link:   http://www.computerworlduk.com/management…

Techmeme: A Cautionary Tale  —  I’ve been thinking about writing this post for the past several weeks as I watched this blog drop from high 40s on the techmeme leaderboard to the 50s, to the 60s, to the 70s, and now as of this weekend, off of it completely.  Yes, my ego hurts when this […]

Kindle Versus The iPhone  —  Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has created a reason to switch from bound paper books to bits — a device with a wireless connection able to download digital books on the go.  The problem: Low-cost laptops and smart phones, such as Apple’s iPhone …

Source:   Forbes
Author:   Brian Caulfield
Link:   […]