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Mark Lennihan/Associated PressAmazon's Kindle Fire.Amazon’s tablet might be so successful it cannibalizes the retailer’s e-readers. Analysts are outdoing themselves with forecasts of Amazon’s success with the new Kindle Fire. At the same time they are reducing their forecasts of the overall e-reader market, which suggests that they see the basic Kindles losing popularity. Read more…
The new chief of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, received a one-time stock award worth nearly $400 million, the largest given by a company in a decade. The award was mean to signal the board’s confidence in him as the successor to Steve Jobs. Read more »
Attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show will find a surprising number of low-tech products alongside the smartphones, including razors, mattresses and vibrators. Marketers have decided that show attendees are a target market for these products. Read more »
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web each day for important and peculiar items. Monday’s selection includes items on drones, data scientists, an Apple factory and a little bit of tech nostalgia. Read more…
LAS VEGAS — On Thursday, OnLive, a start-up, plans to release a free app for the iPad that will let business users run a Windows 7 desktop on their iPads, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Nick Wingfield reports from the International Consumer Electronics Show. Users can create and edit documents in those applications on their iPads and store them online. Read more on Gadgetwise »
LAS VEGAS — Three chief executives — Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft, Stephen A. Elop of Nokia and Peter Chou of HTC — appeared on stage at an AT&T news conference on Monday to announce the first Windows Phone devices that will be compatible with AT&T’s new 4G cellular network. Read more on Gadgetwise »
The New York TimesNetflix is offering its video streaming service in Britain and Ireland. After a one-month free trial period, the service will cost £5.99 in Britain ($9.25) or 6.99 euros in Ireland ($8.92). Read more…
As the nature of technology is changing, the International Consumer Electronics Show is changing too. Fewer of the announcements of the most important products are made there. The show is still important to many retailers, though, who either place orders or just get a look at new merchandise. Coverage of the show is over on the Gadgetwise blog. Read more…
Louisa Gouliamaki/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe conventional wisdom holds that most companies will move to cloud computing slowly, with a few safe projects. A data storage provider, NetApp, is counting on a coming flood. Read more…
Annie Tritt for The New York Times.On New Year’s Eve, a one-mile trip cost $135, and while customers were unhappy, the Uber car service company expects to keep dynamic pricing on big party holidays. Read more…
Joseph Herscher, a 26-year-old computer programmer and kinetic artist, turned his Brooklyn apartment into a laboratory where he builds real-world Rube Goldberg machines, reports Hugh Ryan. Read about it and watch the video »
Scientists, by their nature, can be solitary creatures conditioned to work and publish independently to build their reputations, writes David A. Ferrucci, the I.B.M. executive who built the team that built the Watson computer. He describes how he did that. Read more »
By keeping professional identity pristinely separate from the personal and the messy, LinkedIn, which is now publicly traded, has grown to more than 135 million members in 200 countries. But challengers have arrived, in the form of apps. Rather than starting from scratch, independent software developers are trying to add a professional layer to Facebook, writes Randall Stross. Read the Digital Domain column »
Microsoft’s Windows and Office products are ubiquitous and highly profitable. But they’re about as inspirational as a stapler. While the likes of Apple have captured our imaginations with nifty products like the iPhone, Microsoft has produced a long list of flops, from smart wristwatches to the Zune music player to the Kin phones. With Windows Phone, though, Microsoft is finally getting some buzz, reports Nick Wingfield in Sunday’s New York Times.Read more »
James B. Stewart analyzes the letter that set off one of the most remarkable tales in modern boardroom history. It cost Mark V. Hurd his job as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest computer company. A year and a half after the letter dropped like a time bomb on to the desk of H.P.’s general counsel, the question persists: How much of it is fiction? Read the Common Sense column »
