Filed under: Consumer experience, Amazon.com (AMZN) It's not too hard to find stories on the latest Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) e-book reader, the Kindle 2. But the newly released Kindle has a lot to live up to, according to a recent ChangeWave survey of original Kindle e-book owners. Fifty-eight percent ...

A maelstrom is a powerful whilpool, once described by Edgar Allen Poe : " Here the vast bed of the waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion - heaving, boiling, hissing - gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices, and all whirling a...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon.com (AMZN), General Motors (GM), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Trump Entertainment Resorts (TRMP), Verizon Communications (VZ), Teva Pharm Indus ADR (TEVA) U.S. stock markets were set to plunge at the open Tuesday morning as three issues weigh...

The time it takes to boot up a computer can be a source of frustration — especially if you’re in a rush and just want to log on, get information and move on with your day. If televisions took as long as PCs take to start working, we’d miss game-winning touchdowns. Slow boot-up time...

Internet retailer, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has bucked trends and posted record sales during the 2008 holiday season. The company that sells everything from digital books via their electronic reader, Kindle, to hard to find toys and specialty items, announced on December 26 that they had their biggest d...

Concerns that the econalypse will last longer than expected inspired a nasty market selloff Wednesday, one that kicked tech’s ass all the way back to April 2003. The Nasdaq gave up nearly 97 points, falling 6.5 percent to 1,386, its lowest close in five years. And it dragged a host of tech iss...

The New York Times today finally got around to noticing that when web sites go down, people are increasingly likely to get mad and generally react the way I might if I drove to my favorite bar and found it closed for a private party. I might be miffed and share a few choice words with members of my ...

Many entrepreneurs today have their heads in the clouds. They’re either outsourcing most of their network infrastructure to a provider such as Amazon Web Services or are building out such infrastructures to capitalize on the incredible momentum around cloud computing. I have no doubt that this...

Outsourcing compute power is wonderful — until something goes wrong. Unfortunately, when an Amazon Web Service goes down it’s hard to know why, and it’s even harder to know how well a particular cloud is performing in the first place. To make the cloud more transparent, open source...

Believe that global warming is the “moral issue of our time,â€� as does Sen.  Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and you can justify a redistributive porker like the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade bill. Had it passed--it won't this time--this bill would've knocked 1% off of American gross domestic produc...