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Q&A: ‘Final Jeopardy’ author Stephen Baker on Watson, IBM, the future of e-books and the fate of humanity

Stephen Baker is the journalist and author who traced IBM’s Watson project from its inception and development all the way… Read More

Amazon.com’s new tablet would be the anti-iPad

There have been tons of reports lately about Amazon.com planning to take on Apple’s iPad with its own color-screen, Android-based… Read More

Nerd Notes: A ball catching bot, an internet kiss and the Finger-Nose

The intelligence behind tracking Osama is revealed via Twitter. Introducing the floppy disk necklace. Hey, if Mickey Rourke, Mortal Kombat and the… Read More

UW study of Kindle usage shows why students aren’t shelving real books

Chalk one up for ink and paper — the real kind. A University of Washington study, released today, finds that… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: iPhone tracking, Kindle lending, and a tech news extravaganza

This week’s GeekWire Podcast is a little different — a technology reporters’ roundtable featuring special guests Tricia Duryee of AllThingsD… Read More

Amazon introduces library lending for Kindle books

Amazon.com plans to launch a new service later this year in which Kindle users can borrow digital books from 11,000… Read More

Sales of ‘e-books’ soar, now the #1 format over paper

I confess, I’ve never read an “e-book.” But, it turns out, I very well be in a shrinking class. According… Read More

Free Kindle? Don’t count on it

For many months there has been speculation that Amazon.com might ultimately give away its Kindle e-reader as a way of… Read More

Kindle for Cheapskates: Amazon debuts $114 e-reader, with ads and deals

Amazon.com’s Kindle just got cheaper for anyone willing to put up with some ads, or wanting to score some special… Read More

Kindle readers of The New York Times to get free access of the newspaper’s Web site

Here’s one way to get access to The New York Times on the Web. Buy a Kindle, and then shell… Read More

Did Amazon just kill Lendle?

Electronic book lending service Lendle may be entering its last chapter. Amazon.com today revoked API access to the company, essentially… Read More

Look out, Amazon’s Kindle unit is hiring Android devs

Nice catch by the New York Times this morning: Amazon.com’s Lab 126, which develops the company’s Kindle e-reader, has posted… Read More

How Amazon added real page numbers to Kindle books

Amazon.com last month announced that it was adding “real” page numbers to Kindle books — corresponding to the page numbers… Read More

Here come the free Kindles … at least in the U.K.

Amazon.com has started to give away free Kindles to customers in the United Kingdom who purchase a mobile handset through… Read More

Data Dump: Kindle vs. iPad vs. Xbox vs. everything else

Except for maybe those crazies at the front of the iPad 2 line, many of us have become pretty measured… Read More

Six reasons why Amazon.com will give away the Kindle

We were intrigued over the weekend when CNN published a detailed analysis on why Amazon.com should just give away the… Read More

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