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Ray Kurzweil Vows to Right E-Reader Wrongs

by ASHLEE VANCE on Jun 19, 2010

There’s Amazon.com’s Kindle, Sony’s Reader, Barnes and Noble’s Nook, Apple’s iPad and a bevy of iPad and Kindle clones. Still, Ray Kurzweil, the famed inventor, thinks people deserve yet another option when it comes to reading books and magazines with an electronic device.

The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains

by NICK BILTON on Jun 11, 2010
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains

If you’re reading this blog post on a computer, mobile phone or e-reader, please stop what you’re doing immediately. You could be making yourself stupid. And whatever you do, don’t click on the links in this post. They could distract you from the flow of my beautiful prose and narrative. This is is the alarm currently being rung by some in the bell towers of technology.

Updated: iPad 3G Shortage Won't Bar Getting Unlimited Data Plan, AT&T Says

by NICK BILTON on Jun 4, 2010
Updated: iPad 3G Shortage Won't Bar Getting Unlimited Data Plan, AT&T Says

Since AT&T announced this week that it would eliminate its unlimited monthly data plans beginning Monday, June 7, some customers have been scrambling to get an iPad 3G with the hopes of signing up for the unlimited plan, which would be grandfathered in.