December 2, 2013 Which iPad? It Depends. What Do You Want to Do? by DAMON DARLIN By DAMON DARLIN The iPad Mini complements Apple’s already best-in-class tablet offerings, so deciding which one to get boils down to what you will…
December 2, 2013 The Allure of the Print Book by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON A number of new research reports and surveys are finding that teenagers and adults are continuing to read print books and…
December 2, 2013 Favorite tweets Amazon's drone unveiling is part of Jeff Bezos’s pre-lobbying strategy, telling the FAA not to get in their way: http://t.co/hRS3AbgyaT — New York Magazine…
December 2, 2013 Online and Offline Stores Duke It Out This Week by JENNA WORTHAM By JENNA WORTHAM Physical and online retailers are in a sort of arms race, pushing each other to start holiday sales earlier and earlier….
December 2, 2013 Steam sets a new record as over 7 million gamers log in at once Assuming Steam’s user base is still around the 65 million mark, as Valve reported at the end of the October, over 10 percent of…
December 2, 2013 Out of Print, Maybe, but Not Out of Mind by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD Some features of physical books may be getting a second life online, but efforts to completely reimagine the core experience of…
December 2, 2013 U.S. HealthCare.gov Website Faces New Tests as Traffic Builds by REUTERS By REUTERS President Barack Obama and his HealthCare.gov website face another critical test starting this week, as Americans who have been unable to enroll…
December 2, 2013 Willis Ware, Who Helped Build Blueprint for Computer Design, Dies at 93 by JOHN MARKOFF By JOHN MARKOFF As part of a group of engineers developing an early computer, he was the first to try to engineer many of…
December 2, 2013 Amazon Floats the Notion of Delivery Drones by DAVID STREITFELD By DAVID STREITFELD On “60 Minutes” Sunday night, Jeff Bezos of Amazon showed a video of a tiny helicopter seizing a package from a…