Amazon.com Inc.’s fourth-quarter earnings skyrocketed 71 percent, as shoppers spent more than ever during a holiday season that improved by the previous year for retailers on and off the Web.

Despite the sluggish economy, Amazon did well all through the year, drawing shoppers with its Kindle e-reader and deals on an immense selection of good…

Kira Marchenese works in online communications, and so she arrived on a business trip to New York earlier that week equipped with all the gadgets you might expect: personal smart phone, work smart phone, laptop, iPod touch.

Problem is, her hotel room didn’t have adequate outlets to keep the darned devices charged. “I unplugged the lamp…

You’ve got the whole jungle thing going on and a Dharma Initiative-flavored octagonal shape. Oh, and it can take down airplanes flying overhead.
Orginal post by Kyle VanHemert

Two models in specific, the Bravo and Supersonic, are getting a lot of attention, which leads us to believe an announcement is coming soon.
Originally posted at Android Atlas
Orginal post by Scott Webster

After weeks of back-and-forth negotiations amoung Web search giant Google and the Chinese government, Google says it will continue to oppose China’s efforts to censor knowledge on the Net. For the past several years, Google has censored results on its Google.cn search engine as requested by the Chinese government. But recently, Google decided…

Though the Nexus One deserves CNET’s “Excellent” rating, there are three things with which we’re not entirely comfortable.
Originally posted at Android Atlas
Orginal post by Kent German

Around the globe, laws are too weak to deter cyberattacks and countries are incapable of preventing attacks. Those pessimistic findings are among the results of a worldwide survey of industry executives funded by McAfee and conducted by the Center for Strategic and universal Studies (CSIS).

The study, In the crossfire — Critical Infrastructu…