No sooner were there rumors of a new and improved iPhone/iPod “Kindle killer” than Amazon one-upped the competition with a rumor of their own. A Wednesday May 6th press conference is expected to include the release of a new and improved Kindle. Again? The needed improvement is a price point that makes the Kindle thing attractive to a wider audience. As reported by Thomas Ricker of Engadget and Peter Kafka at All Things Digital none other than the New York Times will partner with Amazon on the supposed Kindle electronic reader project. Nobody really knows anything about the potential Kindle...

I don't have an iPhone but I have an iPod Touch, which, when I got it, I figured would not be of much use to me. I was wrong. Because of apps, I use the little bugger all the time - my iPod touch is always at hand. I know people who won't make a move without their iPhone, or some other-brand sort-of equivalents. They app themselves through each day. Do you? The people at Apple told me, "It's the apps!" when I asked them what's so cool about these iPods and iPhones. And they are dead spot on. On Twitter (get an account...

Gizmodo announced the most useful tool shaped like a pair of boobs. No Oscar for them, but the article is certainly worth a grin. I won't tell you what the bosom-shaped utensil is, but do go take a look. I nearly spit my coffee into my keyboard - which has happened to me more than once. Green MP3 player - low carbon footprint - this one is fun. Believe it or not, a wind-up MP3 player that uses no electricity. I haven't tried it, but I used to have a wind-up radio. It's the thought... The How to Geek says try this one...

Ezines. Digital newspapers. The moguls have predicted it for years and now it's coming and they can't stop it. The demise of print media as we know it is not far off -- to be replaced by digital readers, iPod publications, Amazon Kindle, cell phones and other tablets. Electronic reading is the way. Here's a terrific piece by Computer World writer Mike Elgan Here Comes The E-book Revolution, Six trends are conspiring to drive electronic books into the mainstream. Take time to read the whole article. I love his comment that today's young people read more than prior generations did. Think about that. I...

Someone is dissin' the Beatles. At first, my hackles were raised as this Canadian journalist explained, in great detail, how possibly irrelevant much of the Beatles' music is to the digital music world of today. Lynn Crosbie's piece, Boomers Have Dictated Popular Taste Too Long in the Globe and Mail is fairly forthright - and makes sense. Her hook is that there's talk of the Beatles catalog being released in digital format for media players, iPods and so forth. Crosbie doesn't see this as a huge gain for the world. Consider one of her comments, "Those tyrants, the baby boomers, have dictated popular taste...