Cody Taylor

waderoush writes “Critics are eating up everything about Amazon’s Kindle 2 e-book reader except its 9 price tag. But if you think that’s expensive, take a look behind the Kindle at E Ink, the Cambridge, MA, company that has spent 0 million since 1997 developing the electronic paper display that is the Kindle’s coolest feature. In the company’s first interview since the Kindle 2 came out, E Ink CEO Russ Wilcox says it took far longer than expected to make the microcapsule-based e-paper film not only legible, but durable and manufacturable. Now that the Kindle 2 is finally getting readers to take e-books seriously, however, Wilcox says he sees a profitable future in which many book, magazine, and newspaper publishers will turn to e-paper, if only to save money on printing and delivery. (Silicon Alley Insider recently calculated that the New York Times could save more than 0 million a year by shutting down its presses and buying every subscriber a Kindle). ‘What we’ve got here is a technology that could be saving the world billion a year,’ Wilcox says.”

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nandemoari writes “On Tuesday, Apple shareholders gathered at Apple’s Cupertino corporate campus continued their pursuit of details regarding Apple chief Steve Jobs’ health. They didn’t get a whole heck of a lot of information out of Apple’s executives, but they did receive some encouraging news on Jobs’ status. Timothy Cook, Apple’s chief operating officer, assured shareholders that Jobs still planned to return to the company in June. Jobs obviously wasn’t present at the meeting, which might have made it rather uncomfortable when several stockholders stood to sing ‘Happy Birthday.’ Jobs’ 54th passed on Tuesday.”

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