SuperSite Blog Daily Update: December 27, 2010

Good morning. Hopefully, everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.



Amazon is now reporting that its latest Kindle is the best-selling product of all-time on its web site. As usual, no word on the actual number of units sold--just a vague "millions"--though the company took a little jab at the iPad (or "LCD tablets") by also noting that "many of the people who are buying Kindles also own an LCD tablet." In other words, the iPad isn't affecting Kindle sales. If you say so.



This actually happened last week, but Google announced that it was extending its free calling in Gmail  through 2011. I've never actually tried this feature--like in-Gmail IM, I feel it's a bit of over-reaching--but I suspect this is very useful for a lot of people.



LOLChet Severin is SO done with Windows 2.0.



There's gotta be more going on. Must be the holiday week...

Discuss this Article 2

GeekDadAnnArbor
on Dec 27, 2010
I find the calling from Gmail really useful. Often I let my phone forward the call to GVoice and answer right on my computer, saving minutes and continuing to do work on my computer.
DRWAM
on Dec 29, 2010
This clears a lot up for me. My buddy has confused Google Voice with free calling in Gmail.

Also, is the iPad a tablet or just a multimedia device? Our IT team of doctors seem to like iPad's size, but need a 'real' tablet to complete our tasks at the hospital. I'm afraid that a touch pad Windows tablet will offer more of what we need. Sure I can order test and view results on either, but integrated speech recognition really requires a Windows device. They seem to interchange 'voice recognition' with 'speech recognition', but we know the difference.

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