KINDLE VS. iPAD

The day after Apple’s big iPad debut, Amazon reported stellar fourth-quarter results that included a 42% increase in sales and net income up 71%. Two days after the iPad appeared, the company got in a pricing fight with Macmillan, one of five publishers that signed on to provide content for Apple’s tablet. Meanwhile Amazon is not lying idle with its technology. The company is in the process of buying touch-screen technology startup. I'm guessing that the iPad will win this "war"

TEXTING

In the first quarter of 2009, the average U.S. teen made and received an average of 191 phone calls and sent and received 2,899 text messages per month. By the third quarter, the number of texts had jumped to 3,146 messages per month, which equals more than 10 texts per every waking non-school hour. It is crazy how much teens rely on texting and not phone calls. My parents have even started texting a lot!

SAVE THE TIGERS

Tigers could become extinct in the wild in less than a generation, the World Wildlife Fund warned today, Wednesday February 10th, as it launched a campaign to save them. "There is a real threat of losing this magnificent animal forever in our lifetime," said Sybille Klenzendorf, director of the WWF-US species conservation program. Tigers are threatened by many factors, including poaching, habitat loss, poorly planned development and illegal trafficking. Hopefully people will start saving them!

Angelina Jolie goes to Haiti

Angelina Jolie has already donated $1 million to Doctors Without Borders for Haitian earthquake relief, and now the actress is planning a visit to Haiti as a goodwill ambassador with the UN's refugee agency.

"Dear John" beats "Avatar" box office

"Dear John" won the weekend in a big way, grossing an estimated $32.4 million and setting a record for the highest-grossing Superbowl Sunday frame in history. Avatar" fell to second place for the first time, dropping a still scant 25 percent to $23.6 million.

Kindle Apps

Amazon is opening up a Kindle apps store. Some of the new apps will include textbooks with interactive quizzes, calculators, and even video games.

Text message to help Haiti

A campaign using text messages to raise money for the Red Cross has tallied more than $21

million for relief efforts in Haiti. The campaign raised more than 3 million in its first 24 hours of this campaign. Text the phrase “Haiti” to the number 90999 and donate $10 to the Red Cross.