| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Microsoft Starts Taking Orders For Surface Pro 3 Docking Station
| | | Microsoft is now taking orders for its new Surface Pro 3 docking station, which it claims will turn its tablet into a "full-blown desktop PC." (ZDNet)
Why This Is Important: The Surface tablet escaped Microsoft's much-publicized recent round of cuts, as the company is banking on its ability to compete with not only premium tablets but with low-priced and high-priced laptops as well. The docking station enables consumers to connect additional peripherals, and throws in a few extra USB ports to boot, but it also adds on an extra $200 to a price tag that's already on the high end. |
| | #2 | Next iPhone Will Offer Bigger Screens | | | Apple is preparing for its largest initial production run of iPhones, betting that larger-screen models will lure consumers now attracted to similar phones from Samsung Electronics and others. (Wall Street Journal)
Why This Is Important: Analysts are betting that pent-up demand from consumers, many of whom have been holding off on upgrading their smartphone, will drive Apple's largest iPhone sales to date.
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| | #3 | Netflix, Growing, Envisions Expansion Abroad
| | | Netflix made its first splash in original programming with "House of Cards," the political drama focused on Washington. Next up, "House of Versailles"? (The New York Times)
Why This Is Important: The expansion would increase Netflix's international addressable market to more than 180 million broadband households, which is two times the number of current U.S. broadband households.
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"There is growing demand, for control and for the consumer to be able to click and watch what they want, and so that is why we are stepping up on the international expansion. We really see that this is an enormous moment in history as on-demand Internet services are coming to the fore around the world." -- Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix
| | | Blog Post of The Day | Here's Why One Day You Will Probably Fall In Love With A Robot
By Paul Waldman
In the mid-1960s, a computer scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum wrote a program called ELIZA, which was meant to simulate a kind of psychotherapist that essentially repeats back everything the patient says. (The patient says, "I'm feeling depressed," and the therapist responds, "You're feeling depressed? Tell me more.") To his surprise, despite the simplicity of the program, people who interacted with it ended up telling it all kinds of secrets and couldn't tear themselves away; they were so eager to be listened to that they were happy to open their hearts to a computer. More » |
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