Breakfast briefing: Amazon and Microsoft in the money

• Tech industry financial results continue to flood in, with both Amazon and Microsoft doing well. Jeff Bezos and crew are in rude health with $384m profit off $9.5bn in sales - though still no word on how many Kindles have been shifted . Steve Ballmer, meanwhile, might have a smile on his face as Windows 7 pushed his company to the first sales increase in a year : $6.6bn of net income on revenue of $19bn. • The push-and-pull about the iPad continues, with no let up in the stream of arguments about whether the name is a bit funny, and whether anyone wants to buy one. But it's Friday, I'm now declaring that stuff officially boring. Instead, here are some more interesting pieces to ponder: first off, a look at what's really in the A4 chip that powers the iPad and secondly some thoughts from Adobe on the lack of Flash support . • And here's something that gives pause for thought - not just because of the tragic nature of the story, but also some of the implications. In the sentencing of a 17-year-old American woman who was the drunk driver in a car crash that killed her boyfriend, a New York judge took into account Facebook photos posted a month after the accident : that's worth thinking about. You can follow our links and commentary each day through Twitter ( @guardiantech , or our personal accounts ) or by watching our Delicious feed .