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We are pleased to introduce the first baby of Now IT Works, Cameron Austin. Please forgive us if the blog posts are a bit sparse while we get this little guy settled into our home.

• The 12 Best and Quirkiest Gadgets from CES 2012 (Wired)

• There’s a new Wii device on the horizon – Wii U Game Console (NY Daily News)

• Do you have thousands of dollars just laying around in your marketing budget? Check out these business cards – only $1,500 apiece! (Geekologie)

• Happy 5th Birthday to the iPhone – see how it has changed over the years (CNN Tech)

One of my favorite things about the New Years Holiday is all the wrap up lists! What do you consider to be the top tech “fail” of 2011?

• Netflix/Qwikster debacle

• iPhone 4s battery life

• GoDaddy supporting SOPA

• BlackBerry 2-day outage in October

Read the full article from CNN here and leave your comments below!

With the holidays right around the corner, Amazon has released their sales numbers for the Kindle, stating that they are selling over 1 million copies per week!

“Kindle Fire is the most successful product we’ve ever launched—it’s the bestselling product across all of Amazon for 11 straight weeks, we’ve already sold millions of units, and we’re building millions more to meet the high demand,” said Dave Limp, vice president of Amazon Kindle. “In fact, demand is accelerating—Kindle Fire sales increased week over week for each of the past three weeks.”

The Kindle Fire is now the second best-selling tablet, behind the Apple iPad. Amazon is predicted to ship around 3.9 million Kindle Fire devices during the last quarter of 2011 and Apple is predicted to ship approximately 18.6 iPads during this same time.

Which tablet do you prefer?

Did You Know?

Monday was the highest-grossing online shopping day in U.S. history, with spending reaching $1.25 billion, according to market research firm comScore. That’s up 22% from the previous record, which was last year’s Cyber Monday.

Online shopping for the month of November has hit $15 billion, a 15% increase compared to last year, comScore says.

This alert is set to be tested at 2:00 pm EST today -

The 30-second test, to be overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission, will run on radio, satellite radio and TV stations in all 50 states and U.S. territories. It will include alert “beeps” and the words “This is a test.”

Here’s how FEMA explains it:

We need to know that the system will work as intended should public safety officials ever need to send an alert or warning to a large region of the United States. Only a complete test of the Emergency Alert System can help us identify any changes and improvements needed to modernize this system and make it fully accessible.

• Barnes and Nobel announces new Nook tablet for only $249 (CNN Money)

• Just for fun: 9 Equations That All Geeks Should (or at least pretend to) Know (Wired)

• “My Secret Folder” keeps your iPhone personal information safe (Tech News World)

• 25 Apps to make you more productive (PC Mag)

• Holiday Alert! Apps to make your upcoming holiday season a little easier (PC Mag)

Now IT Works would like to send warm thoughts to all of those affected by the recent storm here on the Northeast. Wishing you all a speedy restoration of power!

• Netflix can’t make up its mind; drops Qwikster spin-off company (Wired)

• iPhone 4S pre-orders top 1 million sales on first day (MSNBC)

• The FCC wants all cell phones to have GPS by 2018 (Geekologie)

• Bjork’s is releasing the first ever app-album, on sale Tuesday through the Apple App Store (CNN Tech)

(image source: Gawker)