Breakfast briefing: E3 wowed by Microsoft, E-Ink leaves them puzzled

· The gaming world has converged on Los Angeles for E3, where yesterday EA and Ubisoft showed off their wares, while Microsoft stole the show with appearances by the Beatles, Steven Spielberg, and a host of very pretty gaming demos. Today’s it’s the turn of Nintendo, then Sony - and the opening of the show floor itself, and we’ll be reporting to you the whole time.

· Electronic books are big news at the moment, with Amazon’s Kindle trying to change the market. Intriguing, then, that the E-Ink - the company that makes the crucial display technology for many ebooks was sold yesterday to Taiwan’s Prime View International for just 5m. Stacy Higginbotham at GigaOm asks why, if ebooks are the next wonder market, it sold for so little.

· We’re used to hearing tales of bloggers being locked up in Iran and other repressive countries - but one Texan blogger has discovered that you’ve got to watch what you say on the internet, even in the land of the free. Ars Technica reports that 53-year-old Lyndal Harrington has been jailed after failing to turn over her PC to the police in a defamation case involving Anna Nicole Smith. Harrington says it was stolen, but the judge in the case is demanding she produces the computer in question.

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