Apple joins forces with record labels
By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Kenneth Li in New York and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Apple is working with the four largest record labels to stimulate digital sales of albums by bundling a ...
The Netflix Prize Comes To A Buzzer-Beater, Nailbiting Finish
Who knew statistical computing competitions could be so cut throat? Since we reported on the contest last night, two teams in the Netflix Prize have spent the last few hours jumping back and forth on...
Is AT&T Blocking 4chan in SoCal?
This is kind of a developing story, but according to a thread on Reddit, AT&T is currently blocking parts of 4chan. As you should know 4chan has been described as the very best and the very worst of ...
Android team member says Donut isn't 2.0, doesn't have multitouch
Google's bakery-themed codename scheme for Android is a source of endless amusement (and hunger pangs) for bloggers, readers, and users alike, but with just a few builds actually blessed as gold, reta...
NPR Moves to Rewire Its Approach to the Web
NPR, the public radio network, is introducing a revamped NPR.org this week, giving users what its executives say is an easier-to-navigate Web site that emphasizes written reporting over audio reports....
Site Is Winning Fashion Fans by Letting Them Play Designer
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The fashion magazines Vogue, InStyle and Lucky may rule the newsstand racks. But online, they are also-rans, overlooked by the fashion-conscious in favor of Polyvore, an upsta...
Digital Nomads Ditch Cubicles for Shared Spaces, Choosing Their Co-Workers
Teleworkers Find Camaraderie in a New Kind of Colleague — Frank Gruber's workstation at AOL in Dulles could be in any cubicle farm from here to Bangalore — push-pin board for reminders, computer on ...
Android Donut Out: Full Multitouch, Universal Search, Automated Backups AND Better Performance
Google's dropped new code for Android Donut and it sounds too good to be true. People at XDA Developers are reporting it has system-wide multitouch, universal search, text-to-speech …
Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product
Digital content has been available for years but the right vehicle to consume the content has been lacking. We still cut down trees and hand deliver newspapers to people's homes. That worked in 1900...
By A Nose: Netflix Prize Leaders One-Upped With One Day Remaining
Last month news broke that a team of computer scientists had finally managed to improve Netflix's recommendation algorithm by 10%, making them eligible to win the $1 million Netflix Prize, a competiti...
Shareflow: It's Google Wave, But Available Now
It was inevitable really. Ever since Google Wave burst on to the scene as the next hot thing, someone, somewhere was going to beat Google to the punch and release something comparable. That somethin...
Mail Volume Expected to Continue Decline; U.S. Postal Service Adapting Services
Mail Volume Expected to Decline; U.S. Postal Service Adapts by Pulling Collection Boxes — Dorothy and Andrew Yankanich moved into their $18,000 brick rambler in Wheaton in 1966 and soon began what w...
Facebook Wants To Know If You'd Mind Sharing All Of Your Information
Facebook wants really wants to make as much information as possible on Facebook public. It recently changed the privacy controls on the site to make it easier to share with everyone. It wants to kno...