The Beatles have hit iTunes.
The “Beatles Box Set” is priced at $149 and features “all of the band’s studio albums as well as the Past Masters collection.” Single albums are also available for download at between $13 and $20 each.
I’d be very interested to see how well these albums sell. I can’t imagine too many people have been …
With Facebook’s new messaging service announcement, comes news of a new relationship. It looks like Mark Zuckerberg has ‘friended’ Microsoft.
As the Facebook ‘non-email’ rolls out over the next few months, Microsoft’s Office Web Apps will enable users to access Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs inside the Facebook browser …
Tavi Gevinson may barely be a teenager, but she’s already beating hard-working journalists who are paying their dues to slowly work their way up the corporate ladder. The teen blogger, whose been profiled in New Yorker, announced she is starting her own magazine with founder and ex-EIC of Sassy and Jane Jane Pratt.
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For months, there have been rumors that Facebook was working on turning the inboxes of its 500 million-plus users into a full-blown e-mail service. Today, Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg formally unveiled the subject of the rumors–code-named “Titan” and officially named simply “Facebook Messages”–at an event in San Francisco. And …
Not many of us click on the plea from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales that always sits on the top of each page, but it seems this time the need for money is serious. The Wikimedia Foundation told Techland that they need $16 million to remain ad free.
Last years wikipediathon raised $8 million, mostly from user donations and some larger …
Is women’s greatest contribution to technology and/or geekdom their bodies? No, but sometimes it may be hard to assume otherwise.
On newsstands, December’s cover of Wired magazine is a little hard to miss. Accompanying a piece on tissue engineering is a shot of a woman’s cleavage. Slapped with the cover line, “100% Natural,” …
This is a sad, sad story on several levels.
A 24-year-old Japanese man committed suicide on Tuesday after being suspended from his job at a bank, according to The Telegraph. He’d apparently “announced his intention to kill himself in online chat rooms last week,” and took things a step further Sunday night by initiating a live video …
While many Amazon customers have been angered by a downloadable e-book claiming to be a pro-pedophilia guide, the online webstore is saying it is their right to sell the product, adding it would be censorship not to allow the product in their Kindle downloadable database.
In a statement to AOL’s TechCrunch, the company wrote, “Amazon …
The social media giant has started testing a “mentions” function on the News Feed of select Facebook user accounts, meaning when you and your friend decide to write about the same thing, Facebook will conveniently pair your posts together within your News Feed. The new feature will also add the public profile of the “thing” you and your …
If you’ve been following the Cooks Source Magazine controversy, the magazine (well, now they’re backing off their lofty claims and saying they are a “newspaper-type magazine, called ‘magazine’ because it doesn’t generally include what is known as ‘news,'”) apologized on their website. They say that they’ve acquiesced to author Monica …
As rumored about a month ago, Google has now officially unveiled Instant Previews, a feature that grabs full page snapshots of the web sites returned in your search results. You can try it out now by going to Google.com/InstantPreviews or wait until it’s automatically rolled out.
Each search result will have a little magnifying glass …
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Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz has made an interesting discovery: Google has stopped calling the ads in its search-engine results “sponsored results.” The new label is one that should be clear to just about everybody: It’s calling the advertisements “Ads.”
As a consumer of Web sites–and an editor who’s been involved in …
