Today, AOL is launching its Music Now service, which incorporates the streaming infrastructure it acquired last November from Circuit City, plus the core of music licenses it acquired from Spinner.com back in 1999. It's being billed as something new, but you don't have to peel back too many layers to see that Music Now already has a deep and tumultuous history. Read more
The first official day of this year's Consumer Electronics Show - which we who keep count call "Day 2" - brought the two competing high-definition videodisc formats back into the spotlight. Meanwhile, a consumer electronics giant and a microprocessor foundry both took steps to become, well, the next Napster. Read more
DDR3 memory is available in speeds ranging from DDR3-800 to DDR3-2133. Which is the best memory choice for AMD’s Phenom II X4? We tested as many speeds as possible using aggressive and conservative timings to find the sweet spot for your next build. Read more
Today Intel launches two high-end processors that take the place of its i7-965 and i7-940 CPUs. More speed? Same price points? We’ll take it! But are the new chips compelling enough to warrant spending more than you would on an i7-920? Read more
Eager to let you know it’s been busy, AMD is launching four new processors today: the first Athlon II, a dual-core Phenom II, and two low-power 65W Phenom IIs. We bought ourselves a new Pentium E6300 and let loose with AMD’s latest. Read more
Can Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) reignite our hope-strewn love affair with cloud computing? With familiar, cost-effective applications that run on a range of Web browsers, BPOS just might be the Cupid’s arrow that does the trick. Read more