Video Games Live is a festival highlighting some of the most popular video game music soundtracks performed by top orchestras and choirs. Super Mario Brothers, Sonic the Hedgehog, Halo, Mass Effect, Bioshock and Metal Gear Solid are just a few of the games featured at every show. The ...

Recently, NPD Group reported that Apple’s iTunes store moved into the number two spot in 2007 for music retail sales in the U.S. (Wal-Mart remained at number one.) Selling music has been tough — ever since the RIAA took on Napster and Grokster, less downloaded music is being ...

When small and medium-sized businesses or K-12s want to manage how their Internet bandwidth is being used, they turn to Cymphonix. On average, 50% of any Internet connection is used for browsing–some critical and necessary, and some not. The other 50% of any Internet connection is used for Internet ...

This recipe was inspired by Anthony, aka the Raw Model, and his nifty list of 5 things to eat every day for health and beauty. It was a well-intentioned soup, simple and unassuming, comprised of some of my very favorite things to eat, all in one convenient bowl. What ...

This episode would probably be better titled “Sage-Pistachio Pesto”, but the allure and onomatopoeia possibilities of the word squash were too many to avoid. This recipe is another winner. We originally shot this episode before we left on our cross-country train trip, but we had the dish again ...

Intel continues to develop smaller and smaller microprocessors, and to fit them into elegant platforms to run just about any kind of computer, from sophisticated server arrays to a brand-new class of ultra-portable devices, known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). MIDs created some genuine buzz at CES 2008 in ...

Know one of those guys who is always acting like he’s strumming the air guitar while listening to music? Well then this $29.99 toy is the perfect gift, the Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker.

Not only is George a sales guy working the CES floor, he’s also an accomplished ...

Rumors were circulating that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would unveil a new version of the Xbox 360 during his final keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show, but that wasn’t the case. Instead, Gates and Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, announced a

Bonus footage from another of my little haters, who always conspires to keep me from working on the computer.

(music by Jimmy Davis, from publicdomain4u.com)

One of our favorite events of the year is the SXSW events, which really are three events in one city over two weeks. One focused on interactive media (the one we go to), one focused on music, and another focused on movies. But here Jim Butler, creative industries development manager ...

How musicians can reclaim what’s important about their music.

Home entertainment is switching to digital. Even movie rental places like Netflix are delivering their goods via bits that’ll be stored on a hard drive. So, how do you manage all your music and entertainment stuff? Media Master has a really great answer. Here Neil Day, CEO, and Eric ...

I caught this band at their CD release party a couple of weeks ago. They’re actually making a comeback of sorts from about a year off from the music scene. They’ll be touring around the Midwest — check their MySpace page for tour dates.

Velu Shankar is head of content strategy at the India office of WorldSpace Satellite Radio, the 24-radio station. I recently caught up with Velu at his downtown Bangalore office to find out on how WorldSpace started its India operations, and the potential and future growth of radio in India. ...

One more from the Lot Fest in August …

Tenement Ruth describe themselves as a roots rock band with a twist of Americana. I really dig their two-part female vocal hamonies and the touch of twangy Americana in their music. Watch the video and see what you think. If you ...

Korean rock band inspires hearty crowd participation from the denizens of Union Square.

Dan Cohen, CEO of Pageflakes speaks with John Ince about how you can personalize and mashup your homepage choosing your favorite news, weather, sports, entertainment, photos, videos, music, email, calendar, etc. from over 240,000 widgets, and then publish your customized homepage to other users using their “Pagecasting” application.

We have quick profiles of two companies that launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last week. Metaplace lets users build their own virtual worlds and put them on their Websites. Founder Raph Koster takes us through a demo. And Musicshake is a Korea-based service that lets users create ...

Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, led a panel discussion on Day 1 of the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The panel dealt directly with the friction that often arises between the burgeoning social media forces in the enterprise and the IT groups that find themselves ...

More of our interview with NY Oil.

One of the underground hip-hop scene’s most talked-about emcees explains why he sees the death of the music industry as a sign that God is alive.

Even though the music business has tried to make it obsolete, the vinyl record is still alive and kicking. People still love it, and there has even been a small resurgence of sales of vinyl records in the last few years. And somewhere around the country almost every weekend there ...