Gilligan’s Island theme composer George Wyle dies at 87: Wyle also wrote the Christmas classic “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and more than 400 other songs. He died Friday of leukemia at the Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center in Tarzana, his son Jerry Weissman said. “The Ballad of Gilligan’s …

Indian software sector slows down: Gone are the days when Bangalore’s army of software engineers scrambled to meet demand from U.S.-based clients and could confidently charge a premium for their services. The game has shifted to volumes, discounts and more spending to boost sales as software services risk becoming just …

Press release from Apple: Apple today announced that its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store sold over one million songs during its first week. Over half of the songs were purchased as albums, dispelling concerns that selling music on a per-track basis will destroy album sales. In addition, over half of the …

David Hogberg, a professional poker player, has some measured thoughts on moralist William Bennett’s gambling: …if you know anything about slot machines and video poker – the two games which Bennett says he plays – it is highly, highly improbable that one could come out “close to even” over ten …

Music, sports, news and entertainment audio and video to mobile phones and handheld computers from Real starting today: Seattle, Washington-based RealNetworks, which makes software used to send and receive audio-visual content over the Web, said that devices such as Nokia’s 3650 camera-phone and Palm Inc.’s Tungsten T and Zire 71 …

“Toontown” multiplayer online video game launches in June: The game which has been in trial for months and lets young players collaborate on line in a battle fought with gags rather than bullets is the first unit of what designers plan as a virtual theme park. “We have a very …

I’m as critical of Clear Channel’s domination of commercial radio and concert promotion as anyone: homogenization of culure is a bad thing, but an instant CD of a live concert you have just attended is a great idea that benefits everyone involved: The venture, Instant Live, will enable a band’s …

You think you heard what the president and Rummy said in recent speeches. The Specious Report, which brought you the phenomenally successful What She Really Said Dixie Chicks parody, sets the record straight on Bush from the USS Abraham Lincoln, and on Rumsfeld re the looting of the Iraqi Museum.

A number of reviewers really like the new Apple Music Service. I wouldn’t know myself, not being an Apple-head, but the huzzahs are not universal: The dismal little online music shop that Steve Jobs opened on Monday has already received its share of lukewarm reviews. One reader, describing the paucity …

We mentioned back in January that hot rap label Murder Inc., partly owned by Universal, was under investigation for “murder, money-laundering, gun charges and a variety of strong-arm tactics,” none of which is nice. Court documents into the investigation were unsealed last week: The document, filed in January in Brooklyn …