Science and Technology

Jon Pareles looks at the status of albums in the download age: The pop album made its way through the 20th century by staying adaptable, transforming itself from analog grooves to digital bits. But can the notion of an album – a collection of songs sold as a single unit, …

This item is rather astonishing – note the year: Telephony, December 18, 1909 Distributing Music Over Telephone Lines Wilmington, Delaware, is enjoying a novel service through the telephone exchange. Phonograph music is supplied over the wires to those subscribers who sign up for the service. Attached to the wall near …

Bush, Niger, uranium, those all-caps emails from African widows and former government officials ……

First it was reported six file sharers had been subpoenaed by the RIAA, then it was 150. Yesterday AP reported the number is closer to 900, with 75 coming each day: Subpoenas reviewed by The Associated Press show the industry compelling some of the largest Internet providers, such as Verizon …

The Christian Science Monitor examines the habits and attitudes of a downloading teen: The RIAA has set itself a herculean task: If Whitney and her friends are any guide, the industry has failed utterly to convince this generation of teens of the merits of its case. What has emerged through …

Selling CD and DVD manufacturing business for $1.05 billion: Under pressure from Wall Street, AOL Time Warnerhas pledged to cut its debt to $20 billion by the end of 2004 and has been pursuing a number of deals, including the sale of its sports teams and a possible joint venture …

Here we were saying that six file sharers had been subpoenaed by the RIAA – try 150: The music industry has demanded that Verizon Communications cough up 150 names in its attempt to find those who are allegedly trading copyrighted songs. The phone company is in the process of complying …

Amidst reports of indifference to anti-Semitic violence in France, comes this odd story of French extremist Jewish and neo-Nazis working together online to incite hatred against Mulims: Members of extreme-right groups were prepared to set aside their anti-Semitic feelings to share Web space and know-how with extremist pro-Israeli campaigners, amid …

With the precision of a laser beam, the RIAA last week snagged the four MOST EGREGIOUS FILE SHARERS IN THE WORLD, who all happened to be Bentley College students. Now they have nabbed the fifth and sixth most vicious exchangers of MP3 files, both Loyola of Chicago students: The Big …

Some thought-provoking and indelible photos by Nick Kilroy veering between magic realism and the surreal on his site Zabriskie Point. I like the hovering head and the picket fence best – very iconic.