Thursday, May 1, 2003

Billboard: iTunes Music Store "Overwhelming Success" [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] 1:23:13 PM

Jobs: Indie labels coming to Apple's music 'ecosystem'. In talking about the new iTunes Music Store, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the TIME Online Edition that ... Apple offers the "first real complete ecosystem of the digital music age." [MacCentral] 1:22:17 PM

Apple Music Store sells four songs every second [The Register] 1:21:19 PM

Apple sells 275,00 songs in first 18 hours [The Macintosh News Network] 1:20:55 PM

Lowered WMD expectations. Before the war, the Bush administration said the weapons existed and we would find them. Now, it's saying maybe we won't find them after all -- and the rest of the world smells a rat. [Salon.com] 1:17:34 PM

With SARS, Initial Recovery May Presage Worst Phase. Some patients who appear to recover are actually late in suffering the worst effects of the disease and many recovered patients may still carry live virus. By Keith Bradsher with Lawrence K. Altman. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 1:16:57 PM

Where Exploring Is an End in Itself. 'Arx' understands the seductiveness of tunnels and caves, while 'Impossible Creatures' has a real sense of style. By Charles Herold. [New York Times: Technology] 1:16:28 PM

Squeezing light from nanotubes. Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that might one day lead to advances in fiber-optic technology. [CNET News.com] 1:16:13 PM

Fortune: In the Hands of Geeks, Web Advertising Actually Works. For all the flash and animation that marketers have put into building Internet ads, the geeks have figured out the real trick: Relevance is more important than style. We're turning to the Internet more and more in the ordinary course of our lives. [Tomalak's Realm] 1:15:51 PM

CIO: Sleuthing Out Data. During the past few years, however, several developments have made it much easier to automate or at least semiautomate categorization, sparking a small revolution in the sophistication of enterprise-level search engines and the number and kinds of users a system can help. [Tomalak's Realm] 1:15:36 PM