According to a report in today’s Los Angeles Times, Apple’s iTunes Music Store will begin offering variable pricing for single-song downloads, raising the price of the most popular tracks to $1.29 while lowering the price of other tracks to $0.69. (CNET’s Greg Sandoval broke the original story when Apple announced this variable pricing plan back [...]

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Sure, it has been possible to integrate Adium with Twitter with things like TwitterAdium, but those have involved a little more heavy lifting than most users want to give to their desktop applications.
The integration is accomplished using Matt Gemmell’s MGTwitterEngine, a library used to communicate with the Twitter API. While the service won’t initially be [...]

But what’s still not clear is how much we should be reading into Google’s results when it comes to the broader economy. There’s no doubt things look bleak, yet some tech bellwethers–Apple and IBM for example–didn’t feel as much pain as had been expected.

eMarketer pruned its 2008 online ad measurements by $1.3 billion when the [...]

So should News Corp. buy Twitter? That’s what Vanity Fair columnist and pundit Michael Wolff speculated this week in an article on Newser.com, the aggregation site he founded.
“There may not be anything less than Twitter that can distract Wall Street from News Corp.’s stubborn and, at this point, unnatural newspaper fetish,” Wolff wrote, “and, as [...]

If Bartz can hurdle the first leg of the Yahoo vesting challenge, she could find herself holding 1.67 million options with a value of roughly $48.9 million.

•300 percent increase, stocks hits $46.92 a share, one-sixth of options vest.

•225 percent increase, stock hits $38.12 a share, one-twelfth of options vest.

There’s a catch, however.

Bartz’s [...]

The announcements themselves are fairly mundane. But here’s what’s really interesting: Microsoft has invested $240 million in Facebook, which was at one point the second-place name in social networking–behind MySpace. But while MySpace still has more users in the U.S., Facebook is now significantly bigger worldwide.
MySpace announced Monday a twofold partnership with Microsoft: first, a [...]

At a trade show in Hungary, the software maker is showing a system from Mio Technology that is running the Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 operating system that Microsoft announced back in June.

In addition to mapping, NavReady provides for features like Live Search, Bluetooth, and MSN Direct services for things like traffic, weather, and gas price info.

“Our adoption of Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 is a significant step in our ongoing mission to create superior c