It took iTunes nearly three years to get to 1 billion song downloads. MySpace Music streamed a billion songs in just a few days after it launched on September 25.

PayPal, the payment service used by 20 million online shoppers in Britain, has given in to consumer demands to offer full refunds to buyers defrauded on eBay.

Google Knol, a fairly recent launch in a space populated by the likes of Wikipedia and Mahalo, received considerably bad press in the last several weeks. Farhad Manjoo of Slate and Harry McCracken of Technologizer are just two individuals who’ve torn in

Earlier this week, Profy.com’s Svetlana Gladkova sent an email reminding me that Google’s Chrome Browser was one month old. How time flies, and how quickly we forget: or at least I did.

Search engine giant Google has taken a humanitarian stance, unveiling a $4.4 trillion plan to lobby for policy change on alternative energy that calls for clean power by 2030. This implies that all energy in the US would come from renewable sources.

Boy Genius just unveiled shots of what is very likely the Kindle 2. Notice the follow-up to the snowspeeder-like original Amazon e-book reader is more rounded, more early-iPod in its proportions, but still white with the same basic screen.

Apple has categorically denied a citizen report published to the CNN iReport website early Friday claiming that chief executive Steve Jobs had been rushed to a local ER following a major heart attack.

Congress is finally understanding the reality of the Yahoo-Google search deal, and what it means for the state of search competition in general.

I’m an avid Facebook user, and I love some of the more recent features, especially the Live Feed and the Chat. The first gives me a great, thorough overview of what my friends have been doing lately, while a solid portion of my chatting (of which I do a

With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature.