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The major record labels are teaming up to create their own music service to compete with iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, and others. If they cut themselves special deals to undercut the price of the other services, the Department of Justice may become interested.

Madonna dumps the labels and goes for Live Nation.

British music site GigWise reports that Radiohead's new album sold 1.2 million copies in just one week.

EA bought Bioware and Pandemic, EA's CEO picks up 5 million bucks. EA's shareholders didn't seem to mind.

The New York Times posted reader comments to their front page...for a very short period of time.

USA Today estimates that the Internet Censorship effort in China effort employs thirty thousand government workers. Reporters Without Borders released a seventeen-page report detailing how this machine runs.

R2-D2 pepper mills. Yeah. I want them too.

A subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation has sued Linux distributors Novell and Red Hat for infringing on a user interface patent from the eighties. Groklaw calls this is the first ever patent infringement litigation involving Linux.