Rhythm games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero are simultaneously the best and worst thing to happen to the music industry in decades.

Viacom doesn’t want to play anymore. The media giant is taking its ball and going home.

Any device is only as good as the applications it runs. While the iPhone was certainly an interesting device, it wasn’t the ubiquitous game changer it is today until the introduction of the app store a year later.
Now, with the touch of a finger, users could download personal finance tools, news readers, and (of course) [...]

Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig has argued that one of the Internet’s defining strengths is its plasticity. Unlike radio, television, and print, which are relatively static media, the Internet is a constantly evolving entity. Think back to the days of America Online. The Internet 15 or even 10 years ago bears little resemblance to what we have today.

Facebook recently rolled out another update. Predictably, most users are upset about the change. But the social networking giant has bigger issues to worry about than whether its users like the new interface. The real danger is much more subtle and has multiple causes.

There was a time when NASA was a source of national pride and inspiration. Ask anyone over 45 where they were when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon and they’ll likely recall exactly what they were doing and thinking during that momentous feat. Ask anyone under 30 what NASA means to them, and the story is about a big telescope, a robot on Mars and a pair of tragic shuttle explosions. Instead of steering the space program in a bold, new direction, President Obama has decided to take it back behind the shed and put the poor thing out of its misery.

Steve Jobs and Apple have one of the most impressive track records in the field of technology, and in any other industry for that matter. The Apple II was arguably the first mainstream personal computer, the forerunner to the machines residing in everyone’s homes today. While those machines seem antiquated now, ask anyone older than 20 how amazing Oregon Trail was back in the day.

Many in the press initially laughed at the idea of Hulu when it launched in August 2007. Who would want to watch television on their computer? What a ludicrous idea. Now, a little over two years later, the site is so successful its owners don’t know what to do with it.
Hulu is a web site [...]

There was a time not too long ago when most serious photographers would’ve looked down their noses at a digital camera. Even today, vinyl record enthusiasts tout the format’s superior sound over CDs or MP3s. Although there are hangers-on to the old analog formats, most media has largely made the transition to the digital age. Books, however, have struggled to make the jump into the 21st century.

There was a time when the average public was leery of shopping online. Who knew what could happen, sending credit card information off into the ether of the Internet? Did anyone really know to whom they were giving such valuable information?
As the Internet has matured, a core group of trustworthy companies have risen to [...]