[2005-07-27] Napster Turns it Up With XM Satellite Radio Napster and XM Satellite Radio have joined forces under a strategic partnership to integrate Napster's online music services and XM's satellite radio service. [2005-07-26] Arizona’s Hot Tax Incentives Draw Intel The world's largest chipmaker will invest $3 billion USD in a semiconductor plant to be built in Arizona. [2005-07-25] Yahoo Bringing Tiger Widgets To Web Sunnyvale-based Yahoo has purchased Konfabulator, which introduced the "widget" concept on the Mac in 2002. [2005-07-25] Middle Earth Purchased By Electronic Arts The huge game maker will develop two new games based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" books. [2005-07-22] Beethoven Rolls Over To 1.4 Million Downloads The BBC had an idea: let's bolster our Radio 3 homage to the composer by making his symphonies available for free download. [2005-07-21] Net Users Unfamiliar With Jargon Apparently, not everyone has an innate knowledge of all the terms, acronyms, names, and abbreviations associated with the Internet. [2005-07-21] This Polar Express Has Skis A new British base in Antarctica will resemble a giant blue centipede on Rossignols. No really, it will. [2005-07-20] Scotty Beams Up One Final Time Actor James Doohan, well known for his portrayal of Engineer Montgomery Scott on the original Star Trek series, passes away at 85. [2005-07-20] Xbox Live Grabs Two Million Members The online gaming component of Microsoft's entertainment initiatives reaches a milestone. [2005-07-19] News Corp. Expects to Double Traffic With Intermix Purchase Yesterday, News Corp. announced that it will be purchasing Intermix Media for $580 million in cash. News Corp. will also be getting MySpace.com, because Intermix is buying the portion of it that it doesn't already possess. [2005-07-15] Firefox Burnin’ Up the Charts Firefox was pleased to read they continue to increase their market share slowly but surely in the web browser market. While Internet Explorer (IE) by Microsoft remains the proverbial leviathan, Firefox does show promise. [2005-07-13] TIME's 50 Coolest Sites I'm belatedly coming up to speed on a well-researched feature Time recently did on the 50 Coolest Sites of 2005. [2005-07-13] Uncle Sam Wants Access To Air Passenger Net Usage Citing the need for quick action in the event of a security threat, several government agencies have asked the FCC for broad inspection powers. [2005-07-12] High Tech Hospitals May Have A Survival Edge Results of a new survey of the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems suggest they have lower mortality rates. [2005-07-08] AOL Tosses Free Fantasy Football Bomb At Yahoo, MSN Another option for fantasy football fans launches from AOL, which hopes to capitalize on fantasy popularity. [2005-07-06] Need Traffic For Your Site? Try Comet Busting NASA set a new record not with the slamming a coffee table into a comet but with 80 million people trying to get pictures of it. 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday evening began a 24-hour period in which the NASA site got pounded with 80 million viewers. The "rubberneckers" spent Monday morning watching the Deep Impact try to slam dance with the comet. [2005-07-05] Deep Impact Gets A “Big Flash” From Comet The Deep Impact probe hit comet Tempel 1 yesterday at a collision speed of about 23,000 miles per hour. [2005-07-05] Apple iTunes Sets Sights On 500 Million Songs The maker of the iconic iPod media player wants to reward the buyer of song number 500,000,000 with some choice prizes.