"Interactivity" has been a hot topic of conversation in the music industry lately. In everything from music videos to live shows to, um, pinball, musicians and businesses are trying to figure out not only how to make their music more of a two-way street, but whether they actually can or should. There is a fair amount of skepticism about whether interactivity is what fans want...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & MANISA, Turkey--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Vestel Group, the largest TV manufacturer in Europe, today announced that consumers across Europe will soon be able to easily access thousands of content sources, movies, TV shows, social networks, videos, and other kinds of Internet content through Yahoo! Connected TV. Vestel and partner OEM brands will ship Yahoo ...

More people now use social media tools to report emergencies or call for help, and they expect government response agencies to be actively engaged in using the technology, too.

The Web. Open, democratic, leveling, freeing information from closed networks. The wisdom of the crowds. Or so it seems.

It’s become a tradition in recent years: to coincide with Apple’s September music event, where new iPods and related hardware are presented, iTunes increases its version number by a notch. This year’s vintage features one major new feature, a handful of interface changes, and some minor tweaks.