It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where Apple has been headquartered since 1993. The campus, for such they call it, is enormous yet not big enough to contain Apple's current rate of expansion. An additional site is being designed and built. After stocking up on "I visited the mothership" T-shirts at the company store , I am shown around the canteen, lawns ...

When Amazon.com announced its plan to open a digital music store to sell MP3s, you had to really work to get excited about it. It's hard to think of a press release that would be less surprising. At this rate, my 3-year-old daughter will be opening a digital music store pretty soon. And Amazon's selling MP3s? It's a digital music store. What else would it sell? But Amazon's move was actually a strategic salvo in the great secret war of ...

The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection. Hundreds of universities, and a growing number of business schools, are making recordings of lectures, seminars and conferences available to the general public via Web sites such as iTunes and YouTube. Leading business schools including University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Fuqua School of Business, and Yale School of Management make course content available for ...

Remastered versions of the Beatles catalogue will be released on Wednesday, giving listeners what the remaining members of "The Fab Four" say is the closest reproduction ever of how their music sounded in the studio. CNN's Peter Wilkinson went to EMI's legendary Abbey Road studios and spoke to Bob Smeaton, who directed the Grammy-award winning Anthology series on the Beatles, about a series of mini-documentaries that are included on each of the remastered albums. Q) How did the idea ...

Listening to a song on an iPhone is a quick, simple process: open Apple's iTunes music player and select the song you want to hear. That's it. But to listen to a track that isn't in your iTunes library — say you just have to hear Billy Joel's "Piano Man" right now — takes a little more time and effort. You have to get on the web, go to the iTunes Store, find the song you want, ...

With rumors piling up about a forthcoming Apple tablet, it appears more and more likely that such a device will emerge soon. But what's still unclear is how this gadget will set itself apart from Apple's multimedia-savvy product line, including the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the scores of failed tablet PCs that have come and gone. Judging from the company's past moves, we're betting that Apple's tablet will be a media-centric device, focused -- at least ...

International donors meeting in Japan have pledged more than $5 billion in aid for Pakistan to bolster the country's economy and help it fight terror and Islamic radicalism, officials said. "I'm gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked," she told CNN Friday morning. The 47-year-old shocked and inspired the audience, judges and Web watchers after she powered through "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables" on the TV show "Britain's Got Talent." A clip of Boyle's performance had more than 15 million ...

Overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle says she's overwhelmed by the attention coming her way through millions of views on YouTube. "I'm gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked," she told CNN Friday morning. The 47-year-old shocked and inspired the audience, judges and Web watchers after she powered through "I Dreamed a Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables" on the TV show "Britain's Got Talent." A clip of Boyle's performance had more than 15 million views on YouTube by Friday, and the world's media have ...