Apple Corps and EMI, which respectively represent The Beatles’ business interests and ownership of its master recordings, have reportedly been in discussions with video game publishers Activision and MTV Games. [MORE]

Compared with previous years, the number of Internet users who watched videos on YouTube and other Web sites has risen only slightly. But each of those users is watching far more video than before. [MORE]

Used for decades to describe the parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible. [MORE]

For newspapers, the news has swiftly gone from bad to worse. This year is taking shape as their worst on record, with a double-digit drop in advertising revenue, raising serious questions about the survival of some papers and the solvency of their parent companies. [MORE]

A recent experiment in Japan tested the power of music to send us into a deep slumber. [MORE]

Producers and announcers of Westwood One’s Metro-Shadow Traffic division in Philadelphia have voted to become part of AFTRA. KYW trafficaster Rod Carson – one of Shadow’s founders – says “Economics are important, but the real issue is having a say in the product that is put on the air.”

A group of university professors is weighing in on the Jammie Thomas case, telling the trial judge he erred when instructing jurors that having an open share folder filled with copyrighted music amounts to infringement – even absent proof that somebody else downloaded songs. [MORE]

Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music, has finally taken music startup TopSpin Media out of stealth mode. [MORE]

The path to world domination is paved in round numbers, especially big ones like this: 5 billion. [MORE]

It’s no secret that people sneak in some personal e-mail and Web surfing when they’re supposed to be working. A new study attempts to shatter perceptions that these Web surfers are just slackers trying to avoid work. [MORE]