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What's Google's new cloud-based music service got in common with Lady Gaga? Word of a forthcoming ad shot last weekend in NYC and pairing the tech and fame monsters might offer clues. Today at Google 's I/O conference, the company unveiled Google Music Beta, a cloud-based music service that enables users to store songs in a digital locker and stream them to any Android device--phones, tablets, laptops, or desktops

A new app from AAA helps you find the cheapest pump, just in time for the summer travel. Summer is almost upon us, making it time to start planning your summer road trip. And if you're one of the 99% of Americans who are constantly whining about gas prices, that means you'll need to plan for the inevitable side trips as well: those interminable searches and detours in search of the cheapest gasoline to refuel

01 / Shaadi.com > > For proving that marriage, Indian-style, works online as well as off.

Machine readable congressional transcripts will bring the power to find political gaffes to everyone. Forget leaked cables: there's enough juicy political nonsense lurking in the public record to satisfy the 24-hour news cycle until 2012

1. As well as being early in breaking the news about the death of Osama Bin Laden, Twitter was apparently the place the news was covered in real time -- albeit unwittingly .

Not long ago, Holly Myles , the digital media strategist at Eisbrenner Public Relations , attended a work function.

The League of Extraordinary Nerds takes over saturday night with cultural exploration and charity fund raising. The League of Extraordinary Nerds wants reform the tired bar scene with some cultural infusion and a healthy dose of charity. Syyn Labs, the digital arts company widely known for helping make

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. "Google Rumored Preparing $10/Month Chrome OS Laptop Rentals " As soon as this Summer, Google might rent out Chrome OS laptops for a small monthly fee. [Update: 10:30 PM PST] Android Tracking Location Data, Too Those with Android -based smartphones who thought they were safe from Apple's recently discovered location-tracking program should think again

Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style

LeBron James He’s the self-proclaimed king of the NBA, a twotime league MVP who is used to getting his way.

1. Nintendo's Wii changed the gaming world, but the firm hasn't, to date, suggested any information at all about its successor--much needed, as the Wii looks very aged. But now multiple sources are suggesting that the Wii's follow-up console is in advanced prototyping stages, and the firm is showing it to game publishers.

TV and film industries treated 3-D like any other premium tech, pumping it full of marketing dollars. Everyone lost money

Flip Camera, your fifteen minutes are up. Just a couple of years ago, it was the VW Bug of Camcorders.

The ad-fortified WiFi-only e-reader will save you $25 but beg you to ultimately spend more with its sponsors.

01 / NYU For opening up a second campus in Abu Dhabi. There, NYU is shepherding the most successful and ambitious attempt yet to export overseas a full-fledged American liberal arts university.