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Arguing over the "best" headphones with an audiophile can be a daunting, flight-long proposition. But slipping on a pair of Bowers & Wilkins P5 headphones will not only cut out that ambient noise, thanks to the super comfortable noise-reducing memory foam padding, the best-in-class 'phones will end the debate before it begins. The $300 cans don't use the same "noise cancelling" marketing jargon as their similarly-priced Bose Quiet Comfort 15 competitor (they call the closed-back design and sealed earcups "noise isolating") but the in-your-own-world end result is equally impressive.

Today, Comcast finally upgraded its mobile app, Xfinity TV, and now offers roughly 6,000 hours of On Demand content to subscribers who own the iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad. The top players are all present--HBO, Showtime, Starz--making streaming premium content on your mobile device a cinch

Apple may be giving its Apple Stores a very high-tech makeover to celebrate its tenth anniversary. We'd heard about the various mysterious plans unfurling in Apple stores in the U.S., but now it looks like the "Apple Store 2.0," as it's being referred to, is a worldwide affair. The numerous preparatory plans, including locked boxes of supplies, gigabytes of code downloaded and protected with a password, bans on store staff leaving, and a very early start this Sunday morning now all make sense.

01 / Dawning Information Industry > > For being China's leading supercomputer-maker. Its Nebulae is the world's third-fastest, and Dawning aims to take on its chipmaker, Nvidia, with its own chip, called the Loongson

Yesterday, Google Launched Music Beta, a cloud-based music service that lets you stream all your songs from any device.

Philips is selling its TV business to a Chinese volume manufacturer, while Apple TV gets more real every day.

1. What disruptive forces threaten our business? Every business faces external forces that are disruptive or threatening to success or, even, viability

No, you don't have to tell me, because I know what you're about to say: your new product is brilliant. It's a game-changer. Problem is, you need a killer logo.

Two intriguing rumors have popped up at almost the same time: A number of photos of an assumed iPod Touch that has no physical home button, hinting at the iPhone 5, and a keypad-less HP device that could be the webOS clone of Apple's invention. Website PreCentral , which secured early images of the Verizon Pre 3, has published images of what seems to be a keyboard-less Pre smartphone, with a screen slightly larger than earlier Pre devices and what seems to be a front-facing camera set off-center at the top of the phone. According to earlier leaked data, the device could be codenamed the Stingray (the Pre 3 was codenamed Mantaray).