Music fans have now downloaded and purchased more than three billion songs from the iTunes Store, and “we’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. The world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store, iTunes features a catalog of more than five million songs, 550 TV shows, and 500 movies, and it recently surpassed both Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US.
That’s the idea behind Blackle. According to a group called Heap Media, a computer exerts less energy displaying a black screen than it does a white screen, so a black Google would conserve a significant amount of energy if multiplied by the number of searches conducted on Google each day.
How much could I save if I just shut my Powerbook and go home?
Marc Broussard… Wow. If you can’t feel anything when this guy sings… you ain’t breathin’. I caught some of the self-proclaimed “white boy singing the soul music” in a live concert last night on DirecTV and fell in love. I grabbed these 2 CDs today and have been listening non-stop.
