Stan's List

The Associated Press reports that Verizon has raised the top download speed for its fiber-based Internet service in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to 50 megabits per second, up from 30 mbps. More …

Brian Krische set out to test which runs hotter. A Dell D620 was put up against a MacBook. Both are Core Duo systems running at the same speed. The same movie was run on each laptop, although this is not a particularly CPU-intensive task (we assume the Dell runs its MPEG-2 decoding in software like OS X does). More …

Single of the Week

This isn’t your grandmother’s grunge. Black Stone Cherry have all the creeping dread of Alice in Chains, but the powerhouse band turns the music into a pummeling mixture of speed metal and class rock. Lonely Train is the “free” Single of the Week.

Discovery Download

With Thomas Schumacher and Stephen Bodzin churning out an infallible tech-house background groove and Australian vocalist Caitlin Devlin on the microphone, Elektrochemie carve out their own icy, robotic synth pop on the “free” Discovery Download. Cold, crisp and precise, You’re My Kind is a cry for emotion from deep within the dark recesses of the machine. Following on the heels of last year’s Pleasure Seeker, this track is yet another winner for the Get Physical label.

Apple today announced the results for its most recent financial quarter, reporting revenue of $4.37 billion and a net quarterly profit of $472 million, or $.54 per diluted share, making the second quarter results the second best in history. More …