It's no secret that electronic media has become the new standard for communication in the social and business worlds. Companies take advantage of the Internet, including social media sites, due in part to convenience and speed.

It's no secret that electronic media has become the new standard for communication in the social and business worlds. Companies take advantage of the Internet, including social media sites, due in part to convenience and speed.

Pearson Digital Learning, one of the nation’s largest developers of education software, plans to consolidate its Valley operations in Chandler early next year, company officials said Wednesday.

August 9, 2004

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is preparing to roll out a portable digital music player later this year, an apparent bid to capture a slice of the market now dominated by the iPod, music industry executives said Thursday.

LONDON - Global digital music sales almost doubled in 2006 to around $2 billion, or around 10 percent of all sales, but failed to compensate for an overall decline in sales of CDs, the global music industry trade body said Wednesday.

The Federal Communications Commission’s decision last week to allow easier consolidation of the mass media has many First Amendment advocates expressing the fear that fewer media owners could mean fewer media “voices.”

The typical “state of the town” address was not something Gilbert residents encountered at Thursday night’s town council meeting.

May 4, 2005

Mesa Arts Center is one of 104 applicants in 33 states and the District of Columbia to be named finalists for grants from ArtPlace, an initiative to accelerate creative “placemaking” across the nation.

SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.’s effort to compete against Apple’s iPod juggernaut will focus on the idea that people want to be able to easily share music with friends and others.

State lawmakers gave final approval Monday to a deal to keep digital electronic billboards out of some areas of the state.

The Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Transportation approved legislation Monday designed to legitimize the 70 digital billboards in the state and pave the way for more.

LONDON - Global sales of digital music are continuing to rise, generating revenues of $1.1 billion for record companies last year and softening an overall slump in music sales, the industry said Friday.

Cox Communications is introducing interactive features to its digital cable TV programs this week, which will allow viewers to respond to public opinion polls and trivia contests, take advantage of special offers and immediately request information on topics of interest.

At a recent showing of ‘‘Big Fish,’’ several moviegoers at a local theater held up camera-equipped cell phones and took snapshots of the screen. Doing the same with a video camera will soon be a crime.

NEW YORK — As a new wave of big names enter the growing field of Web series, leave it to Larry David to keep enthusiasm in check.

LAS VEGAS - Media players in personal computers have serious vulnerabilities that could allow online criminals to attach malicious code and infect computers without the user's knowledge, a researcher said Thursday.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A grand jury expected to hear evidence in the Michael Jackson child molestation case could not be seen in the main courthouse early Monday.

July 24, 2004

LAS VEGAS - There’s an old saying that captures all the big announcements last week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show here: "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp. and its hardware partners are trying to bridge the divide between home computers and TV sets this holiday season with the release of several "media extenders."

Dana (Mason) Berchman has been hired as the town of Gilbert’s first communications manager and chief digital officer. Berchman will begin April 9.