All the electronica obsessed entrepreneurs are hanging out in theChill Out roomonConsole.fmright now, a new social music site that launched late last night in San Francisco. Console.fm is an automated radio station that gathers the top electronica music across the web for each electronic genre and puts it into a group style radio chat room. “Basically it’s like Turntable.fm but we provide the awesome music and allow you to chat with your friends,” says the site’s developer Alex Manelis....

Construction to install the newApple Store in Grand Terminal Stationhas begun, we can report. The east balcony of New York City’s most heavily trafficked transport hub has been festooned in scaffolding and work is beginning. Not many details are available as it is obviously in the early stages but it’s nice to see it getting underway. Apple paid the current tenants of the spot, the Metrazur restaurant, $5 million to leave their slot early and will pay $1....

While Bing is nipping at its heels, no one can deny that Google is the world’s most popular search engine. That lends its search trends extra weight as they are based off of the largest unified database and collection of search data possible. We monitor the vital signs of Windows Phone 7 around the Internet rather closely. We want to know how every aspect of the new mobile operating system is performing to ensure that we don’t miss anything that needs to be discussed....

Consumer solid-state drives will start going mainstream in 2012 due to falling prices, which will make the smaller, faster and more power-efficient drives the primary storage option for most users. The average selling price of NAND flash is expected to decline by 30 percent this year, and by another 36 percent from 2011 to 2012. Gartner said in areportthat prices of mainstream PC SSDs will likely reach US$1 per gigabyte by the second half of 2012, which will make it a viable option for consumers....

With brands increasingly engaging in social change campaigns and leveraging their influence to be “purpose-led”, the time has come to ask a couple of big questions: is this a viable strategy, and how skeptical should we be of so-called “brand activism”? In recent weeks alone, Ben & Jerry’shas launcheda new ice-cream flavor called “Change is Brewing” to support Black-owned businesses and raise awareness of thePeople’s Response Act, proposed legislation to establish a new public safety agency in the US....