Gadget Links: Peloton Back on the Road Edition

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Tour of California Prologue: Levi Delivers Again on Spare Cycles: “Those of us who were there last year should have expected the finale to today’s opener, but it still surprised the hell out of us. Virtually unknown Jason Donald set the fastest time as the seventh rider out. No one thought that their times would hold, but big rider after big rider came in much slower… So with Levi the only rider left to finish, ota asked me whether or not Levi stood a chance — I said, ‘no way, the course is too hard now.’” The article goes on to tell how Leipheimer pulled out the victory.
{Tour of California} Stage 1: The Levi Rule on Spare Cycles: A crash took out race leader Levi Leipheimer about 6 miles from the end in the finishing circuit. He is awarded the same time as the race leaders due to the UCI rules designed to protect riders in the event of an accident during a sprint finish.
Ringtone pioneers branch out to survive on Reuters.com: “Early ringtone aggregators like 9Squared, Dwango, Faith West (now Moderati), YourMobile (now InfoSpace), Zingy and others have spent the past 18 months scrambling for new ways to survive in a mobile music market that has changed dramatically since their heyday at the turn of the millennium.”
Sirius and XM Agree to Merge, Despite Hurdles on WSJ.com: Nobody knows if a merger of equals between Sirius and XM can be approved by the FCC, but the regulatory climate is deteriorating for mergers like this, so now is the time to try it. [ Subscription required to read most articles in The Wall Street Journal. ]