Information Technology
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Once-mighty Netscape browser to flatline Feb. 1
Dec 28, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 13-year ...
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Warner blinks, agrees to sell MP3s
Dec 27, 2007 10:00 pm - SEATTLE -- Warner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tunes on Am...
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II opens her own YouTube channel
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - LONDON -- Britain's 81-year-old Queen Elizabeth II, considered an icon of traditionalism, launched her own special Royal Channel on YouTube Sunday. The queen will use th...
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Facebook 'is' done with controversyDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - SEATTLE -- "Is" is no more. For years, members of the popular online hangout Facebook have been able to compose one-liners, called "status updates," to tell friends what...
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Online language services are spottyDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - As the need for global communication increases, online translation services are in greater demand. Users are attracted to the breakneck speed at which online translation...
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Vudu box remains hamstrung by Hollywood
Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- For a few years, technology companies have been racing to find a way to get movies from the Internet to the living-room TV in a way that will get consumers e...
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Put your business cards on hard driveDec 15, 2007 10:00 pm - New business-card scanners are coming onto the market, making it easier than ever to organize those cards piled high on our desks or stuffed into our wallets. The latest...
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Google working on Internet encyclopedia
Dec 14, 2007 10:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. is working on a new Internet encyclopedia that will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibl...
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Online gaming goes social
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - Jo Ann Hicks doesn't identify with gamers, but she spends hours online every day playing "Kaneva." The 41-year-old homemaker likes the shopping-and-partying game -- whe...
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Sony Ericsson gets approval to sell half of UIQ software to Motorola
Dec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson won European backing Wednesday to sell a 50 percent stake of software developer UI Holdings BV to its rival, Motoro...