Internet
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Twitter, Internet increasingly popular for blacksJan 12, 2014 5:43 am - WASHINGTON — Young, college-educated and higher-income African Americans are just as likely as their white counterparts to use the Internet, and Twitter seems to be a fa...
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Daily-play fantasy sports luring Wall Street tradersJan 12, 2014 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Drew Dinkmeyer spent seven years as a senior investment analyst in Tampa, Fla., before deciding to pursue fantasy sports professionally. Dinkmeyer, who's 31 a...
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Sony plans web-based television service in U.S. this yearJan 11, 2014 6:06 am - Sony Corp. will begin testing an Internet-based pay-television service in the U.S. this year, bringing live and on-demand programming to TVs and its PlayStation game con...
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LG unveils web-connected tv running WebOS acquired from HPJan 11, 2014 6:03 am - LG Electronics Inc. unveiled its first Web-connected television that runs on the software platform it acquired from Hewlett-Packard Co. last year. The world’s second-lar...
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More cars, coffee on Seinfeld’s Web talk showJan 02, 2014 4:45 am - NEW YORK — Jerry Seinfeld loves cars. He’s fond of coffee. And, of course, he’s a comedian who loves to talk comedy. But the inspiration for his online talk show, “Comed...
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From Cumberbatch to Targaryen: The best of 2013Dec 27, 2013 5:00 am - I don't have a top-10 list for you, but I do have a look at a few of my favorite things (no, Carrie Underwood, not your performance) from all corners of pop culture in 2...
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Harry Shearer’s ‘Le Show’ marks 30 years on radioDec 22, 2013 4:30 am - NEW YORK — You know Harry Shearer from “The Simpsons,” voicing Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy and so many of its other cartoon characters. Yo...
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Facebook wants to know why you didn't post that commentDec 21, 2013 6:00 am - “This rash is getting wor” It's at this point that you reconsider your status update. A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook: “Do you think that face...
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Twitter to test new profile pages to boost trafficDec 14, 2013 5:45 am - Twitter Inc. is testing redesigns of members’ profiles, one of several product updates aimed at keeping users engaged with the microblogging service, a person with knowl...
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Deck the DVR with boughs of hollyDec 13, 2013 5:00 am - Holiday movies and specials are dominating your on-screen cable guide these days, and the next week brings us merry and bright reasons to set those DVRs. NBC presents it...