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This story was originally published on Nov. 2, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. ...

More shoppers went online to retailers' Web sites this holiday season, and overall they were happier with their visits than they were in 2008, a survey by ForeSee Results found. ...

Hackers have once again demonstrated that the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) standard, the most widely used mobile phone standard in the world, can be hacked. ...

As netbook sales continue to grow, hardware and software vendors are battling to exploit this relatively new market. ...

When Google opened up the source code for its Chrome operating system last month, third-party hardware manufacturers lined up plans to build Chrome-based netbooks, with availability expected in late 2010. Could Google also be cooking up plans to sell its own, Google-branded Chrome netbook at around the same time? ...

This story was originally published on Dec. 2, 2009, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. ...

The mad rush for e-readers this holiday season has led Barnes & Noble to offer in-store certificates worth US$100 to customers who won't get its device, called the "Nook," by Christmas Eve as promised ...

The mad rush for e-readers this holiday season has led Barnes & Noble to offer in-store certificates worth US$100 to customers who won't get its device, called the "Nook," by Christmas Eve as promised ...

The mad rush for e-readers this holiday season has led Barnes & Noble to offer in-store certificates worth US$100 to customers who won't get its device, called the "Nook," by Christmas Eve as promised ...

Intel unveiled several new Atom processors on Monday. The chips are smaller and more energy-efficient than their predecessors. They also integrate graphics processors (GPUs) and memory controllers into the CPUs. ...

Twitter had a service outage Friday morning because its DNS servers were compromised. It was done by a hacker or group of hackers self-identified as the "Iranian Cyber Army." ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association released the specifications for 3-D Blu-ray on Thursday, just over a year after Panasonic first publicly demonstrated its application of 3-D Blu-ray technology. ...

Google is looking at quantum computing to help it sort through the millions of searches it conducts daily, and it's working with processors from Canadian company D-Wave ...

The war in the search engine market has evolved from a contest of speed and scale to one of innovation. ...

Home entertainment systems could soon see much higher wireless transmission speeds -- possibly of up to 7 gigabits per second (Gbps) -- if the plans of the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance continue on course ...

Wednesday announcements from Twitter and MySpace further indicated that social networking is now part of mainstream computing. ...

With the release of beta versions of its Chrome browser for the Mac and Linux platforms, Google looks to be laying the groundwork for becoming a major player in the next wave of computing. ...

Five leading American publishers, including Time and Conde Nast, officially unveiled what is, effectively, an online digital newsstand on Tuesday. ...

Google on Monday announced expansions to its search service that will provide real-time content to update search results. ...

Just one month after setting a new processing speed record with its Larrabee project, Intel has shelved plans to put out a new graphics chip based on that technology. ...