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Online retail sales in the United States jumped 23 percent, to US$28.4 billion, during the third quarter of this year compared with the same July-September period in 2006 ...

A Moscow-based software maker filed this week for a U.S. patent on a technology it claims will significantly reduce the time it takes to crack computer passwords ...

Business users of mobile services create more revenue for the industry than personal users, according to a New York market research firm ...

The music industry switched gears last week in its legal campaign to squash piracy of its intellectual property and filed a lawsuit against Usenet.com which it calls "a haven for those seeking pirated content." ...

When it comes to slim and sleek in digital cameras, Casio is king. Oneof its latest offerings, the Casio Exilim EX-S880, illustrates why ...

Linux and Apple OS X users are usually insulated from the security woes of their Microsoft Windows counterparts, but that doesn't seem to be the case with a recent vulnerability involving the handling of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocols ...

Many e-commerce sites are terrible, but they don't have to be that way, according to Jim Wehmann ...

Online marketplace eBay paid too much for the Internet phone service Skype, but its head was in the right place when it made the buy, according to a report released Tuesday by a major technology research firm ...

With all the social networking and photo-sharing Web sites out there, few teenagers are taken by surprise when they find that pictures they posed for have been posted online by their friends. However, few expect to see their likeness then featured, without their permission, on a billboard advertisement for a major telecommunications company ...

We live in a Web 2.0 world, but when it comes to fighting Internet-borne security threats, many enterprises are armed with only Web 1.0 weapons, according to a study released this week by San Jose, Calif.-based Secure Computing ...

Avid Technology has long had a sterling reputation among videoprofessionals for its editing systems. However, while widely respected withthe pro set, its consumer offerings have been at worst ornery and atbest, disappointing. Then the company acquired Pinnacle ...

Given the penchant of online scammers to exploit high-visibility events for their own malignant purposes, security experts were unsurprised this week to learn that Myanmar has became a vehicle for planting malware on unsuspecting users of personal computers ...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars onresearching and developing new technologies for their product lines, butthat doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting theirhands on cutting-edge innovation ...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars onresearching and developing new technologies for their product lines, butthat doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting theirhands on cutting-edge innovation ...

Only a few companies can afford to spend millions of dollars onresearching and developing new technologies for their product lines, butthat doesn't necessarily exclude smaller businesses from getting theirhands on cutting-edge innovation ...

America's "third screen" -- that is, the mobile market -- is at a crossroads. The direction it will go is anyone's guess, but IDC is advocating that Internet powerhouse Google should take a leading role in determining its path ...

Consumers are beginning to embrace digital video recorders (DVRs) as they once did VCRs ...

E-mail greeting card scams popular during the summer months seem to have lost their luster for information highwaymen ...

Although I'm a hopelessly U.S.-centric person, I still find it engaging from time to time to gauge the opinions of those outside Uncle Sam's borders about what they consider stellar products. One indicator of those opinions is awards like those bestowed in August by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) ...

The whipping that lenders have taken in the subprime mortgage market could prove beneficial to the nation's technology sector, according to a venture capitalist-turned-professor ...