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Advertising inside video games will near the US$1 billion mark by the beginning of the next decade, according to a report released by a technology research firm ...

Some 30 percent of businesses in the UK leave data, some of it sensitive, on their PCs when they dispose of them, according to research findings released this week by computer maker Lenovo ...

Social and community networks may be great hangouts for Web surfers who shop but not so great for retailers looking for virtual "ka-chings." ...

The popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and user-generated content sites like YouTube are inducing traditional news organizations to rethink their approach to the Web ...

Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook provide a means for people to share their lives with others, but are these sites turning their subscribers' free content into economic gain -- a new form of sharecropping? ...

A method for screening new hires that counts the likes of Google among its adherents may create some fertile ground for future employment lawsuits ...

If there's one prospect that sends shivers down the spines of shutterbugs everywhere, it's the expectation that some day, some way, all their photos will disappear in a computer mishap ...

International business travelers will be able to access the Internet for a flat monthly fee through more than 100,000 wireless hotspots around the world under a new service announced Monday by Boingo Wireless ...

There are lots of disk defraggers in the market, but Raxco PerfectDisk is one of the best that I've seen to date. Now the Gaithersburg, Md., company is expanding the scope of its flagship product to further improve computer performance and security ...

A promising technology that involves controlling light with magnets could improve the speed and reduce the juice requirements of future computer chips ...

A bane of shutterbugs everywhere is the question of what to do with their photos after shooting them ...

Call centers for PC companies placed dead last in customer satisfaction in a survey released Tuesday by an international consulting group ...

Banks looking to increase opportunities to cross-sell products to their online customers will turn in the coming years to Web-based personal finance management tools to do so, according to a research report released Tuesday ...

If there's one thing Windows users share -- other than their conflicted emotions toward Microsoft -- it's an insatiable yearning to boost the performance of their computers ...

Worldwide revenues from standalone open source software will reach US$5.8 billion by 2011, according to a report released last week by IDC ...

Video rental purveyor Netflix and TV shopping channel QVC led a customer satisfaction index of the top 100 online retailers released Friday by ForeSee Results, of Ann Arbor, Mich ...

As the market for online banking matures, competition is heating up for a group of consumers no longer loyal to their primary financial institution ...

A new installment of Mozilla's sterling e-mail program, Thunderbird, has been released, and while this new variant doesn't blow the doors off its predecessor, version 1.5, it has some tantalizing enhancements that spurred me to upgrade to the new edition without hesitation ...

Social networking Web sites such as MySpace and Facebook provide a means for people to share their lives with others, but are these sites turning their subscribers' free content into economic gain -- a new form of sharecropping? ...

Social networking is popular on the Web. So is shopping. Imagine, then, the potential of Net shops that combine the two into a package called "social shopping." ...