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Consumer reaction to downloading movies and TV programming from the Internet has been less than enthusiastic. For some, it's a hassle to move entertainment content from their PCs to their living rooms ...

Of the three pillars of digital lifestyle applications -- video, photos and music -- music remains a bit of a mystery to many users. That's ironic because sharing digital music files was one of the first applications byte-stylers flocked to ...

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP) announced Tuesday a joint venture to launch a new system for distributing digital movies to theaters ...

It's not often that in this gee-whiz age any technology can be accused of being under-hyped, but that's the case with mobile marketing, according to a report released this week by IDC, a research firm based in Framingham, Mass ...

Like many home keyboard jockeys, I view my wireless network as a black box. I set it up to share my broadband Internet connection. It does that. So I leave well enough alone ...

Online predators will again be the target of legislation filed in Congress this year ...

For the first time ever, Wikipedia last month cracked into comScore's top 10 hottest properties on the Web, largely due to the exposure the online encyclopedia receives from search engines such as Google ...

Giving digital images an artful twist isn't anything new in the computer world, but leave it to Alien Skin Software to take the technique to another level of elegance ...

The software industry isn't what it used to be. Open source software, globalization and outsourcing have irrevocably changed the sector and the skills needed by those who choose to work in it. That's the reason given by the Western branch of a major Eastern university when it announced last week a new degree program that gives its students the necessary skills to succeed in the brave new world of software...

More than one third of the Web analytics market will be upgrading, replacing or deploying systems in the next 12 months, which will create new opportunities for application vendors, according to a report released Tuesday by Jupiter Research ...

With Apple grabbing all the headlines of late with its iPhone, it's difficult for other spiffy mobiles to garner any mindshare in the market. That's a shame because a recent offering by Samsung deserves some attention ...

Last November, the Librarian of Congress adopted half a dozen exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), among them one that might give cell phone phone users greater freedom to move between carriers with their mobile devices ...

For the past three years, a Chicago consulting firm has assumed a Grinch-like role with its annual estimate of worker productivity losses attributable to the Super Bowl. Those losses, though, may actually be gains for many businesses, according to the firm's top executive ...

Some bloggers amaze me -- not by what they say, but by how much they say. It seems to me sometimes that a lot of these guys must be sitting in front of their keyboard 18 hours a day filling screen after screen with their prose ...

Consumers got their first official look Tuesday at Microsoft's new operating system Vista. Businesses, though, have been able to eyeball the software since November of last year, and eyeballing seems to be all they're doing with the new OS ...

Browser usage numbers for 2006 are beginning to appear on the Web, and for the first time in many moons the market share of Microsoft's dominant offering, Internet Explorer, has dipped below 80 percent ...

High-tech employment made a strong showing in 2006. Average salaries were on the rise and demand for IT professionals was robust, according to a salary survey released Wednesday by Dice.com, a Web site for high-tech employment opportunities ...

Meet Alexandra, the commercial says. She likes her computer. After she plants a smooch on her computer's display, a caption adds, maybe too much ...

It is is a dream come true for energy seekers: a portable energy source that outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market and produces 10 times the power of lead-acid batteries at half the cost -- and without the need for toxic materials or chemicals ...

Everywhere you turn these days, someone is pushing video -- on the Internet, on portable media players, even on cell phones. What's omitted by many enthusiastic purveyors of this electronic marvel, though, is that the digital video scene is a jungle of befuddling and confusing formats, a system more conducive to frustration than elation ...