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Advertising inside video games will near the $1 billion mark by the beginning of the next decade, according to a report released by a technology research firm. In-game advertising will grow from $77.7 million in 2006 to $971.3 million in 2011, the Yankee Group report predicted. As the advertising po...

Amazon.com began offering users of the TiVo digital video recorder the opportunity to purchase and download movies directly from their television sets, a move that takes the personal computer out of the Web-based download equation for the first time. TiVo and Amazon first announced a partnership in ...

Reacting to changes in Internet browsing fostered by Web 2.0 applications, Internet market research company Nielsen//NetRatings is adding to its toolbox two new ways of measuring Web site use. The company's NetView syndicated Internet audience measurement service will now include "Total Minutes" and...

Credit card and ID thieves are turning to charities to help them validate credit card numbers, says computer security company Symantec. The drill involves making a small donation to a non-profit to see if the transaction is successful, described Symantec security response engineer Yazan Gable in a c...

Chipmaker Intel has acquired a minor ownership stake in EMC's VMware software unit, a move that comes as the storage company readies its fast-growing server virtualization subsidiary for an initial public offering. Intel Capital, the company's venture investment arm, backed VMware with $218.5 millio...

Online shopping is the fastest growing multibillion-dollar business in the world. Yet, the customer experience of online shopping is much the same as it was upon creation, more than a decade ago -- essentially an online catalog. Instead of finding ways to excite and entertain shoppers through rich a...

Live Earth -- a series of concerts held in cities across the world and streamed live across the Internet -- exceeded its founders' most ardent expectations. The event, held to raise awareness of global warming and climate change, captured more than 10 million video streams -- the most simultaneous v...

Samsung and Ericsson have agreed to end patent infringement lawsuits against each other, signing an agreement to cross-license their mobile technologies instead. The cross-licensing agreement covers a host of patents relating to second- and third-generation, or 2G and 3G, mobile services. South Kore...

Google will buy on-demand Web security provider Postini for $625 million in cash, a move that the search giant hopes will help lower a key hurdle to broader adoption of its on-demand, Web-based applications targeted at business users. Privately held Postini serves some 35,000 businesses around the w...

Microsoft will release six security updates next week as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update, the company announced Thursday. Three of the updates being rolled out on Tuesday have been labeled "critical," two were called "important" and one was named "moderate" in importance. They are for vulne...

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. In the survey of 300 businesses commissioned by the UK-Ireland arm of the company, 29 percent of IT managers i...

Rock concerts for causes took off in the 1970s, electrifying audiences worldwide. However, Live Earth, a series of concerts beginning on July 7 aimed at combating climate change, will go them one better. Live Earth's harnessing of star power to bring attention to a particular problem is hardly uniqu...

Sony has no plans to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 consoles, Sony President Ryoji Chubachi reportedly said, despite hints from the electronics giant that it might do so in order to rev up disappointing sales figures. The price point for the PS3 has long been seen as a sticking point for greater...

Microsoft will open a software development center in Canada by the end of the year, a move that will enable the software giant to hire more foreign workers without running up against the limitations of U.S. immigration law. The center will be located in Vancouver, British Columbia, less than three h...

It is quite common for people affiliated with a startup to receive Rule 144 stock in lieu of cash or readily tradable stock. This type of stock is usually issued by a company that is either about to go public or has recently gone public. Rule 144 stock is often used as a form of reimbursement for se...