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Cyber Monday outpaced Black Friday in the online shopping arena once again this year, which comes as no surprise to e-tail analysts who predicted the phenomenon long ago Nielsen//NetRatings' Holiday eShopping Index saw 15 percent more traffic on Cyber Monday than on Black Friday, drawing a total unique audience of 27.7 million, combined home and wo...

Just as it helped spawn a movement toward its wireless technology with Centrino, Intel is looking to put the PC in the pole position for home entertainment with its Viiv platform that is now supported by more than 40 software, content and service companies, including TiVo Intel said its Viiv technology -- developer and device integration tools for ...

Microsoft is testing a service that would enable people to place classified ads and store a host of other information, a service that would follow in the footsteps of Google Base and underscores how online classifieds and related forms of Web-based information organization are rapidly emerging as the next big Internet battle front Microsoft confirm...

Yahoo yesterday announced the extension of the company's Really Simple Syndication (RSS) platform. The company has added RSS feeds in the new version of Yahoo Mail, which is currently in beta testing RSS is a technology that helps users keep track of their favorite syndicated content from across the Web, including news sites and Web log (blog) feed...

Young people in Europe are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum Jupiter Research said file-sharers outnumbered those who paid to download music by...

After several Release Candidates, Mozilla finally released the much-anticipated version of its popular open-source Web browser last evening. Firefox 1.5 is available for free download, and details about a major marketing campaign will come later this week "Firefox 1.5 builds upon the success of its predecessor to deliver and improved browser with s...

To win a tennis match, you have to out perform your competitor. You have to play a better game, have a better strategy and win more points. But, what does it take to do that? How do you improve your performance? And how do you measure that improvement? There are so many variables that impact a player's performance. At a minimum, you have to be quick on your feet, follow-through your shots, serve well, and place the ball strategically. When practicing, you have to focus on each of these areas individually and learn how to perform well at each one of them. Only then can you put all of these building blocks together for a winning athletic performance...

Those who enjoy intrigue may be quite satisfied with developments in the WiFi market. Two years ago, vendors started working on a standard, dubbed 802.11n, to boost the top transmission speed from 54M bps to 100M bps. That work developed into a deadlock between two competing groups: World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) and TGn Sync As those vendo...

Young people in Europe are three times more likely to illegally swap songs than they are to download them from legitimate sites such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, according to new data that suggests the music industry has yet to solve its lingering digital conundrum Jupiter Research said file-sharers outnumbered those who paid to download music by...

After several Release Candidates, Mozilla said it would finally release the much-anticipated version of its popular open-source Web browser this evening. Firefox 1.5 will be available for free download, with details about a major marketing campaign coming as soon as later this week "Firefox 1.5 builds upon the success of its predecessor to deliver ...

The agency charged with Internet oversight may give its blessing to single-letter domain names, which have been reserved since 1993. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will decide this and other issues at a meeting in Vancouver, B.C., this weekend Single-letter domains were set aside because of technical worries about w...

In what's become an annual event known as Cyber Monday, millions of shoppers logged onto the Internet from their jobs yesterday for holiday shopping While not the biggest online shopping day of the season -- in terms of total shopping volume, that often occurs before Thanksgiving, though for some retailers, the busiest hours are yet to come -- the ...

High oil prices. Natural disasters. Slumping economy. Pink slip epidemics. None of that appeared to bother shoppers as they stormed Web outlets on the day after Thanksgiving, the day that's become known as Black Friday According to Patty Freeman Evans, a retail analyst with Jupiter Research in New York City, Black Friday was a day of historic propo...

One visit to the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Web site offers an eye-opening glimpse into the world of cybercrime Case after case details how the Feds are cracking down on cyber-criminals, defendants are pleading guilty, and the judged are being sentenced to prison....

Electronic information has its advantages over paper, but it has its share of snags, too. One of them is finding saved items In the analog world, some folks keep tabs on their important data bits by scribbling them on post-it notes and sticking them to any available surface in sight, creating a festive jungle sure to obscure future attempts at info...

A filmmaker in India believes he's hit on the perfect DRM (Digital Restriction Management) solution: hiding secret coding in "every single print." So suggests producer Firoz A. Nadiadwala, quoted by the Times of India Along with California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan has taken on a role as a Motion Picture Association of America (MP...

Samsung Electronics today said it has developed the world's largest transmissive TFT LCD (thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display), with high enough resolution to display digital television content. The new display is double the size of Samsung's flexible LCD display prototype announced in January 2005 Samsung said the seven-inch, 640x480 flex...

Providing evidence that the Internet is fast becoming the global bazaar many have long imagined -- one with the power to smash traditional barriers to commerce -- a new report says one of every six online Americans has sold something on the Web The Pew Internet & American Life Project said about 17 percent of online American adults have used the In...

While Sony (Blu-ray) and Toshiba (HD-DVD) go head-to-head with competing high-definition DVD technology, Hitachi-Maxell and InPhase Technologies are working on a disc that will hold 300GB of information, or six times what either of the other discs can store Hitachi is calling their technology a tapestry holographic disc, but the technology is gener...

TiVo, the personal digital recorder company whose value proposition has long included the ability to let users fast-forward through commercials, said today it was working with several advertising and media companies to make it possible for users to search for specific TV ads they actually want to see alongside their favorite programs The project is...