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Netflix and TiVo announced Thursday the rollout of a streaming video service for subscribers. Set for availability in early December, the service appears to be the culmination of a deal the two companies originally announced in 2004. The TiVo-Netflix venture is the latest in a series of similar partnerships Netflix has announced this year. Thus fa...

All together now: The Beatles are getting their own video game If you're of a certain age, then the idea of playing a "Rock Band"-esque game featuring the Fab Four's music will almost certainly make you twist and shout. The big question for Harmonix and MTV Networks -- the makers of "Rock Band," which on Thursday announced a partnership with Apple ...

Motorola announced a new round of layoffs as it reported a 15 percent decrease in revenue during the third quarter on Thursday. "Approximately 3,000 employees will be affected globally across all businesses and functions," company spokesperson Maya Komadina told the E-Commerce Times....

The results are in, and NASA's latest fly-by of Mercury is shedding new light on the solar system's smallest planet. The Messenger space probe zipped around Mercury early in October, examining parts of the planet never before explored The latest mission is the second of three passes Messenger will take around the planet. The first occurred in Janua...

Personalization -- the purported long-sought Holy Grail of Web content management -- just might have finally arrived via Web applications that make Web sites responsive in real-time to the unique needs of individual visitors At the heart of recommendation and personalization technologies are active, content-based collaborative filtering formulation...

Pity the Patent and Trademark Office examining attorney who gave Dell the green light propelling its trademark application for the term "cloud computing" toward the home stretch this summer. That particular individual was obviously unaware that the phrase had become, over the course of a year, one of the hottest buzzwords in the tech industry. Not...

Netflix subscribers who also happen to own an Xbox 360 -- and have an Xbox Live membership -- learned last summer they'd be able to access streaming video via the gaming console, but what they didn't know until recently is that some of those titles will be available in high definition. Users of the Microsoft's gaming machine will see the feature when the console's "New Xbox Experience" launches Nov. 19...

In its continuing effort to reinvent itself, struggling wireless phone maker Motorola will cut more jobs and focus on designing handheld devices that run Google's new open source Android operating system, according to the Wall Street Journal The company will pare down the number of operating systems for which it currently creates mobile phones to j...

Microsoft gave developers their first hands-on experience with the upcoming Windows 7 operating system (OS) Tuesday. Set for release in 2010, the version of Windows 7 shown at the company's Professional Developers Conference refines certain aspects of the company's Windows Vista OS and is designed to improve on performance....

The Christian Science Monitor will cease the weekday print edition of its award-winning newspaper in April after a century of continuous publication. The plan is to move the weekday publication to an online-only format while rolling out a new weekend print magazine....

LinkedIn has added a bundle of new productivity tools to its network. The goal of the nine apps -- all built on the LinkedIn Intelligent Applications, or InApps, platform -- is to facilitate file-sharing, scheduling and other business-oriented activities Applications from Amazon, Box.net, Google, Huddle, Six Apart, SlideShare, Tripit and WordPress ...

Last week NetSuite held a user group meeting in Boston for OpenAir, a company that they had bought earlier this year. OpenAir, if you don't know, provides an application for managing professional services engagements. When integrated with NetSuite's front and back office applications, the combination provides a lot of functionality for a professional services group. I was invited to attend CEO Zach Nelson's keynote in the afternoon, but I found out later that there was another speech that I would have enjoyed as well...

The money trail of big tech pay-offs began with voice, then moved to text and now is headed squarely to image data. No longer are businesses or individuals satisfied with words on a page peppered with flat and lifeless 2-D images. Today's big data boost is far more colorful and dynamic than that In the beginning days of image processing, art and ph...

Several high-profile technology companies, human rights organizations, academics and investors have joined forces to launch the Global Network Initiative (GNI). Announced Tuesday, the GNI intends to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy throughout the information and communication technology industry Companies that have signed onto ...

Search engine giant Google has settled two copyright lawsuits over its Google Book Search program for US$125 million In two separate lawsuits, the New York City-based Author's Guild and McGraw-Hill sued Google in 2005, alleging it had violated copyright laws through its scanning and online distribution of copyrighted and out-of-print books....

Just a few more days. Yes, the U.S. presidential election is a mere week away, but there's another countdown going on. Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition, the Intrepid Ibex release, is set to go live on Thursday The beta has excited both users and potential users of the popular distro because of its rich mobility functionality, including 3G support and th...

For those who are hungry for some good economic news, venture capitalists apparently are seeing green in clean technology Indeed, so-called green technology -- everything from eco-friendly auto parts to alternative fuels to smart buildings to streamlined manufacturing processes -- appears to be blooming, even if the world economy is in wilt mode....

As companies evaluate their carbon footprints, supply chains are one area of business that have come under increased scrutiny. Making the complex network of manufacturers, packagers, shippers, wholesalers and retailers greener protects the environment, saves energy, and ultimately reduces costs Emerging technologies make it increasingly feasible to...

In the past five years, the mettle of mobile Linux has been tested -- and it has deservedly earned a shining new reputation as a real technology of choice -- an embedded operating system and a flexible platform for truly open innovation. Linux has even gained the status of the de facto operating system for the growing MID (mobile Internet device) market and for bringing intelligent devices to market faster and more cost-effectively. There has never been such a historic moment and opportunity for Linux to shine and succeed in the market -- but can mobile Linux developers rise to the challenge and deliver the user experiences the market is waiting for?...

University of Delaware's Dr. Ian Appelbaum is looking to "spin" hisresearch on the magnetic properties of electrons to get moreelectronic enhancements from semiconductors Appelbaum's research is now funded in part with a nearly half-million dollar grantfrom the U.S. Department of Defense Experimental Program to StimulateCompetitive Research (DEPSCo...