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Netflix and Samsung announced a partnership Thursday that will bring the video rental service's streaming movies to the hardware maker's Web-connect Blu-ray disc players Netflix subscribers can receive Blu-ray and DVD discs by mail with the added option of streaming movies and TV shows instantly from the company's online library. The companies also...

Here's a fun fact for your cubicle-side coffee chat: That Scotch tape on your desk is good for more than just sticking together pages of a TPS report. Turns out it can also generate X-rays Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles have found that plain old office tape can create enough X-rays to take a hospital-style image. But befo...

The Internet has opened up information sharing in unprecedented and ever-expanding ways. This new world is great for creativity and communication, but it's also brought intellectual property rights into question It's vital that online retailers understand intellectual property law so that they don't find themselves infringing on others' rights and ...

"A status report of all the different marketing activities you were engaged in might have sufficed in the past," says Kevin Doohan, director of interactive marketing at ConAgra Foods. "But now we have to show what business results those activities are driving." When it comes to social media ROI (return on investment), suitable performance metrics ...

Ask anyone to describe a hardcore gamer and the image that comes to mind is probably that of a geeky, teenaged, socially awkward male who spends countless hours locked in his bedroom. The notion, however, that men alone rule the gaming realm is as outdated as the Atari 2600. Men, women and children alike have answered the call to play. While the ...

A report released Tuesday from ScanSafe, a Software as a Service (SaaS) Web security provider, highlighted the energy industry as facing a high risk of exposure from Web-based malware. Companies within that sector have a 189 percent higher risk than other sectors of the economy, according to the security firm's findings The pharmaceutical and chemi...

Shares of memory chip maker SanDisk plummeted nearly 31 percent to US$9.91 per share after the bell on the news that Samsung has dropped its offer to acquire the troubled Milpitas, Calif.-based semiconductor company Korea-based Samsung first made its $26 per share offer six months ago in a letter to SanDisk's board of directors, which rejected it a...

Microsoft has angered Chinese computer users with its latest antipiracy move On Tuesday, during its Global Anti-Piracy Day, Microsoft turned Windows Genuine Advantage loose on the Chinese people....

Just one day after saying it would slash its 15,000-employee workforce by 10 percent, struggling Internet giant Yahoo announced Wednesday that its profit dropped by a whopping 64 percent during the third quarter Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo also announced that revenue would be lower than it had expected for the remainder of 2008 and told Wall Stre...

Game developers LucasArts and BioWare announced Tuesday they have joined forces to create a new, massively multiplayer online (MMO) PC game. "Star Wars: The Old Republic" ("SWTOR") is a story-driven game based on the popular sci-fi world created by George Lucas The two companies divulged a handful of details at a press event held at LucasArts' head...

In an era when people routinely deliver life-changing news via text and e-mail -- "I want a divorce," "I'm pregnant," "You're fired" -- it is perhaps inevitable that a service offering to automate and anonymize a personal, painful message is gaining traction inSpot, a peer-to-peer, Web-based system developed by the nonprofit Internet Sexuality Inf...

History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme -- Mark Twain...

Getting reliable and reasonably priced tech support for an ailing computer is time-consuming and frustrating. PC users at home, school and work face malfunctions caused by human error, software failure and hardware configuration glitches On top of these problems are the increasing daily threats posed by malware and virus infections. The typical hom...

As promised, search engine giant Google has released the source code for its Android platform -- the open source technology that Google hopes will be adopted by mobile application developers, phone makers and carriers alike The move comes just a day before the first Android-powered smartphone -- the G1 -- is set to hit U.S. stores. The G1 is availa...

Opera launched the second beta of its Mobile 9.5 Web browser Monday. The release includes Opera's new Widget feature, which provides one-click Web content access, according to the company. It's only the second 9.5 beta for Windows Mobile phones and the first to add support for UIQ-based handsets. In addition, the Norway-based company released a So...

Online auctioneer and retailer eBay has banned the sale of ivory products on its Web site to help protect African and Asian elephants The policy goes into effect in December, and San Jose, Calif.-based eBay will begin enforcing it in January....

Lala.com relaunched its services Tuesday, now billing itself as the first free fully licensed provider of instant, anywhere access to personal music catalogs as well as a full music library with tracks backed from major labels. Cooperating record companies include EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, Warner Music and more than 170,000 indep...

Google's Android Market is seeing some changes in the final hours before the phone's debut. Many of the apps that had been added to the storefront disappeared this week, and a handful of big-name offerings popped up in their places. Imeem, Shazam and MySpace are among the services with applications now available The first Android-powered phone, T-M...

Anyone who owns an Apple iPhone knows a mobile phone isn't just a phone anymore. It's a music and video player, a Web-surfing device, and a video game system all in one Go to the iPhone App Store -- an Apple Web site where iPhone owners can buy games such as "Moto Chaser" and "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" -- and you'll find hundreds of appli...

Good news for the economy: Small business outsourcing has gone mainstream thanks to the increased use of automation technology -- computers, software and the Internet powering cost-efficient outside service provider teams Bad news for outsourcing service providers: Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are proving to be slow on the uptake....