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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s profit jumped 14 percent in the latest quarter, proof that cost-cutting and a push into rival IBM Corp.'s stronghold of technology services is helping the company absorb a falloff in sales in most of its major divisions.

Laura Fitton's ascent has been staggering: In less than a year, she's become mayor of nine different places in several different states, all without giving any speeches or kissing any babies.

Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web.

A Canadian woman on sick leave for depression said Monday she would fight an insurance company's decision to cut her benefits after her agent found photos on Facebook of her vacationing, at a bar and at a party.

Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday — a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving — and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks.

Apple Inc's iPhone is coming to South Korea this week, a local carrier announced Sunday, bringing the iconic communications device to one of the world's most sophisticated mobile phone markets.

While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies.

The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment said Monday the U.S. should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films.

A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark.

A deal to block Google searches from News Corporation content would erect uncustomary barriers and could scramble the landscape of the Web.

A study proposes a broad model for monitoring drug safety that would consist of detailed publicly available data that independent researchers could freely analyze.

Web series, or webisodes, are being created specifically for advertisers.

The technology company tripled its share repurchase program to $12 billion, as a strong performance in China and improved margins in its services business helped lift quarterly earnings.

For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart and Amazon are also fighting over the future of retailing.

The technology company tripled its share repurchase program to $12 billion, as a strong performance in China and improved margins in its services business helped lift quarterly earnings.

For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart’s long-term goal appears to be stopping Amazon from taking away its business.

For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but the long-term goal for Wal-Mart appears to be stopping an online rival from taking away its business.

Sonos’s ZonePlayer S5 wireless speaker console plays music with an iPhone or iPod Touch as a touch-screen remote control.

A number of services go beyond reacting to identity thieves and instead aim to safeguard users’ personal information.

Apple decides to fight back against Verizon and Droid advertising. With simple product demonstrations, it asks just how much doing Droid can really do.

As part of a three-year study into robots' role in senior health care, New Zealand retirement village welcomes Korean robot that will take vital signs, dole out medication reminders.

Microsoft has released its first figures on how well Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm have done on Xbox Live. They show substantial, though not huge, engagement.

State-of-the-art brain scan finds Belgian man spent 23 years trying to tell those around him he was not, in fact, in a coma--leading some to question current methods of analyzing coma patients.

After singer Justin Bieber does not appear at a Long Island mall, police ask a record label veep to tweet encouragement for the crowd to disperse. He allegedly doesn't and is thus arrested.

A distorted image purporting to be First Lady Michelle Obama is currently the number one image result for her name, and Google is using ad space to explain its policy for such matters.

AT&T is following Verizon Wireless by offering a prepaid wireless broadband service for laptop users.

Microsoft aims to make a much different first impression with Windows 7 than it did with Vista, its oft-maligned predecessor.

Robots will be one of the largest categories of DIY projects at this weekend's Maker Faire, but hobbyist robotics goes much further than the festival.

Hulu gives users a way to tag videos, letting them give the site a whole new layer of organization.

Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice ... chests. Two pioneering physicists delve from the highly theoretical down to the mundane world of refrigerators.

Samsung's 46-inch 7000 television sets the bar for slim and bright, plus it draws less power because the usual fluorescent backlight has been subbed out for LEDs along the panel's edges. Almost as nie: Yahoo Widgets deliver sports scores, photos, and more.

The tiny MiFi 2000 Portable Hot Spot sucks up 3G signals and creates a wireless bubble for up to five devices (yes, five!). Uploading and downloading like a champ, it makes multitasking look easy.

This year, we look for gadgets that attempt to raise the bar. Some succeed, some fall flat on their LCDs. Here are the most innovative products, tested and rated, of 2009.

The U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him, using a bugged coffee table.

The wily News Corp. chief cooks up a plan to make money on the internet by keeping that horrible Google at bay. Genius alert!

Apple's 13-Inch MacBook Pro may be the smallest of the bunch, but that only makes its sturdy construction and dazzling performance that much more impressive.

Employing a clever algorithm and a speedy production team, the company whips up dirt-cheap videos that capitalize on internet users' queries.

The Yeti is a big but very adaptable USB microphone that combines features of many different mikes, making it a great general-purpose recording tool.

With military action and terrorist acts on foreign shores and the U.S. homeland, the violent new videogame brings the horrors of modern warfare to life in compelling ways.

Attention all broadband stimulus grant shoppers: the good news is that the Obama administration says it's fast-tracking the schedule to fork out over seven billion dollars in high speed Internet stimlus money.

Each year, the International Energy Agency prepares a report on the current state and likely future of the global energy economy. In recent decades, there's been a bit of monotony: energy use has grown and, as large areas of the developing world are developing rapidly, future energy demand is likel...

During the Beijing Olympics, 40 athletes bought a pro-Tibet charity album through iTunes. This was such a threat to national security that the Chinese government, never shy with a bit of well-placed censorship, completely blocked iTunes, even after repeated promises to cut down on Internet censorsh...

For the first time in a generation, the nation's highest court on Monday pondered the question of which inventions are eligible for patent protection. For the petitioner, Bernard Bilski, the issue was whether he'd get a patent on "a method for managing the consumption risk costs of a commodity sold...

Verizon has gotten on the bad side of US Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who publicly criticized the company this week for its decision to significantly jack up early termination fees (ETFs) for some cstomers.

Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesn't want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and faste compilation? That's one of the reasons why there are so many programming languages.

The GNOME desktop environment is undergoing a significant transformation. The developers behind the open source project are working on version 3.0, the first major overhaul since 2002. The GNOME relese team has updated the roadmap and has set September 2010 as the target for the launch of GNOME 3.

On Monday, the security blog at Arbor Networks reported finding a bit of malware that checked in with a remote account to download some URLs. On its own, this is hardly a newsworthy event; botnets hae used all sorts of communications protocols to receive updated code and information.

Kindle for PC, Amazon's e-reader software for Windows, has finally been released to the throngs of Kindle users who want to read their books on the computer. The software, which was announced late lat month, offers yet another way for customers to read their electronic books—this time in full color.

Hollywood's attempt to force DRM measures on the BBC's over-the-air high-definition broadcasts looks to have come a cropper after intense public pressure.

Software programmers are designing apps for the Google-backed Android operating system, fired by frustration with Apple's rejections and delays

In his first wide-ranging interview on the matter, the Apple senior vice-president explains his company's App Store vigilance—and why it sometimes loosens up

It's offering only high-deductible, consumer-directed plans. That will save millions but may damage morale

Software programmers are designing apps for the Google-backed Android operating system, fired by frustration with Apple's rejections and delays

The expected purchase price of just $10 million bodes ill for ad-supported online music services

The rally that's lifted the computer maker's shares 55% this year may lose steam after a report indicated corporate demand for PCs isn't as robust as hoped

Retail technology expert Paula Rosenblum explains why smartphones will play a significant role this holiday season and beyond

As its software becomes a major means of attack, security experts wonder if it can fight hard enough

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's book is a fun, user-friendly guide for entrepreneurs and spectators

CEO John Chambers is now chasing market share in 30 different categories—and making powerful enemies

An online airing of tens of thousands of stolen Webmail passwords suggests that it’s time to find extra protection.

Microsoft Research India has developed host server technology for reducing redundancy on wide-area networks.

Mobile groups raise concerns about proposed net neutrality rules.

The new Chrome operating system is aimed at the increasing mobile and netbook sector, Google says.

Plus: A massive Microsoft patch batch, and fixes for Adobe Reader and Acrobat.

Shoppers, start your engines! Er, well, maybe not just yet.

OCZ Technology's new Colossus Series of solid-state drives includes a pricey 1TB option.

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