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NEW YORK (Billboard) - With their digital download sites, a growing number of indie rock labels have begun to answer the prayers of fans who would love to hear long-out-of-print singles on their iPods or other mobile devices.
Q My Dell has a 2.5 gigabytes of memory, but when I try to put the machine into hibernation, I often get a message that there are "Insufficient system resources to complete the API."
MADRID -- Victoriano del R¿o has a favorite animal, a majestic bull named Alcalde, who is nearing the end of his days after faithfully and lucratively siring more than 400 offspring. Loath to see him go, del R¿o is paying a company in Texas about $45,000 to have the big boy cloned.
Game publisher Electronic Arts is turning to shareholders in its fight to acquire rival Take-Two Interactive Software. The world's largest game publisher announced yesterday that it would pay $26 per share of Take-Two stock, the same price the Take-Two board rejected last month.
Simon Cowell thinks I'm awesome. "You are a natural, a complete and utter natural," raves the "American Idol" judge, after I croon the '70s-era song "Come Sail Away" into my Xbox 360. "You're one of the best we've ever had," he offers, after a performance of the grunge-era "Black Hole Sun." Cowel...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. met with Yahoo Inc. to discuss the software maker's unsolicited takeover bid earlier this week, a breakthrough that could be the first step toward a friendly deal between the two rivals.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google Inc. has pegged the final acquisition price of online ad service DoubleClick Inc. at $3.24 billion, slightly above the value when Internet search leader announced the deal 11 months ago.
The Federal Communications Commission processes 95 percent of the citizen complaints it receives but does a poor job of tracking how it resolves them, congressional auditors said in a report released yesterday.
AOL announced plans yesterday to buy social-networking site Bebo for $850 million in an attempt to appeal to younger Internet users and expand its online-advertising business.
Sex scandals have been tainting American politicians and titillating the public for nearly as long as there have been American politicians and publics. In 1797, former Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton confessed to a long affair with the married Maria Reynolds after a pamphleteer published th...
SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Rapt Inc., plugging a hole in its suite of tools for Web publishers and advertisers, the software giant said Friday.
How long can you stand to be without access to the Web? WiFi hotspots can bring the Internet to any new laptop computer, and most cellphones offer a more portable but limited view of the Web. Now some devices aim to split the difference between laptop and phone.
Sprint Nextel, the wireless carrier formed by the merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications in 2005, could not easily be split up again, chief network officer Kathryn A. Walker said yesterday.
WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he expects the next decade to bring even greater technological leaps than the past 10 years.
NEW YORK -- AOL said Thursday it will pay $850 million to acquire the online hangout Bebo, giving the struggling Internet company a foothold in an expanding business.
Metro is taking the first step toward building a new wireless system that would let all riders talk on their cellphones while riding the subway after years of customer complaints that only Verizon users can get reception underground.
When something is thin enough to fit into an envelope, light enough to sit on your lap for a couple of hours without discomfort and so compact that it doesn't even bulge in an airline seat-back pocket, wouldn't it make sense that one could lose track of such a thing? Even if it is a computer?
Watching video online has typically entailed viewing short snippets of celebrity news, music videos and homemade clips. But as streaming video becomes more popular, Hollywood is trying to figure out how to make its old business translate better online.
Wandering through a foreign airport or strolling down Sixth Avenue to his Manhattan office, Devaraj Southworth is usually staring at his BlackBerry, rapidly tapping out text messages, checking profiles and making international calls.
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Union regulators cleared Google's $3.1 billion bid for online ad tracker DoubleClick on Tuesday, saying the acquisition won't curb competition for online ads.
You already bank online and use computer software to do your taxes. So why don't you trust technology to help you manage your health? Microsoft, Google and more than 100 Web sites offering personal health records know the answer, but they're betting they can quell your fears about posting your most...
Paramount Pictures is chopping its feature films into short scenes, some as little as a few seconds, and distributing them free on the Internet, becoming the first major movie studio to answer consumers' desire for repeat viewings of short-form video on such sites as YouTube.
Iranian nuclear engineer Mohsen Fakhrizadeh lectures weekly on physics at Tehran's Imam Hossein University. Yet for more than a decade, according to documents attracting interest among Western governments, he also ran secret programs aimed at acquiring sensitive nuclear technology for his...
What's worse than paying your taxes? Spending money on a program to tell you how much you'll pay in taxes. But when the alternative to buying a tax-prep application is hours of mind-numbing mathematical toil, most victims of the tax code will ante up $20 or so to automate part of this annual ritual.
The spam messages that have long plagued e-mail inboxes are now finding victims through a much more personal route: the cellphone.
The expert taster sat silently in the brightly lighted room, surrounded by 53 samples of ruby-red wine.
Elisabeth Pimentel positioned two metal wands in front of a pink, fleshy gall bladder. With a couple of clean strokes, she snipped at the tissue surrounding the pear-shaped organ, gently cutting it away from the liver. Then she cut a little too deeply, drawing a stream of bright red blood.
GAOLONG, China -- The first time Li Gengxuan saw the dump trucks from the nearby factory pull into his village, he couldn't believe what happened. Stopping between the cornfields and the primary school playground, the workers dumped buckets of bubbling white liquid onto the ground. Then they turned...
When Matt Florian signed onto his Facebook account recently to check the status of his 400-plus friends, he had a friend request.
Q The David Bowie box set I bought in 1989 includes a "CD-Video" disc, but I've never been able to play the music videos on it. What kind of electronic device would I need to play this thing? Would I find it anywhere outside of a museum?
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- When wireless industry technicians speak of "green" cell towers these days, they're not just talking about making them look more like trees.
AOL's Internet radio division and CBS Radio yesterday announced a content and advertising partnership that will allow AOL's listeners to access CBS content, including University of Maryland basketball games through CBS-owned WJFK-FM (106.7).
Apple said yesterday that it added business features to the iPhone and will let outside developers create programs for it.
The U.S. government will conduct a series of cyber war games throughout next week to test its ability to recover from and respond to digital attacks.
The radios in Metro's highly publicized new rail cars are not compatible with the agency's troubled radio network, so train operators must rely on handheld radios to communicate with the system's control center, officials said.
Yahoo said yesterday that it postponed the deadline for nominating directors, seeking time to try to fend off a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft.
Whatever the traditional definition of "news" might be, it can seem far from what fills the headlines at some of the Web's more popular news sites. On a Tuesday in presidential primary season, here are some of their top stories:
Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years.
Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight crime and root out terror plots.
Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years.
