For those making purchases online this holiday season, be smart about it, advises the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois. It shares these tips:
BAGHDAD — Google is documenting Iraq’s national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.
The idea of working for the same company for a decade, much less a generation, is so 20th century. When the unemployment rate eventually returns to a single-digit, don't expect things to be as they were.
Young people are the most likely to engage in text messaging while driving, according to a survey conducted by FindLaw.com, a legal information Web site.
BROMONT, Quebec -- A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.
This weekend, you could pay $10 to see the cinematic vampire love story "New Moon," stand in line for overpriced snacks with your new tween buddies and then jostle for a seat in a crowded theater.
Just as the media and entertainment industries post more of their video work online, the unwitting consumer and video pirates alike are increasingly copying and sharing it illegally.
NEW YORK -- Consumers who haven't yet ordered Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader, the Nook, won't see one before Christmas.
MILWAUKEE -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.
Social-networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter can help community college students become more engaged in their academics, a report out this week finds.
NEW YORK -- AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, is looking to shed as much as 36 percent of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month.
T-Mobile is selling a no-contract, prepaid smartphone, the BlackBerry Curve 8520. It says it is the first national carrier to offer a prepaid smartphone. The handset is $60 and provides the first month for free. A variety of data, text and video plans start at $50 per month. Other handsets that aren't smartphones also are offered through the package, available at Best Buy and some Wal-Marts, called T-Mobile Complete.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators Wednesday adopted a first-in-the-nation mandate to reduce electricity demand.
You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games. He’s reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He’s also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through him. "He," is Mario, the pot-bellied Italian plumber. The latest game he stars in, the newly released “The New Super Mario Bros. Wii” ($50), is one of the holiday season’s top titles.
A Cook County judge today set a Dec. 18 date for Buffalo Grove Trustee Lisa Stone to learn the name and address of the person who allegedly made nasty — and anonymous — comments about Stone’s teenage son on the Daily Herald’s Web site.
From Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to Bill Maher's targets in the 2008 comedic documentary "Religulous," those on the right of the spectrum often wind up as subjects of late-night zingers and scorching sendups. They are less often the originators of those sendups -- standouts such as Dennis Miller and his less comedically accomplished conservative compatriot Rush Limbaugh notwithstanding -- especially when it comes to taking conservative comrades to task.
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.
While Bernie Madoff was busted bilking billions from investors only one year ago, the seeds to his Ponzi scheme were actually planted in the early 1980s. Although a generation of fraudulent business practices left many holding the bag, opportunistic startups like River North-based FIPPEX Operations are hoping to profit from reform.
GENEVA -- Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object -- Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.
Forty years after making the radio that Neil Armstrong used to speak the first words from the moon, Motorola Inc. may be considering a return to its roots, paring back the company to its most profitable unit.
The new Google Maps Navigation app, currently only available on the Verizon Droid, is a good first step that generally works well. It won't push the top navigation efforts off the scene, but it will push them to get better.
DANVERS, Mass. — Who knew “Meep!” was a four-letter word? The utterance favored by bungling lab assistant Beaker of “The Muppet Show” has been banned at Danvers High School in Massachusetts after students said it to repeatedly interrupt school.
How do you avoid a blizzard of budget-busting overtime and still remove the snow from Chicago streets?
The gift of free Wi-Fi access will be handed out this holiday season at airports, airplanes and in public places by Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, all looking to market themselves this holiday season by playing Santa.
Your profile picture is perfection, your dreams for love and life written in clear and clever prose. But if you're spending more time looking at JDate.com than actually going on dates, maybe you could learn something from the new one-day class being offered Friday by Harper College in Palatine -- "Online Dating; Be Safe, Be Smart, Be Successful."
Looking to climb the corporate ladder 140 characters at a time? General Motors and Southwest Airlines are looking for a few good Twitter and Facebook fanatics to help them sell more Buicks and cheap airline tickets. You can even drink beer while you brainstorm.
HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia Corp. announced Monday that some 14 million mobile phone chargers could be dangerous for users and said it will replace them free of charge.
Now, there's a way the super-careful can make their sensitive electronic data -- e-mails, photos, Facebook posts and other information -- self-destruct in 8 to 32 hours.
If technology has its way, getting old will get easier. That's the vibe running throughout the "idea house" for the elderly on display at the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging's annual exposition at McCormick Place. The house displays groundbreaking technologies and design innovations that make it possible for older adults to remain independent and in their homes.
Of all the so-called iPhone killer phones since Apple's ubiquitous device was released, Verizon's Google-powered Droid comes closest to fitting the bill, and, even giving iPhone devotes pause for thought. While the iPhone and its App store are still king, the gap just got closed in a major way. But about that keyboard ...
Beware stolen merchandise being fenced online, especially in time for holiday bargain seekers, the National Retail Federation advises.
Verizon’s ubiquitous “iDon’t” commercial has been peppering TV for weeks now. It makes two conventional mistakes in advertising. It’s not clear that it’s an ad for the Verizon Droid phone, a remarkable new handset made by Motorola and the first phone to ship with Version 2.0 of the Google Android mobile OS. It’s clearly designed to compete against iPhone. It's a fine fone. But the ads are another story.
T-Mobile subscribers are having problems sending text messages and receiving phone calls. It's not known how widespread the service outage is or what caused it.
For Bump Technologies, 3 million is a more significant number than 1 billion. The company that famously developed what was the 1 billionth iPhone application downloaded from Apple reportedly raised more than $3 million in its first institutional round of financing.
Why would people who live in inner-ring suburbs such as Berwyn, Evanston, Oak Lawn and Oak Park be able to obtain health-care insurance quotes that are 14.6 percent, on average, lower than their Chicago neighbors?
NEW YORK (AP) — Forrester Research Inc. is projecting an 8 percent increase to $44.7 billion in online holiday sales compared with a year ago as bargain hunters turn to the Web for deals.
Van Giles, a free-lance public-relations consultant who lives in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, found health-insurance coverage through GoHealthInsurance.com for what he was willing to pay.
Web sites that compile deals, discounts and door-buster sales from major retailers are launching services to help shoppers find bargains. DealNews.com has launched its "Black Friday Guide" at dealnews.com/ black-friday.html, detailing rumored and published deals that retailers are expected to offer the day after Thanksgiving.
Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service.
I guess I’m a man of Faith after all. I gave away my Garmin Nüvi GPS navigator earlier this year. I’d lent it to my sister for a 1200-mile road trip with the kids. When the time came for her to hand it back, she dropped a lot of hints about how grateful she was and how indispensible the GPS had been and how she’s always getting lost, particularly when driving her children to get their educations and their occasional medical checkups and ...
Motorola on Wednesday unveiled its much-anticipated Droid smart phone, expected to compete with Apple's iPhone, showing off its speedy Web browsing, Verizon Wireless carrier partner and 3.7-inch high-resolution screen.
If you're starting your holiday shopping early to avoid the last-minute rush or, this year, the empty shelves, you're going to want to add social networking online to your usual bargain-hunting routine. "Many retailers are announcing deals only on Facebook or Twitter, so if you like a particular store, become a fan on its Facebook page or sign up for its Twitter feeds," said Sue Kirchner
Motorola unveiled this morning its much-anticipated Droid smart phone, expected to compete with Apple's iPhone, showing off its speedy Web browsing, Verizon Wireless carrier partner, and 3.7-inch high-resolution screen.
Best Buy is selling a transmitting device that lets parents keep track of their children. Parents can place the device in a child's backpack or lunch box, for example.
