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.
