New data from market research firm Media Create finds PlayStation 3 sales in Japan are slumping quickly - but then again, no next-gen consoles are doing well.
Yahoo is banking that Internet users want online tools to manage their budgets, retirement, college plans, taxes, debts, investments and more personal finance matters.
Have you heard of The Economist's 20 year-old Big Mac index which tracks the price of a McDonald's sandwich in various world markets? An Australian bank is doing it with the nano.
Bad news for private eyes (and scam artists): new legislation makes it a federal offense to obtain telephone records of another person under false pretenses.
Four families have filed suit against MySpace after their daughters were sexually abused by adults they encountered via the social networking Web site.
All the buzz might be about Gears of War, but CapCom has also been doing business on the Xbox 360, selling more than 1MM copies of Dead Rising & Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) reports it expects digital music sales to have doubled in 2006, to a total of almost $2 billion.
In a bid to appease parents with children enamored of all things MySpace, the popular social networking site plans to offer free parental notification software.
Trying to knock the legs out from under music pirates, EMI is teaming with search engine Baidu to offer free, ad-supported streaming of its Typhoon music catalog in China.
Just last month, Skype founder confirmed they were testing an online TV service dubbed The Venice Project. Today, they rolled out a beta and a new name: Joost.
Sure, sites sporting user-generated content might be all the rage...but do companies really want their products promoted alongside insipid cell phone videos?
In a bid to make PayPal accounts more secure from phishing schemes, PayPal is offering customers password-generating key fobs as an additional layer of security.
Famed Swedish file-sharing hub Pirate Bay is tired of getting hassled by The Man over copyright laws and piracy allegations - so they're thinking of buying their own country.