With 2006 drawing to a close, Google has taken a look at what search terms were under the radar in 2005 but at the forefront of Internet users' minds in 2006.
It was just a matter of time: media companies are scrambling to a programmer's claim to have broken the AACS encryption system used on high-definition DVDs.
Apple says it has completed its probe of stock options grants, taking a non-cash charge of $84 million and expressing "complete confidence" in CEO Steve Jobs.
A survey finds nearly three out of four Britons agreeing that technology and mobile gizmos make "techno treachery" - telling white lies - easier than ever.
Canon is offering free repairs on PowerShot A530 and A540 digital cameras which may overheat because of a short circuit caused by a spring in the battery cover door.
ForeSee Results Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index shows leading online retailers work to stay on top of their game...and apparel sites have shown marked improvement.
Pentax's DSmobile 600 scanner offers 600dpi color scanning in a portable unit measuring just 11 inches long and 1.5 inches high, and weighing just 12 ounces.
Shares of Apple Computer swung downward following a media report that federal prosecutors were looking at "apparently falsified" documents in an ongoing stock options probe.
On the heels of settlements with Texas and California, music label Sony BMG will pay $4.25 million to settle suits over copy-protection software on its music CDs.
A new deal will put the Opera Web browser on Samsung's advanced mobile phones - and the per-phone license fee may be a huge windfall for the Oslo software developer.
The Federal Communications Commission has approved changes to cable franchising law which will make it (much) easier for telecoms to offer video services.
Perhaps hoping no one makes any references to Samson, Cingular has announced an exclusive deal to carry Aliph's Jawbone stylish, noise-shielded, Bluetooth mobile headset.
VTech Communications plans to expand its cordless landline offerings with phones that offer email and instant messaging, Internet information...and even Wi-Fi.
Swedish startup Polar Rose wants to make image searching easier by using facial recognition technology and user input to automatically identify people in photos.
Come January, Panasonic's "business-rugged" Toughbook W5 and T5 notebooks will offer built-in support for Sprint's EV-DO Rev A Mobile Broadband service.
Nielsen Media Research finds that, for the first time, the number of U.S. households with DVD players is greater than the number with VCRs. Just barely.
Warner Bros. has bought a 10 percent stake in video game developer Eidos' parent company SCi Entertainment...and entered a distribution deal with CodeMasters.
Google and the U.S. space agency will work together on a series of projects, the first of which will put NASA data and out-of-this-world maps on computer desktops.
Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom have confirmed they're testing "The Venice Project," a new broadband television service expected to launch in 2007.