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Hulu Plus emerged from its four-month preview on Wednesday, opening its streaming TV service to all and chopping $2 off its price tag at the same time. The service allows Hulu users to stream high-definition video to their computers, iPhones, iPads, select Samsung and Sony televisions and Blu-ray pl...

Amazon.com will more than double the revenue share for periodical publishers as it faces rising competition, at least in public perception, with Apple and other rivals for magazine and newspaper publications. The move comes shortly after Amazon announced that it would make magazines and newspapers a...

Citing First Amendment protections, a U.S. District Court judge in Seattle has ruled in favor of Amazon.com in its battle with North Carolina over potentially sensitive customer data the state claims it needs to calculate taxes. Judge Marsha J. Pechman ruled Monday that Amazon is not obligated to pr...

Adding the iPhone to its product mix helped Radio Shack lift its net income 23 percent in the third quarter, the company announced Monday. But falling margins and continued uncertainty about the venerable brand's future left the market unimpressed. Radio Shack reported diluted earnings per share of ...

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has weighed in publicly in the dispute between the Fox broadcasting empire and cable provider Cablevision over payments for broadcasting Fox programming. The scuffle could wind up giving the agency greater power to regulate such standoffs. Genachowski's agency release...

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it will combine its Office productivity Web apps suite and integrated Shareport, Exchange and Lync services into a monthly package service beginning next year. The service, called "Office 365," is a significant step-up from the Web-based productivity apps Microsoft p...

Ray Ozzie is out as chief software architect at Microsoft, opening a big void through which analysts are tossing innumerable opinions regarding what the departure means for the company. Ozzie's role was frequently seen as being Bill Gates' successor as the company's visionary technologist, a foil to...

A week after Logitech rolled out the first standalone box running Google TV, Sony has revealed four new HDTVs and a Blu-ray player powered by the system. The TVs range from 24 to 46 inches and include a RF-based QWERTY keypad remote with a mouse built in, as does the Blu-ray player, a $400 device. T...

It comes as no surprise that venerable Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer, has been on the decline in recent years, bowing under pressure from rivals like Firefox and Google Chrome. However, Web analytics firm StatCounter says while it's still the most-used browser family on Earth, fewer tha...

Twitter Cofounder Evan Williams has stepped aside as CEO and placed Dick Costolo, the man he hired as chief operating officer, in charge of the company as it works to build its business model. "I am most satisfied while pushing product direction," Williams wrote in a blog post announcing his decisio...

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button. The new Barnes & Noble PubIt e-book publishing service, unveiled on Monda...

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button. The new Barnes & Noble PubIt e-book publishing service, unveiled on Monda...

You can almost hear the old-timers growling: "Back in my day, you wanted to get published, first you had to cut down the trees yourself. In the snow. With only a pen knife." Now, it literally just takes a push of a button. The new Barnes & Noble PubIt e-book publishing service, unveiled on Monda...

The Indian government has been unable to intercept communications carried over BlackBerry devices despite an interim agreement on data sharing that kept Research In Motion's service alive after a threatened August outage, according to a report published Friday in the Economic Times, an Indian news s...

Netflix said Wednesday that it has launched its video-streaming-only service for Canada, a plan it first publicly revealed last July. At about $7.76 a month for unlimited streaming, the service is more than a dollar cheaper than the most inexpensive U.S. unlimited streaming option, which goes for U...

Sellout. Unprincipled. Evil. These aren't the sort of adjectives Google executives are used to hearing applied to their little startup, now a $150 billion company that has grown from a simple search engine into a dominating corporate powerhouse that even has its own foreign policy challenges. Howeve...

Netflix said Tuesday that it has reached a deal with a movie-studio owned pay-tv and streaming service that will make recent theatrical releases available to its customers 90 days after they begin to appear on premium cable and on-demand channels. Neither Netflix nor Epix, the pay-tv and streaming s...

The White House on Tuesday released its plan to fight intellectual property theft, including more than 30 recommendations designed to encourage all branches of government to take a more aggressive stand against piracy. The Joint Strategic Plan, which was required by the 2008 PRO-IP Act, creates a ju...

Microsoft used its annual TechEd Conference to pitch its forthcoming mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, to business users. The platform will feature the kind of tight integration with Office applications that only the manufacturer of those applications can provide, the company insisted, along...

Google plans to buy Global IP Solutions, a company that provides processing capabilities and other video and Voice over Internet Protocol services to companies such as Yahoo, AOL and WebEx. The $68 million deal, contingent on shareholder approval, represents a 142 percent premium over the closing pr...