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TiVo scored a victory Monday when the Supreme Court refused to intervene in a $74 million DVR patent case against Dish Networks.

RealNetworks has agreed to abide by a court-ordered temporary restraining order and has halted sales of its RealDVD DVD ripping software.

Internet auction site eBay will cut 10 percent of its workforce, or about 1,000 jobs, the company said Monday. On a more positive note, eBay also announced Monday that it will acquire online billing company Bill Me Later for $820 million in cash, plus two Danish Web properties.

In a September study of spam by Secure Computing, Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Barack Obama top their rivals in the number of spam email messages making reference to them.

We decided to compare notes and round up all the important info on the new Nintendo DSi handheld game console so far.

Is the Dow getting you down? Looking to take your mind off of total financial ruination with a few cheap, solid games? How does free strike you?

Skype's president has acknowledged that users in China have had instant messages both blocked and copied to servers owned by TOM Online, Skype's partner in the country.

Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country's technological edge in education.

Passing the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 may help reconnect us with an old friend: the radio.

Net-neutrality issues aside, Heavy Net users should pay more for broadband than those who simply dabble.

Google and Yahoo might be singing the praises of their ad deal on a newly created Web site, but the chairman of a Senate antitrust subcommittee said Thursday that the arrangement could pose a threat to competition.

Apple has asked the court hearing its suit against Psystar to toss out Psystar's counterclaim that Apple is in fact a monopoly, arguing that Psystar's own arguments acknowledge that fact.

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a clean-tech arm of the U.S. Department of Energy, have developed a photovoltaic cell that converts 40.8 percent of solar radiation -- the highest confirmed conversion efficiency to date.

Western Digital has added a second-generation GreenPower hard drive at 500-Gbytes and a 1-terabyte capacity point. WD says that the drives will consume 20 percent less power than the previous generation.

A free beta app called reQall for the RIM BlackBerry transcribes your voice reminders into actual to-do calendar and shopping items.

Honda is developing a gas-electric motorcycle that would use a hybrid drivetrain similar to the one in the forthcoming Honda Insight and could be available within two years, a report says.

Good news today for VUDU customers: Your HD content is about to look and sound better. Well, some of it is. It's all thanks to "Trufilm" HDX technology.

Nokia, the world's number-one cell phone maker, today announced the company's first touch-screen smartphone, the Nokia 5800.

Comcast officially launched its bandwidth caps for residential customers Monday, but while some video Web sites expressed concern about Internet restriction in general, none were particularly concerned.

Vice presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Sarah Palin will face off in their first and only debate Thursday, likely bypassing technology issues. But if they didn't, what type of expertise would each bring to the table?

Microsoft representatives backed multiple European reports quoting Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, who reportedly said that the software giant would introduce a "Windows Cloud" OS later this month.

The Acer Aspire Predator features an Intel Core 2 Quad 9300 processor, a nVidia GeForce 9600GT graphics card, 8GB of DDR2 memory, and two 640GB hard drives.

For men, bliss is often just a mouse-click away while quality time with family is guaranteed to put a smile on women's faces, according to an Australian study of what makes people happy.

A recent report that Nintendo may be preparing a version of the Nintendo DS game console that can play back music and take pictures may just be a rumor.

Although most of the fanfare surrounding NASA's 50th anniversary centered on July 29, which marked half a century since America's space agency was created by an act of Congress, it was actually 50 years ago today--October 1, 1958--that NASA opened its doors to its employees.

LaCie has announced the 700 series, a new LCD monitor lineup for creative professionals who need better color accuracy.

Microsoft has revamped it's perk-filled Live Search Club as Live Search Perks, which, like Live Search's Cashback program, pays you for sticking with the company.

Relenting to pressure from the developer community, Apple has dropped the NDAs that developers were required to agree to when they submitted their applications for consideration on the iPhone App Store.