Last week, you could rent a movie on Facebook. Today, you can watch a live pro baseball game on the site. Still think Facebook can't be a big play... read more »
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White hot movie-streaming service Netflix could be looking to become the Web version of HBO as it negotiates to acquire an original television ... read more »
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(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) Google has acquired a Dublin, Ireland, company called Green Parrot Pictures to help improve the qu... read more »
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Radiation data from Tokyo (static image). (Credit: altTokyo.com) The intensifying nuclear crisis in Japan is raising anxieties on both sides of t... read more »
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Moxie Marlinspike, co-founder and chief technology officer at Whisper Systems, demonstrates the new WhisperCore app on an Android phone. (Credit... read more »
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Google has revamped its iPhone app. (Credit: Google) Google has retooled its free iPhone app with a new name, a streamlined look and feel, and an ... read more »
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Google is promising a few improvements to its online ad system to help stop the spate of advertisers hawking counterfeit items. In a blog posted y... read more »
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eBook Fling allows both Kindle and Nook users to lend e-books. Membership is free. (Credit: eBook Fling) In the past month or so, a couple of e-b... read more »
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After 12 betas, 1 release candidate, and more than 10 months of work, Mozilla has determined that Firefox 4 is ready to join the competing high-wire... read more »
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The U.S. military has blocked from its computer network several Web sites popular with military personnel, as it looks to reserve bandwidth for use ... read more »
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Zediva rents you DVDs, keeps them, and plays them on its network-connected DVD players. Unfortunately, at launch, many of its marquee films were no... read more »
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Google Docs lets you address particular comments to people. They&39're notified of comments by e-mail, and responses sent by e-mail appear in the d... read more »
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(Credit: Twitter) Twitter experienced downtime and elevated error rates for less than an hour today following the rollout of a setting that beefs ... read more »
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On a day when the stock market got creamed--at one point down more than 200 points--shares of Netflix were up more than 14 percent in early afternoon... read more »
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Google plans to begin testing a mobile payment service within the next four months, according to a report today. The company will pay for the insta... read more »
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Germany will shut down all seven of its nuclear power plants that began operation before 1980 and it is unclear whether they will start up again, th... read more »
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Twitter has tweaked its security settings to offer an option to always enable Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, or HTTPS. Although the more secu... read more »
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It's always dangerous to have an emotional relationship with a business. Businesses change, often driven by innovation. Or merely the desperate desir... read more »
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T-Mobile has unveiled a new data plan that gives mobile broadband users up to 10GB each month and no overage costs for a price of $85. Launched ye... read more »
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Might the Targa arrive with a 13-megapixel camera (Credit: PhoneArena) With Verizon announcing the release date of the Thunderbolt earlier this m... read more »
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