Mark Raby

If you have a gift card from last year that's partially or completely unredeemed, you helped line retailers' pockets by over $3.5 billion.

A Senator from Wisconsin wants to mandate an extra tax on video games because he claims they are linked to juvenile crime.

Owners of analog TV sets can send off their application for a free converter box beginning tomorrow, to prepare for the digital switch over that happened in February 2009.

An interactive marketing group in San Francisco held a charity auction believed to be the first of its kind to send the proceeds to the "One Laptop Per Child" program.

Las Vegas (NV) - Panasonic has started shipping samples of an ultra-thin Blu-ray disc drive for lightweight notebooks.

Washington (DC) - Congressman Paul Broun (R-GA) has written a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras.

Over the weekend, visitors to the official Blu-ray Disc website were sent to the official HD DVD website instead, apparently the work of a format-biased hacker.

Procrastinating shoppers pushed last week's e-tailer sales up 25% over the same period last year, a new record for the last-minute shopping time.

Amazon.com was represented in an auction in Sotheby's yesterday, and the online retailer became the proud owner of a never-before-released handwritten book from J.K. Rowling, for around $4 million.

Google accounted for more than 65% of all Internet search requests in November, a new record for the online giant.

For a while it seemed like just a myth, but Dell's convertible Tablet PC has now been officially announced.

Ask.com's latest service will allow users to keep their search data from being saved for several months, giving it an advantage over Google and other search portals.

For years it has been a rumor and a near reality, but now it's actually happening - airline passengers will be able to access full e-mail and IM services at tens of thousands of feet above ground.

Google's somewhat underwhelming chat feature inside Gmail has now been energized with integration with the most popular IM service.

Yahoo's online photo sharing service Flickr receives an update today to allow users to edit individual pictures in their digital albums.

A Missouri prosecutor said Monday no charges would be sought in the case of a teen who hanged herself last year after chatting on MySpace, although he said adults should have prevented the tragedy.

Italy has banned the use of cell phones in schools across the country, making it reportedly the first European nation to implement such a statewide ban.

The few YouTube users who have managed to become virtual celebrities will be honored at the first annual YouTube Video Awards.