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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 will have a feature to block websites from tracking you.
It used to be to return or exchange an item you simply had to provide your receipt. Now many retailers are not only requiring a photo ID, they scan the ID and store the information in a database.
The head of Google's Android mobile operating software says the search company "bit off a little more than we could chew" with the sale of the Nexus One, a smart phone Google began selling online early this year but then stopped offering after similar devices powered by Android hit the market.
Google has opened an app store for its Chrome web-browser. CNET Editor-at-Large Brian Cooley explains.
Amazon.com is giving other merchants a chance to sell selections from its electronic book store and earn a commission.
Facebook was redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site's most popular features, photos.
An East Bay company has dialed into an old industry many consumers assumed was dead. It's business is off the hook, you might say.
Google is making the leap from digital librarian to merchant in a challenge to Amazon.com and its electronic reader, the Kindle.
Google has agreed to buy a company whose software is used to protect Internet video from piracy and make it play more smoothly.
Published reports are saying that Google's attempt to buy local-coupon site Groupon appears to have failed for now.
Viacom Inc., a sister company of CBS, is appealing a court decision that San Bruno-based YouTube obeyed copyright laws even though the Internet video site used to show thousands of pirated clips.
Yogi Bear, The Smurfs and other cartoon characters, FB'ers are changing their profile pictures to bring awareness against violence to children.
It used to be Black Friday shoppers had to wait in line for hours to catch the best deals. This year several retailers including Fry's Electronics posted their Black Friday deals online, but it was not without headaches.
