Netflix and NCR reach DVD distribution deals
By Sue Zeidler (Reuters) – Netflix Inc on Wednesday said it reached a deal to rent Sony movies 28 days after they go on sale, while NCR, which rents DVDs at nearly 7,000 Blockbuster kiosks,…
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Battling media boxes: Apple TV vs. Roku
By Rob Pegoraro A tiny $99 box can connect your TV to a wealth of Internet-delivered TV shows, movies, pictures, podcasts and music. But which $99 box should you get? In one corner, there’s Apple’s…
Quick Guide to top cell phone carriers
by Kent German Choosing a cell phone carrier isn’t easy. Should your choice come down to network coverage, or should you decide based on the selection of phones? Or perhaps the level of customer service…
Report: Apple Investigating iPhone 4 Case Scratches, Cracks
By: Chloe Albanesius Is a third-party case scratching up or even cracking your iPhone 4? Tech blog gdgt reported Thursday that some slide-on, third-party cases can cause scratches or cracking on the iPhone 4, so…
Verizon iPhone 4 brings competition, finally, between U.S. carriers
Verizon brings the iPhone 4 to market at a time when AT&T already has the iPhone 4 on the market. It’s good news for those Verizon customers who have always had interest in the iPhone…
Government Helps to Insure Children, Even Above the Poverty Line
By LESLEY ALDERMAN THE last few years have not been easy for Dean McCrea. In 2007, Mr. McCrea, 55, lost his wife of nearly 30 years. Then last November the company he worked for folded,…
Health Insurance for Children
By TARA PARKER-POPE In today’s Patient Money column, Lesley Alderman writes about the various ways parents can find health coverage for their children, even if they think they can’t afford it. Children in families with…
Facebook Politicians Are Not Your Friends
By FRANK RICH “THE Social Network,” you’re understandably sick of hearing, is a brilliant movie about the Harvard upstart Mark Zuckerberg and the messy birth of his fabulous start-up, Facebook, circa 2004. From the noisy…
Does Your Team Have the Four Essential Types?
By ADAM BRYANT This interview with Paul Maritz, , president and C.E.O. of the software firm VMware, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are some important leadership lessons for you? A. I’ve…
What the Squirrels Know: Acorns for Dinner
By DEBBIE LEE THE assault began in early September. That’s when my 60-year-old mother, an avid gardener, began laying mulch under the shrubs at her home in Westchester. She had her shovel in hand when…
The Claim: A Soap-and-Water Rinse Gets Produce Cleanest
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS The prospect of ingesting pesticides and other contaminants can make supermarket produce seem less than appetizing. Buying organic lowers the risk, but is no guarantee against food-borne pathogens. Scientists have…
New York Asks to Bar Use of Food Stamps to Buy Sodas
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought federal permission on Wednesday to bar New York City’s 1.7 million recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda or other sugared drinks. The request,…
Medical Student Distress and the Risk of Doctor Suicide
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Several years ago, I learned that a physician in a town not too far from where I was practicing had committed suicide. Neither I nor my hospital colleagues knew him,…
Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery
By KIRK JOHNSON DENVER — It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the…
Short Attention Spans for Web Videos
By ALEX MINDLIN After watching an online video for a full minute, 44.1 percent of viewers will have clicked away, according to Visible Measures. But an outsize slice of that loss occurs in the first…
Finding Your Way Through the Mall or the Airport, With a Cellphone Map
By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF SAN FRANCISCO — Mobile phone maps have guided people through streets and alleys around the globe. But when those people step into a sprawling building, they can get lost. Inside, people…
After Building an Audience, Twitter Turns to Ads
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and TANZINA VEGA In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison Avenue at Advertising Week, the annual industry conference, and promoted Dick Costolo, who has…
New Web Code Draws Concern Over Risks to Privacy
By TANZINA VEGA Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen…
Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
By JOHN MARKOFF MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof….
SeaWorld Discovery Cove – Orlando
No crowds. No turnstiles. Imagine a place where you and your family can touch and swim with dolphins, wade with mysterious rays, snorkel among thousands of exotic fish, hand-feed tropical birds in a free-flight aviary…
Seaworld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund Help Protect Animals In Need
Animals in need and endangered species around the world will benefit from more than $1 million in grants awarded by the non-profit SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund. Since its creation seven years ago, the…
Surplus Auctions Exposed: Is 95% Off Retail Price Possible?
Surplus auction websites are a new phenomenon that is quickly spreading through North America and Europe (like you have probably already seen). They are all over the internet in blogs and success stories of people…
How to score an upgrade: Air, car, hotel
(MONEY Magazine) — Remember when getting a free travel upgrade was as easy as walking up to the counter with your biggest smile? Now that airlines have pared back flights, and rental car agencies have…
How technology keeps movies, TV shows relevant
By Stephanie Goldberg (CNN) — Upon his release from prison in the new “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” corporate raider Gordon Gekko reclaims his belongings: A gold watch and a mobile phone the size of…
Google opens URL-shortener Goo.gl to public
By Damon Brown, Special to CNN (CNN) — Web-page addresses can be notoriously long, but even the normal ones seem absolutely huge in our age of Twitter and text messaging. Every letter counts when you…
Health insurance, finances may matter when parents follow doctor’s orders for their kids
By Jeannine Stein / Los Angeles Times When doctors recommend treatment for children, do parents always comply? No, but it could have to do with how much health insurance they have, a study finds. Researchers…
Google Inc.
Founded in 1998, Google runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine. It’s a position that has earned Google huge profits and given it outsize influence over the online world. But Google’s ambition far exceeds…
California Reduces Its Penalty for Marijuana
By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO — A month before California voters decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that essentially puts those caught possessing…
Iran Says It Arrested Computer Worm Suspects
By WILLIAM YONG TEHRAN — Iran has arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Saturday….
The Social Network (2010) – Movie Review
By MANOHLA DARGIS Millions of Friends, but Not Very Popular What makes Mark Zuckerberg run? In “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media…
From ‘Avatar’ Playbook, Athletes Use 3-D Imaging
By JAMES GLANZ and ALAN SCHWARZ In the endless quest for athletic advantage, a handful of major league baseball teams are engaged in an elaborate, largely clandestine race to master an advanced imaging technology that…
Las Vegas Faces Its Deepest Slide Since the 1940s
By ADAM NAGOURNEY LAS VEGAS — There are many cities across the country that are beginning to see the first glimpses of the end of the recession. This is not one of them. The nation’s…
Verizon Wireless to Pay Up to $90 Million in Refunds
By EDWARD WYATT WASHINGTON – Verizon Wireless said Sunday it will pay up to $90 million in refunds to 15 million cell phone customers who were wrongly charged for data sessions or Internet use, one…
More States Allowing Guns in Bars and Restaurants
By MALCOLM GAY NASHVILLE — Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonk restaurants and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a…
Getting Listed in Google, Yahoo and Bing
by Lisa Irby Getting listed in Google and the other popular search engines is one of the most effective ways of directing free, targeted traffic to your website. Below you’ll discover what the search engines…
Nintendo Wii to Add Netflix Service for Streaming Video
By BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO — Owners of the Nintendo Wii can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the couch. Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video…
Bright House subcontractor accused of stealing cable
BROOKSVILLE – Deputies arrested a man Friday morning on a theft of services charge after Bright House Networks accused him of obtaining unauthorized cable television. Jason Norris Samulski, 34, of 9628 Southern Charm Circle in…
Brighthouse Networks Customer Service Get a Poor Grade
If you don’t have any problems, Brighthouse can be great. But then, companies you really want to do business with prove that to you WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM. 9/1/2010 – This company has gotten…
Broadband rumble: Verizon vs. Bright House
By GRACE GAGLIANO BRADENTON — Verizon is hardly tiptoeing on Bright House Network’s turf anymore. The communications company this month lowered its pricing on monthly contracts for new Tampa Bay customers to more directly compete…
Why your services were disconnected and how to restore them
If you’ve been informed that your Internet service has been suspended by the security department, it’s most likely that a computer virus has compromised your computer. Although the security department sometimes suspends the Internet service…
Bright House Releases Statement On Central Florida Internet Problems
ORLANDO, Fla. — Bright House Networks customers are getting increasingly angry over Internet connection problems that apparently have been plaguing all of Central Florida. Most of the customers reporting the problems to Eyewitness News first…
Bright House Ad Claim Foul, Verizon Says
By Richard Mullins Tampa Tribune, Fla. May 1–TAMPA — In case you hadn’t noticed, Verizon and Bright House Networks really don’t like each other. The rivals in cable, telephone and Internet service are in a…
Line2: Turn an iPod Touch into an iPhone
by DAVID POGUE There’s some big news about Line2, the iPhone app I reviewed in March. As I’m sure you remember, I wrote: For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to…
Insurer Cuts Health Plans as New Law Takes Hold
By REED ABELSON The Principal Financial Group announced on Thursday that it planned to stop selling health insurance, another sign of upheaval emerging among insurers as the new federal health law starts to take effect….
A Simple Swipe on a Phone, and You’re Paid
By DAVID POGUE It’s always thrilling when somebody looks at the Way Things Have Always Been Done, and then asks: Why? And then goes on to change the world forever. 1967: Why is it necessary…
The Claim: Gargling With Salt Water Can Ease Cold Symptoms
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS Nothing but time can cure the common cold, but a simple cup of salt water might ease the misery this winter. A sore, itchy throat and respiratory congestion are some…
Warnings About Discounted Pet Drugs
By TARA PARKER-POPE The United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a consumer alert to pet owners, warning them about the dangers of buying discounted pet drugs online. Reputable online pharmacies can help pet…
New Parents in Need of Sleep
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Chronic insomnia has been linked to a range of medical problems, from loss of concentration to high blood pressure, explained Dr. Michael Thorpy and Dr. Shelby Freedman Harris of the…
What is an Internet Browser?
If your one of the many people who still do not know what a browser exactly is, a browser is a program that enables you to view the Web on the Internet. If you need…
What is Google AdWords?
With Google AdWords, you can create and run ads for your business, quickly and simply. Run your ads on Google and our advertising network — no matter what your budget, you’ll only pay when people…