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Online retailers plan to offer more deals and promotions to spur holiday shopping on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

Symantec's Report on the Underground Economy details cheap cyberattack tools, high price tags for bank account information, and software piracy trends.

A start-up is disclosing details of a new service to address patent risks facing technology companies, lining up Cisco and IBM as initial members.

The NFL will broadcast a game between the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders live in 3-D, in an attempt to entice tech-savvy fans.

The My Passport Studio is completely awesome just for what it is: a 500GB external drive that you plug into your Mac, sit back and watch as the drive icon pops up on the screen. It's fully Mac-formatted, and Time Machine wants to gobble it up as soon as it's detected.

Microsoft has taken control of the domain name and is reportedly directing internal traffic to the test site.

Qwest CFO Joseph Euteneuer assured Wall Street that the company was generating enough free cash and had enough "levers" to pull to cover its debt.

A Gmail security vulnerability may allow an attacker to set up filters on users' e-mail accounts without their knowledge, according to a proof of concept.

The Sony-owned online video entertainment site will reportedly unveil six new Web shows as it gets ready to kick off its new "season" on December 1.

The Nintendo Wii tops the list as most energy-efficient game console in a study which recommends console industry adopt easy-to-use power-management features.

Team posts downloads and instructions for unlocking the firmware update, and also includes a word of caution about Apple's baseband technology.

Some Facebook engineers came up with a visualization of user activity by the social network's 120 million users across the planet.

Video-sharing site offers its first live stream of an event--one designed to celebrate itself and many of the most popular performers on the site.

A federal judge in Seattle has ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft that alleges the company misled consumers in a marketing campaign for its Windows Vista operating system in which computers sold with an older Microsoft OS were labeled 'Vista Capable' when in fact they could only run a basic version of Vista.

A federal judge in Seattle has ordered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class action lawsuit against Microsoft that alleges the company misled consumers in a marketing campaign for its Windows Vista operating system in which computers sold with an older Microsoft OS were labeled 'Vista Capable' when in fact they could only run a basic version of Vista.

CNET's Kent German and Kara Tsuboi catch a ride on Virgin America's debut of its in-flight Wi-Fi service.

Search giant is ready to take on Microsoft's browser with OEM deals to increase Chrome's availability.

Flaw in operating system's networking could allow rootkits to be hidden or denial-of-service attacks to be executed, but no fix is expected until the next service pack.

Employees, who had been placed on paid leave earlier this week during Verizon's investigation, are no longer there, according to CNN.