Mark January 15 in your calendar: Rumors of layoffs at Microsoft peg that as the day the bad news will come. The latest to report on the possibility of layoffs at the software giant is the blog Fudzilla, which puts the numb...

Cancel your cable bill: LG will unveil a new line-up of Blu-ray players at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas capable of streaming YouTube and CinemaNow videos. Add these upcoming features to LG's new standard for streaming Netflix movies and you have three fewer reasons to subscribe to expe...

Picture this: You're gearing up to create a killer playlist on your 30GB Zune for your annual New Year's bash. All of a sudden, your Zune locks up, reboots itself, and freezes. What the heck is going on? In September, Microsoft released the Zune 3.0 software and firmware update along with its new...

Sit back, relax and let your car parallel park itself -- without a single scratch or ding to your bumper. That's what Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday about its new self-parking technology, which it announced will debut as an option on the 2010 Lincoln MKS sedan and the new seven-passenger Lin...

Another day, another Steve-Jobs-is-sick rumor to drive down Apple's stock price. Gizmodo, the well-respected gadget blog, reported today that a source who has been reliable in the past said Jobs' health was "rapidly declining" and that the Apple chief executive's health troubles were the ...

A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries. Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics ...

Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent? The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate -- and protests -- and after removing photos that expose too much of a mother's breast. Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the website takes no action ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Friday it will begin selling Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 3G starting Sunday, but not at the dramatic discount some had expected. The retailer said it would sell the eight-gigabyte iPhone 3G for $197 and the 16 GB model for $297. Prices are for phones with a new two-year ...

As notebook sales surpass desktop sales for the first time in history, many small-business owners may be tempted to jump to an Acer, Dell or even Apple portable. But security issues and accessory costs should make the average small-business owner think twice. Today's notebooks are sleek, ...

Some Israeli archaeologists are having a particularly happy Hanukkah. The Israel Antiquities Authority reported a thrilling find Sunday -- the discovery of 264 ancient gold coins in Jerusalem National Park. The coins were minted during the early 7th century. "This is...