Online Holiday Spending Tops $18 Billion

Forget about Cyber Monday; December 6th easily topped the online sales of the Monday after Thanksgiving, as US consumers spent $803 million on the first Thursday in December.

AOL Brightens Up Its Desktop

A new version of AOL Desktop bundles tabbed browsing, multiple email account management, and an "App Map" of all open application windows within the environment.

Who’s Vint Cerf Kidding?

The cold hard truth is, if kids want to find it, they'll find a way to find it. They can't be completely sheltered without locking them in their rooms, which probably does more damage than letting them see what they wanted to see in the first place.

Search Spam Primer

Every Internet marketer has heard about search spam, the unethical tactics that so-called "black hat" search marketers use that violate the search engines' terms of service. Now if you have no intention of doing anything unethical, you might believe that you don't need to understand search spam.

Americans In The Dark About Digital TV Switch

A good number of U.S. TV watchers are not aware that analog signals will change to digital in 2009, according to Leichtman Research Group's "HDTV 2007: Consumer Awareness, Interest and Ownership" report.