LAS VEGAS-- As expected, Google today launched a new video download service during a keynote here by co-founder and President Larry Page at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
 
The service, called Google VideoStore, allows consumers to buy and download video content from providers such as CBS Broadcasting and the National Basketball

Maxtor Corporation unveiled a new family of its OneTouch external storage disk drives, topped off by a one-terabyte (1,000GB) drive. The devices feature advanced software tools with the capability to synchronize data between two or more computers.

Announced Thursday at CES, the Maxtor OneTouch III family begins with a 100GB drive and

SAN FRANCISCO — Semiconductor test and burn-in equipment supplier Aehr Test Systems Thursday (Jan. 5) reported a big jump in sequential and year-to-year revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2006, which closed Nov. 30.

Aehr (Fremont, Calif.) reported net sales of $5.8 million, up 21 percent from the $4.8 million reported

Verizon Wireless today entered the mobile-music market, joining the likes of competitor Sprint Nextel and Apple in introducing a service that will let you download music directly to your phone or straight to your PC.

The number-two U.S. wireless carrier has hooked up with Microsoft to create the V Cast Music service,

High-tech companies are scrambling to get a piece of the action of Internet telephony as the new technology gains more ground against traditional phone service.
 
The shift by consumers to Internet-based calling systems -- referred to as "Voice over Internet Protocol" (VoIP) -- is prompting makers of hardware, software and

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is distributing a free software startup kit designed to make computing safer and easier — a generous gesture driven by the company's desire to steer technology offline as well as online.

The software bundle, unveiled Friday in Las Vegas during a speech by Google co-founder Larry Page,

Software giant Microsoft has no plan to buy its small Norwegian Internet browser rival Opera Software, Microsoft's chief executive told Norwegian daily Aftenposten in an interview.
 
Rumors swirled in December that Opera Software could be a takeover target for Microsoft or U.S. Internet search technology firm Google.

"In the

The soaring iPod economy is expanding to video with the first wave of new gadgets aimed at consumers eager to watch their favorite television shows and movies on the portable devices.
 
A raft of companies offering accessories such as leather carrying cases and speakers have already struck gold in a

Yahoo will dramatically leap out of the PC Friday.

At the giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the search-engine giant plans to announce a set of popular Yahoo tools - including movie listings, trailers and online music - for televisions. It's free, though it requires the TV be hooked up to

EVE S.A. Thursday (Jan 5) announced the availability of a catalog of peripheral intellectual property (IP) components for its ZeBu emulation platform to address wireless, graphics/video/multimedia, networking and embedded processor markets.

The IP components are organized in three families — synthesizable memory models, transactors and hardware bridges — and allow EVE to