Published July 4, 2009, 11:05 AM EST
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People.
Consider the most successful celebrity news destinations online, and something else jumps to the top. For more than a year, one site has attrac...
Published July 4, 2009, 10:50 AM EST
LONDON (AP) - Telecoms company BT Group PLC is offering staff a year off work in return for a 75 percent cut in that year's pay.
BT is one of Britain's biggest companies, with more than 100,000 employees. It is trying to cut costs after posting a net loss of almost 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) for the first th...
Published July 4, 2009, 10:15 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Saturday Evening Post, a centuries-old publication that helped make illustrator Norman Rockwell a household name and showcased some of America's greatest writers, is returning to its roots to show readers the value of a quiet read in an increasingly frenetic digital age.
A redesign launching wit...
Published July 3, 2009, 5:40 AM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
The pilot program, known as Einstein 3, was supposed to launch in February. But the Department of Homel...
Published July 2, 2009, 9:15 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.
Increasingly, states aching under the weight of the recession are seeking a way around that rule. Because companies like Amazon.com Inc. get...
Published July 2, 2009, 3:00 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a "treasure trove" of historical film footage from the 1960s and '70s that had been sitting in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's former World War II headquarters in London.
The archive includes color film recordings of a young Yasser Arafat, Liby...
Published July 2, 2009, 1:50 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) - The government is helping two dozen TV stations that became difficult to receive by antenna when they switched to new frequencies as part of the digital TV transition, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday.
Most of the stations, in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Dallas...
Published July 2, 2009, 11:50 AM EST
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A technology expert said Wednesday that potentially years' worth of Mayor Ray Nagin's e-mails have been deleted.
Christopher Reade, a partner in a tech firm who assisted the Louisiana Technology Council in efforts to recover data for the mayor's office, said the mailbox was removed between June 2008...
Published July 2, 2009, 9:20 AM EST
BEIJING (AP) - Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.
Beijing's decision this week to delay the requirement that the filtering software _ known as Green ...
Published July 2, 2009, 7:50 AM EST
(AP) - Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.
It's unclear how much of an effect the new policies will have. One consumer group said the changes don't go far enough, and t...