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No one wants a rain check for Christmas. Remember the Nintendo Wii shortages a few Christmases ago? Some stores sold out of the popular video game system in minutes and many stores didn't offer rain checks. The stores that did offer rain checks didn't have the consoles until January, and a rain...

News Corp.'s decision to make its TV shows available for 99-cent rental to Apple TV users is just the latest chapter in an increasingly cozy relationship between Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs.

At a much-anticipated event Wednesday, Apple announced an overhaul of its Apple TV service and equipment. The size of a hockey puck, the new Apple TV box is designed to allow users to stream TV shows and movies with greater ease and at a lower price. Steve Jobs also discussed new features for Apple's iPods, and a new social network connected to iTunes. (Video from Sam Gustin.)

According to Bloomberg, Apple is gearing up for a media event on Sept. 7 at which Apple is rumored to announce 99-cent TV show rentals from major networks, a price drop of $2 compared to the current cost of purchasing a TV episode. This is a departure from past attempts at offering a TV show...

Mark Papermaster, Apple's senior executive for iPhone hardware, has left the company, leaving behind a firestorm of controversy surrounding the iPhone 4 and its antenna problems, and the resultant complaints about reception.

Vonage has just made staying in touch with your Facebook friends easier and cheaper thanks to the new Vonage Mobile application for Facebook, which allows Facebook friends to call each other free on the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices. The new Vonage Mobile app for Facebook is...

If you're looking for one of the best ways to book a hotel room dirt cheap, use a tool such as Priceline.com or call the hotel in the evening to get a room that would otherwise be empty. The Priceline.com app for the iPhone and iPad (which covers cars and hotels) makes this even easier, since you...

The AAA TripTik. Nothing quite brings back the memories of a summer road trip like the neatly bound ream of paper from the local AAA office that highlighted the quickest route and important information along the road to a family vacation. AAA still offers these hardcopy TripTiks to members at the...

Early Sunday, suspicious activity in the Apple App Store prompted customer complaints and technology sleuths to discover an inexplicable rise in sales of Vietnamese-language books, seemingly pirated, in both the App and Apple iTunes stores. The hackers, burned customers reported, were hijacking...

Toy Story 3, made by Pixar, the digital animation company Steve Jobs co-founded and later sold to Walt Disney, is off to a blazing start at the box office, pulling in $41 million in its first day on Friday and a likely $100 million-plus for the weekend.