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When someone's watching do you pick up the environmentally-safe dishwashing liquid and compact fluorescent light bulbs? But when no one's around scarf fried pork rinds and hose the dirt off your driveway? Don't feel bad; you are definitely not alone. A new survey from the Carlson School of...

PayPal has created an iPhone application along with Bump Technologies that allows iPhone users to pay one another by using their cell number or by bumping phones together. (Unfortunately its name could be a little snappier than PayPal's Send Money and its counterpart, Collect Money.) The same app...

Just when you thought you bought the perfect high-definition television, three-dimensional TV becomes the newest rage. Does 3D TV mean the highest level of home entertainment? It looks like electronics makers think so, with Sony, Samsung and Mitsubishi all launching their consumer line of 3D ready,...

Are people dropping expensive cable bills to download their favorite shows off the Web? One survey suggests that consumers may be doing just that. According to a survey by electronics market research company iSuppli Corp., approximately 27.5% of people who bought televisions in January 2010 have...

Daily Show and Colbert Report viewers, take note: Next week, company Viacom will be taking off Comedy Central free programming like "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" from video site Hulu.com. Viacom said it wasn't happy with the revenue stream on the popular site that captures about 44...

A new microchip that combines an applications processor and display controller could soon drop the price of e-readers by $30, according to reports. Freescale Semiconductor, which supplies chips to both Amazon.com's Kindle and the Sony eReader, says it supplies 90% of the market, and some analysts...

Talking into your watch may seem a little like a 1980s spy movie, but the Kempler & Strauss W Phone Watch is now here. Called, the W, the unlocked GSM phone retails for about $199, has a camera for stills or video, a touchscreen, Mp3 player and comes with a Bluetooth headset.

Facebook has now teamed with the eBay-owned PayPal to pay for self-service ads and virtual goods.Although Facebook was once considering its own pay system, rumored to be Facebook Wallet, those plans appear to be shelved. Facebook said that it was partnering with PayPal because 70% of its 400...

After questions from the Federal Communications Commission, Google has lowered its early termination fees for its Nexus One from $350 to $150. Although Google calls it an "equipment recovery fee" for the phone, customers who want to break their two-year contract will still have to pay an early...

Apparently many people are going to be receiving flowers and customized gifts this Valentine's Day, at least according to recent Internet searches. Experian Hitwise, which measures Internet use in the United States and internationally, released its weekly data ending the week of Feb. 6, stating...