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Step aside, Elmo. Watch out, Cabbage Patch Kids. This year's biggest and most desired toy? A hamster. But not any hamster. Built with the same technology behind the Roomba vacuum cleaners, these little hamsters can do a lot. According to...

The head of the UN atomic watchdog has urged Iran to accept a deal over its nuclear programme by the end of the year, and "move beyond sanctions". Mohammed ElBaradei said the ball was "very much in the Iranian court"....

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009), known as the King of Pop, was an American musician and one of the most commercially successful and influential entertainers of all time. His unique contributions to music and dance,...

Twitter, the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising. Twitter plans to start the ad business in...

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Friday it had sold out of its newly-launched Nook electronic readers due to high demand -- a pre-holiday miscalculation that analysts said could boost sales of rival Amazon.com Inc's market leading Kindle. The news...

I knew there was something I liked about Mike Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor, making a book tour of his own these days, said he found it disappointing that folks on the right were criticizing President Barack Obama no matter...

In the past few decades, the number of electronic gadgets sucking up energy in American households has increased at a staggering pace. Although experts have offered up many different ways for cutting back on phantom loads and increasing conservation efforts,...

But while that event is hogging the spotlight, Google also introduced another example of how one Google project leads to another -- and eventually to more online traffic and ad revenue. The back story Google's YouTube video sharing service added...

Chrome operating system designed to be used with netbooks specifically made for the browser. One neat feature about the OS is that you turn on the PC and -- whoosh! -- you're immediately surfing the Internet...HPQ ) , Google hopes...

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