The Bellevue-based internet search company determined that Haggle was "unlikely to reach a profitable threshold," and sold the assets to a competitor called BigDeal.com, said InfoSpace spokeswoman Stacy Ybarra. She declined to specify the size of the deal."Despite our efforts to sustain the operation, it was determined that Haggle was ...

Silverlight still has a bright and promising future with Microsoft, the company's servers and tools division chief, Bob Muglia, wrote in a blog post on Monday, aiming to quell rumors to the contrary. "Make no mistake; we'll continue to invest in Silverlight and enable developers to build great apps and ...

Gartner analysts said the impact of media tablets on other devices will vary among segments. Low-end consumer notebooks will only marginally suffer from cannibalization. Gartner analysts expect very limited cannibalization on communication devices based on open OS (smartphones). The majority of the impact will be from 7-inch media tablets on ...

Barron's reports on a new research note from research firm Detweiler Fenton claiming that OmniVision Technologies has won the contract to supply image sensors for both a rear-facing 5-megapixel camera and front-facing VGA camera for the secon...

Apple's interest in Near Field Communication (NFC), the short-range wireless technology that supports such services as "tap and go" credit card payments, has been well-established, but a new report claims that Apple maybe be planning to inclu...

A court battle with the Feds sounds like something the search giant would want to avoid. But a suit filed by Google last week doesn't have anything to do with antitrust troubles. Instead, the suit accuses the federal government of failing to give Google Apps a fair shake when searching ...

Wii gamers get sparkly glove with new Jacko title (Credit: Matt Hickey/CNET) Michael Jackson Experience, raise your hand. Now put a rhinestone-bedazzled glove on it., PSP, and DS on November 23 and other platforms later--a holiday gift. Yep, it's a glove just like the one Jacko was famous for wearing ...

The iPad's ticket to multitasking freedom -- better known as iOS 4.2 -- has moves past the beta phase and onto GM, which means retail units should be seeing it soon. Besides the iPad, Apple is also providing builds for the second, third, and fourth generations of the iPod touch, ...

Sometimes founders are obligated to stay for a year or two after their company has been acquired, and sometimes things unravel a lot faster. Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is confirming a report in TechCrunch that AdMob Founder and CEO Omar Hamoui is leaving five months after his company was ...

Sprint will apparently be offering preorders of its HTC 7 Pro -- the only CDMA Windows Phone 7 device to be announced so far -- in just a few days' time on November 8th, but there's a fairly big catch: you've got to be a Microsoft employee to get in ...

The service is due to start today and will be trialed for six months, allowing people to log on to the Internet from Charing Cross ticket hall area, as well as the Northern and Bakerloo line platforms. There won't be access in the actual trains, apart from a few seconds ...

iPhone oops makes Europeans late for work owners rolled into work late this morning due to a bug in the phone's operating system that reportedly caused its alarm clock to go off an hour late, as Europe switched from daylight saving time back to GMT.one Twitter user based in London. ...

Essentially, the Mac would use NFC to authenticate with the phone. A user's bookmarks, address book, passwords, preferences, and settings would be stored on the phone so that when they sat down to any Mac it functioned as if they were using their home computer. As soon as the connection ...

My family and I have been living with a Google TV for a few days now and since I first installed it, I've come up some clever titles for this post. They've ranged from snarky to just plain mean, and, well, since I can't decide on just one, I went ...

VLC for iPhone may get pulled from App Store--by the developer, has apparently sent Apple a "formal notification of copyright infringement" and asked that the app be removed from the App Store. (Credit: Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET)reported by iLounge, Denis-Courmont said the App Store's product usage rules violate VLC's open-source ...

Reddit head leaves Conde Nast for Hipmunk brought Ohanian on board in Septemberlaunching an online campaign to convince comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to host a political rally in Washington, D.C. last weekend--CBS News estimated that 215,000 people showed up that resulted in hardcore users carpet-bombing the site with ...

From time to time, we will send you e-mail announcements on new features and special offers from The Wall Street Journal Online."Some investors believe that we are going to keep on buying things, but we are not," he says, adding Telefónica is going to strengthen the operations it owns. Copyright ...

(NFC) is a short-range wireless connection technology that would turn the iPhone into an electronic wallet or security passkey.especially if Apple adopts the technology a leading NFC expertIf users wave a NFC-equipped iPhone at a NFC Mac (they need to be in close proximity to interact), the Mac will load ...