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IT World: "Chromebooks have to make their mark in education first, because they're too full of what-ifs for consumers right now."

Spurned by consumers who now favor tablets, smartphones and higher-definition consoles, Nintendo Co. said it will probably post a loss in its current fiscal year — its first in at least three decades.

ShopSavvy, a mobile app known for arming shoppers with the ability to scan products to find the best prices, is now giving consumers the ability to scan products they own so they can quickly put them up for sale.

According to the survey, nearly one in five consumers who own both an iPad and an iPhone believe that it's more difficult to switch smartphones than it is to change bank accounts, gas companies, or electric providers.

Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, Apple, privacy groups, and online advertising associations work to balance consumers' interests with Web companies' requirements for user data.

Facebook's Open Graph does two things: Gives consumers a new way to share and interact on the site as well as escalates brands' engagement possibilities.

Are these agendas cohesive or divisive?

Most ISPs advertise the upload and download speeds of their broadband, but just how much "Truth in Advertising" is there?

A recent study by the FCC can give consumers the answer, at least for the providers in the study.

To what extent can a thing be an advertisement for itself? It’s an old copyright debate and one generally lost by consumers, but one red-hot in these here days of internetting, when you can have a thing quite easily digitally, with no physical – or financial – intrusion.

Even as more consumers own smartphones that can download apps, developers must get more creative to stand out among the hundreds of thousands of other apps.

The Wi-Fi Alliance will work with equipment providers, carriers and device manufacturers to create a testing and certification program that will enable operators to eventually offer consumers the ability to roam on Wi-Fi networks.