Device fingerprinting, or collecting digital identifiers from computers, cellphones and TV set-top boxes, is emerging as the latest tool for companies who sell the information to advertisers willing to pay for granular data about people's interests and activities.

More Americans went shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend than in recent memory, and online shopping accounted for the highest percentage of the weekend's sales yet.

Verigy has reported a profit for the August-October period, as higher sales of semiconductor test systems helped it come back from a loss a year earlier. The company's guidance fell short of Wall Street's expectations, however.

Samsung Electronics has said its new SSD with built-in hardware encryption provides the highest level of protection against unauthorized access to sensitive information on a lost or stolen laptop.

SAP AG must pay US$1.3 billion to rival Oracle Corp. for copyright infringement, a federal jury ruled Tuesday, following a high-profile court battle between the business software makers.

This is not only an iPad killer, but a Samsung Galaxy Tab killer as well," LA industrial analyst Mueller said of RIM's Playbook.