According to ZDnet online holiday spending rose 25 percent to 30 percent from a year ago. Hot items were computer hardware, consumer electronics and clothing.
A report from Goldman Sachs, Nielsen/NetRatings and Harris Interactive stated that between Oct. 29 and Dec. 23 retail shoppers in the U.S. spent $30.1 billion online, up 30 percent from the same period a year ago.
Read MoreAccording to latimes.com Google will unveil its own low-price personal computer or other device that connects to the Internet.
Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one reason it would be so cheap — perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars.
Windows users should install an unofficial security patch now according to security researchers at The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC). Their recommendation follows a new wave of attacks on a flaw in the way versions of Windows from 98 through XP handle malicious files in the WMF (Windows Metafile) format.
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2005 was filled with success stories in the high-tech industry. Google Earth redefined how we think of our planet, the Razr phone proved that people do care about beauty, and the iPod - well, you know all about the iPod.
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Create dazzling multimedia presentations, slideshows and banners with Active Slideshow Pro. This extension builds on the success of Active Slideshow and gives you new spectacular effects and optimal control over your slides, texts, transitions and sounds.
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The World Wide Web Consortium has published a new specification for the development of multimedia presentations on mobile phones. The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) lets developers create interactive presentations in an easy way.
Read MoreQuanta Taiwan's biggest manufacturer of notebooks in the world, has signed on to the $100 laptop project. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization, which hopes to bring a $100 laptop championed by MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, has selected Quanta to manufacture products, but also participate substantially in the final design.
Read MoreMicrosoft on provided a fix for a "critical" security flaw in Windows. The software maker released the patch in security bulletin MS05-054, as part of its monthly patching cycle. The update also plugs three other security holes in Internet Explorer, the Web browser component of Windows. One of the other flaws is also deemed critical, but Microsoft said it is not aware of any malicious code that takes advantage of it.
Read MoreMTV Networks and Microsoft will work together to design and develop a new digital music service. The service, to be called Urge, is due to launch in 2006 and will be integrated into a new version of Microsoft's Windows Media Player.
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