It's official: Oprah Winfrey will end her famous talk show in 2011. The much speculated rumor was made official yesterday and will come at the end of next year as Oprah readies the new OWN channel for launch. While The...

The music industry video portal Vevo will launch December 8th. The site, associated with both Sony and Universal, uses YouTube's platform to host and stream high quality, official music videos from artists. Vevo's goal is to reclaim the "premium luster"...

The new ShopSavvy app for the iPhone allows shoppers to photograph bar codes and identify them. ShopSavvy not only identifies the item, but provides information on the product, while locating other retailers and prices. The app could save you a...

Time Warner's long awaited spinoff of AOL will happen December 9th. The spin off estimates that AOL is worth approximately $3.4 billion, 1/11th of Time Warner's total worth. The $3.4 billion valuation is two billion less than the company was...

YouTube is updating its site to make way for 1080p HD. The online video destination will make the update live this week, with YouTube working on re-encoding the current set of 720p HD videos to the new format. The upgrade...

Comcast is getting ready to launch its On-demand Online service. During the NewTeeVee Live conference, Interactive Media president Amy Banse announced that the service will launch before Hanukkah, which begins December 11th. Banse also stated that the company wants users...

Microsoft may ban as many as one million XBox Live users for modifying their consoles or playing illegal games. The company believes that between 600,000 and a million users have played pirated games on their system, or modified...

Google is stepping up its mobile tracking services. The company added a Location History feature to its Google Latitude application, which specifies locations users have visited, as well as a Google Map which outlines where users can receive flu shots....

The Kansas City Chiefs released star running back Larry Johnson after the athlete repeatedly slammed coaches and fans on Twitter. Due to the incident, Johnson, who had recently been suspended for misconduct, is no longer apart of the organization and...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will hit stores tomorrow. The new game in the popular Activision series has been lauded by gaming critics and is one of the highest profile entertainment releases of the year. The new Call of...

Oprah announced that she will exclusively air her flagship program on the Oprah Winfrey Network beginning 2011. The move finds Oprah walking away from her massive syndication deals, in an attempt to flesh out the programming of her...

Walmart and Hewlett-Packard have teamed for a $300 computer. The computer, which is priced like a netbook but built like a full-fledged laptop, features a 250GB hard drive, 3 GB of RAM, a DVD burner, a 15.6 inch...

According to T-Mobile, about 22% of male texters end their sms messages to their male friends with hugs and kisses. Lower case x's, which denote little kisses, and even upper case x's or multiple x's which denote big kisses. If...

According to many reports, Apple is currently working on a subscription television service for iTunes. Apple is currently shopping the deal, which would cost consumers an estimated $30 a month, with all major networks. While details...

After introducing a new Lists feature to select users last week, Twitter has now made Lists available to all Twitter users. Lists give Twitter users the ability to organize tweets into different categories, helping to ease the following and viewing...

Netflix wll begin offering its Watch Instantly service through Nintendo's Wii. While rumors have been circulating, especially after Netflix reached a deal with Sony to include Watch Instantly with the PS3, sources say the Wii could be packaged with the...

Google will allow Android phone users the ability to get turn-by-turn directions when using Google Maps on their phone. The feature update to the application also includes voice-powered search and will be exclusively available on phones running Android....

The US Government is scared that a swine flu epidemic could crash the countries broadband infrastructure. A report released by the US Accountability Office said that if 40% of employees and students were at home sick, there is...

For the first time in its existence, web domain names will be able to be written in languages besides English. Peter Dengate, chairman of ICANN, the group who presides over domain names, believes it "is the biggest change technically to...

Lawyers are warning employers against friending employees on social networks. The National Law Journal wrote that friending or following employees on Facebook or Twitter could "trigger or exacerbate a host of legal claims, including harassment, discrimination or wrongful termination." While...