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Jay Aguas shops for a large, flat screen television at a Best Buy Store in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. The California Energy Commission voted unanimously, Wednesday, adopting a first-in-the-nation mandate to require all new televisions, up to 58 inches, to be more energy efficient, beginning in 2011. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Calif. requires TVs to be more energy-efficient

Wed Nov 18, 6:58 PM ET

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California regulators adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions Wednesday in hopes of reducing electricity use at a time when millions of American households are switching to power-hungry, wide-view, flat-screen, high-definition sets.

  • 2 sites selling Beatles songs to remain shut down Thu Nov 19, 12:51 AM ET

    LOS ANGELES - Two Web sites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

  • FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1997 file photo, Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario video game series, demonstrates Super Mario 64 in his office at the Nintendo Co. headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. Even though Mario hasn't changed much in nearly three decades, the latest game he stars in, the newly released 'The New Super Mario Bros. Wii,' is one of the holiday season's top titles. (AP Photo/Atsushi Tsukada)
    Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go Wed Nov 18, 5:41 PM ET

    NEW YORK - You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games. He's reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He's also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through him.

  • In this photo made Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, the Palm Pixi from Sprint is shown in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)
    Review: $100 Palm Pixi is stylish but sluggish Wed Nov 18, 3:02 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Palm Inc. is fighting harder than ever to snag a chunk of the smart phone market, and just six months after releasing the stylish Pre it's back with a lighter, more petite and affordable version called the Pixi.

  • Sony may not fill some e-reader orders by holidays Wed Nov 18, 4:52 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Sony Corp. says some customers who pre-order its newest e-reader may not get the gadget in time for the holidays.

  • Facebook users can help Chase find small charities Wed Nov 18, 4:59 PM ET

    NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase is letting Facebook users help decide how to give away $5 million.

  • Sony Ericsson closes NC, other sites as HQ moves Wed Nov 18, 6:54 PM ET

    RALEIGH, N.C. - Cell phone handset maker Sony Ericsson will move its North American headquarters from North Carolina to Atlanta and close a half-dozen sites worldwide as it retrenches against what it expects will be a tighter market and cuts about 1,600 jobs globally.

  • 'Call of Duty' setting entertainment records Wed Nov 18, 3:54 PM ET

    NEW YORK - The video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" is blasting its way into entertainment history.

  • FILE - In this file video game image released by Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., a scene is shown from 'Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.' (AP Photo/Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.,File)
    'Uncharted 2' leads Video Game Award nominations Wed Nov 18, 11:36 AM ET

    NEW YORK - "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" has seized a leading eight nominations for this year's Video Game Awards, Spike TV announced Wednesday.

  • IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines Wed Nov 18, 12:02 AM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of technology.

  • Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 friend Facebook Wed Nov 18, 2:26 PM ET

    NEW YORK - Users of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles can now brag about their achievements on Facebook as both systems integrate the social network this week.

  • Microsoft told to stop some Windows sales in China Wed Nov 18, 10:12 AM ET

    BEIJING - A Beijing court has ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling some versions of its Windows operating system in China in a licensing dispute with a local supplier.

  • UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests Wed Nov 18, 12:05 PM ET

    LONDON - A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.

  • FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2006 file photo, Michael White, then, CEO of PepsiCo USA, speaks in a panel session on Global Brands during the World Economic Forum WEF in Davos, Switzerland. DirecTV Group Inc. said Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, that White will take the chief executive position on Jan. 1. He is now also chief executive of PepsiCo International.(AP Photo/Keystone, Alessandro della Valle, file)
    DirecTV to appoint PepsiCo executive as CEO Wed Nov 18, 5:10 PM ET

    DirecTV Group Inc. chose the vice chairman of PepsiCo Inc. as its chief executive Wednesday, filling a vacuum created when its former chief left just as the nation's largest satellite TV provider was in the midst of a spinoff.

  • This image provided by MySpace shows The Kings of Leon's album, 'Use Somebody.' Google Inc. rolled out a new music search feature Wednesday Oct. 28, 2009 that brings U.S. searchers one click away from streaming a full-length song. The simple design brings up to four songs to the top of search results that will play from pop-up players from MySpace or Lala, shows one image of album art, and offers links to other music sites Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody.(AP Photo/MySpace)
    AP Sources: MySpace in talks to buy imeem Tue Nov 17, 8:17 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES - Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

  • South Korean regulator approves iPhone Wed Nov 18, 12:09 AM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's telecommunications regulator cleared the way Wednesday for the launch of Apple's iPhone, amid reports the hit device could reach consumers by the end of this month.

  • Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Ray Ozzie speaks at the company's Professional Developers Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
    Microsoft's cloud computing system is growing up Tue Nov 17, 3:40 PM ET

    SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. leads its industry in part because a vast army of outside computer programmers design software that only runs on its Windows operating system.

  • T-Mobile resumes sale of Sidekicks after data loss Tue Nov 17, 9:57 AM ET

    NEW YORK - T-Mobile USA resumed selling Sidekick phones Tuesday, more than a month after a server meltdown at Microsoft Corp. caused contact numbers, pictures and other personal information to disappear from many of the phones.

  • UK: Millions of customer records sold Tue Nov 17, 12:14 PM ET

    LONDON - Rogue employees at a major mobile phone company illegally sold millions of customer records to rival firms, Britain's information watchdog said Tuesday.

  • This Friday, July 10, 2009 picture shows Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at the annual Allen & Co.'s media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho . Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In a memo sent to employees, the CEO of Allen's investment firm says the 56-year-old Allen received the diagnosis in Nov. 2009 and has begun chemotherapy. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
    Microsoft co-founder Allen treated for lymphoma Tue Nov 17, 12:02 PM ET

    SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. co-founder and billionaire investor Paul Allen has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.