Merril Hoge in ESPN’s studios in front of N.F.L. plays.

Google applied for incorporation 10 years ago. Where does the company stand today, especially compared to rival Microsoft? We take a look at the numbers.

Comcast has appealed a ruling by the F.C.C. that objected to the way the cable company had slowed down the connection of some users who were trying to share video and other files.

The company said Thursday that the recall of 440,000 units involved 19 models of the Vaio TZ laptop series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008.

On Thursday, the company unveiled the Mini 9, a $349 portable computer that weighs 2.28 pounds, has an 8.9-inch screen and is tailored for Internet-centric tasks.

The beginning of life, the cell stage, in the new video game Spore, in which the microbes eat pellets and avoid bigger organisms.

Liberty’s 50 percent stake in DirecTV will account for more than 80 percent of the value of a new company that will also include other Liberty assets.

The game maker Take-Two Interactive reported third-quarter earnings that blew away Wall Street analysts’ projections.

Google’s new face recognition system on its Picasa photo sharing site is the sort of show-off technology that helps reinforce its brand.

Sharp’s new L.C.D. technology could make it a true rival to plasma for image quality.

Despite an exceedingly awkward presentation, Toshiba announced new technology that brings near-HD quality to non-HD signals.

As head of the newly merged Sirius XM Radio, Mel Karmazin faces the task of integrating two companies and finding hundreds of millions of dollars in cost cuts.

Red Hat’s purchase of Qumranet for $107 million gives the software maker a seat at the table with the major players in the virtualization market, including VMware and Microsoft.

CNBC will integrate LinkedIn’s networking functionality into its website CNBC.com, enabling users to share and discuss news with their professional contacts.

A federal judge has ruled that Oracle destroyed or failed to preserve Larry Ellison’s e-mail files sought as evidence in a class-action lawsuit filed in 2001 against the software maker.

The price control would substantially cut the roaming fees that individuals are charged to send text messages and limits that could reduce the cost of surfing the Internet.

A new Blu-ray player from LG will be able to stream movies from Netflix, but technical limitations mean the video quality of Netflix films will be standard-definition — at best.

Rival software maker Dassault Systèmes accused Siemens of posting confidential business data about Dassault clients on Siemens’s intranet.

Hundreds of small, independent publishers will have easier access to digital book technology under a new service offered by Perseus Books Group.

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, in Mountain View, Calif.

Compensation rose for private equity managers and venture capitalists in 2007 and early 2008 despite a fall in their performance of their investments, according to a new study.

Microsoft is cutting the price of its Xbox 360 game console. The base model will sell for $199, making it cheaper than the $249 Nintendo Wii.

Bloomingdale’s fall advertising campaign has a music theme; in addition to the typical print ads and catalogs the effort will include live performances by musicians and bands in stores.

It seems to me that even without the browser-as-platform, Windows is already dying a death by a thousand cuts.