Good Times for Netflix

Netflix will add 1080p, 5.1-channel surround sound

Netflix’s on-demand video streaming service, a.k.a. Netflix Watch Instantly, is jumping on the 1080p HD bandwagon later this year, with a corresponding bump in audio to 5.1-channel surround sound.

Netflix has Blockbuster on the ropes

The traditional video-store business model appears doomed. At this point, Blockbuster appears headed for the same fate as Movie Gallery. At one time, Movie Gallery was one of Blockbuster's biggest brick-and-mortar competitors, but last week it filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time since 2007.

Macmillan Books Return To Amazon.com

Amazon had limited the availability of Macmillan titles due to an e-book dispute, where Macmillan had insisted on a new e-book pricing system that in effect did away with Amazon's $9.99 Kindle e-book rate. Under Macmillan's model, known as the "agency model," e-books will be priced from $12.99 to $14.99 when first released.

Google Brings Buzz Social Networking to Gmail, Mobile

You've got to hand it to Google: when they take on a project, they don't do things by halves. On Tuesday, in an event at the company's Mountain View campus the company announced Google Buzz, its newest entry into the social-networking

Faster downloads, skins, and caps in uTorrent 2.0

uTorrent 2.0 went gold a few days ago, and the latest stable version of the incredibly popular torrent client introduces several useful new features for those who haven't been playing around with the beta.