Big brother
NEW YORK - If you've never time-shifted a prime-time television series - watched it later on a DVR, over the Internet or ordered it on demand - you're now in the minority.
Football fans have grown accustomed to spending their Sundays in front of gigantic high-def TVs, and they can't just drop their visual expectations when the game goes virtual.
At last it is happening; just when the the tech reporters were almost irritated with the rumors and rumors of rumors that Yahoo and Microsoft are kissing each other, they appear to have hugged.
BEIJING - China's authoritarian government has backed away from an order to load Internet-filtering software on every new computer after a major outcry by citizens used to the relative freedom of online life.
