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The movie industry took another halting step into the digital era this week when CinemaNow, an online movie rental service owned by BestBuy, rolled out a new service letting customers make digital copies of their DVDs. Kinda sorta. The trial version...

Snohomish County Councilman John Koster said Thursday he plans to call Democrat Suzan DelBene on Friday to concede the race for the congressional seat in the redrawn 1st District that runs from Redmond north to the Canadian border. As of 10:26 p.m....

INDIANAPOLIS – If you have a pair of Skechers shoes, you may be in line for some cash. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and the Federal Trade Commission say anyone who bought Skechers rocker-bottom shoes can apply for a slice of a recent $40...

Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) remind consumers who purchased Skechers rocker-bottom shoes to apply for their slice of the recent $40 million settlement. In May, Indiana along with the FTC and 43 other states...

Seattle-based digital media provider RealNetworks Inc. agreed Thursday to pay $2.4 million – much of it in restitution to consumers across the country -- to settle a lawsuit with the state of Washington over the company’s practices that the...

Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen announced on Monday that she would support Senate Bill 6239 to allow same-sex marriage. Haugen, who had previously been undecided, gives the bill enough pledged support to pass the Washington state Senate. Haugen became the 25th...

Rhapsody, the longest-running subscription-music service, announced Thursday that it had finally crossed the 1 million subscriber threshold. Before you cue the cork-popping, bear in mind that Rhapsody launched almost exactly 10 years ago, so its growth...

In a sign that Best Buy's digital music ambitions have fizzled, the retail giant is selling its subscription online music service Napster to Rhapsody in exchange for an undisclosed equity stake in the combined company. The deal comes just three......

Apple is changing its view on subscription services....

Spotify is be acclaimed as a breakthrough music service, offering access to a massive only jukebox for free. Who could imagine such a delight? As it turns out, RealNetworks did six years ago, when it rolled out Rhapsody 25....

In a ruling that has the potential to affect many websites that stream music, a federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a lower court's method for determining music royalties, saying the calculations were flawed....

It's been almost 15 years since WebTV brought the (dial-up) Internet to the (analog) TV screen, yet gadget makers are still trying to figure out how to make the concept compelling to the masses. The latest trend, epitomized by what......