A couple months ago Polaroid launched a new online photo and video sharing service called Polaroid Studio . It didn't initially receive a whole lot of buzz, but WebProNews stopped by their exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas earlier this month, and got a look at just what Polaroid Studio's all about. You can use the service to upload photos or videos, but it offers a unique feature in that you can customize what your photo albums look like.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about an unsafe, counterfeit version of the weight-loss drug Alli sold online. FDA lab test found the counterfeit Alli has a different active ingredient, a stimulant found in prescription weight-loss drug. People using the fake Alli may be taking three times the usual daily dose of the stimulant if they are following the dosing directions for Alli.

We tell you about the power of stories quite a bit. And now we're able to see what happens in our brains when we encounter a compelling story. But how do you learn to tell these types of stories? Often, just by studying great ones. Take 37 seconds to read this one: _ The soul of the city is in a football game three seasons ago, the return to the Superdome, on a Monday night when those of us who love New Orleans first realized the city would be back. It was Sept. 25,

According to data released by the AT Internet Institute , Microsoft's Internet Explorer has fallen to under 60% of visits in Europe. The firm suggests that with widely publicized news of a major security flaw and moves being made by competing browsers, IE's fall may not be reversed in the very near future. "Out of the 23 countries that were studied, Internet Explorer experienced the largest decline in visit shares for websites in Ireland, United Kingdom,

Thanks to Google, PayPal, and Mozilla, the anti-malware organization borne out of Harvard's Berkman center has become an independent entity. StopBadware.org is now a non-profit known simply as StopBadware. This change should be viewed as more evolutionary than revolutionary; like before, StopBadware will work to minimize the threat of malware, and at the moment, nothing more significant than some colors, logos, and site content has been changed. Urs Gasser,

Google continued its push to make its Web browser more than just an engine that renders Web pages by bringing 1,500 extensions to the masses through the latest stable build of Chrome for Windows Jan. 25. Extensions, popularized in Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, are lightweight applications that developers create that let users to customize the Web browser. Google has created this extensions gallery where users can install the apps in seconds.

By 2013, IDC estimates the global shipments of smartphones will surpass 390 million units, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.9 percent for the 2009-2013 forecast period. The smartphone market has a constantly shifting mobile operating system (OS) landscape. In a market once ruled by BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile,

Having moved here to Washington state from northern Vermont where our house was a mere 8 miles from the closest ski resort and just one town over from Stowe (a.k.a the Ski Capital of the East), my husband has been itching to strap on his.

Google is launching the latest stable release of its Chrome Browser for Windows. This version comes with the heavily requested extensions and bookmark sync features. "Bookmark sync is a handy feature for those of you who use several computers say, a laptop at work and a desktop at home," explains product manager Nick Baum. "You can enable bookmark sync to synchronize your bookmarks on all of your computers so that when you create a bookmark on one computer,

Last month, Google released a new AdWords product called Product Extensions that allows advertisers to enrich their Google AdWords ads with more specific and relevant information. With Product Extensions, an advertiser's search ad will display with a plus box appended below, which can expand to show product images, titles, and prices that are relevant to the user's search term.