Non-travel retail sales for the third quarter of 2007 hit $28.4 billion, a 23 percent increase over the same period last year, with sales fueled by demand for video games and their related consoles and accessories.

That burning sensation may not be the result of an ill-advised hookup over the weekend, but an overheating cellphone battery Nokia has recalled.

Back in March, online traffic to pet-related sites saw a significant increase due to the pet food recall. Nielsen//NetRatings has released data that shows visits to pet related sites grew a 115 percent in March over the previous month.

When news of a major pet food recall got out, pet owners hit the search engines over the weekend worried about their furry best friends.

One dog, nine cats. That’s the death toll so far in a mysterious outbreak of kidney failure linked to Menu Foods, Inc.’s various pet foods distributed by well-known grocers like Kroger, Safeway, Wal-Mart, and PetSmart.

Engineers at Sony are developing a set of wireless headphones that use a person’s skin to transmit a signal between the headpiece and music source.

All sorts of opinions are flying around about Dell’s recall of over four million laptop computer batteries announced Monday.

California computer manufacturers Hewlett-Packard and Apple issued recalls for lithium-ion batteries on certain notebook computers. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued the orders for both companies. Both companies’ batteries experienced the same problems, which is overheating and possible melting due to an internal short.

People are extremely task-focused on the Web. That means they are much less open to content that is not directly related to the task at hand.

McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals announced a recall of a number of their Children’s Tylenol products. The voluntary recall includes all lots and all flavors of Children’s TYLENOL Meltaways 80 mg packaged in bottles and blisters, Children’s TYLENOL SoftChews 80 mg packaged in blisters, and Jr. TYLENOL Meltaways 160 mg packaged in blisters.

With a worldwide recall Mercedes-Benz is improving the quality of passenger cars already in the field.

190,000 motorcycles are being recalled by Yamaha Motor Corp. because passenger seats can possibly fall off the rear fenders.

Ford is recalling nearly 792,000 trucks and SUVs due to risk of fire from speed control switch overheating.

Mike Giles, previously of Vitria.com, has created a site/utility that takes bookmarking websites to a whole new level, the level of personalization. As the search industry and the web as a whole moves towards personalization, Furl is offering a web application that has the idea of a personalized web at heart.