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Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, has been ordered by a federal court to alter its popular Word software or stop selling the product after it lost its appeal of a $200 million patent-infringement verdict won by a Canadian company.

Apple's plan of offering television subscription via the Internet might receive a boost with U.S. media companies CBS and Walt Disney's probable participation in the venture, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

A prominent New Zealand TV presenter apologized Monday for calling Scottish singer, Susan Boyle, retarded on his show last month.

News Corp's Fox television unit said on Friday that testy carriage negotiations with Time Warner Cable Inc could leave viewers unable to see Fox programing, including American Idol and NFL football.

For once, the TV writers were content.

Television polygamy drama Big Love returns for a fourth season in January with a gay storyline that is likely to stir up controversy in Mormon circles where homosexual relations are prohibited.

Comcast Corp has rolled out an on-demand, Web-based service for subscribers to both its video programing and Internet access in a bid to keep customers from dropping their cable subscriptions in search of free shows online.

More U.S. consumers have turned to the great American pastime of watching television as the recession strained household budgets, a survey set to be released on Tuesday shows.

LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 2 TV brand by revenue, set an aggressive sales target for 3D televisions, aiming to build a leadership position in an emerging market where competition is expected to heat up.

Diane Sawyer is changing the landscape of American broadcast television news and is likely hoping history won't repeat itself when she becomes the second woman to solo anchor a major evening news program.

Diane Sawyer is changing the landscape of American broadcast television news and is likely hoping history won't repeat itself when she becomes the second woman to solo anchor a major evening news program.

Elvis Costello, the British singer-songwriter who swept through the London pub scene, the punk movement and the New Wave fad while retaining his signature sound, continues to release great work 30-plus years into his career. His latest project, the country- and folk-inflected Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane, arrived June 9 on Hear Music.

Shiny-nosed Rudolph proved the biggest draw on U.S. television Wednesday night as the 1964 animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer beat Grammy nominees Black Eyed Peas and Aretha Franklin at New York's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting.

Meredith Baxter who starred in the TV series Family Ties came out on NBC's Today Show to publically declare she is a later in life lesbian.

CBS claimed victory on Tuesday in the key November television sweeps period, but Fox said it was the only broadcast network to show year-on-year gains in both total viewers and the 18-49 year-old age group coveted by advertisers.

Every decade has its landmark TV shows, and there will or should never be complete agreement on which 10 series belong at the top of the list.

Oprah Winfrey said on Friday that she will end her popular TV show in 2011 because it feels right in her bones after 25 years, and urged viewers not to believe rumors of why she's quitting.

Sony Corp pushed back an elusive profit margin target to March 2013, after narrowly failing to meet the goal last year, but it aims to make its video game and TV operations profitable next year.

Microsoft is launching its Zune media brand outside the US for the first time, a move to grab shares from the dominating Apple iTune after failure to compete with iPod.

Clicker.com launched a TV Guide for Internet television on Thursday, designed to provide a new way to find everything from old Seinfeld episodes to cooking shows.

Venerable English stage actor Ian McKellen has played all the great parts from Hamlet to Richard III, but in the twilight of his career, he is finding new roles in mainstream film and TV -- and as a gay icon.