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Apple said to be working on world-mode iPhone (08 November 02:12) |
| The AppleInsider blog says it's gotten wind of a "hybrid iPhone," due in the third quarter of 2010, that would work on both GSM and CDMA (hear that, Verizon?). |
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Bird drops baguette halts Collider (08 November 01:29) |
| Testing on the Large Hadron Collider is halted after a bird drops a chunk of carbohydrates into the machine, causing a power outage. |
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Want a Droid on the cheap Lets start a club! (08 November 12:28) |
| Right now, you have to buy one and sign a two-year contract. Is a Gadget of the Month Club the answer? Or should phone companies be more like clothes stores? |
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Is Verizons new early-termination fee anti-consumer (07 November 09:34) |
| That $350 fee doubles the current one, but Verizon insists it's justified because of the higher prices of today's phones. |
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Video A new workout for the Wii (07 November 10:26) |
| Ubisoft's upcoming fitness game, YourShape, promises an experience a step up from Wii Fit. In the process, can it help revitalize the Nintendo console? |
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Popular iPhone movie app flops on BlackBerry (07 November 06:27) |
| Flixster's Movies app just isn't up to snuff on BlackBerry. |
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Mobile Still waiting to see what sticks (07 November 06:23) |
| As businesses try to capitalize on the growing mobile software market, open source can offer a way to encourage adoption and build products in the image of the prospective buyer. |
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Reporters Roundtable 9 The business of app stores (07 November 05:45) |
| The App Store business model, nearly perfected by Apple, has changed the way software is made, sold, distributed, and priced. Join Rafe Needleman in discussion with CNET's Maggie Reardon and... |
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EMI to offer instant concert recordings (07 November 04:51) |
| An initiative called Abbey Road Live will enable concert attendees to buy CDs, DVDs, or flash cards with recordings of the show they just heard. |
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Sesame Street Droid get Googles love (07 November 03:50) |
| The search king has given much of its front page love this week to honor Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but it did save some space to tout the new Droid smartphone. |
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Microsoft launching health tech video show (07 November 03:29) |
| Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu is among the guests in the first episode of the Web video show, which debuts next week. |
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Station crew prepares for close encounter with space junk (07 November 03:12) |
| The crew of the International Space Station made preparations Friday to take refuge in their Soyuz lifeboats, if necessary, due to an expected close encounter with a piece of space debris. |
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Astronauts prep for not-so-close encounter with space debris (07 November 03:12) |
| Space debris had prompted NASA to make plans for the station crew to seek shelter aboard their Soyuz lifeboats, but additional analysis now shows the junk poses no threat to the lab. |
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Going rogue Palin bans gadgets reporters from speech (07 November 03:10) |
| The former Alaska governor joins a tradition of controversial politicians stoking up more press criticism by attempting to avoid it in the first place. |
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What integrated compute stacks mean for storage professionals (07 November 02:47) |
| EMC and Cisco have Vblocks. HP has Consolidated Infrastructure. Is the world changing for enterprise IT storage professionals? |
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CNET News Daily Podcast Skype eBay move forward (07 November 01:21) |
| eBay settles with Skype founders, and will sell its controlling interest in the Internet telephony company. |
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Sorry kids No social networking on the Xbox 360 (07 November 01:08) |
| Those children under 18 who are members of Xbox Live won't be able to access Facebook, Twitter, or Last.fm when the Xbox Live update is released later this year. |
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How low can online scammers go (07 November 12:45) |
| In the world of the cynical online phishing scam ploy, is pretending to be a Marine stationed in Afghanistan a new low? |
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Photos Emerging devices at ATT Labs (07 November 12:40) |
| AT&T Labs in San Francisco opens its doors to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around location-based services, social networking, and medical dev... |
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Week in review Microsoft getting lucky with 7 (07 November 12:30) |
| Sales and usage of new OS are up, while Intel attracts additional antitrust attention. Also: AT&T has a lawyer for that app ad.
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Adobes Photoshop app comes to Android (07 November 12:20) |
| Adobe brings the popular Photoshop mobile app to Android phones, but is it as good as the version for iPhones and iPods? We take a look. |
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Opera Mobile 10 beta browser First Look video (07 November 12:03) |
| Even if you don't have a Nokia, Samsung, or Sony Ericsson phone, you can preview the latest Opera Mobile browser for smartphones. |
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Slow start for the Motorola Droid (06 November 11:58) |
| From coast to coast, customers were not lining up to get their hands on the much-hyped smartphone. But Verizon says it doesn't see that as a bad thing. |
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Google trying not to cross the creepy line (06 November 11:53) |
| When it comes to the tricky balance between providing comprehensive information and freaking people out, Google says it tries to stay on the good side of the "creepy line." |
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Jimmy Wales on whats next for Wikipedia (06 November 11:17) |
| Founder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.
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Integrated retweet on its way to Twitter (06 November 11:13) |
| Social network says it has a started a limited rollout of its retweet feature. The new button will work much the same way the "reply" option works. |
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Smartphone market unfazed by recession (06 November 09:56) |
| A record 43.3 million smartphones shipped in the third quarter, according to a new report from IDC. |
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Canon says firmware fixes 7D ghost images (06 November 09:46) |
| An update to Canon's EOS 7D SLR takes care of a problem where traces of one image could show in the next. |
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Microsofts weak cloud privacy position (06 November 09:10) |
| Company's cloud privacy position paper leaves much to be desired. Microsoft needs to lead its customers to the cloud and not continually lag behind. |
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Wind Pole Ventures tackles faulty wind data (06 November 08:59) |
| Wind farms aren't just about putting steel in the ground. A start-up is carving a business out of getting good wind speed data to predict electricity output. |
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eBay investor group settle Skype lawsuit (06 November 08:28) |
| Settlement brings in Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis as investors in a roughly $2 billion sale of the Internet telephony pioneer. |
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eBays Skype sale gets go-ahead with settlement (06 November 08:28) |
| New deal brings in Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis as investors in a roughly $2 billion sale of the Internet telephony pioneer. |
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One charge hard to level at Intel Raising prices (06 November 05:30) |
| Some experts say Intel, in fact, has been instrumental in driving down PC prices, a trend which runs counter to charges made by New York's attorney general. |
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GetJar The unknown app store leader (06 November 05:30) |
| Everyone knows that Apple has the largest mobile application store in the world, but who is second? A small company called GetJar. |
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Mozillas e-mail group looks toward the cloud (06 November 05:30) |
| Mozilla Messaging, while about to release the Thunderbird 3 desktop e-mail software, also is turning its attention to cloud computing with its Raindrop project. |
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Midnight Droid Madness in Manhattan (06 November 12:33) |
| One store in New York City began selling the new Motorola Droid at midnight on Thursday, the night before the phone goes on sale nationally. |
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Woman to live stream birth of her child (06 November 08:51) |
| A 23-year-old teacher from Minnesota is to live stream every moment of the birth of her child. Two cameras will be at the scene. As will her husband and mother. |
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Woman to live-stream birth of her child (06 November 08:51) |
| A 23-year-old teacher from Minnesota is to live-stream every moment of the birth of her child. Two cameras will be at the scene. As will her husband and mother. |
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Nation prepares for deadly bat virus (06 November 08:35) |
| The U.S. is investing in Hendra virus research because of fears it may be used in biological warfare. |
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Facebook Were going after scammy ads too (06 November 08:08) |
| The social network reinforced in its developer blog that it's taking an active stance against the companies that have been getting bad press recently for deceptive advertising. |
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Nvidia CEO unsurprised by Intel lawsuit (06 November 07:30) |
| Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang seemed unsurprised by the lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general accusing Intel of illegal behavior. |
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Near-final Thunderbird 3 due next week (06 November 06:06) |
| Coming in the next version of Mozilla's e-mail software: easier setup, better search, a tabbed interface, and if all goes to plan, a richer world of add-ons. |
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Firefox gets a quick fix (06 November 05:42) |
| Just eight days after a previous update, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 introduces fast fixes for three bugs, one of which was critical. |
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Alterna-browsers Firefox Chrome get quick fixes (06 November 05:42) |
| Just eight days after a previous update, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 introduces fast fixes for three bugs, one of which was critical. Google Chrome has also been updated for security and stability... |
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Congratulations to Steve Jobs Fortunes CEO of the decade (06 November 05:31) |
| Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has had a helluva decade. |
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Offerpal Media mess gets stickier (06 November 04:24) |
| The company is involved in at least two lawsuits with upcoming developments--one in which it's sued a competitor, and one in which a plaintiff alleges he was ousted as a co-founder. |
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No Doubt says no to Band Hero depiction (06 November 04:17) |
| Popular rock band No Doubt is suing over its likeness being used in Activision's new Band Hero video game. |
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Why crutches may soon be relics of the past (06 November 03:38) |
| Forward Mobility unveils the Freedom Leg, which functions like a hands-free brace, allowing the user to walk with all the weight transferred to the upper leg. |
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Beatles copyright case down a legal rabbit hole (06 November 03:37) |
| BlueBeat is streaming Beatles recordings for free and selling them for 25 cents apiece, claiming that they aren't the original recordings and therefore aren't copyright-protected. |
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RoboForm password manager for iPhone faces hurdles (06 November 03:15) |
| We've praised the RoboForm password manager on the desktop. Here's why the iPhone version falls short. |
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