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Large Hadron Collider up and running again (21 November 06:33) |
| The world's biggest particle accelerator is in full operation after a year of repairs. |
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Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry Android (21 November 05:32) |
| Twitter service Seesmic expands from the desktop with two new apps for Google Android and BlackBerry phones. |
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Reporters Roundtable Podcast Tech biz turkeys (21 November 04:50) |
| In the history of tech, some decisions stand out as truly awful. This week, Rafe Needleman, Charlie Cooper, and Jim Kerstetter go over some of the worst ever. |
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Game developer cuts back on Android in favor of iPhone (21 November 04:42) |
| One game developer said it is cutting its investment in Android in favor of Apple's iPhone because it sells 400 times more games for the iPhone than it does for Android. |
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Can Facebook group change World Cup game result (21 November 04:13) |
| The World Cup elimination game between France and Ireland was decided by a piece of blatant cheating. A Facebook group, more than 250,000 strong, wants it replayed. |
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Techmeme Mobile launches for iPhone Pre Droid (21 November 03:33) |
| Popular tech news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new mobile version of the site for the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid. |
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How smoking can ruin your Mac (21 November 03:30) |
| According to a report, AppleCare warranties can be voided if Apple deems the damage was caused by secondhand smoke. Appeals to Steve Jobs have, apparently, not succeeded. |
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Windows 8 in 2012 (21 November 02:57) |
| It's not clear what Microsoft's desktop plans are, but the Windows Server team included slides at PDC suggesting a new major release coming around 2012. |
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CNET News Daily Podcast Nokias layoffs and Skypes eBay adieu (21 November 02:51) |
| Nokia is cutting its R&D workforce, while eBay says goodbye to Skype. Hear more about these stories and others in today's episode. |
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Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO (21 November 02:35) |
| An IPO filing for the electric-car start-up is expected any day, according to sources. Public offering would be the first from a U.S. automaker since Ford Motor shares debuted in 1956. |
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Sony planning new online store (21 November 02:21) |
| Taking a page from Apple's iTunes, Sony is devising an online store offering music, movies, books, and other downloadable content for its various devices. |
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Nook sold out for the holidays (21 November 02:06) |
| Barnes & Noble has announced on its Web site that its much-anticipated e-book reader, the Nook, is sold out through 2009. Is that good news for Amazon? |
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Bedside vital signs monitor goes mobile (21 November 01:49) |
| Drager's Infinity M540 displays a patient's real-time vital signs on the go. Designed to fit in the palm of a caregiver's hand, the display auto-rotates so that it is always upright. |
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Brin Googles OSes likely to converge (21 November 01:30) |
| Puzzled onlookers have wondered why Google is overseeing two separate operating-system projects. Co-founder Sergey Brin thinks that at some point the two will become one. |
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Week in review Browser breakthroughs (21 November 01:11) |
| From Azure to Windows 7 to Firefox, operating systems and browsers grabbed headlines this week as Google proved, with its unveiling of Chrome OS, how interrelated they are.
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Spain mandates affordable broadband for all (21 November 01:09) |
| The country's government is following the lead of Finland and making affordable broadband a legal right. |
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Friday Poll How will you spend Black Friday (21 November 12:46) |
| Some people live for the Super Bowl of gadget buying, others can't imagine facing the maddening crowds. How do you plan to spend the day after Thanksgiving? Vote in our poll. |
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Microsofts embrace of MySQL could kill it (21 November 12:31) |
| Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions. |
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Sinofskys Windows plan More data less testosterone (20 November 11:49) |
| In an interview, the president of Microsoft's Windows unit tells CNET why he does things the way he does. |
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Browser security features compared (20 November 10:30) |
| The newest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and other browsers all protect against phishing and malware attacks, and most also let you browse anonymously, though they implement these ... |
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Report How risky is cloud computing (20 November 09:42) |
| The European Network and Information Security Agency outlines the benefits and pitfalls for companies thinking of entrusting a third party with their data and even their entire business infr... |
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Brizzly opens upand translates (20 November 09:30) |
| The Twitter client has built in Google Translate for quick decoding of international tweets--and also, no more invite codes are required. |
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Twitters geotagging API goes live (20 November 09:12) |
| The geolocation tool allows developers to incorporate a user's location in tweets. It's an opt-in service. |
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What drives China Soon cleaner fuel (20 November 09:03) |
| Still, the world's second largest oil consumer is taking a cautious approach to introducing tougher diesel and gasoline specifications. |
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Nokia to lay off up to 330 RD staffers (20 November 07:50) |
| The move, which would affect workers at sites in Finland and Denmark, comes as the company shows signs of sputtering in the smartphone stakes. |
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The 411 on early-termination fees FAQ (20 November 05:30) |
| Verizon Wireless has doubled its early-termination fees for smartphones, but what does it mean for the rest of the industry? |
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Will consumers plug into home energy displays (20 November 05:30) |
| Dozens of companies are developing tools to ratchet down home energy use as part of utility smart grid programs, but nobody is sure which approach will stick with consumers. |
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Fortified rice fuel cells among Tech Award winners (20 November 10:31) |
| Al Gore receives humanitarian honor at Tech Museum event that provides prizes to projects in the areas of environment, health, biosciences economic development, equality, and education. |
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Adobes Acrobatcom reorganizes gets mobile app (20 November 10:31) |
| The company improves its Acrobat service with a new organizer and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go. |
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Cisco launches iPhone security app (20 November 10:31) |
| Cisco Systems' new App Store entry, featuring customized alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device, targets security professionals. |
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Town to photograph every car that enters and leaves (20 November 08:43) |
| The California town of Tiburon votes to set up permanent cameras to record the license plate of every car on its roads. Is this one more step toward a surveillance state? |
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Al Gore Our next power grid will be like the Net (20 November 08:41) |
| The former vice president takes the stage at VentureBeat's GreenBeat conference in San Mateo, Calif. to discuss some of the challenges ahead for moving to the smart grid. |
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Germ alert Attack of the killer necktie! (20 November 06:36) |
| As the medical community debates whether to remove neckties from hospitals to prevent the spread of superbugs that claim thousands of lives annually, a microbe-thwarting tie is born. |
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Judge sets February hearing for new Google Books deal (20 November 06:20) |
| Schedule is laid out for the second round of the final approval process as preliminary approval is given to the revised deal submitted last Friday. |
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HDMI products to get meaningful labels (20 November 06:19) |
| HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables. |
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Offerpal revises terms amid continued scandal (20 November 05:27) |
| Under fire for running misleading ads on social networks, the offers-and-surveys broker now says publishers can choose how "conservative" they want to be with ads. |
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eBay sets Skype loose at $275 billion valuation (20 November 05:10) |
| The auction site has sold off its telephony unit, finally, after plans to take it public and a legal dispute with the company's founders. |
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Apple Enterprise is as enterprise does (20 November 04:51) |
| Gartner's Nick Jones wants to characterize Apple as a consumer company, but what happens when those consumers start using Apple's tech in the enterprise en masse? |
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Google has its own plan for Netbooks (20 November 04:00) |
| No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a Netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the Netbook of today.
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Facebook becomes third most popular video site (20 November 03:58) |
| Facebook has experienced tremendous growth in the number of users watching video on its site, putting it just behind YouTube and Hulu in October. |
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Mozilla not interested in building a Firefox OS (20 November 03:43) |
| Does the Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least. |
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CNET News Daily Podcast Meet Chrome OS (20 November 03:29) |
| Google gives the world its first real look at what its upcoming Chrome OS is all about--and how it actually works. Also in today's podcast: Windows 7 sells like hotcakes, AOL trims down for ... |
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Dell earnings down 54 percent (20 November 02:46) |
| Declining shipments drag down the company's third-quarter earnings. The company also reports that revenue was down 15 percent compared with last year. |
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AMD upgraded as Fusion 16-core chip future looms (20 November 02:44) |
| Advanced Micro Devices stock is upgraded Thursday by Broadpoint AmTech analyst Doug Freedman, citing a solid product road map and debt restructuring. |
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Twitter now asks Whats happening (20 November 01:57) |
| Company announces that the familiar "What are you doing?" is being replaced with a new question atop the status update box. |
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Twitter downtime still not ideal report says (20 November 01:38) |
| The microblogging service's performance might have improved for some, but according to uptime monitor CheckMySite, it's still not where it should be. |
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Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue $79 million (20 November 01:35) |
| The revenue growth rate tapered off to 5 percent from 12 percent the year earlier. A search deal with Google still supplies the bulk of the Firefox backer's money. |
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Theory of competition fails in open source elsewhere (20 November 01:11) |
| Monopoly is a dreaded word for the open-source community, so why are we as prone as anyone else to embrace natural monopolies? |
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AOL also likely to eye sale of MapQuest--Is Microsoft a possible buyer (20 November 12:47) |
| Purchasers of the mapping and directions service are likely to be other mapping giants, such as Microsoft, sources say. |
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Recycling e-waste Who should pay (20 November 12:39) |
| Study finds consumers love the idea of recycling to combat e-waste, but they don't want to foot the bill. |
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