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Digital Domain: How Many Reviewers Should Be in the Kitchen?
by By RANDALL STROSS
7 Sep 2008 at 12:25am
Web sites that welcome customer reviews have evolved significantly, producing work that increasingly approaches that of their professional forebears.
Unboxed: When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder
by By JANET RAE-DUPREE
7 Sep 2008 at 12:24am
The University Small Business Patent Procedures Act is under increasing scrutiny by swelling ranks of critics, who charge that it has distorted the fundamental mission of universities.
Practical Traveler | iPhone E-Guides: Clueless in Cleveland? Use Your Thumb
by By MICHELLE HIGGINS
5 Sep 2008 at 3:36pm
From showing you the nearest sushi bar in London to telling you how to say ?Where?s the toilet?? in Cantonese, travel apps for the iPhone are proving to be a useful tool.
Microsoft Works to Perfect Windows Vista
by By STEVE LOHR
6 Sep 2008 at 1:15am
Faced with Windows Vista?s image problem, Microsoft has been working for more than a year to change the experience of buying and using computers that run its software.
Samsung Weighs Buying SanDisk
by By REUTERS
5 Sep 2008 at 7:57pm
The memory chip maker said that it might buy a flash memory maker, SanDisk, in a deal that could reshape a struggling industry.
Nokia Lowers Forecast for Market Share
by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
5 Sep 2008 at 9:24pm
The world?s biggest cellphone maker said that its third-quarter global market share would decline because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.
Dell May Shrink Its Network of Factories
by By STEVE LOHR
6 Sep 2008 at 11:37pm
In a government filing, the computer company strongly suggested that it planned to close factories as part of its drive to reduce costs.
Cost of Living: Justifying the Cost of an iPhone
by By M. P. DUNLEAVEY
6 Sep 2008 at 1:27am
I don?t know how any of this stuff works, and I don?t want to pay for it. Yet, I am on the brink of buying an iPhone.
At ESPN, Play-by-Play Goes Virtual
by By BROOKS BARNES
5 Sep 2008 at 12:48am
ESPN is debuting new technology with Electronic Arts that would allow sports commentators to interact with three-dimensional virtual players.
Bits: Do AndroidGuys Dream of Google Phones?
by By LAURA M. HOLSON
5 Sep 2008 at 2:48pm
Two low-level employees of T-Mobile have created AndroidGuys, a blog dedicated to obsessive coverage of Android, the new cellphone software from Google.
Bits: Google at Age 10
by By MIGUEL HELFT
5 Sep 2008 at 3:13pm
Google applied for incorporation 10 years ago. Where does the company stand today, especially compared to rival Microsoft? We take a look at the numbers.
Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
by By CLIVE THOMPSON
6 Sep 2008 at 10:52pm
The effects of News Feed, Twitter and other forms of incessant online contact.
Video Game Review: Playing God, the Home Game
by By SETH SCHIESEL
5 Sep 2008 at 1:25pm
As an intelligent romp through the realms of science, mythology, religion and hope about the universe around us, Spore both provokes and amuses.
DealBook: Yahoo?s Stock Hits 5-Year Low
by By DEALBOOK
5 Sep 2008 at 11:48am
Shares of Yahoo, which fended off an unwelcome takeover bid from Microsoft earlier this year, hit their lowest level in nearly five years on Thursday.
Bits: Comcast Appeals F.C.C. Sanction
by By SAUL HANSELL
4 Sep 2008 at 9:38pm
Comcast has appealed a ruling by the F.C.C. that objected to the way the cable company had slowed down the connection of some users who were trying to share video and other files.
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Report: More competitive processors due from AMD
7 Sep 2008 at 12:10pm
AMD will bring out processors by early next year that appear to be much more competitive with Intel offerings.
Microsoft and the desktop: Blessing or curse?
7 Sep 2008 at 10:07am
Microsoft's desktop power is a huge financial blessing, but also a strategic curse.
Chris Shipley 1, Internet lynch mob 0
6 Sep 2008 at 8:51pm
Demo's impresario goes public with a tart and smartly written riposte to the shoot-from-the-lip crowd.
Chrome's JavaScript challenge to Silverlight
6 Sep 2008 at 10:43am
The advent of Google's Chrome browser, software pros say, should spur a big speedup for JavaScript, which would raise its standing against Microsoft's Silverlight technology.
SanDisk stock surges on buyout rumors
5 Sep 2008 at 8:00pm
Stock for flash memory maker SanDisk is up on rumors that a buyout by Samsung is in the works.
NetSuite boasts of Google Chrome support
5 Sep 2008 at 7:14pm
All NetSuite's customers will be able to use Google's browser by mid-October. What are the odds any are actually clamoring for it?
EIC Squared: Chrome, iPods, and a Dell-Salesforce union
5 Sep 2008 at 5:52pm
On this week's EIC Squared podcast CNET's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss Google's latest rocket launch--the Chrome browser--as well as Apple's iPod event next week and a Dell-Salesforce.com union.
Video: Why Apple says it's ready to rock
5 Sep 2008 at 4:31pm
We'll soon get a look at Apple's highly-anticipated Q3 product refresh. But in advance of next week's rollout, check out what's likely going to be on the agenda with Charles Cooper and Tom Krazit on the CNET News Daily Debrief.
Why I'm passing on Google's 10th anniversary
5 Sep 2008 at 3:27pm
I'm quite sure I didn't make a big deal about Microsoft's 10th, either. But Google at 20? Now that will be something to behold.
Microsoft adding to its Labs collection
5 Sep 2008 at 3:26pm
Startup Labs will be an effort under Ray Ozzie, joining others including Live Labs, adCenter Labs, and Office Labs.
Taking my Mule hat off and starting something new
5 Sep 2008 at 3:10pm
I will spend the next three months playing video games while I am out raising money.
What's McCain doing in front of my junior high?
5 Sep 2008 at 2:45pm
Speculation has it that it was a goof-up that had the Republican nominee standing in front of Walter Reed Middle School during his acceptance speech. In any case, the image brings back memories for CNET News' Ina Fried.
Microsoft tries to reclaim Windows' image
5 Sep 2008 at 2:17pm
After years of letting Apple's attack ads go unanswered, software maker sets out on difficult, costly journey of trying to take back control of what Windows stands for.
Why the bar gets raised for Apple
5 Sep 2008 at 1:32pm
After the glitches following recent product introductions, the company's got to get it right--from the start.
Memo: Windows chief on new ads
5 Sep 2008 at 11:58am
Windows business unit head Bill Veghte send a memo to troops late Thursday promising that the debut Seinfeld/Bill Gates ad was just an "icebreaker."
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Apple admit Briton DID invent iPod, not getting any money
7 Sep 2008 at 8:30pm
Apple has finally admitted that a British man who left school at 15 is the inventor behind the iPod. Kane Kramer, 52, came up with the technology that drives the digital music player nearly 30 years ago but has still not seen a penny from his invention.
How to Disappear in the Battlefield: Camouflage Technology
7 Sep 2008 at 5:00pm
Military technology: Advances in camouflage, concealment and deception are revolutionising an age-old art of warfare. Even the most common form of camouflage?the coloured patterns printed onto combat fatigues?is being given a high-tech twist, as designers work with new software that incorporates neuroscientists? understanding of human vision.
Stunningly Intricate: Curta Mechanical Calculator (PICS)
7 Sep 2008 at 4:40pm
What if Babbage's Difference Engine spawned a "laptop"?It's hard to find a more desirable and satisfying (in a tactile sort of way) mechanical fetish item from the age of early computing...
Facebook Users Rally to Keep Old Site Layout
7 Sep 2008 at 3:30pm
If a post on Facebook?s developer blog is accurate, you have less than a week to make your call for no change. A group of members have coalesced behind a petition, massing together ?Against the ?New Facebook?? to send Zuckerberg a message: Don't get rid of the new layout, just give current users the choice to keep the old one.
The Horror of 24 Hours without Google
7 Sep 2008 at 3:13pm
I wish Google didn't make me think of tentacles. It never did before I tried avoiding it for 24 hours -- a doomed exercise that began as a challenge and morphed into a horror show.
How Many Reviewers Should Be in the Kitchen?
7 Sep 2008 at 1:30pm
Web sites that welcome customer reviews have evolved significantly, producing work that increasingly approaches that of their professional forebears.
Chrome's JavaScript challenge to Silverlight
7 Sep 2008 at 11:20am
"I think that the next 18 months we're going to see a 100- to 1,000-fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in the arse and make our JavaScript jittered," Microsoft senior program manager Scott Hanselman told the audience Friday, days after Google released its Chrome browser.
This is one bad ass book scanner! [VID]
7 Sep 2008 at 8:23am
In this video you see the presentation of an automatic book scanning machine, called ScanRobot.
What to Expect From Google in The Next 10 Years
7 Sep 2008 at 6:38am
Thanks to Chrome and its subsequent pairing with Android, Google will extend beyond being the No. 1 search engine to being the premier Web applications provider in the world by 2018.
RDFa goes to W3C Proposed Recommendation
7 Sep 2008 at 6:28am
Yesterday RDFa reached Proposed Recommendation status at the World Wide Web Consortium, the final stage before becoming a W3C Recommendation. RDFa makes data in web pages rendered for humans readable in a meaningful way by computers. It's always been difficult to bring the Semantic Web to the World Wide Web, RDFa is crucial bridging them together.
The Giant Building Printer Robot
7 Sep 2008 at 6:25am
Layered fabrication technology can automate the construction of entire buildings.
Announcing the Ubuntu Manpage Repository
7 Sep 2008 at 4:40am
http://manpages.ubuntu.com - This site contains nearly 300,000 HTML viewable manpages included in Ubuntu releases (Dapper, Feisty, Gutsy, Hardy, Intrepid) and across all of (main, universe, restricted, multiverse) and across all languages where manpages are available. It is automatically updated daily.
On iTunes 8 and hunches; also iPhone 2.1 for Tuesday
7 Sep 2008 at 3:10am
We have received word that iTunes 8 is finally confirmed for Tuesday's special event, and that it's also expected that iPhone 2.1 will land as well with some hidden features we don't know about.
AT&T Won't Sell Me an iPhone at Any Price
7 Sep 2008 at 2:20am
I finally convinced my wife to buy an iPhone. She went to the local AT&T store today, and was actually turned down. She is, apparently, "upgrade ineligible." She asked if there was any price at which should could buy it, and they said no. We pay more than $4,000 per year for AT&T wireless service, but we've been blacklisted for an iPhone.
Google Satellite Now Watching You From 423 Miles Up
7 Sep 2008 at 1:50am
The GeoEye satellite that Google will use to provide mapping imagery at 50-centimeter resolution successfully blasted into space today. So don't leave your underwear lying all over your lawn.
