At home with the Blue Angels
Friday, July 4, 2008
| During a visit to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets to see the high-performance pilots up close.
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Japanese Shell subsidiary plans solar-panel plant
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| The oil company turns to the sun, with plans to build a factory manufacturing thin-film solar panels with a cumulative yearly power generation capacity of 1 gigawatt.
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Hundreds of Lithuanian Web sites defaced
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Loosely affiliated supporters mount an online protest over new laws in Lithuania banning the display of Soviet symbols.
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Mozilla and Opera fix security flaws
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Opera updates its most recent release, while Mozilla continues to support an older version of Firefox with updates.
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Apple cuts price of flash-drive MacBook Air
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| If you'd been considering the best configuration of the MacBook Air--with a faster processor and solid-state hard drive--it's now $500 cheaper, but still expensive.
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Chinese military tries out Segways--Skilled riders, it seems, should be able to keep both hands on a weapon, take aim, and fire while still accelerating and turning the device with their body movements.
In Japan, iPhone over BlackBerry?
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| According to survey conductor iShare, Japanese respondents generally would prefer to keep any mobile computing for business separate from that for personal use.
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Stolen: Google employees' personal data
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services.
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Google to Viacom: 'Respect YouTube users' privacy'
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| In copyright case, Google is glad information Viacom will get to see during discovery is limited, but it's "disappointed" Viacom will get access to users' viewing history.
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Photos: Engineering New Orleans, post-Katrina
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a great deal of money and effort into new hurricane protection systems that it hopes can reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in the future.
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Google opens up Ratproxy code
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Company is showing an increasing affection for open source. If only Viacom would have asked for source code nicely, instead of litigating for it....
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Google Talk for the iPhone
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Google is bringing its Google Talk instant messaging application to Apple's iPhone.
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Report: Some dial-up users wish to stay that way
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| A report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that 10 percent of Americans use dial-up access, and many of them are standing firm.
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Thinking green with the 'Humvee of the air'
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Frontline Aerospace says that its V-STAR ducted-fan aircraft will be both much faster and much more fuel-efficient than today's helicopters.
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Photographer without legs tells life story from ground up
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Kevin Connolly caught the attention of the digital world with photos of strangers watching him roll by on a skateboard. Now he looks ahead to a book and life abroad.
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Sony's Stan Glasgow talks TVs, Blu-ray
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Head of Sony Electronics' U.S. division talks about OLED TVs, Blu-ray, and the future of retail electronics.
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China's 'armed police' look at Segways
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| Skilled riders, it seems, should be able to keep both hands on a weapon, take aim, and fire while still accelerating and turning the device with their body movements.
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Microsoft's Facebook stake influenced ConnectU case
Thursday, July 3, 2008
| As Facebook gets ready to put ConnectU behind it, some details surface about the role Microsoft's $240 million investment played in the legal proceedings.
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Yahoo and Microsoft making the rounds with old lovers?
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Recent media reports have Microsoft whispering into the right ear of News Corp. and Time Warner's AOL about potential partnerships, while Yahoo is whispering in their left.
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Google wins source code ruling against Viacom
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Federal judge rules search giant doesn't have to turn over the code to Viacom, which filed a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in 2007.
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U.N. report: Clean energy booming globally
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Investment in renewable energy grew by 60 percent last year and will reach $600 billion in 12 years, according to United Nations research.
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Founder makes largest Dell insider purchase
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Shares of Dell climb as high as 4.5 percent on Wednesday, as company founder Michael Dell makes the largest insider purchase ever for the computer maker.
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Nvidia cuts estimates on product delays and failures
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| The graphics chip designer ran into some problems during the current quarter with certain products for notebook PCs, and will have to take a charge to account for the product failures.
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On indexing Flash content, Microsoft silent
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Google and Yahoo say their search engines will start to index Flash content. Microsoft is staying mum on whether or when it might add such support to Live search.
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Facebook-advertised boozefest spurs liquor ban
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| A social network-based invitation to a beach party in the U.K. threatened to bring so many drunken revelers to town that the local police force felt the need to take action.
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Yahoo signs U.K. mobile-advertising deal
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Under the deal, the Internet company will supply ads for network operator 3 UK's mobile-Internet portal, starting later this month. It already has partnership with rival Vodafone.
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Survey: Advertisers should acknowledge targeted ad concerns
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| A new report from eMarketer highlights serious consumer suspicion of targeted ads--like we didn't know that already--and suggests that advertisers consider awareness campaigns.
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McCain pushes for public safety network
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| John McCain says in a campaign speech that the Federal Communications Commission needs to allocate more spectrum for public safety.
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Apple taking chunk of Samsung's flash chips
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| The order of 50 million 8Gb chips should go a long way toward keeping Apple in flash memory during the initial ramp of the iPhone 3G.
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FAQ: Antitrust eyes on Yahoo-Google ad deal
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Wondering about the repercussions of the Justice Department's scrutiny of Yahoo's search-advertising deal with Google? Here are some answers.
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Former HP printing exec indicted
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Atul Malhotra is accused of sharing confidential information from his former employer, IBM, while working at Hewlett-Packard.
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Jobs, Apple directors face new backdating suit
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| The lawsuits continue to pile up for Apple, as shareholders try to punish members of the board for the practice of backdating stock options in the early part of this decade.
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Obama flip-flops on telecom immunity
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Barack Obama supporters are lashing out against the Democratic presidential candidate for changing his position on the telecom immunity issue.
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PlayStation 3 gets firmware upgrade
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| The 2.40 software update for Sony's latest video game console adds in-game Cross Media Bar access, a trophy system, and a shortcut to Google searches.
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The ignored nonrecovery of New Orleans
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| While tourist-friendly districts like the French Quarter and the Garden District flourish, many areas of the city are still disaster zones.
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Photos: Post-Katrina New Orleans aches for recovery
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| As part of his Road Trip 2008, CNET News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman checks out recovery of some of the poorest neighborhoods in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.
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IE 8 to have anti-malware protection
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| In preparing for the second beta, Microsoft announces security enhancements to Internet Explorer 8 expected in August.
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Jackson Pollock's hi-fi: A work of art?
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| The Audiophiliac visits Jackson Pollock's house and discovers the abstract expressionist painter had a decent hi-fi.
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Yahoo shares jump on latest Microsoft report
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| The stock price is up in early trading, following a Wall Street Journal report that Microsoft may be seeking partners to make another run at Yahoo's search operations.
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Should troubled start-ups blame the messenger?
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| The hyperactive tech press thrives on "newness," but the real story is often whether last year's next big thing is doing well or falling apart.
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Writing 'bass ackwards' to defeat censorship in China
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Some people whose posts may otherwise have been deleted by censors in China have taken to writing backwards in an effort to defeat keyword-searching authorities.
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Office subscription service ready to go
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| Circuit City will be the first to offer the $69 per-year service, which bundles Office Home and Student and Microsoft's OneCare antivirus software.
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The writing organization: knowledge management made easy
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| I have a piece of advice for those who bemoan the lack of knowledge-sharing in their organizations: Make tacit knowledge explicit. Externalize expertise and experiences across all functions, from the office manager to the executive team.
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Open source and the Kindle
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
| The Kindle reminded me of why we pay for open source, even when we can get it for free.
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Microsoft said seeking partners for new Yahoo bid
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| According to the Wall Street Journal, the software maker is looking for a partner to help it renew a bid for Yahoo's search business. But a canceled meeting with Yahoo's chairman could mean that no one is ready to join forces.
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Blockbuster abandons Circuit City bid
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| Movie-rental chain's CEO cites "market conditions" in withdrawal of its $1 billion bid for the consumer electronics chain.
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Reports suggest China may have blocked access to Facebook
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| While nothing has been confirmed, Twitter messages and blog posts suggest that problems accessing Facebook in China may be more than just Internet service provider issues.
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Linspire getting swallowed by Xandros
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| Linspire, the company that once raised Microsoft's ire with its Linux-based Lindows operating system, is being swallowed by Xandros, another Linux company.
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Justice Department to review Google-Yahoo deal
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| The Justice Department has opened a formal investigation of the advertising deal struck between the Internet giants, according to a report in The Washington Post.
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PINs stolen from Citibank ATMs
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| Three people are accused of stealing PINs from the Citibank ATM network in 7-Eleven stores.
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Google's new foray into image search
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management for Consumer Search Properties, shares some details of future versions of image search with Beet.tv.
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Searching for Flash files
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| CNET News.com's Dan Farber and Elinor Mills discuss Adobe's collaboration with Google and Yahoo to make Flash content more discoverable by search engines.
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Apple considering slider-style iPhone?
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| New report suggests that company has developed prototypes of an iPhone with a hardware keyboard that slides under the display, but it won't be out until next year.
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The rising cost of texting
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| Text message prices have risen as quickly as gas prices at the pump over the past two years. What gives?
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Why Instinctiv avoided the iPhone SDK
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| Instinctiv has a cool app for de-randomizing the shuffle feature on the iPhone, but it works only on "jailbroken" devices. The company explains why it won't use the new iPhone SDK.
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Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| The latest version of Adobe's free PDF-reading software, which plays movies and animation for the first time, is available.
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Fring gets Facebook, other third-party add-ons
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
| Facebook, Gmail Notifier, and Orkut are some of the add-ons developers have made for Fring's mobile communicator using the company's API.
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