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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 7:01pm EST
Apple's patent portfolio and applications hint at everything from a new DJ turntable feature to an Apple iHolodeck.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 7:01pm EST
This Microsoft Research project is a wild spin on 3D computing.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:56pm EST
The MegaUpload founder says he has to cover costs for bodyguards and personnel staff. A decision on whether he will remain free on bail is due later today.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:23pm EST
Venture firm says it intends to focus investments from its latest fund on startups with, "disruptive technologies, teams and business models."
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:54pm EST
A simple device could help researchers better observe how well different compounds fight the increasingly drug-resistant malaria parasite.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:32pm EST
Yes, the headline is the right way around. The folks behind an game that has a similar-sounding name to the greatest living Canadian's, take him to court in order to be free to continue selling the app.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:19pm EST
It's the third day of Mobile World Congress. The flood of new handsets has slowed, but that gave us lots of time to handle this fresh crop of smartphone hardware.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 5:04pm EST
A software feature that lets apps access user location has also been found to give developers access to that user's entire photo library.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:57pm EST
Japan's robot version of American football barely resembles the game as we know it, but it's still pretty entertaining to watch.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:31pm EST
Nascar drivers don't normally have passengers along for the ride, but Brad Keselowski's iPhone and Twitter account got a coveted seat in the cockpit during the Daytona 500.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:24pm EST
It's safe to say Reed Hastings doesn't believe that the costs of delivering Web video to Netflix customers is a financial burden to Comcast or other networks.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:18pm EST
Your guide to the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit this week, where startups and research institutions are showing off the latest inventions in cleaner energy.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:13pm EST
The aviation giant handed over the first next-gen passenger 747 today to an "undisclosed" VIP buyer. Boeing expects to deliver the first commercial 747-8 Intercontinental soon.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 4:13pm EST
The aviation giant handed over the first next-gen passenger 747 today to an "undisclosed" VIP buyer. Boeing expects to deliver the first commercial 747-8 Intercontinental soon.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:50pm EST
Explosive growth in mobile data usage means smartphones and tablets will need much more spectrum than the recently approved auctions can provide.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:40pm EST
Image and video capture aren't the most popular tablet tasks, but consumers report being overwhelmingly satisfied when using their devices for these purposes. Here, some possible reasons why.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:27pm EST
Today's iPad-related invitation from Apple is just the latest in a long series of mysterious events from the company. CNET rounds up some from recent years, along with the products that were introduced.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:19pm EST
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 will be available to customers this Thursday on the Verizon Network for about $500.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 3:16pm EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum goes back to the future with a new political ad based on Apple's famous 1984 Superbowl commercial.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:59pm EST
Apple has sold more than 55 million iPads since its January 2010 introduction. Here's a look back at that event.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:27pm EST
With the Internet, "the weak will be made strong"--unless dictators try to keep too much control over the Net, Google's executive chairman forecasts.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 2:08pm EST
The software company reportedly complained about Google+, but has publicly denied any claims that it filed a complaint against the social network.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:48pm EST
At the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, startups and research organizations show off the latest inventions in the multiple paths to cleaner energy.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:47pm EST
Wireless company's CEO is leaving top spot after FCC removes operating license.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:42pm EST
Nick Bergus posts a joke on Facebook about an Amazon listing for a 55-gallon tub of personal lubricant. Soon, he becomes the unwitting pitchman for the product. Social ads, anyone?
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:30pm EST
Subscription music may be the next phase in digital distribution but it's still not big enough to support everybody. MOG seeks an exit.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:17pm EST
The free translation app for the iPhone and iPad makes it possible for users to converse with someone in another language--no phrase book required. SmartPlanet's Sumi Das gets a demo.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 1:10pm EST
Apple unleashes its invitation for a special event next week that will undoubtedly bring the next iPad, but there's something missing.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:31pm EST
The company says total software sales for the video game handheld have reached 2 million units at both retail and on its PlayStation Network.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:28pm EST
Forget a Moore's Law for energy tech, says Bill Gates. Moving the energy system away from fossil fuels takes decades of work and multiple scientific breakthroughs.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:18pm EST
Flite's latest product update gives advertisers the ability to update campaigns based on consumer response, plus integrate third-party app functionality.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:10pm EST
Apple today sent members of the media invites to an event in San Francisco next week, where the company is expected to unveil the next version of the iPad.
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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 11:38am EST
Apple might change up its habit of announcing new products in the San Francisco Bay Area, choosing New York as the spot to unwrap the iPad 3, according to CNBC.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:42pm EST
Company claims Apple committed fraud when it acquired the iPad trademark from one of Proview's subsidiaries in 2009.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:42pm EST
Company claims Apple committed fraud when it acquired the iPad trademark from one of Proview's subsidiaries in 2009.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:31pm EST
Apple's reportedly picked up app search and discovery service Chomp with hopes of improving the App Store.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:31pm EST
Apple's reportedly picked up app search and discovery service Chomp with hopes of improving the App Store.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:08pm EST
Lack of clear definitions regarding who can monitor threats, what countermeasures are allowed, and what constitutes a "crime" has civil liberties groups worried.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:08pm EST
Lack of clear definitions regarding who can monitor threats, what countermeasures are allowed, and what constitutes a "crime" has civil liberties groups worried.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:05pm EST
Intego has found a new variant of the Flashback Trojan, which uses unique methods for tricking Mac users.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 7:05pm EST
Intego has found a new variant of the Flashback Trojan, which uses unique methods for tricking Mac users.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:39pm EST
Powerful wireless setup jointly developed by Sony and the Tokyo Institute of Technology could significantly advance the transfer speeds of wireless routers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:39pm EST
Powerful wireless setup jointly developed by Sony and the Tokyo Institute of Technology could significantly advance the transfer speeds of wireless routers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:31pm EST
Hate slow elevators? Try taking a ride on one that travels 22,000 miles above Earth.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:31pm EST
Hate slow elevators? Try taking a ride on one that travels 22,000 miles above Earth.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:11pm EST
The assembly lines where workers make iPhones and other devices can be traced back to Henry Ford, but his ideas about employee compensation have left the building.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:11pm EST
The assembly lines where workers make iPhones and other devices can be traced back to Henry Ford, but his ideas about employee compensation have left the building.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:10pm EST
The display that could belong to an iPad 3--or whatever it's going to be called--has received a closer examination.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:10pm EST
The display that could belong to an iPad 3--or whatever it's going to be called--has received a closer examination.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:03pm EST
India will invite companies to bid again for its Aakash budget tablet project, after complaints of poor performance and hiccups in rollout of pilot model.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:03pm EST
India will invite companies to bid again for its Aakash budget tablet project, after complaints of poor performance and hiccups in rollout of pilot model.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:01pm EST
In October, the space agency discovered a 19-mile crack in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier. Now, NASA has created a video showing what the giant canyon of ice looks like up close.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:01pm EST
In October, the space agency discovered a 19-mile crack in Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier. Now, NASA has created a video showing what the giant canyon of ice looks like up close.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:58pm EST
As Nielsen coins a new term to describe young adults ages 18 to 34, a group it considers bound together by a digitally connected lifestyle, one Gen C'er has some advice for advertisers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 5:58pm EST
As Nielsen coins a new term to describe young adults ages 18 to 34, a group it considers bound together by a digitally connected lifestyle, one Gen C'er has some advice for advertisers.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:46pm EST
Researchers find that a few hours playing WoW boosts certain cognitive functions in older adults--especially those who had scored poorly prior to playing.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:46pm EST
Researchers find that a few hours playing WoW boosts certain cognitive functions in older adults--especially those who had scored poorly prior to playing.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:43pm EST
Chaotic Moon Labs' Kinect-controlled skateboard was pretty awesome, but the company has managed to blow our minds with its Board of Imagination. Crave talks with one of the creators to find out how it works.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:43pm EST
Chaotic Moon Labs' Kinect-controlled skateboard was pretty awesome, but the company has managed to blow our minds with its Board of Imagination. Crave talks with one of the creators to find out how it works.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:37pm EST
Obama's Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights is designed to address online privacy issues, but wary Web users aren't sure if it will have a real impact.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:37pm EST
Obama's Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights is designed to address online privacy issues, but wary Web users aren't sure if it will have a real impact.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:32pm EST
Chevrolet created a lower emissions version of the Volt to make it eligible for single occupancy access in California carpool lanes and up to $1,500 in state rebates.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:15pm EST
Known as one of the savviest tech investors, the founder of SV Angel has picked a slew of winners including Twitter, Groupon, Dropbox, Square, and Airbnb. He shares some thoughts with CNET.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 4:15pm EST
Known as one of the savviest tech investors, the founder of SV Angel has picked a slew of winners including Twitter, Groupon, Dropbox, Square, and Airbnb. He shares some thoughts with CNET.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:22pm EST
What makes the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford feel so real? SmartPlanet's Sumi Das takes a look at the technology behind the lifelike world and gets a taste of "the pit."
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:22pm EST
What makes the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford feel so real? SmartPlanet's Sumi Das takes a look at the technology behind the lifelike world and gets a taste of "the pit."
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:31pm EST
Tool shows what would happen if history's most notorious nuclear weapons were dropped on different cities. It's scary and sobering--and more than a million people have used it.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:31pm EST
Tool shows what would happen if history's most notorious nuclear weapons were dropped on different cities. It's scary and sobering--and more than a million people have used it.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:25pm EST
Dennis Woodside, Google's former head of ad sales in the Americas and overseer of the Google-Motorola merger, is close to replacing Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, says Bloomberg.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:25pm EST
Dennis Woodside, Google's former head of ad sales in the Americas and overseer of the Google-Motorola merger, is close to replacing Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, says Bloomberg.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:14pm EST
Apple was tops overall in mobile-PC market share for the fourth quarter and all of 2011, while Hewlett-Packard held on to first place for notebooks, says NPD DisplaySearch.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 2:14pm EST
Apple was tops overall in mobile-PC market share for the fourth quarter and all of 2011, while Hewlett-Packard held on to first place for notebooks, says NPD DisplaySearch.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:29am EST
Google found Do Not Track "interesting" but too vague, but now says the technology for blocking behavioral ad targeting is mature enough to use.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 3:01am EST
The new service means wireless carriers can sell customers a way to seamlessly make transactions at any credit card terminal with their phones, and no hardware has to be changed.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:35am EST
Decisions, decisions. Should I wait for that Ivy Bridge-based laptop? Yeah, if you want a faster system with better battery life.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:10am EST
Bound for Mobile World Congress, the LG Optimus 4X HD promises a 4.7-inch display, a quad-core processor, and high-end features.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 1:08am EST
Amid rumors of an impending acquisition, the two-year-old startup confirms that it's been bought by the social-networking giant.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:20am EST
Infochimps announces platform as a service environment for the redhot big data market.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:00am EST
Born from the collapse of a massive star, a recently detected stellar-mass black hole is breaking high-speed records.
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 12:00am EST
President promises privacy legislation and says Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committed to working with Do Not Track technology in browsers.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 10:07pm EST
The social-networking site implies that the suspension of the accounts that belittled the French president disregarded the site's parody and spam rules.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 9:40pm EST
There's more than phones coming to Barcelona. The maker of Firefox says that the Mozilla Marketplace will open its doors to developers at next week's Mobile World Congress.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 9:14pm EST
Larry Magid chats by phone with California Attorney General Kamala Harris shortly after she announces an agreement with major app companies to protect the privacy of consumers.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 8:35pm EST
The tools to analyze disparate data sets are getting better and cheaper. But the practice will increasingly bump against the boundaries of privacy comfort zones.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 8:00pm EST
Social network wants permission to inspect the contents of four previously undisclosed accounts, allegedly in use since 2003.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 7:50pm EST
Mattel is releasing a replica of the "Back to the Future" hoverboard, but sadly, it doesn't really float. Maybe the company should get in touch with this DIYer.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 7:44pm EST
Cyber security is a growing problem that threatens the U.S. economy, and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says broadband providers can help protect the public.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 6:44pm EST
Recent Foxconn revelations hint at higher costs than previous estimates that are still staggeringly low by Western standards.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 6:42pm EST
CEO Meg Whitman says during an earnings conference call that Hewlett-Packard has a line of products ready for the next iteration of Windows.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 6:20pm EST
New medical device, powered wirelessly via electromagnetic radio waves, could be used as a diagnostic or surgical tool.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 5:58pm EST
A study suggests that those who text more are less accepting of new words and more rigid about existing ones. It is unclear whether these new words include LOL and LMAO
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 5:42pm EST
Sony PlayStation Vita, which just went on sale, is highly advanced from a technology perspective. But gamers and gaming experts question its relevancy and functionality in the world of smartphones and other go-to gadgets. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 2:42am EST
Chip giant's highly anticipated Ivy Bridge processor--the engine of future ultrabooks--will be delayed, according to a report.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 2:37am EST
Celebrities and other public figures will soon have the chance to verify their accounts and display a preferred "alternative name," TechCrunch reports.
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Posted: February 16th, 2012, 12:00am EST
New service from Microsoft taps into feeds from Facebook and Twitter to cull the most shared news from the Web, giving users a real-time snapshot of the national conversation.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 11:48pm EST
Graphics chipmaker sees an opportunity to compete against the iPhone 4S with dual-core phones priced at a fraction of the Apple phone.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 11:43pm EST
With profiles on Twitter and Google+ already, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg adds the social network Pinterest to his cache.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 11:26pm EST
Sony Mobile Communications is born out of Sony's $1.47 billion acquisition of Ericsson's half of their long partnership.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 10:19pm EST
After giving LightSquared a mid-March ultimatum to get FCC approval, Sprint now says it may have to return $65 million to the wireless venture.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 9:09pm EST
Emergency calls to 911 expected to become more reliable with the FCC's decision to treat VoIP service providers the same as landline and cell phone providers.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 9:06pm EST
Apple's decision to police apps' use of contact data is just the latest case in which tech execs have pushed the envelope...right into a looming backlash.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:33pm EST
The president's re-election effort is looking for a boost in the middle of one of the most tech-savvy cities in the world. It's not staffed up yet, but the campaign is looking for volunteers.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:31pm EST
Ubisoft confirms that the third full-fledged installment of its open-world action adventure game will arrive by Halloween.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:20pm EST
Developers say Apple's new mandate won't be too much of a burden, but many will need to modify apps that use address book data.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:45pm EST
These cancer stem cells are difficult to kill because they don't divide rapidly--a common behavior that most cancer treatments target.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:38pm EST
Music labels should be basking in the glow of the Grammys and recent sales increases. Instead, they're getting sued by artists and one label is accused of cashing in on a singer's death.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:35pm EST
Path's recent privacy violations have stirred up strong words of condemnation from numerous corners. What does it mean, if anything, for Path's Android users?
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:30pm EST
Head of organization inspecting Apple's supplier plants tells Reuters that an uptick in worker suicides may be related to boredom.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:51pm EST
Virtual pinboard Pinterest, for example, has seen its daily user base grow by more than 60 percent since integrating Open Graph less than a month ago.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:04pm EST
Until all this gets figured out, why would anyone trust Apple, developers, or Congress to do the right thing?
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 6:00pm EST
LightSquared may have had a great case for building its wireless network, but the fledgling company lacked the political tact to see it through.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:59pm EST
Tesla announced that the Model X, its newly announced electric SUV, is the fastest-selling Tesla yet--two years before any actual sales.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:25am EST
Reacting to recent hacks that could expose a user's funds, Google has patched a security flaw in Google Wallet and reenabled the use of prepaid cards.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:15am EST
Fred Wilson says Google, Bing, Facebook and Twitter should warn people when they try to log in at known pirate sites. 'We don't need legislation.'
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:09am EST
iPhone maker is reportedly allowing brands to spend just $100,000 to initiate a campaign, down from the $1 million they were required to put up back in 2010.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 8:00am EST
How do you get people to remember to use a service that they only need once in a while? Localmind keeps tweaking.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 7:49am EST
Can music turn HTC's prospects around? Apparently the company thinks so, having first acquired a majority stake in Beats Audio and now working on a possible streaming service.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 5:42am EST
A widely used plug-in to sync video clips now dovetails with multicamera support in Apple's video editor--but Final Cut Pro X's multicam offers its own sync tool.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 3:01am EST
As personal computer security gets more complicated, Symantec pulls back the curtain on a new simplified approach called Norton One. Meanwhile, Norton 360 gets an upgrade.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:59am EST
A high school football coach intends to post a nude photo to his girlfriend on Facebook. Instead, it is publicly visible. Ten minutes is enough for a parent to see it.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:06am EST
Launching the MySpace Music Player, the social-networking music site says it now offers more free music than any other site worldwide--thus users are streaming in.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:01am EST
The last CEO of the Silicon Valley pioneer that invented Java and helped fuel the dot-com boom has a new company that helps people track medical care.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:00am EST
Don't pooh-pooh a smaller iPad, especially when it's becoming increasingly clear that Apple isn't.
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Posted: February 15th, 2012, 12:00am EST
Lemnis Lighting introduces two no-frills LED bulbs--one priced under $5 and one under $7--that don't give off much light but may tempt consumers to try efficient LEDs for general lighting.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 11:45pm EST
Agency tasked with overseeing military and government spectrum use says interference with other devices is unavoidable.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 11:16pm EST
In the absence of technical solutions to restrict access to private data, we're stuck relying upon the kindness of strangers. So when is the tech industry finally going to do the right thing?
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:29pm EST
With more than 70 billion DNS requests each day, the search engine's public DNS service is now the most used on earth.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:30pm EST
The video streaming company is coming out with another original TV series, this one called "Orange is the New Black," as it continues its ongoing tug-of-war with HBO.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:54pm EST
Under proposed legislation, DHS would decide what firms are "critical infrastructure" and require them to meet security standards.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:43pm EST
Judge grants request for reimbursement but denies a request to prevent Ceglia from making additional motions until fees are paid.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:28pm EST
Check out this free (for now) e-book on telling stories via social media--useful for anyone with a product, service or idea to sell.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:42pm EST
Chief executive takes the stage at an investor conference, making a rare public appearance to talk about overseas labor, product growth, the company's cash pile, and the future of Apple.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:40pm EST
In the year 2030, Sony thinks we might swipe a card to use energy from one of our personal alternative power sources instead of from the electric company.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:07pm EST
Unlike its rivals, Apple was willing to swallow hard and ultimately doom one of its traditional cash cows.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 6:03pm EST
A Texas boy claims that while playing Xbox 360 Call of Duty online, someone in a chat room threatens to hack his information and get a SWAT team to his house. The SWAT team duly arrives. Panic ensues.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 5:38pm EST
Tying your locks in a ponytail is easy, but scientists and artists have puzzled over hair for centuries. Now it's a simple equation.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 5:30pm EST
An Australian comedian has come up with a slightly creepy but still fun and amusing interactive game for the video-sharing site. Give it a try.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:18am EST
Reportedly priced in Europe at more than $400, Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 2 will be hard pressed to find any eager buyers.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:11am EST
Primus Green Energy has developed a process to convert wood pellets and natural gas into a high-octane gasoline. But can they do it cheap enough?
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 9:58am EST
The company says that over 8 billion handhelds or "personal mobile-ready devices" will be in use in 2016.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:58am EST
The company didn't try hard enough to stop a 10-year incursion by hackers likely working from China, says a former Nortel exec cited by the Wall Street Journal.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:48am EST
All of the smartphone's features are not immediately known, but a new report claims the device is running on Intel's new Medfield chip.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 8:04am EST
The company has acknowledged that it will be considering all options, but has so far said that it wouldn't comment on a possible spinoff.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:28am EST
Greasy finger traces can potentially reveal the pattern used to unlock Android devices. Typing a PIN is better, a Googler concludes.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:00am EST
How a startup entrepreneur won, then lost, then won again.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 7:00am EST
When the sun goes down, that's when the iPad gets busy for folks with news readers. The iPhone? It's more of a daytime habit. If you're building an app for both devices, heed the lesson.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 5:55am EST
Apple is talking to component suppliers about an iPad with a smaller screen, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 3:00am EST
Six months after its introduction, Google Wallet seems to be no further along than when it started. Will Google kill the project?
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 2:49am EST
iPad 3 numbers are expected skyrocket in 2012, an Asia-based report said.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 2:05am EST
Hamza Kashgari's tweets of an imaginary conversation with the Prophet Mohammad are viewed as blasphemous by the Saudi Arabian government. Now he faces trial with a possible death sentence.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 12:49am EST
Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 12:31am EST
The two telecom carriers will carry a next-generation iPad running on the fast, next-generation wireless technology, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 12:01am EST
The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:03pm EST
People shop more online, are buying tablets and e-readers, and continue to purchase Apple products at an increasing rate, says market researchers.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:46pm EST
Wildly popular game finally makes its debut on the social network--albeit a day earlier than was promised.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:22pm EST
Chinese authorities have reportedly taken iPads from a third-party retailer, a move apparently brought on by Apple's continued refusal to honor a trademark for the iPad name owned by a Chinese manufacturer.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:13pm EST
After a higher-than-expected fourth quarter, the video subscription service unburdens itself of a pending yearlong class action suit and settles for $9 million.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:48pm EST
Game on: European Union grants unconditional approval for $12.5 billion deal, but says it will keep an eye on Google. The company says it aims to "supercharge" Android with the acquisition.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:26pm EST
The Washington State Senate passed a bill that would charge electric car owners $100 per year to compensate for not paying gas taxes. The bill still has to pass the House.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 1:03pm EST
Scoring more than 1 million in unit sales, Apple's iPad is outshining Samsung's own Galaxy tablets in the company's native Korea.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:54pm EST
PBS is giving users of its iPhone/iPad app an early preview of its documentary on former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:25pm EST
Albino Android phone is available unlocked at Las Vegas-based Negri Electronics for $650.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:18pm EST
Google Wallet puts a hold on prepaid cards, Samsung unveils the Galaxy Tab 2 tablet, and Apple hires an independent group to investigate working conditions at Foxconn factories in China.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 12:05pm EST
But no nuclear renaissance appears to be imminent, despite the go-ahead to build and operate two new reactors in Georgia.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:53am EST
Apple's stock hits a high of $503.83 this morning before retreating to below the $500 mark. Goldman Sachs says it believes Apple could rise to $550 a share in the next 12 months.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:45am EST
The Telegraph claims that British TV network ITV has warned Apple off the name iTV for any TV products. But ITV denies that report.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:30am EST
Entrepreneurialism is a gift that you get from your parents, and one you might want to consider giving to your children.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:27am EST
The company, which makes biofuel from a microbes, said it will stay the course, and expects a demo flight with its biofuel soon.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 11:01am EST
Sony's incoming CEO Kaz Hirai says that the PlayStation Vita operating system was designed to be "expandable" to other platforms.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:34am EST
Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target are other retailers have sold out of Apple TVs, suggesting that the product may be up for a refresh very soon.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:33am EST
It's a good bet other tech companies will join the Fair Labor Association and follow Apple's lead in moving to allow outside audits of manufacturing sites.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:08am EST
Mozilla plans to release a beta version this year for Microsoft's upcoming Windows interface. It'll be a lot of work, but Mozilla doesn't really have a choice.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:58am EST
The update, which is available in Google TV's Android Market, includes new channel pages, faster response times, and related videos.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:26am EST
A group calling itself Evil Shadow Team reportedly stole usernames and passwords of Microsoft Store customers.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 9:00am EST
IBM Watson's superbrain and evidence-based decisions are coming soon to a cloud near you.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:44am EST
The company says that manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, will be inspected by a group "dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide."
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:36am EST
Responding to two hacks uncovered last week against Google Wallet, Google has temporarly suspended use of the service's prepaid card.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:31am EST
Tablet will launch in the U.K. first but will be available across the globe in March, according to Samsung.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 8:23am EST
The space agency powers down its last System Z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs for which NASA originally bought them.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:00am EST
The rise of Apple's stores is one of the past decade's great retail stories. So, why then does the company continue to creep back into the big-box outlets and will this hurt the brand?
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 7:00am EST
The company helps small businesses with little tech savvy build apps easily, and now its partner Constant Contact will email-blast prospective users, too.
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 6:49am EST
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon--all are targets for Mozilla's plan to use Web apps to free people from ecosystem lock-in. Also: new Firefox features aplenty.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:51pm EST
Facebook tease may portend announcement regarding the company's rumored home entertainment device.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 1:10pm EST
How much innovation will Apple offer for the next iteration of its iPad? How much does the company need to offer in order to make a new iPad exciting, given the paucity of current competition?
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:40pm EST
In order to celebrate Valentine's Day, a survey asks Americans what they would give up in order to telecommute. Five percent say "spouse," while 12 percent say "daily shower."
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:13pm EST
There is much outpouring from stars on Twitter at the death of Whitney Houston. Moreover, Houston-related themes dominate the site's top 10 trends. At least in the U.S.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 12:12pm EST
For those who want to revisit film styles from the earlier analog age of photography, Exposure 4 adds new options and speed to its Photoshop plug-in.
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 11:13am EST
Have you ever heard a hi-fi or home theater system that stopped you in your tracks, or one that you still think about years later?
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 9:15am EST
The dreary details differ, but the same theme informs--we're good, they're bad, and dear judge: would you please kneecap these guys for us?
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Posted: February 12th, 2012, 7:00am EST
With Windows 8 now on a clearer path to release, expect the big device makers to try to crash the raucous Apple party with Microsoft leading the way. And who knows? Microsoft may even steer buyers away from a next-generation 9-inch Kindle Fire.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:09pm EST
AstrologyDating.com is a new site that tries to find you your perfect love on the basis of birth date, birth time, and birthplace. But will it tell you the truth? Well, it asks you to pay only per match. So I tried it.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 6:27pm EST
The Web fulminates when it is revealed that executives from VEVO--vehement music industry antipirates--played a pirated stream of an NFL playoff game at a party. VEVO claims it left its Wi-Fi unsupervised. Have we heard that argument before?
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 5:17pm EST
Following its FBI shenanigans of last week, the loose-knit hacking collective claims to have taken down the CIA's Web site, along with the sites of the Mexican Senate and Interior Ministry. It also says it hacked into police and government sites in Alabama and pilfered personal info on 46,000 Alabamians.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 2:08pm EST
Company requests ban on sales in the U.S. of the Samsung-made showcase for Google's heavily touted Ice Cream Sandwich version of the Android operating system, saying it violates four Apple patents.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 1:00pm EST
iPhones and Angry Birds aside, the arcade endures. Crave pays a visit--and offers up an homage to games and gamers of years past and a tribute to the possibly endangered, but not yet dead, atmosphere of the arcade itself.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 10:38am EST
Few people outside of his friends and family ever heard of him a week ago. Now he's turned into a sports (and Twitter) phenom.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the BlackBerry Curve 9370, Motorola Droid 4, and the TiVo Premiere Elite DVR.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Spacewar, one of the first computer video games ever written, is commemorated at its birthplace at MIT with a simulation and celebration.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:00am EST
MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, including Asteroids.
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Posted: February 11th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Find out all about the latest iPad 3 rumors, along with the usual dose of real news in this week's edition of Apple Talk Weekly.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 9:08pm EST
Tor's "obfsproxy" technology would make encrypted data look innocuous and let it dodge government censors. That could help citizens in Iran reach blocked sites as antigovernment protests reportedly loom.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 8:24pm EST
New challenge-based recruiting site will help you find smart kids to solve your vexing problems.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 7:42pm EST
Google's figured out a way to bring the power of graphics processor-powered hardware acceleration to some older computers, while Chrome 19 dev starts supporting the latest JavaScript code.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 6:07pm EST
Long after its competitors replaced blank New Tab pages with personalized content drawn from your browsing habits, Mozilla reveals the beginning of its own New Tab revamp.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:52pm EST
According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration will unveil a new budget on Monday that will slash spending on NASA's Mars rover program by 20 percent next year, with more cuts to come.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:14pm EST
Russian cryptography company ElcomSoft has developed a tool that makes cracking iWork document passwords easier.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 5:08pm EST
Crave goes hands-on with littleBits, an open-source kit of circuit boards that let you build fun projects while learning how electronics work. See what we created with littleBits and some office supplies.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 4:53pm EST
A study by Harlequin--yes, the romantic-book people--says more women are sending naughty texts (shocking) and that 27 percent have sent a nude picture via e-mail or text.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 4:42pm EST
CIA Web site goes down Friday in apparent denial-of-service attack by Anonymous as part of anti-law-enforcement demonstration.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 4:33pm EST
A new Apple lawsuit takes aim at Motorola Mobility in the U.S. for breaking a contract both companies have with Qualcomm for the license of one of its wireless patents.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 3:15pm EST
Reuters reports that the European Union will approved the $12.5 billion acquisition without any conditions on Monday.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:56pm EST
With guests Owen Thomas and Brooke Hammerling, I look at how tech companies deal with failures and errors: Apple, Google, Facebook, Airbnb, and most recently, Path. How can you recover? How do you prepare?
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:48pm EST
Apple's iPad may be more expensive than Android tablets. And it may offer less internal memory, but the wide array of apps and resale value of the device may make it a smarter purchase, says CNET's Maggie Reardon.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:28pm EST
Apple is once again said to be working on larger versions of its popular MacBook Air notebook, with 15- and 17-inch models in the hopper that could end up replacing its "Pro" line.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:54pm EST
All the signs point to one inescapable conclusion: Google's getting into hardware, and its crosshairs are on Cupertino.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 1:51pm EST
In a two-seater electric car powered only by the sun, a team of German students plan to circumnavigate the world.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 2:01am EST
Company is working at an "increased rate" to line up apps to showcase the tablet's capabilities during an on-stage introduction and in TV commercials, sources tell The Verge.
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Posted: February 10th, 2012, 12:29am EST
For the first time ever, two projects on the crowd-source funding platform exceeded $1 million each--both in the same day.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:30pm EST
Tesla previewed the Model X in Los Angeles, and the highlight of the new vehicle was not the electric power train, but innovative folding side doors.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:49pm EST
Cybercriminals tend to e-mail viruses from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., a new Global Security Report reveals.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:40pm EST
As search engines Google and Microsoft grow in percentage share for searches in the U.S., Yahoo continues to shrink, according to ComScore data.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:15pm EST
Apple's digital store is once again said to be the target of digital thieves, who are reportedly wiping out the store credit on user accounts.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:10pm EST
In the Web world, distributed denial-of-service attacks can take out entire sites rather quickly. Mitigating the risk should be top of mind when building network architecture.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:19pm EST
Patent-holding company claimed a host of Web giants owed it hundreds of millions in royalties for their use of online video streaming, search suggestions, and other "interactive" elements on pages.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:06pm EST
Watchdog groups deliver petitions to a number of Apple's retail stores around the world, including one in downtown San Francisco.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:38pm EST
Don't knock Kodak, because when it comes to screwing up, it's got lots of company.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:17pm EST
The giant bookseller files a motion, saying the decision by an administrative law judge reached "erroneous conclusions" and was based on "a misstatement of the facts."
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:10pm EST
Zynga strikes a partnership with Hasbro, paving the way for toys and games based on titles such as 'Empires & Allies' and 'FarmVille.'
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 6:03pm EST
Researchers turned skin cells from Parkinson's patients into brain cells and used them to untangle the workings of one form of the disease.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:46pm EST
Obama for America releases the official campaign playlist, 28 tracks worth, on the popular music-streaming service.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:42pm EST
Windows 8 on ARM will launch at the same time as Windows 8 on Intel-AMD, but there are key differences. Case in point: You don't turn off a Windows on ARM PC.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:12pm EST
Intel and the New York state Attorney General have reached an agreement to drop the AG's suit against Intel.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 5:08pm EST
An attacker would have to get ahold of an Android that has been rooted to use software that would crack the PIN in Google Wallet.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:58pm EST
The Pew Research Center releases a report about the social and emotional climate that American adults experience on social-networking sites. Turns out it's a mixed bag, like life.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:38pm EST
The job-search social network reported a fourth quarter revenue of $167.7 million, up 105 percent compared to $81.7 million for Q4 2010.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:29pm EST
Apple shares were big on Wall Street today, almost brushing $500. The surge followed word that the company may unveil the iPad 3 next month.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:58pm EST
BlackBerry maker is giving away a 16GB tablet for every ported Android app submitted to BlackBerry App World prior to February 16.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:46pm EST
Pass the lightsaber and help some young Jedis in need. Comic-Con 2012 will start big this year with a "Star Wars"-themed Olympic-style relay race.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:44pm EST
Artist's book contains nothing but elegantly rendered QR codes on its printed pages. Readers go to the book's Web site, hold a page in front of their Webcam, and watch as a poem appears onscreen.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:31pm EST
Windows president Steven Sinofsky notes in a blog post that version of the upcoming operating system powering ARM chips will arrive at the same time as the one that runs traditional PCs.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:16pm EST
The company has stopped the preorder deal for the Windows Phone Lumia 900 after just a week with no specific reason why.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:15pm EST
Motorola's Christy Wyatt says that hardware is a much more limiting factor in getting speedy Android updates to market than the software Motorola layers onto its Android devices.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:14pm EST
Amazon doesn't mention the iPad by name, but Apple's tablet makes an appearance, and it's no secret which competitor it's referencing.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:18pm EST
Members of Change.org and SumofUs hand-deliver 250,000 petitions in a show of strength for their call for Apple to adopt more ethical practices when building its products.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:14pm EST
Episode I comes out on Friday in 3D, and CNET UK's Jason Jenkins got an advanced screening. Is it worth your hard-earned money? Read on.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:04pm EST
The search giant is considering selling its merchandise in a retail store at its European headquarters. Plans have been approved, but the company hasn't made a decision yet.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:56am EST
The Google and Motorola deal is likely to get a green light, petitions for "ethical" iPhones are delivered to Apple stores, and Kodak ends an era by phasing out cameras, video recorders, and digital photo frames.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:45am EST
Now due on February 29, the next Windows 8 beta will offer several built-in Metro apps, including Music, Video, Mail, Messaging, and SkyDrive.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 11:42am EST
Members from Change.org deliver a quarter of a million signatures to Apple's Manhattan flagship store in Grand Central Terminal on a petition calling for an ethical iPhone 5. It was part of the delivery of signatures to stores around the world.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:29am EST
Michael Doyle and his company Eolas claim several prominent Web companies, including YouTube and Amazon, violate a patent it holds that dates back to 1994.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:27am EST
The search giant is offering a series of gift cards worth up to $25 if you allow it to monitor the Web sites you visit and how you use them.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 10:23am EST
In 1991, George H.W. Bush considered Jobs for an appointment on the President's Council, and the FBI dug into the Apple honcho's youthful behaviors.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 9:49am EST
Creating a tiny version of a coaxial cable, researchers at the University of California at San Diego create smallest laser to date, an advance that could lead to optical computer chips or high-resolution displays.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 9:35am EST
The photography pioneer says that its digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames will be phased out entirely in the first half of 2012.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 9:28am EST
A hacking group calling itself Swagg Security claims to have breached network security and publicly released names, passwords, and other private data from the Apple supplier.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 9:05am EST
Company is preparing an event for the first week of March to unveil the next iPad, according to AllThingsD.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:21am EST
A Dusseldorf state court says the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N can be sold in Germany, despite Apple's claims that it violates patents it holds.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:21am EST
A Dusseldorf state court says the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N can be sold in Germany, despite Apple's claims that it violates patents it holds.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:19am EST
Profiles created for different iPhone operators point to early March as a possible date for the release of iOS 5.1, one that could coincide with the debut of the iPad 3.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:19am EST
Profiles created for different iPhone operators point to early March as a possible date for the release of iOS 5.1, one that could coincide with the debut of the iPad 3.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 8:00am EST
There's a war on the Web for your personal data, and Abine's newly updated Do Not Track Plus browser add-on hands you the Internet equivalent of a neutron bomb.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Richard Mack, a retired sheriff and constitutional conservative, is hoping to use Rep. Lamar Smith's authorship of SOPA and an Internet surveillance bill to pry him out of office.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Richard Mack, a retired sheriff and constitutional conservative, is hoping to use Rep. Lamar Smith's authorship of SOPA and an Internet surveillance bill to pry him out of office.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 4:08am EST
Saying it improved manufacturing, the Japanese camera and lensmaker will start selling a lower-priced SLR in March. Also: perks for those who paid the high price.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:39am EST
A quad-core Apple chip powering the iPad 3 is not moral certainty. Here are some reasons why.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 1:17am EST
A father who was allegedly upset that a couple defriended his daughter on Facebook stands accused of murdering the couple.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:15am EST
CNN political analyst belittled men wearing pink and the near-naked H&M David Beckham ad via Twitter during the Super Bowl--tweets that some critics say were anti-gay and violent.
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Posted: February 9th, 2012, 12:01am EST
Free service called Drive will allow users to upload and retrieve photos, documents, and videos, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:51pm EST
New smartphone technology called Mobilyze is being developed to make personal mood assessments and help people stave off depression.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:22pm EST
Does a 2010 e-mail from Path's CEO show how the company betrayed users' trust?
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:41pm EST
It remains to be seen whether Vonage can make much traction against Skype's installed base, but the opportunities abroad are huge.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:24pm EST
Company co-founder cut side deal to transfer shares to Russian-based investment firm.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:10pm EST
Over seven years, scientists used data from NASA satellites to measure global ice melt and the effect on sea level rise. Now, a new study shows that during that time, the world's water mass grew by half an inch.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:00pm EST
Electronic Privacy Information Center says the policy update violates of a 2011 privacy agreement between the agency and the company over its launch of Google Buzz.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:28pm EST
An approval could happen as early as next week, although U.S. and European regulators remain concerned about Google's commitment to licensing Motorola's patents fairly.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:49pm EST
A recent science fair at the White House revealed a deliciously dangerous weapon.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:44pm EST
The Honda Fit EV debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2011, and it's expected to be available for lease this summer. However, Google and Stanford University got a special delivery of the tiny EV this week.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:24pm EST
Several wireless carriers--with AT&T and Verizon notably absent--are quibbling over a clause in the House's jobs bill that would strip the FCC of its ability to impose restrictions in future spectrum auctions.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:24pm EST
Nest Labs barks back after being slapped with a patent infringement lawsuit and accuses Honeywell of trying to stifle innovation in smart thermostats with its "patent-attack strategy."
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:21pm EST
New documents related to the social network's upcoming IPO show that the founder and his COO could become even wealthier than they already are.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:19pm EST
Path underdisclosed what it was doing with your address book; Pinterest didn't alert users it was making money from their links. Well, what did you expect? And was it so bad?
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:06pm EST
Apple has taken out a new lease for space in a neighboring city that will hold some 400 of its employees ahead of when the company's new headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., takes shape.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:37pm EST
Two petitions asking Apple to improve conditions for overseas workers will be hand delivered by watchdog group SumOfUs to a handful of Apple's retail stores tomorrow.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:32pm EST
Following a series of threats and alleged negotiations, hackers have released the code for Symantec's remote control software.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:16pm EST
Paul McCartney follows bands such as AC/DC and Coldplay in snubbing streaming services, pulling all his music from Spotify and Rhapsody.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:24am EST
Mitsubishi Electric says its new technology will allow elevators in the Shanghai Tower, under construction, to travel some 40 mph.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:23am EST
Fabrication is moving to the nanoscale, aided by a super-hard tip 10,000 times smaller than a pencil point that could be used for microscopic biosensors and optical probes.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:08am EST
California State Teachers' Retirement System, the second-largest pension fund in the U.S., says the social network should add women to its board of directors.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 11:05am EST
The startup CEO has to do everything, but there's one thing especially that only the CEO can do. Consultants ideally have recent operational experience very relevant to your needs.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:52am EST
Nokia is preparing to unveil a special $899 bundle of its Lumia 800 Windows Phone handset in the U.S. next Tuesday, according to story on The Verge.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:29am EST
Massive e-mail dump reveals media planning in advance of Syrian president's memorable interview with Barbara Walters in December.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:10am EST
Netflix says HBO is the company's No. 1 competitor, but not everyone agrees. One analyst says Amazon looks more and more like a major threat.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:53am EST
The iPhone maker says that the mobile industry lacks "consistent adherence to Frand principles" and wants the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to step in.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 9:34am EST
Due to launch in preview mode this month, Microsoft's Windows Store will reportedly offer a variety of games in its initial selection, including Angry Birds, Toy Soldiers, Reckless Racing, and Rocket Riot.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:38am EST
Greenpeace tries to cast some light on the energy sources behind data centers and commend IT companies that advance clean energy and efficiency through tech. Facebook and Apple aren't quite there yet, it says.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:33am EST
The new online pinboard is apparently making money by adding tracking code to certain user-submitted pins and getting a cut when someone buys something though the pin. Should this be disclosed?
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:26am EST
The world's largest social network now shows images on the left side of the screen and comments and basic information to the right of the picture.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 8:00am EST
All told, with Search Plus Your World, Google is simply doing what its competitors have long attempted and consumers are demanding, legal advisers Marvin Ammori and Luke Pelican argue.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:25am EST
Sprint Nextel added the most customers in a quarter in six years, thanks in large part to the sale of 1.8 million iPhones.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:06am EST
The open-source software for housing Web sites is widely used by big names including Facebook and Hulu. Now it's a startup selling services, too.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Electronic Arts Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore sees its Origin online platform as a way to directly connect with consumers, similar to Amazon's store or Apple's iTunes. He also draws comparisons to Macy's too.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:11am EST
Factory workers in Finland, Mexico, and Hungary will lose their jobs this year as Nokia follows its peers to tap into Asia's manufacturing might.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 4:39am EST
The image-sensor division, now owned by Platinum Equity, picks up the brand name of some of its products.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 3:00am EST
The tile-based user interface created for Windows Phone has moved to the core of Microsoft's consumer offerings. Now, Microsoft has to make sure it doesn't muddy Metro's clear design.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:19am EST
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices need to drop prices on their power-efficient chips to compete with ARM processor suppliers in the Windows 8 device market, says Asia-based publication.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:13am EST
With an iOS and now Android version of the note-taking app, Microsoft shows its app and service strategy can take precedence over its OS strategy.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:08am EST
World's tech capital adds 42,000 jobs in 2011, an increase of 3.8 percent compared with the nation's 1.1 percent growth rate, according to a new survey.
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:33am EST
Acclaimed Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez has repeatedly tried to travel internationally but local authorities refuse to let her leave--human rights organizations think it's because of the political views she writes about on her blog.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 11:13pm EST
Amazon moves one step closer to launching a standalone, subscription-based video streaming service with news of a possible partnership with entertainment giant Viacom.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:59pm EST
The Web giant has some reassurances ready to go, Bloomberg reports. Good timing: European regulators are expected to rule on the companies' $12.5 billion merger by next week.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:51pm EST
LinkedIn has supposedly acquired the startup Rapportive, which combines social networking with e-mail.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:31pm EST
After large numbers of longtime 'Burners' failed to get tickets during the event's recent selection process, many claimed organizers had failed to adopt a sensible system. Now, those organizers are trying to calm community anger.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:05pm EST
Apple's now requiring that developers upload the snazzier, Retina Display caliber screenshots of their games to the App Store when submitting their creations.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:50pm EST
An Internet troll who posts allegedly hateful and racist remarks on Facebook's RIP sites, seems blase about his activities when he is intercepted by a BBC reporter.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:30pm EST
The startup sees a 75 percent boost in efficiency with its LED bulb, a new material platform for bringing down the cost of LEDs for general lighting.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:50pm EST
According to a report by the New York Times, Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant Siri accounts for nearly 25 percent of the traffic handled by search engine Wolfram Alpha.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:31pm EST
While the PC market skids in the U.K. and France, Apple coasts to market share gains--possibly presaging a similar trend in the U.S.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:21pm EST
The popular photo sharing app is rocked by news that it uploads contacts from iPhone users without permission.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:07pm EST
If video game characters had Facebook profiles, they would take bathroom self-portraits and post party pictures just like the rest of us.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:47pm EST
Instagram has become the iPhone photo sharing app of choice, but cut through the hype and you'll find a compelling business lesson in managing scale through laser-like focus.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:41pm EST
Charitable organization hopes credit card-size system can train a new generation of programmers worldwide.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:36pm EST
LightSquared is asking the FCC to impose stricter standards on GPS equipment to ensure that its network can coexist with these GPS devices.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:29pm EST
Scanning Android apps for malware is a welcome move from a security standpoint, but Google still isn't going as far as Apple to eliminate the fragmentation issue.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 5:16pm EST
HBO has invested $10 million into an Australian video rental service that operates much like Netflix, and right away, pundits say Time Warner is bowing to Netflix's business model. It's not that simple.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:48pm EST
According to a study, a mere 6 percent of Americans would reduce toilet paper use in order to help the environment. Thirty-one percent, though, would give up books.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:23pm EST
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says that, along with three other board members, he's not seeking re-election this year. The company appoints two new board members to fill the gap.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 4:19pm EST
The latest in Capcom's stellar survival-horror franchise hits the Nintendo 3DS. Is it the next must-own 3DS game?
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:43pm EST
Google is celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens with a doodle. But the doodle also seems to be trying to get you to use Google Books. Another example of Google's new commercialism?
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:37am EST
Research in Motion says despite the broader perception that BlackBerry users don't care about apps, the company is seeing 6 million downloads each day.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:26am EST
Apple outscored Samsung by less than a percentage point in market share last quarter thanks to heavy demand for the iPhone 4S, according to IDC.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:15am EST
Google creates a circle and weekly hang out for its Google+ social media platform to encourage creation of more third-party apps.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 8:00am EST
Today is the ninth annual Safer Internet Day, a European initiative designed to "make the Internet a safer and better place for our children and young people."
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Another venture capitalist with a penchant for collecting old technology: Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His focus? Gear from NASA's Apollo era.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Facebook's CEO wants to build a 21st century tech company that will change the world. Sounds nice on paper.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:59am EST
Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson engages his fascination for the Apollo program by amassing a unique collection of artifacts, including one that was on the moon. And a piece of it.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:51am EST
One of Canon's most popular lenses gets better optics, coatings, and bokeh--but costs $1,000 more and doesn't get image stabilization. New wide-angle prime lenses do get it, though.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 3:00am EST
The frenzy around the social-networking giant's upcoming IPO has made lots of people wonder whether owning a piece of Facebook might be a good investment for them. But how do you get in?
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:41am EST
The iPad 3 may get Sharp's latest and greatest display tech after all, according a Japan-based analyst.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 1:14am EST
Ever wonder which movies are illegally downloaded the most? Using data collected by TorrentFreak, this infographic shows the top 10, starting with Avatar.
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Posted: February 7th, 2012, 12:01am EST
Verizon Wireless is planning a number of promotions, including a buy one, get one free Droid Razr offer, designed to goose sales. The Droid 4 will also be available Friday.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:38pm EST
Rumors that HUD Google Glasses were in the works have now been confirmed--reportedly, a prototype has been seen and the glasses might even be available to people outside of Google.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 11:03pm EST
Symantec's agreement to pay $50,000 to prevent the leak of source code for some of its flagship products was part of a "law enforcement investigation."
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:05pm EST
As Brazil's attorney general files an injunction to block tweets and suspend accounts of Twitter users warning people about speed traps, the question is will Twitter work with the Brazilian government and use its new tweet removal policy?
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:33pm EST
Rumor has it that Amazon is considering opening stores--the real, brick-and-mortar kind. Is that a good idea?
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:42pm EST
A woman accused of illegally downloading porn strikes back by claiming that it doesn't promote science or useful arts and therefore can't be copyrighted.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:53pm EST
A new report from Bernstein Research attempts to gauge the long-term worth of Apple's "lifetime customers," those who will be back every few years to buy new versions of products.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:24pm EST
The goal: A handheld device, described as a molecular-level Lego set, that will test for tuberculosis and similar bugs in 30 minutes.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:56pm EST
Looking to cut down on those expensive heating bills during the winter months? The Hagent robot concept could help you do just that.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:27pm EST
Could Google be working on the "Project Tungsten" hardware first demonstrated at Google IO last year?
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:26pm EST
Police raid the home of MegaUpload's Kim DotCom, a copyright offender, wielding automatic weapons. Anonymous publishes the social security number of a sports promoter that disagrees with them...are both sides hurting their causes by turning to increasingly tougher tactics?
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:24pm EST
Daniel Terdiman hits the road yet again, this time to find the tech and science hot spots in the Rockies and Great Plains. You're invited to follow along on his travels--without getting the left-arm sunburn.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:19pm EST
An apparent Best Buy customer survey hints at an upcoming Apple HDTV for $1,000 more than most 42-inch HDTVs currently cost. Would iOS fans be willing to swallow such a hefty premium?
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:10pm EST
Apple sold the most smartphones in Q4 2011, but Android might win the race as it is attracting more first-time buyers than iOS, according to NPD research.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 4:09pm EST
Apple unseated IBM as the top brand of 2011, according to a new study by Davis Brand Capital. The popular gadget maker came in seventh place in last year's tally.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:59pm EST
In what's being called a first-of-a-kind operation, surgeons implant an entire titanium jaw made with a precision 3D printing technique.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 3:25pm EST
Professor Tom Green blames the radio hosts for a flood of vile tweets after they fan the flames over who owns the Twitter account @TomGreen.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:52pm EST
Facebook meets with student activists in Europe regarding concerns over how it handles users' personal information.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:34pm EST
What will Web browsing look like in the future? SmartPlanet's Sumi Das explains how augmented reality will help museum paintings turn into talking art teachers and ordinary billboards play movie trailers.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:24pm EST
It's been two years since Google announced the 1-gigabit-per-second Google Fiber project. Now it's ready to start building it.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:15pm EST
Starbucks expands the usefulness--if you can call it that--of its augmented-reality app beyond the holidays to Valentine's Day.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:11pm EST
Too many entrepreneurs start companies with the goal of selling them. Former VC Andy Rachleff is hoping Facebook inspires people in Silicon Valley to think bigger.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 2:03pm EST
In an SEC filing today, the online video distribution company sets the price range for shares of its upcoming IPO at $10 to $12.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:22pm EST
The Kissinger kissing robot concept from Lovotics lets people virtually smooch with each other. Big silicone lips on each animal-shaped device register and replicate lip movements for long-distance affection.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:10pm EST
Samsung's big Super Bowl ad for the Note may have brought on a few chuckles, but it failed in one big way, says CNET's Josh Lowensohn.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:02pm EST
Facebook photos still exist on the company's servers even after deletion and can apparently still be accessed, Ars Technica reports.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:30pm EST
A look at the top Super Bowl 2012 television spots, according to voters on Hulu.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:18pm EST
HTC's iconic user interface has helped it sell a boatload of Android smartphones and tablets. But it's starting to feel stale.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:05pm EST
More than 3,000 GameStop stores across the United States are now offering playable demo units of the Sony PlayStation Vita, which will be released in the U.S. later this month.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:33am EST
Everywhere he turns, LimeWire founder Mark Gorton seemingly is facing a new lawsuit from some new group of copyright owners.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:22am EST
Startups Alta Devices and Semprius boast new solar efficiency records using very different techniques in an effort to knock down the price of solar power.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:06am EST
Leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 8 build show that Microsoft has jettisoned the traditional Windows 8 Start button but tweaked the Charms Bar and other settings.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:33am EST
The new lens, with a fast F2.8 design, can counteract camera shake with vibration compensation that Nikon and Canon competitors currently lack.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:31am EST
Verizon is getting into the video streaming business through a new partnership with Coinstar, the company that owns the Redbox video rental kiosk business.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:42am EST
Apple holds only a 9 percent share of the global mobile phone market, but it grabbed 75 percent of the industry's overall profits last quarter, according to data from Asymco.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:40am EST
Fourth-quarter profits slipped for the Taiwanese phone maker, and its revenue forecast for the first quarter is well below analyst expectations.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Take a tour of the past, present, and future of electric vehicles to see the multiple waves of electric cars in years past and a hint at future directions.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:00am EST
The near-term picture on EVs is fuzzy at best, but electrification is the future of the auto industry with hybrids leading the way.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:00am EST
NQ Mobile may be the best mobile security software you've never heard of. New Co-CEO Omar Khan has been tapped to make sure that changes.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:17am EST
It looks likely Nikon will announce a more expensive D800E SLR tomorrow, too, that abandons the convenient but blurriness-inducing antialiasing filter.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:29am EST
Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game's biggest play, but did tech advertisers connect with consumers? CNET takes a look.
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:21am EST
One of the salient themes in Super Bowl ads was bringing manufacturing back to America. A lesson for Apple?
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:24pm EST
What better way to recover from the halftime show? More ads that continued to offer little in the way of originality of either strategy or execution. On the other hand, we had Clint Eastwood advertising Chrysler and Detroit.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:01pm EST
Samsung's Super Bowl ad--for the Galaxy Note--claims that this is the product that can finally stop Apple fanboys from having to stand in line, waiting for Apple's latest.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:30pm EST
Which tech company had the best first half ad in the Super Bowl? Here's a detailed analysis, written as it happened.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 7:13pm EST
NASA looks to advanced design concepts to reduce noise and increase the fuel efficiency of future aircraft.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 6:19pm EST
Sorry Steve, it's not post-PC, it's PC-plus, says IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 5:57pm EST
In an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 3:30pm EST
Women around the world, fed up with Facebook's policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:47am EST
In an interestingly confident mix-up, the New York Giants' Web site not only announces that the team has already won, but offers winners' memorabilia for sale.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:12am EST
CNET Executive Editor David Carnoy looks at Sony's Playstation Vita through Apple goggles.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 7:00am EST
The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the 2011 winners of a contest to create the best visualizations in the fields of science and engineering.
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Posted: February 5th, 2012, 7:00am EST
The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the winners of last year's contest for the best visualizations in science and engineering.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:25pm EST
The death of Micron Technology's CEO during a solo flight in a hard-to-handle aircraft symbolizes the risky memory chip market that is the company's bread and butter.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:54pm EST
In a news conference, the New England quarterback mentions that while rehabbing last year in Costa Rica, he watched the big game on an illegal site. Is this the final validation for piracy?
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:39pm EST
Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:24pm EST
As the Giants battle the Patriots on Sunday, viewers have dozens of ways to keep up with the game--by live streaming, watching on cell phones, or subscribing to apps and social-media feeds.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:07pm EST
Tweeting harder to resist than sex, coffee, and alcohol, say researchers from the University of Chicago. Now, let's just see you try to resist tweeting this story.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:56pm EST
In Taiwan, a man dies while gaming In an Internet cafe. Reports suggest no one notices for nine hours. But, regardless of how long he was actually dead, how could it be that no gamer notices until a waitress finally thinks to check?
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:07pm EST
A research note from Citigroup says Apple CEO Tim Cook is not leaning toward a future MacBook Air with iPad-like features. So, now what?
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:43pm EST
The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he's not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:36am EST
From 1981 to 1984 RCA marketed the CED VideoDisc system. It never had a chance.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:04am EST
From Kickstarter project to startup to aspiring global power: The big ambitions of Romotive's robot phone.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the LG Spectrum, the 2012 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn, and the PowerMat Dual 1850 Rechargeable Backup Battery.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:00am EST
day on the job At one of the biggest sports sites in the country, preparing to make its Super Bowl coverage as strong as possible is the most important job of the year. CNET was on hand to see the plan take shape.
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Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:00am EST
Apple hired a new head of retail, had a few bouts in foreign courts, and potentially had the secret behind its next tiny iPod leaked out. More on those stories (and then some) in this week's Apple Talk Weekly.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 9:15pm EST
The correlations between classic arcade games like Centipede and popular mobile games like Angry Birds are undeniable: they're simple, fun, and addictive. Seamus Blackley has hired a slew of old-school game developers to try to cash in on that fact with his company Innovative Leisure.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:46pm EST
Changes are afoot again for Firefox. The beta channel can now sync add-ons, the Aurora channel completes a smoother update process, and work on the faster native UI for Android continues.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:12pm EST
CNN reports that U.S. civilian and military officials are testing the use of secure Android smartphones that could be capable of transmitting confidential documents.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:59pm EST
Apple has quietly removed a number of iOS games that could readily be mistaken for their popular counterparts and that had climbed up the charts as a result.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:57pm EST
By building a wind turbine to power a hydrogen production and fueling station, a little hamlet in Long Island is positioning itself a bellwether for carbon-neutral transportation.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:29pm EST
Mozilla's gestating a new project that takes its cues from the mobile world: site-specific push notifications. Could this be a next-generation RSS?
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:02pm EST
Robb Godshaw, an industrial design student at Rochester Institute of Technology, demonstrates a haptic weather forecaster called the Cryoscope.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 5:18pm EST
An Internet outcry forced Rep. Lamar Smith to delay a vote on SOPA. Opponents of Smith's ISP snooping bill are hoping they can repeat the process.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 5:10pm EST
Facebook plans to raise $5 billion in an IPO. What will Facebook do with the money? This week on the Roundtable, Rafe discusses Facebook's future with Josh Constine from TechCrunch and Shervin Pishevar from Menlo Ventures.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:25pm EST
Robots are evolving faster than humans. Check out a wheeled robot that can also sprout legs and walk on some serious terrain.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:51pm EST
Despite request, Google tells concerned European Union advisers that it will stick to its March 1 date for privacy policy modifications.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:43pm EST
What the heck is frand? CNET breaks down what this obscure legal term means, and why it's so important to companies such as Apple and Samsung.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:14pm EST
The software giant narrows its claims against Barnes & Noble, saying it hoped to streamline its case before hearings on the dispute begin on Monday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:13pm EST
Apple has changed a controversial section of its iBooks Author End User License Agreement, saying that users who want to sell outside of Apple's digital stores can do so, as long as they save in a different format.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:59pm EST
Researchers in Singapore create a robot that can remove early-stage stomach cancer, and it's all thanks to a chili crab dinner.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:49pm EST
Hackers follow release of recording of FBI call on Anonymous with attack on lawyers in an Iraq massacre case.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:32pm EST
Tablets see most growth, but PC category overall can't compete with nearly half a billion phones shipped worldwide in 2011, according to a research firm's estimates.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:26pm EST
Ater implementing a lottery system for ordering the iPhone 4S, Apple's online store has resumed selling the device online and will ship by March 2.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:24pm EST
Appleton, a Micron Technology veteran of three decades and its chief executive officer since 1994, died today in a plane crash in Boise, Idaho.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:37pm EST
Hours after pulling products from its online store, Apple got a ban on its products temporarily halted.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:30pm EST
Hewlett-Packard spent $30.41 million in total compensation for ousted CEO Leo Apotheker, while new chief Meg Whitman landed $16.52 million in total compensation, according to a new filing.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:23pm EST
Apple's huge earnings have been shadowed by a New York Times report on harsh working conditions at Chinese plants that make Apple products. Are you reconsidering your Apple brand loyalty?
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:07pm EST
Here's a tour of how the Thailand flooding and a hard drive shortage affected three tech giants: Sony, Western Digital, and Seagate.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:41pm EST
week in review Filing gives first look at Facebook's financials, while Windows 8 details leak out. Also: Sony gets a new CEO.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:30pm EST
A whopping 70 percent of Facebook users surveyed by SodaHead voted thumbs down on the social network's now mandatory Timeline feature.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:20pm EST
A new wireless service for U.S. customers offers mix-and-match plans and credits you for what you don't use. But is it really cheaper?
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:12pm EST
Space robots, materials to protect humans from radiation, along with solar and nuclear-powered spacecraft makes NASA's technology development wish list for the next five years.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:11pm EST
For those willing to beta-test a feature to automatically upload photos and videos, the cloud storage company will offer bonus storage space.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 11:29am EST
At a hearing in the House over the search giant's new privacy policy, subcommittee Chairwoman Mary Bono Mack expresses frustration over what she sees as Google's lack of clarity in answering questions.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 11:11am EST
Hacktivist group says it recorded a call apparently between U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials over cybercrime cases and individuals.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:48am EST
The Web-based calling service may show up as an app on Windows Phone, and could make its debut at Mobile World Congress this month.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:41am EST
With a belief that consumers will continue to flock to its premium and more capable devices, Apple is unlikely to downscale its smartphones, says Morgan Stanley.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:39am EST
Patent filing shows that Apple intends to help people share workout info and performance data with others.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:33am EST
Tehran is reportedly rather upset about a commercial in which a Mossad agent's Samsung tablet is instrumental in accidentally blowing up an Iranian uranium enrichment plant.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 10:22am EST
Marketing agency Razorfish reportedly let it slip that it has been working on a pilot program with Facebook to deliver ads to mobile users.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 9:26am EST
Google's Android remained the dominant platform in the U.S. last quarter, even as Apple gained ground in the market thanks to the iPhone 4S, according to ComScore.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:14am EST
Motorola Mobility wins a permanent ban against Apple's push e-mail service, part of its iCloud offering. Apple had faced a ban on products in Germany, but received a temporary injunction on it.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:00am EST
"Charlie Magnetico" is the second lost Henson film to be posted online in as many weeks. Crave hears from the AT&T archivist who unearthed these little jewels.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:56am EST
Apple could announce its next-gen phone at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to the latest scuttlebut from Daiwa Securities.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:51am EST
A glitch is causing iTunes Match to scrub explicit lyrics from some rap songs. Apple is working to fix the issue.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:22am EST
The founder of the cyberlocker service will remain in jail at least until his extradition hearing is held on Feb. 22.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:00am EST
It may not be the most popular smartphone operating system, but some wireless subscribers on Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel want more choices.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:00am EST
It may not be the most popular smartphone operating system, but some wireless subscribers on Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel want more choices.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:00am EST
Advanced Micro Devices has a Windows 8 tablet strategy predicated on new power-efficient chips.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:00am EST
Advanced Micro Devices has a Windows 8 tablet strategy predicated on new power-efficient chips.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:26am EST
Hoping to help fans navigate Indianapolis during Super Bowl Week, the NFL releases the Super Bowl XLVI Guide app for iOS and Android yesterday.
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Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:26am EST
Hoping to help fans navigate Indianapolis during Super Bowl Week, the NFL releases the Super Bowl XLVI Guide app for iOS and Android yesterday.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:50pm EST
New variants resurrect the malware four months after Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab took down the original, which was capable of sending nearly 4 billion spam e-mails each day.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:50pm EST
New variants resurrect the malware four months after Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab took down the original, which was capable of sending nearly 4 billion spam e-mails each day.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:24pm EST
Amazon sold about 5 million Kindles in the first couple months of sales. So, what do users like and dislike about it? A survey provides some answers.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:24pm EST
Amazon sold about 5 million Kindles in the first couple months of sales. So, what do users like and dislike about it? A survey provides some answers.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:17pm EST
Apple's CEO announces that he spent $100 million of Apple's money on charitable giving--something Steve Jobs would not have done.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 11:17pm EST
Apple's CEO announces that he spent $100 million of Apple's money on charitable giving--something Steve Jobs would not have done.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:22pm EST
Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday, the federal agents announce they have seized and shuttered 307 Web sites that either live-streamed sports or sold fake NFL paraphernalia.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:22pm EST
Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday, the federal agents announce they have seized and shuttered 307 Web sites that either live-streamed sports or sold fake NFL paraphernalia.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:48pm EST
Looking to get more out of Siri? There's an app for that--if you've got a jailbroken iPhone, that is.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:46pm EST
Heather Peters won a suit in small claims court against Honda, claiming the company misled her through fraudulent advertising into buying a Civic Hybrid.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:17pm EST
Stanford researches may have solved the problem of range anxiety by wireless charging technology that could one day create an electric highway.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:04pm EST
The MegaUpload founder, who wants to be freed on bail, said during a court hearing today that he is the victim of "the biggest disregard of basic rights in internet history."
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:00pm EST
Pundits square off over whether the social network has the chops to deliver revenue from its massive user base to support its valuation.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 7:45pm EST
The Liquify tool is responsive and more powerful thanks to use of the graphics processing unit in Photoshop CS6. Also: background save.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 7:38pm EST
The financials don't yet justify the lofty valuation people are talking about--but Facebook could earn a place among the ranks of public companies the size of Google and IBM.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:11pm EST
Everyone knows Facebook is a popular site, but new numbers from Experian Hitwise show just how popular it was in the U.S. during the month of January.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:01pm EST
CNET's Jessica Dolcourt gives a public service announcement on what not to call devices running Windows Phone as its mobile operating system.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 6:00pm EST
Free app launching next week is like Foursquare with a happy face. It encourages virtual shout-outs and sharing of your favorite people, places, and things.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:53pm EST
Bug hunter credited with finding bugs in software from big tech firms is Norwegian teen.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:41pm EST
Barracuda Networks releases a study that helps identify fake Facebook accounts.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 5:20pm EST
Navigating through traffic congestion is one of life's headaches. SmartPlanet visits Silicon Valley startup Waze to hear how its app enables drivers to share real-time traffic information.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:58pm EST
Clearly Facebook is a dominant player in social media, but startups targeting niche audiences and mobile device access still have a chance to stand out.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:55pm EST
After spotting a university student's concept bamboo phone online, one company is making the green smartphone a reality. See photos of the ADzero here.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:29pm EST
If you don't want to deal with the hassle of signing up with AT&T, you can reserve your Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone at one of Microsoft's 15 retail stores.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 4:02pm EST
According to a new study, the overall quality of Apple's technical support by phone has declined significantly between 2010 and 2011.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:57pm EST
How Apple made Rafe a fanboy by selling him a fleet of unreliable, broken machines.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:52pm EST
Takashimaya has rolled out a Geminoid robot to greet shoppers for Valentine's Day. Will she find love?
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:40pm EST
On tap for the next version of Microsoft's smartphone platform: support for different processors, screen sizes, microSD storage, NFC, business support, Windows 8 integration, and more.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:33pm EST
Since the news of Passware being able to decrypt FileVault over FireWire connections, Mac users might be concerned about the integrity of the security on their computers.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:30pm EST
New service scans apps for malicious code or behavior and bounces them if they are suspect.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:56pm EST
The 2-inch-wide sensor, which tracks heart rate, respiration, and movement, is non-invasive and wearable.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:46pm EST
A brilliant hack lets you post to Twitter using Morse code. Learn how to make your own tweeting telegraph key here.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:05pm EST
Multiple reports of slow loading and even no loading suggest that Facebook is experiencing problems. What might it be?
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:00pm EST
VeriSign discloses in quarterly SEC filing that hackers stole data in successful attacks, but doesn't say what data was stolen.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 2:00pm EST
Remember Kaleidescape's attempt to sell a server that let you copy your DVDs for personal use? Sounded like a good idea to help keep DVDs alive, but eight years on, Kaleidescape suffers another defeat in court.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:54pm EST
The issue with Apple's iMessage that puts one user's account on another device doesn't have a fix in sight, but the company has weighed in on what happened to one user, saying it was "extremely rare."
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:48pm EST
You may think you've got a big idea. It's not big enough.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:25pm EST
There was a flood of facts, figures, and other details that came out of Facebook's IPO filing. Here's what you should focus on.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 1:13pm EST
Evidence that plant life was a primary force that shaped Earth's surface is laid out in a new issue of Nature Geoscience. Because of that, the chance we'll find a similar world with a surface like our planet's is very small.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:57pm EST
The subscription to Adobe's software, services, and social features will arrive later this year, and the company is showing new attractions.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:36pm EST
The latest scuttlebutt from the Verge suggests that tablets and other ARM-based devices running Windows 8 may move beyond the Metro UI to provide some type of desktop interface.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:30pm EST
Did you have your hopes up for an iPad 3 debut this month? That rumor may have well been put to rest by its original source, who now says March is when it's all going down.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:30pm EST
Pinterest ties with Twitter and Google for referral traffic, HTC cures security bug, and Facebook reveals finances in its filing to go public.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:17pm EST
The no-contract carrier is bringing back a low-cost unlimited plan it quietly killed off last year.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 12:00pm EST
With the third version of the critically acclaimed app, users will be able to drill down and see more of the videos their friends are sharing--and what their friends' friends are watching.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:52am EST
To make super cheap solar cells, MIT researchers look to commandeer the process of photosynthesis in plants.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:50am EST
As Facebook's revenue--and employee base--doubles and triples, it will be increasingly hard to just iterate and maintain the "Hacker Way."
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:46am EST
John Swainson, former CEO of software company CA, has been named as president of Dell's New Software Group, to focus on selling software to the enterprise crowd.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:25am EST
As expected, Facebook showed off some impressive financial and usage figures. But some on Wall Street are left wondering how the company plans to make money off its extraordinary large user base.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:10am EST
The social gaming company's shares have risen well over 10 percent as investors find value in its relationship with Facebook.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:00am EST
The cable provider is enhancing its Internet Essentials program to provide more options for low-income households.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 10:00am EST
Robin Burrowes, who used to head up Microsoft UK's product marketing, is now handling App Store marketing for Apple.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:13am EST
The plaintiff, Bottin Cartographes, says Google's free business model is undercutting competitors that offer mapping services at a price.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 9:10am EST
For the third straight month, Apple has seen an increase in the number of top free apps downloaded from its iPhone store day day, according to stats from Fiksu.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:57am EST
Here are some of the individuals and firms that stand to make the most from Facebook's IPO, from Accel to, of course, Zuckerberg.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:38am EST
Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt electric cars start slow in 2012, with Volt sales apparently impacted by a now closed safety investigation.
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Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:27am EST
Certain HTC smartphones may expose Wi-Fi passwords due to a bug. The company is addressing the problem through a regular update and a manual patch.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:26pm EST
Now we know all--OK, many--of the financial details Zuck wanted to keep secret. Check out the highlights and take our poll.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 8:00pm EST
Company discloses that its mobile app use is growing but that its mobile app is for the birds.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:53pm EST
Apple's FileVault 2 whole-disk encryption can be unencrypted within an hour, according to encryption and password-recovery company Passware.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 7:21pm EST
But Google isn't the only risk listed in Facebook's filing. The company cites an unhealthy dependence on Zynga, hackers, and foreign countries as potential risks.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:21pm EST
Apple's released the third minor update to Mac OS X 10.7 that brings a handful of bugfixes while adding new languages. The company also pushed out an update to Snow Leopard and Apple Remote Desktop.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 6:03pm EST
Now that the social network has filed to go public, see who will come up big in the IPO of the decade.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:55pm EST
roundup Silicon Valley and Wall Street had been watching since forever, it seems, for Facebook to go public. Now the IPO filing is finally upon us, and we're learning a lot about the social network.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:54pm EST
The Web giant responds to critical Microsoft ads, noting that the software giant has a similar policy regarding sharing consumer information across its services.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:53pm EST
Elon Musk's SuperDraco engine makes those "Star Trek"-style thrusters a reality.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:33pm EST
Facebook's IPO filing is chock-full of data, including numerous charts depicting user growth by region. CNET has pulled together some of the key data points from the massive document.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 5:31pm EST
Buried in Facebook's IPO filing is an investor letter from Zuck that outlines the company's goals and culture. Read it for yourself.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:55pm EST
At long last, the social-networking juggernaut files for its IPO, opening up its once closely held financial and strategic details for public scrutiny.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:39pm EST
At NASA's Disaster Resiliency Panel, the director of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley explains how to build technologies that will make a difference for people and their communities when disaster strikes.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 4:21pm EST
Verizon-affiliated ICSA Labs steps into the controversy over Android apps that Symantec identified as malware.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:11pm EST
A microelectromechanical system out of Purdue vibrates enough to generate power when subjected to sounds in the 200- to 500-hertz range. After testing the device using hip-hop, jazz, blues, and rock, researchers find "rap is the best."
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:11pm EST
On Valentine's Day, nothing is more romantic than a home-cooked meal for your sweetheart. But if you're stumped on what to prepare, how about turning to the stars and an online game that creates menus based on the combination of your astrological signs. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports on the menu predictor from sister site Chow.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 3:08pm EST
Figuring out which earphone goes in the right or left ear can be annoying, but researchers in Tokyo might have a solution.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:55pm EST
Apple's attempts at getting Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus smartphone banned from sale in the country have been rejected by a German judge.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:13pm EST
We've had our suspicions, but now we know. A study from 11mark found that 75 percent of American mobile phone users use their phones in the bathroom to make calls, text, and play with apps.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:07pm EST
Apple's next iPad will feature a speedier processor and 4G LTE networking, according to photos published by Boy Genius Report of a purported debugging tool captured from a prototype device.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:02pm EST
All the recent talk that the FBI cracked down on MegaUpload after being pressured by the music industry is just wrong. Nobody was doing more to prompt the federal government to act in the MegaUpload case than the film sector.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 2:00pm EST
The electronics retailer hopes to use the big game to drum up mobile sales by offering a short-term deal with $50 gift cards for smartphone buyers.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:55pm EST
SOPA and Protect IP Act have finally splintered a Democrat-Republican alliance in favor of expanding copyright law that's been in place since the 1990s.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:51pm EST
Intelligent biomechanical mask under development at the University of Texas at Arlington could regrow faces for soldiers burned on the battlefield.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:14pm EST
The company didn't say why it couldn't strike a deal with Warner, but reassured customers that movie selection won't be affected.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:05pm EST
You need help. As in, a co-founder. Not to buttress your skills, but to set up a company culture that's more open to the exchange of ideas.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:45pm EST
The South Korean electronics company sees its revenue drop but its net loss narrows due to higher sales of smartphones and HDTVs.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:40pm EST
The software giant launches a version of its motion-sensing game controller for Windows, hoping to spark development of PC applications that use natural user interfaces.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:39pm EST
Will the next iPod Nano once again sport a camera? Newly-released spy shots once again suggest Apple's experimenting with the idea.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:20pm EST
BlackBerry London details leak, Sony gets a new leader, and Redbox thinks a deal with Warner Bros. is a stinker.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:06pm EST
The search giant is speaking with Chinese government officials about continuing to offer its Google Maps service in the country.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:04pm EST
According to a report, WikiLeaks investors are working to acquire a boat to house the controversial site's servers and keep Julian Assange safe from prosecution.
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 12:00pm EST
The new app from three former Zappos employees is designed to let people who have random things to sell post ads for them quickly, and for buyers to easily discover what's for sale around them. And Craigslist isn't even part of the equation.
