Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:47:53 +0100
Billboard, Eventful team up to top new charts
Eventful has teamed up with Billboard to present new charts for the popular music brand.
Akamai to cut 7 percent of workforce
Web content delivery company to slice 110 positions, as a means to reduce expenses in weakening economy.
Going solar? Seven sites map your plans
Consumers and business owners seeking to install solar power can turn to these Web sites for interactive maps and cost estimates.
Army's new mosquito trap exploits "irrepressible urge"
Army goes to war with dengue spreading mosquito.
On second thought, Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' ads are still unbelievably lame
Now that we've had a few months to digest this, I think the verdict is clear: This is something straight out the "Stepford Wives"
What to expect from Dell's quarterly progress report
Dell's third-quarter earnings results aren't expected to be nearly as impressive as rival HP's.
Why Dell has its head in the clouds
The company intends to preload computers with more subscription-based functions over the next few months in an expansion of its cloud-computing ambitions
TweetValue estimates your Twitter profile's worth
The recently launched TweetValue tells Twitter users how much their profile is worth.
Samsung launches 256GB solid-state drive
Electronics maker begins mass-producing its largest-capacity SSD product to date. Its single-platform design includes a chip controller, NAND flash, and special drive firmware.
Analyst: 'big 'bang' to hit PC and handset industry
PC and handset industry will clash on tweener products like Netbooks and smartphones.
Wikipedia gears up for flood of video and photo files
New hardware needed to support online reference service's push for more media.
Zune Pass adds 10 permanent downloads per month
Microsoft's subscription music offering just got better.
IBM gets DARPA cognitive computing contract
Initiative is first of several phases intended to eventually reproduce the computing power of the brain, as well as its efficiency.
Verizon finally has its answer to the iPhone
The new BlackBerry Storm, which goes on sale Friday, could be the first phone offered by Verizon Wireless that truly challenges Apple's iPhone offered on AT&T's network.
Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions
Those who pay for a $14.95 a month Zune Pass will now get to keep 10 songs a month regardless of whether they remain subscribers.
Filling Yahoo's CEO vacancy
All Things Digital's Kara Swisher talks with CNET's Dan Farber about who she believes will succeed the deposed Jerry Yang as Yahoo CEO.
Google shutting down virtual world 'Lively'
Search giant's virtual world project, which launched over the summer but never really got off the ground, will shut down at year's end.
Guns N' Roses album to debut on MySpace
Members of the social-networking site will be able to listen to the band's new album for free online before it goes on sale next week.
iTunes customers angry over copy protection moves at Apple
Apple forum heats up with Mac users upset that they are having problems watching iTunes content on their external displays.
Mathematica 7 arrives with built-in human genome
The newest version of the software gets new data sets, image processing abilities, and built-in support for quad-core chips.
Video: Interplanetary Internet a possibility
Sending e-mails or online shopping while orbiting the Earth in outer-space seems like the stuff of science fiction movies. But in this Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Rafe Needleman discuss how NASA is working to make these far-fetched ideas a reality.
Special Thanks to Google for their wonderful mapping api.