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A useful concept marred by a confusing interface, the site lets you access your social networks (including Facebook) as well as your IM networks in one place.
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A useful concept marred by a confusing interface: Power.com lets you access all your social networks in one place.
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The service launched last spring that lets members log onto other Web sites using their Facebook profile looks to be readying for a new phase.
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Word of the successful kernel porting was made on the Linux on the iPhone blog, complete with instructions and source code. About the touch screen, though…
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The iPhone-focused site 148Apps celebrates a big milestone for the popular device, but did it get a little ahead of itself?
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The taxman is coming to your virtual world. Hide your real wallet.
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The Thanksgiving weekend was all right, according to ComScore and the National Retail Federation. Predictions for the entire holiday shopping season aren’t so rosy.
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The world’s largest physics experiment has seen a series of setbacks since September, but CERN is determined that “the LHC will run next year.”
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The world’s largest physics experiment has seen a series of setbacks since September, but CERN is determined that “the LHC will run next year.”
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Using the Internet to cut costs, James Macpherson’s outsourcing gambit looks a lot less crazy than it seemed to many a year ago
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Retailers had reason to smile on the popular shopping day, as consumers went in search of bargains — especially on electronic shelves.
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The Times of London says the two companies are discussing a deal that would see Microsoft acquire Yahoo’s search business for around $20 billion.
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Samir Abdalla, who is already embroiled in legal tangle with Microsoft, says company charges at least a third more for its software in Europe than it does in U.S.
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TwitBacks provides users with customized Twitter backgrounds.
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The online video start-up has just launched a streaming video app for the iPhone.
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Company is well placed to take the lead in the arena of customer relationship management with its on-demand and packaged software, says Microsoft’s Brad Wilson.
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Is this what they mean by “economic slowdown”? Keynote Systems, a mobile and Internet testing firm, says of 30 sites it tracks, 15 percent had performance problems Friday.
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Looking for a new hair piece? Check out HairTry, a Japanese service that lets you browse through them using a 3D render of your head.
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Looking for a new hair piece? Check out HairTry, a Japanese service that lets you browse through them using a 3-D render of your head.
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As the economic downturn forces many to slow or stop their shopping, an informal protest against Black Friday is attracting more followers.
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Activist investor–and member of company’s board–has bought up 7 million shares of Yahoo over the course of three days this week.
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Don Reisinger is shopping on Black Friday this year and he thinks you should join in. Will you?
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Dubbed Food Network Mobile, the application enables users to find seasonal recipes quickly. Now featured: what to do with all those Thanksgiving leftovers.
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The Food Network has launched a new mobile app to find seasonal recipes quickly.
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Psych: I don’t have any. Well, OK, I found two. Black Friday 2008 is a bust.
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Department of Defense commissions “serious game” to prepare for the next influenza pandemic.
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The smallish designs may not be the next big thing after all. Intel, whose Atom chip powers most Netbooks, says it now foresees mostly incremental gains.
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The provider voice over IP and instant messaging applications reportedly lays off 20 percent of its staff, or about 10 people.
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Toby Coppel is expected to announce he is stepping down from his position as executive vice president and managing director of Europe and Canada.
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The world’s largest cell phone maker announces plans to stop making phones for the Japan market, one of the largest in the world.
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Pop singer Rick Astley, whose song “Never Gonna Give You Up” has become one of the world’s most popular Internet memes, surprised the crowds from a Cartoon Network-sponsored float at the legendary Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Internet sites like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Global Voices are providing a very rough first draft of history in the accounting of the bloody attacks in India.
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TechRepublic takes apart the device that helped pave the way for such things as the Palm PDA, Pocket PC, and even the iPhone.
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Apparently Sony and Netflix have solved some of their licensing issues. There’s no word yet on when all of Sony’s films will return to Xbox.
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It’s easy these days to dwell on the missteps and competitive challenges faced by the software maker, but analysis firm Directions on Microsoft points to the big things the company has gotten right.
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Wal-Mart is among a growing number of big-box brands pushing to power stores with solar and wind energy.
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Nikon’s photomicroscopy contest puts the focus on the fungus, nanotubes, and other microscopic wonders.
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Want a different e-mail signature for each address you’ve got in Gmail? Check out this experimental Firefox extension that handles all of this in a single place.
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EarthCam will stream the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in real-time on Thursday.
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Geezeo adds a ratings feature to its service, which will allow users to rate online brokerage firms based on their experience.
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The digital world meets one of the oldest film forms in the clay animation film Mary and Max, chosen to kick off Robert Redford’s annual film festival in January.
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Two weeks after hosting provider McColo was shut down, the volume of spam is increasing again as stranded botnets get connected to new domains.
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Security hole in Windows that Microsoft released patch for last month is being exploited by Worm and bots, Microsoft says.
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Skyrocketing costs mean that Twitter users in Canada can no longer receive text-message updates, but they can still use the number to send “tweets.”
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A court finds Lori Drew, accused of using MySpace to harass one of her daughter’s classmates to the point of suicide, guilty–but not on counts as severe as the ones she was up for.
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Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple’s iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone. What are the implications for developers and for users? Join Charles Cooper and Tom Krazit on the CNET News Daily Debrief.
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U.S. search grew 7 percent sequentially in October, but Yahoo and Microsoft posted even larger gains, according to a ComScore report.
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U.S. search grew 7 percent sequentially in October, but Yahoo and Microsoft posted larger gains, according to comScore’s qSearch analysis released Wednesday.
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Rent a Criterion film (the selection’s limited, but there are more to come) for $5, and then the company will deduct the $5 from a DVD purchase of the same movie. Also: social networking!
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Six hardcore Amazon product reviewers are contributing their tips, tricks, and picks for holiday shopping.
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