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Large Hadron Collider up and running again
The world's biggest particle accelerator is in full operation after a year of repairs.
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Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry, Android
Twitter service Seesmic expands from the desktop with two new apps for Google Android and BlackBerry phones.
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Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Tech business turkeys
In the history of tech, some decisions stand out...as truly awful. This week, Rafe Needleman speaks with executive editors Charlie Cooper (CBS News) and Jim Kerstetter (CNET News) to go over the worst tech business decisions ever.
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Game developer cuts back on Android in favor of iPhone
One game developer said it is cutting its investment in Android in favor of Apple's iPhone because it sells 400 times more games for the iPhone than it does for Android.
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Can Facebook group change World Cup game result?
The World Cup elimination game between France and Ireland was decided by a piece of blatant cheating. A Facebook group, more than 250,000 strong, wants it replayed.
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Techmeme Mobile launches for iPhone, Pre, Droid
Popular tech news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new mobile version of the site for the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid.
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How smoking can ruin your Mac
According to a report, AppleCare warranties can be voided if Apple deems the damage was caused by secondhand smoke. Appeals to Steve Jobs have, apparently, not succeeded.
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Windows 8 in 2012?
It's not clear what Microsoft's desktop plans are, but the Windows Server team included slides at PDC suggesting a new major release coming around 2012.
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Nokia's layoffs and Skype's eBay adieu
Nokia is cutting its R&D; workforce, while eBay says goodbye to Skype. Hear more about these stories and others in today's episode.
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Electric carmaker Tesla preparing IPO
An IPO filing for the electric car start-up is expected any day, according to sources.
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Sony planning new online store
Taking a page from Apple's iTunes, Sony is devising an online store offering music, movies, books, and other downloadable content for its various devices.
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Nook sold out for the holidays
Barnes & Noble has announced on its Web site that its much-anticipated e-book reader, the Nook, is sold out through 2009. Is that good news for Amazon?
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Bedside vital signs monitor goes mobile
Drager's Infinity M540 displays a patient's real-time vital signs on the go. Designed to fit in the palm of a caregiver's hand, the display auto-rotates so that it is always upright.
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Brin: Google's OSes likely to converge
Puzzled onlookers have wondered why Google is overseeing two separate operating system projects. Co-founder Sergey Brin thinks that at some point, the two will become one.
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Week in review: Browser breakthroughs
From Azure to Windows 7 to Firefox, operating systems and browsers grabbed headlines this week as Google proved, with its unveiling of Chrome OS, how interrelated they are.
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Spain mandates affordable broadband for all
pain is following the lead of Finland and making affordable broadband a legal right.
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Friday Poll: How will you spend Black Friday?
Some people live for the Superbowl of gadget buying, others can't imagine facing the maddening crowds. How do you plan to spend the day after Thanksgiving? Vote in our poll.
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Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it
Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions.
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Sinofsky's Windows plan: More data, less testosterone
In an interview, the president of Microsoft's Windows unit tells CNET why he does things the way he does.
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Browser security features compared
The newest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and other browsers all protect against phishing and malware attacks, and most also let you browse anonymously, though they implement these features in very different ways.
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Report: How risky is cloud computing?
The European Network and Information Security Agency outlines the benefits and pitfalls for companies thinking of entrusting a third party with their data and even their entire business infrastructure.
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Brizzly opens up...and translates
The Twitter client has built in Google Translate for quick decoding of international tweets--and also, no more invite codes are required.
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Twitter's geotagging API goes live
The geolocation tool allows developers to incorporate a user's location in tweets. It's an opt-in service.
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What drives China? Soon, cleaner fuel
Still, the world's second largest oil consumer is taking a cautious approach to introducing tougher diesel and gasoline specifications.
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Nokia to lay off up to 330 R&D staffers
The move, which would affect workers at sites in Finland and Denmark, comes as the company shows signs of sputtering in the smartphone stakes.
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The 411 on early-termination fees (FAQ)
Verizon Wireless has doubled its early-termination fees for smartphones, but what does it mean for the rest of the industry?
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Will consumers plug into home energy displays?
Dozens of companies are developing tools to ratchet down home energy use as part of utility smart grid programs, but nobody is sure which approach will stick with consumers.
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Cisco launches iPhone security app
Cisco iPhone app targets security professionals with customized alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device.
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Adobe's Acrobat.com reorganizes, gets mobile app
The company improves its Acrobat service with a new organizer and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go.
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Fortified rice, fuel cells among Tech Award winners
Al Gore receives humanitarian honor at Tech Museum event that provides prizes to projects in the areas of environment, health, biosciences economic development, equality, and education.
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Town to photograph every car that enters and leaves
The California town of Tiburon votes to set up permanent cameras to record the license plate of every car on its roads. Is this one more step toward a surveillance state?
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Al Gore: Our next power grid will be like the Web
Al Gore talks about the smart grid and some of the challenges ahead at VentureBeat's GreenBeat conference in San Mateo, California.
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Germ alert: Attack of the killer necktie!
As the medical community debates whether to remove neckties from hospitals to prevent the spread of superbugs that claim thousands of lives annually, a microbe-thwarting tie is born.
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Judge sets Feb. hearing for new Google Books deal
After Google and groups representing authors and publishers submitted a revised settlement late Friday, objectors will be able to file protests ahead of a final hearing in February.
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HDMI products to get meaningful labels
HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables.
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Offerpal revises terms amid continued scandal
Under a month's worth of fire for running misleading ads on social networks like Facebook, the offers-and-surveys broker now says that publishers can choose how "conservative" they want to be with their ads.
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eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation
The auction site has sold off its telephony unit, finally, after plans to take it public and a legal dispute with the company's founders.
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Apple: 'Enterprise' is as enterprise does
Gartner's Nick Jones wants to characterize Apple as a consumer company, but what happens when those consumers start using Apple's tech in the enterprise en masse?
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Google has its own plan for Netbooks
No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a Netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the Netbook of today.
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Facebook becomes third most popular video site
Facebook has experienced tremendous growth in the number of users watching video on its site, putting it just behind YouTube and Hulu in October.
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Mozilla not interested in building a Firefox OS
Does the Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Meet Chrome OS
Google gives the world its first real look at what its upcoming Chrome OS is all about--and how it actually works. Also in today's podcast: Windows 7 sells like hotcakes, AOL trims down for the holidays, and more tech news of the day.
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Dell earnings down 54 percent
Declining shipments drag down the company's third quarter earnings.
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AMD upgraded as 'Fusion,' 16-core chip future looms
Advanced Micro Devices stock is upgraded Thursday by Broadpoint AmTech analyst Doug Freedman, citing a solid product road map and debt restructuring.
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Twitter now asks, 'What's happening?'
Company announces that the familiar "What are you doing?" is being replaced with a new question atop the status update box.
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Twitter downtime still not ideal, report says
The microblogging service's performance might have improved for some, but according to uptime monitor CheckMySite, it's still not where it should be.
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Mozilla reveals 2008 revenue: $79 million
The revenue growth rate tapered off to 5 percent from 12 percent the year earlier. A search deal with Google still supplies the bulk of the Firefox backer's money.
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Theory of competition fails in open source, elsewhere
Monopoly is a dreaded word for the open-source community, so why are we as prone as anyone else to embrace natural monopolies?
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AOL also likely to eye sale of MapQuest--Is Microsoft a possible buyer?
Purchasers of the mapping and directions service are likely to be other mapping giants, such as Microsoft, sources say
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Recycling e-waste: Who should pay?
Study finds consumers love the idea of recycling to combat e-waste, but they don't want to foot the bill.
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