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Mon, 28 Dec 2009China introduces law to boost renewable energy
- A boom in wind-power plants means a large amount of wind capacity is not always properly connected to the grid. [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Mozilla pushes back Firefox 3.6, 4.0 deadlines
- The newest version of the open-source browser won't arrive this year, and a major update might not arrive until 2011. [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Canonical shines its Ubuntu light on consumers
- Ubuntu has won rave reviews with the geeky Linux community, but can it make waves with average consumers? Its founder [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009A real-world test of Google Goggles visual search (photos)
- CNET's James Martin takes a walk through downtown San Francisco to test out Google's new visual search, currently running on [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009FCC member berates Verizon for termination fees
- Commissioner Mignon Clyburn says in an open letter that she find Verizon's defense of its early termination fees to be [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Ford sees bump in hybrid sales
- Carmaker says its hybrid sales are up 67 percent this year, despite an 11 percent slump industrywide. [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009The 10 best new Firefox add-ons of 2009
- 2009 felt like a rebuilding year for Firefox add-ons, with two new frameworks created to help guide the future of [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009How tech touched the '00s
- Among the multitude of end-of-decade lists, the Associated Press rounds up 50 lifestyle trends. Whether it's surprising or not, tech-related [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009iPod touch + Edu Apps = Happy Students
- Julio Ojeda-Zapata (twincities.com) reports that the iPod touch “has taken classrooms by storm” in several Minnesota K-12 schools, increasing student [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)
- Here are a few of CNET's favorite items from the past week, including the RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700, Asus Eee [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Apple stockholders get record high for Christmas
- On rumors of a January Apple tablet unveiling, the company's stock closes as an all time high Thursday of $209.04, [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes/MySpace mystery solved
- A complex, potential deal centers on News Corp.'s Rotten Tomatoes merging with Flixster, a social-networking site for movies. The resulting [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Apple owns iSlate.com--the mystery deepens
- More intrigue arises around Apple's widely rumored tablet. The latest: it may be dubbed iSlate, according to information uncovered by [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Escaped convict continues to update Facebook
- Craig "Lazie" Lynch has been on the run from a U.K. prison since September. However, he continues to taunt police [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009AT&T ceases online iPhone sales in NY area
- Customers with metropolitan New York ZIP code trying to buy an iPhone on the wireless carrier's Web site are greeted [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Open source became big business in 2009
- Open source has always been an important sideshow for software vendors, but in 2009 it became the main event thanks [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Google makes its home page a Chrome page
- Without apparent notice or fanfare, Google adorns its home page with a very visible ad for Chrome. [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Flexing the boundaries of flash memory
- Flash memory is already a part of our daily computing lives. A breakthrough in flexible material may open many new [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Microsoft, Intel to cede tablet market to Apple?
- If the Apple tablet emerges as expected, this could be another market that Cupertino takes from right under the PC [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Police to put drunk drivers' names on Twitter
- Montgomery County, Texas, decides that the best way to deter those who want to drink and drive over the festive [more] . . .
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009Kindle is most gifted Amazon item, ever
- Statement on holiday sales declares the Kindle king; On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, more books for the [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009Tablet hint? Apple developers supersizing apps for January event
- Company has told some key developers to prep versions of their iPhone apps that will work on a device with [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009Wait! Nook arriving for Christmas after all
- Despite statements to the contrary a few days earlier, Barnes & Noble now says it will fulfill all preorder shipments [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009Twitter buys developers of GeoAPI
- With location-aware services hot right now in the social-media segment, Twitter is buying the developers of a popular API used [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009How iPhone apps can ruin your Christmas
- If you are looking to download new iPhone apps that will change your life this Christmas, beware if a couple [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009iPhone vs. BlackBerry in the California outback
- On a recent trip to the California desert, CNET Blog Network's Brooke Crothers had a chance to put Verizon (BlackBerry) [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009iPhone + robot marimba player = instant band
- Shimon is an autonomous robot marimba player created at Georgia Tech. When teamed with iPhone app ZOOZBeat, Shimon can jam [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009CNET News Daily Podcast: Comcast, Microsoft lawsuits conclude
- Comcast settles a class action lawsuit, Microsoft loses its Word patent appeal, and RIM explains what happened with Tuesday's BlackBerry [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009Hackers claim to crack Kindle copyright armor
- Two hackers, one in Israel and one in the United States, say they've found ways to export e-books from Amazon's [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009FTC asks for more info on Google-AdMob deal
- Google's proposed acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob will likely be delayed following a request from the government for additional [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009Google Nexus One hands-on
- Gizmodo takes a super-secret meeting with a source and gets a chance to play with the smartphone--or, as the writer [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009Twitter: Home for your holiday hangover cure?
- Because you will need a hangover cure over the holidays, a site called Blinkbox has dedicated a Twitter page to [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009BlackBerry Messenger at fault in Tuesday outage
- Research In Motion has confirmed that BlackBerry Messenger problems took down data service Tuesday for many users, and it has [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009Facebook COO nominated to Disney board
- Sheryl Sandberg, who has been chief operating officer of the social network for nearly two years now, will join the [more] . . .
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Wed, 23 Dec 2009Using Facebook and Twitter safely
- Share a lot? Here's a guide to the security and privacy problems that users of Facebook and Twitter encounter, and [more] . . .
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