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good time to suggest companies should record location info. #cnet
37 minutes agoTweetDeclan McCullagh
declanm:
DOJ uses Senate mobile privacy hearing to call for new laws requiring ISPs and mobile providers to store logs of user activity. #cnet
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Center is likely in charge of analyzing the hard drives seized from bin
Laden's home in Pakistan.
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Intel silicon and a slot for a solid-state cache drive, according to iFixit.
• Why an iMac now is in the cards for me
Mark Vachon, the recently tapped head of GE's clean-tech initiative, plans to expand internationally and form partnerships to get
green-tech products to the "tipping point." More
Self-regulation is nothing new, but mobile app stores have remained largely unhindered given each proprietor's shop rules. That could be changing under a new initiative that seeks shared ratings. More
A secretive U.S. government agency called the National Media Exploitation Center is likely in charge of analyzing the computers and hard drives seized from bin Laden's home in Pakistan. More
The new iMac has plenty under the hood to drool over, including unannounced Intel silicon and a slot for a solid-state cache drive, according to iFixit. More
Of course, after the rumors, everyone wants to know if the long-awaited white iPhone 4 really is thicker. That's why CNET took the handset to experts to find out. More
Stringer offers explanation for Sony's slow response, as meanwhile company offers year of free ID-theft monitoring to U.S. customers who were registered with PlayStation Network and Qriocity prior cyberattack. More
Belatedly after taking its PlayStation Network offline, Sony finally explains it did so because of security breach that exposed personal information for potentially more than 75 million of its users. More
13 hours agoTweetErica OggEricainSF: Sony says it's in the "final stages" of testing PlayStation Network before restoring service. http://bit.ly/kR1or8#cnet
A source tells CNET a third major cyberattack is planned on Sony this weekend and could lead to the release of information copied from the company's servers. More
Online content company reports decent results, but many people are more interested in its efforts to improve the quality of its content. The company is promising to clean up its content act. More
CNET's Donald Bell evaluates five Web sites that provide personalized local concert recommendations based on your iTunes, Facebook, Last.fm, Slacker, or Pandora listening habits. More
q&a
CNET interviews Pakistan programmer Sohaib Athar, who became an instant
celebrity after his real-time dispatches recorded a rough outline of the raid on Osama bin Laden.
• Roundup: Death of Bin Laden
Start-up General Fusion gets $19.5 million in financing to pursue
nuclear fusion, which has been studied for decades and always considered decades away. More
The password management service has spotted some "anomalies" that
could point to a security breach. It's erring on the site of caution and making users change their master passwords. More
Microsoft blogs that Windows Phone 7 owners who used "unofficial update mechanisms" won't be able to gain access to the latest Windows Phone 7 build. More
photos
In 1961, the U.S. came in a close second in the race to put a man in space but laid the groundwork for missions to the moon. Shepard had key roles throughout the era.
Expansion
is key to iStockphoto and its parent company, Getty Images. A new Vetta
video collection launching today leads the charge, but it's not the only new category on the way.
According
to an SEC filing, Barnes & Noble is gearing up to release a new Nook on May 24. While some speculate it's a more powerful Nook Color, it
seems more likely it's a lower-priced e-ink model.
Top
exec tells Congress the file was found in the wake of earlier denial-of-service attacks launched by hacker group, but no individuals have been identified.
• Why is Sony CEO silent? • Roundup: The Sony breach
According to an SEC filing, Barnes & Noble is gearing up to release a new Nook on May 24. While some speculate it's a more powerful Nook Color, it seems more likely it's a lower-priced e-ink model. More
Expansion is key to iStockphoto and its parent company, Getty Images. A new Vetta video collection launching today leads the charge, but it's not the only new category on the way. More
Clean-tech entrepreneurs aim to make modular solar-powered electronics projects fun and fast with palm-size squares that snap together via embedded magnets. More
In 1961, the U.S. came in a close second in the race to put a man
in space but laid the groundwork for missions to the moon. Shepard had key roles throughout the era. More
5 hours agoTweetStephen Shanklandstshank: Microsoft: If you don't stay on the WP7 reservation, you won't get the new security update. http://bit.ly/kmZuYd#cnet
6 hours agoTweetStephen Shanklandstshank: LastPass password manager, worried they might have been hacked, requiring users to change passwords http://bit.ly/ln3ixb#cnet
7 hours agoTweetStephen Shanklandstshank: .@Sencha is expanding to the cloud with two Sencha.io services in testing: data sync and image resizing: http://bit.ly/lDiUUR#cnet
faq
A rundown of what we know so far: how PSN got hacked, what Sony is doing about it, whether credit cards were stolen, and how the company is
trying to regain the trust of its customers.
• Sony warns more customers
Along
with the updated CPUs and the new high-speed data port, the new iMacs sport faster AMD graphics than their predecessors and integrated FaceTime HD video cameras.
• iMac trackpad option aimed at notebook users
A
new App Store policy keeps people who haven't paid for an app from rating or reviewing it. The move appears aimed at developers exploiting the system to game ratings system.
Sohaib
Ahtar, who unwittingly first tweeted news of the raid on Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, is providing excellent and witty commentary from the scene.
A
DigiTimes report says Taiwan-based manufacturer Quanta Computer has already received orders from Amazon for a tablet PC and that a launch could come in the second half of the year.
Visiting Argentina, Crave contributor Eric Mack tries to avoid erupting volcanos and communicate his cave claustrophobia. Google Translate, Kindle, apps--which is best? The answer might surprise you. More
27 minutes agoTweetCaroline McCarthy
caro: The Mark Twain quotation going around on Twitter isn't fake, but Mark Twain didn't say it. Clarence Darrow did: http://bit.ly/koY8Du#cnet
Xobni, the popular and highly-rated plugin for Microsoft Outlook has today announced the Xobni Gadget Platform and Store, which offers apps that add on to your add-on. More
Medigus announces that it will soon be shipping a camera that is 0.9 mm in diameter--small and inexpensive enough to be used in disposable surgical devices. More
A jury will decide how much money Lime Wire and founder Mark Gorton should pay for "willfully" infringing songs from the largest record labels. For some hardliners in music industry, the Lime Wire case
is about retribution. More
The state university conducts successful pilot testing of iPads in its classrooms, finding that the tablet offered benefits all around. More
1 hour agoTweetJosh LowensohnJosh: iPad 2 sells out in South Korea. SK Telecom and KT Corp no longer doing online sales. (via @Reuters) http://reut.rs/ity7OT#cnet
Trying to move faster and into new realms, Adobe releases an upgrade to many of its Creative Suite apps. New Web standards and mobile
devices are a major focus. More
Responding to an Android app that lets users train dogs to fight each other, PETA releases an iPhone app that highlights stories about animal cruelty and invites people to join the animal rights cause. More
Buyers contending with an increasing array of electronic gadgets would like a single source to help manage and support them, according to
a survey from Accenture. More
A new App Store policy keeps people who haven't paid for an app from rating or reviewing it. The move appears aimed at developers exploiting the system to game ratings system. More
Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, also takes aim at Google and Yahoo in interview with a Russian news site, saying that they have "built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence." More
2 hours agoTweetJessica Dolcourtjdolcourt: Cricket's Muve Music service is now available in all their markets. More on the unique service & phone here: http://cnet.co/kyGo9f#cnet
3 hours agoTweetStephen Shanklandstshank: More big news from jQuery guru @jeresig: leaving Mozilla to join Web-based education foundation Khan Academy. http://bit.ly/lW4Z1q#cnet
Head
of PlayStation Kaz Hirai says most PlayStation Network services will be
back on this week. Customers will get free 30-day service and theft protection monitoring service.
• Sony apologizes: A little late?
The September 11, 2001, attacks shifted discussions from protecting electronic privacy to the Patriot Act and facilitating government surveillance. More
Microsoft's browser is catching on, though not fast enough to reverse IE's slide. Also: Apple's iOS now accounts for 2.2 percent of OSes used to surf the Web. More
Research In Motion kicks off its BlackBerry World 2011 conference
with a pair of smartphones that feature touch screens and NFC capabilities. More
1 hour agoTweetStephen Shanklandstshank: Another Red Hat patent settlement with Acacia: http://bit.ly/kubHXG I wonder if Microsoft will be emboldened to sue some day? #cnet
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3 hours agoTweetJonathan E. Skillingsjeskillings: Dish Network and EchoStar to pay TiVo $500 million to settle patent dispute. http://yhoo.it/m0oi7q#cnet
How
do some applications stay on top of the App Store charts for so long? CNET talks to a handful of successful developers to find out their tricks for keeping people interested.
There's
more diversity coming to home lighting as efficient general-use LED bulbs become available, offering an alternative to incandescent bulbs and CFLs.
• Photos: Lighting diversifies
USB
3.0 is so long overdue that it almost seems like a conspiracy. But it's
past the point of trying to figure out what took everyone so long. USB 2.0 is just not practical anymore for many devices.
Here
are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite gadgets from the past week, including the Logitech Keyboard Case for iPad 2, the Samsung UN55D8000, and the Maingear Vybe Super Stock.
There's more diversity coming to home lighting as efficient general-use LED bulbs become available, giving people an alternative to incandescent bulbs and CFLs. More
How do some applications stay on top of the App Store charts for so long? CNET talks to a handful of successful developers to find out their tricks for keeping people interested. More
Twitter says about 4,000 tweets per second carried news of Osama bin Laden's death Sunday night. That's a lot, but New Year's Eve in Japan was more. More
Sure, there was lots of erroneous speculation on Twitter, but posted to the micro-blogging site was a message from a former assistant to former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld that said: "they have killed
Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn." More
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