It's getting to be that time of year again: The leaves change, the temperature drops, and we redecorate our living rooms, desks, cars, and backpacks with shiny new electronics.
Apple has obtained the rights to offer ready-made ringtones for the iPhone and managers are trying to have them available in time for next week's press conference, music industry sources told CNET News.
Software giant Microsoft apologized Wednesday for the apparent bad judgment that led to the head of a black model being swapped for that of a white model in an online advertisement.
Surprise! Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a Bay Area-based social-network feed aggregation start-up.
At a hacker conference no one is safe.
Large Internet companies spend millions on consultants and technology trying to get their sites to rank among the highest results on Google. Everyone else has to rely on the poor man's search-engine optimization: the link exchange.
How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it's just one -- if that one is Michael Jackson.
Shia LaBeouf and Michael Cera are both being sought to play CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Three state attorneys general were scheduled to meet with Craigslist representatives to begin negotiations toward eliminating advertisements from the site for prostitution and other suspected illegal sexual activities.
A post on the Facebook developer blog announces the big application program interface (API) update from the social network that was first reported on Sunday night, which it's calling the Open Stream API.
It's getting to be that time of year again: The leaves change, the temperature drops, and we redecorate our living rooms, desks, cars, and backpacks with shiny new electronics.
Apple has obtained the rights to offer ready-made ringtones for the iPhone and managers are trying to have them available in time for next week's press conference, music industry sources told CNET News.
Software giant Microsoft apologized Wednesday for the apparent bad judgment that led to the head of a black model being swapped for that of a white model in an online advertisement.
Surprise! Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a Bay Area-based social-network feed aggregation start-up.
At a hacker conference no one is safe.
Large Internet companies spend millions on consultants and technology trying to get their sites to rank among the highest results on Google. Everyone else has to rely on the poor man's search-engine optimization: the link exchange.
How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it's just one -- if that one is Michael Jackson.
Shia LaBeouf and Michael Cera are both being sought to play CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Three state attorneys general were scheduled to meet with Craigslist representatives to begin negotiations toward eliminating advertisements from the site for prostitution and other suspected illegal sexual activities.
A post on the Facebook developer blog announces the big application program interface (API) update from the social network that was first reported on Sunday night, which it's calling the Open Stream API.
When it comes to downloading software from the Internet, I'm always getting conflicting advice from my geeky friends. Knowing my technological ignorance, some tell me that I should never download anything from the Web (recommending only boxed software from the store). Others say some software's okay to download -- but I should be aware of the dangers. How am I supposed to know where to begin identifying the difference? I'm lost!
Universal Music Group and Google are now partners in the music-video business.
A 15-year-old has created a free-music service by harnessing YouTube's vast library of music videos.
If your business has an online presence, picking a Web host is one of the most critical decisions you'll make. The host manages the servers on which your site will run and literally has control of your company's connection to its customers.
Media stocks are among the most beaten-down issues in today's market, but if you look past a battered share price to other fundamentals, some analysts say there are bargains to be had.
As 130,000 techies converge on Las Vegas this week for the 42nd annual International Consumer Electronics Show, they're encountering an industry that's anxious about marketing high-tech gadgets in a tightwad economy.
Editors' note: This review is part of CNET's Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.
Sony has come a long way since the release of the NW-MS11 Network Walkman.
At CNET when we review one size DTV in the same series we often don't review another, but we're making an exception in the case of the LG 60PG60.
Its shape and feature set will be familiar to anyone who's seen other Pavilion dv6000 series laptops, but the Special Edition HP Pavilion dv6985se stands out for two reasons.
Sonos has been around since 2005, when the small company introduced its first multiroom digital music system to glowing reviews (including a CNET.com Editors' Choice Award).
Pop quiz: name the breakout digital businesses that have been spawned by traditional media giants that aren't simply online offshoots of existing brands. There is, let's see, Time Warner's TMZ, and, depending on how it goes, NBC and Fox's Hulu.com.
Halsey Minor is amped up. Maybe it's the Red Bull on the rocks he's been downing for two hours in the living room of his Virginia farmhouse this summer night. Regardless, after playing cat and mouse with this reporter for weeks, the co-founder of CNET, who netted $200 million selling his stake in the Internet's first journalism venture of consequence, is running through a rapid-fire update on his life.
Question: How can I attract more customers to my retail boutique without spending a lot of money? - Tony Gim, Naples, Fla.
Most budget-friendly midsize laptops feature 15.4-inch screens that, while good for watching movies, can be a burden to schlep around campus.
The Canon PowerShot SD750 is one of the most popular cameras on CNET, so how do you top it? Well, with a couple of the standard enhancements, for one.
With its bold $1.8 billion purchase of CNET, CBS is making a play for ad dollars that are shifting to the Internet. But the company may be paying too much for a network of Web sites that won't address the conglomerate's main problem: an over-reliance on advertising dollars as a source of revenue.
Stock futures were higher Thursday as better-than-expected results from retailer J.C. Penney and video rental chain Blockbuster offset a weak reading on the U.S. job market.
The Sony NWZ-A720 Walkman series is a subtle evolution of the NWZ-A810 series we enjoyed in 2007. This year, Sony is treating us with a larger screen and a more assertive design, offered in 4GB ($149), 8GB ($199), and 16GB ($299).
With its T series, Sony has an unfortunate habit of taking at least one step back for every two steps forward.
It's no exaggeration to say that a large chunk of my early winter was wasted trying to buy a wide-screen TV. After finishing my basement with the explicit goal of turning an empty concrete space into a Wii-playing, movie-watching, comfy-couch-laden rec room, I knew that the TV had to be really big and really flat, with good but not top-of-the-line picture and features. Easy enough.
Dear FSB: What is the best GPS unit available for my small package-delivery business? I would like to use it in the car and am looking for something Bluetooth-capable.
Sometimes less is more, and that seems to be the approach Pharos is taking with its Pharos Drive GPS 250. The entry-level in-car GPS offers simplicity and ease of use with a minimalist design and interface, and all the basic navigation features are there, with the bonus of text-to-speech functionality.
Digital audio is great--especially if you've got a multigigabyte music collection sitting on your computer or you subscribe to an "all you can eat" music service like Rhapsody.
At CNET, we take HDTV power consumption seriously, which helps explain our excitement when Philips announced its Eco TV. The 42-inch, 1080p resolution, flat-panel LCD, model 42PFL5603D (due in March, $1,399 MSRP), is packed with power-saving features.
In its first appearance, CounterSpy was the only antispyware product that correctly identified every piece of spyware in our current active-detection test. It did very well in active scanning, on-demand detection, and complete spyware removal. We also like its overall look and feel.
If you're one of those people who don't want to "live with wires and boxes all over my living room," Yamaha's Digital Sound Projector series of single-speaker surround systems may be exactly what you're looking for.
Investors appeared ready Tuesday to shrug off the recent wave of credit worries and oil once again near record highs, as stocks were poised to open higher.
The $90 Targus Corporate Traveler means serious business. The ballistic-nylon, briefcase-style case looks ready to survive the bumps and knocks of even the most aggressive travel schedule, which isn't to say that the bag is all utility with no style.
The HP Photosmart A826 is the first standalone snapshot printer we've seen that truly attempts to bring the in-store photo kiosk experience into the home. The printer's large size and extra large touch screen make using it a pleasure. And the fast print speed and wealth of features make it easy to produce a variety of prints.
The Linksys WRT350N with Storage Link router is the next step up from the company's WRT300N router. Based on Draft 2.0 of the 802.11n spec, it's a standard four-port Gigabit Ethernet router that also serves up a USB port for sharing the contents of a USB hard drive or flash drive across the network.
Several reporters and their family members have sued Hewlett-Packard Co. and some of its officers, their lawyer said in a statement, alleging the technology giant violated their privacy in a hunt for the source of boardroom leaks.
The Iomega eGo portable hard drive sports a stylish look and compact size. It's currently offered in just one capacity -- 160GB -- but it's available in two colors, red and silver.
A color laser multifunction aimed squarely at small offices and work groups, the $700 Lexmark X502n prints, scans, copies, and faxes, and does it all quickly and well. (If you don't need fax, the X500n saves you $200.)
Samsung's NV7 OPS simply confounds me: for a company to clearly have spent a lot of time working on a novel but quite usable new interface, but implement it in a sluggish camera that produces noisy, overprocessed photos just seems, well, wrong.
The latest search at Google had nothing to do with the Internet or lucrative ads. It had to do with a three-foot python that was loose in its New York offices.
PCTools Spyware Doctor is one of the last independent antispyware apps on the market, and, until this recent release, was one of the better choices.
The Problem Guitar player and songwriter Robert Khedouri hated the process of downloading individual songs to a computer and then to an MP3 player. He wanted to make it as fun and as easy as using ...
If laptop heat is a major problem for you, it may be time to move beyond simple passive laptop desks into the realm of powered devices.
U.S. stocks were set to open slightly higher Tuesday, just before the start of a two-day meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers in Washington.
Just about a year after Apple's CEO Steve Jobs first wowed the tech world with the ultrathin sleekness of the first iPod Nano, Apple has unleashed Nano number two into the world.
Survival experts struggled Friday to come to terms with James Kim's heart-wrenching decision to leave his snowbound family to seek help in the bitter cold of the Oregon wilderness.
CNET editor James Kim died of exposure and hypothermia as he sought help for his snowbound wife and children, authorities said Thursday.
Two more CEOs hit by the scandal over stock options stepped down Wednesday, highlighting the risk to companies - and investors - stung by the backdating bullet.
Stocks pared early losses but remained in the red near midday Wednesday after disappointing profit numbers unnerved investors at the start of the third-quarter earnings season.
Last Friday at Mark Hurd's much-anticipated press conference at HP's headquarters in Palo Alto, spokesman Bob Sherbin began the proceedings by announcing that "so as not to pre-empt the [congressional] committee's questions" Hurd and his lawyer would not be able to take any questions from the press.
Ever since the news broke that HP has been spying on journalists and its own board members, one question has been hanging over the company: Where was CEO Mark Hurd? Now investors are getting an answer - and Hurd may be at risk.
During a meeting last week with some of the nation's leading Internet companies, the attorney general and the FBI director asked that they keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than they do currently, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
It's a nightmare for any electronics maker planning a splashy launch: Key technical details and photos of the gadget show up on the Web prior to its premier. But Danger Research, the designer of the popular Sidekick smartphone, doesn't have a disgruntled employee to blame for the leak: It turns out the Federal Communications Commission published details of the new Sidekick III on its website, as it does with all new wireless devices that run on FCC licensed airwaves, unless manufacturers request confidentiality. Ironically, the FCC also published the request for confidentiality that Danger's manufacturing partner, Sharp, filed along with the photos.
Investors have grown wary of the Internet colossuses.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Round and round the Internet merger wheel goes. Where it stops, nobody knows.
Google Inc. has blacklisted all CNET reporters for a year, after the popular technology news website published personal information of one of Google's founders in a story about growing privacy concerns for the Internet search engine, according to a CNET statement.
The audio and video search engine unit of America Online has signed deals with a number of content providers, including CNN, according to a published report.
Microsoft is developing a new version of Windows for companies that want to better secure their older machines, allowing them to upgrade without buying new ones, according to an industry source.
Investors could get a lift Friday from a reported agreement between Time Warner and Comcast to buy Adelphia Communications as well as a continued decline in oil prices.
Most entrepreneurs can't bear to part with their companies. But the folks behind Webshots can't seem to stop selling theirs. Andrew Laakmann, 35, Nicholas Wilder, 32, and Narendra Rocherolle, 36, c...
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In late 2000, CNET Networks CEO Shelby Bonnie was running a business few would have envied: an online media empire that relied on the dying banner ad for nearly all of its revenue. It would be easy...
It's amazing what buying a home does to you. There's the status change from renter to homeowner. I admit, I find it somewhat laughable, since the bank owns most of it, but let's not fight over a few pennies.
In the go-go '90s venture capitalists were compared, favorably, to the junk-bond merchants of the '80s. Now, saddled with startups worth no more than a bottle of Advil, and with fewer opportunities...
Dice.com No, this isn't the home page for the shock comic Andrew "Dice" Clay or a place to shoot craps. Dice is merely a place to post your tech-related job openings--it, in turn, advertises them o...
I hate traveling with a laptop. Even the lightest models are bulky and heavy, especially when you add batteries, power cords and an external Zip drive (which I like to bring along to back up my fil...
Services alone do not make a small business portal. These sites have always tried to keep you abreast of news that might affect your business and offer advice on how to run it. With so many sites s...
Call it a December storm. The FORTUNE e-50 lost another 12.2% in the three weeks ended Jan. 3, even with Greenspan's surprise rate cut on the last day of the cycle. WebMD stopped its 11-month slide...
Calling the past few months a sobering experience for investors in technology stocks is a massive understatement. A head-splitting hangover is more apt. Anyone with stock in companies such as Price...
FORTUNE writers and editors talked to some leading technology-industry players about the recent downturn in the market: Does this signal a long-term decline? we asked. Will the industry rebound? Ar...
Take a deep breath. Things don't seem to be getting any worse on Wall Street, at least not right now. Better-than-expected third-quarter earnings brought the carnage to a stop, and the FORTUNE e-50...
Some people have house envy. Some, fast-car envy. Me? I have tech envy. Teeny-tiny cell phones. Indigo iMacs. That new digital Elph. But I've learned that price is only the first hurdle to cross. F...
Remember when fashionistas deemed Manolo Blahniks the must-have, cool item for stylish women? Those sleek five-inch spiked heels sure made your legs look goooood, didn't they? But just try teeterin...
The reason so many people are astonished or baffled or incensed by the Nasdaq at around 5000 is that so many Nasdaq companies earn no money, right? If these firms had doubled profits over the past ...
Dwayne Walker is CEO of ShopNow.com. He started his career as a techie writing software at Hughes Aircraft and then spent seven years at Microsoft. He has run the online marketplace since 1996.
Advertising is an industry that thrives on superlatives, but to put it bluntly, Madison Avenue has never seen a boom as explosive, spectacular, and sudden as the Great Dot-Com Ad Boom of 1999! Ads ...
I was interviewing Halsey Minor, but he was asking me a question: "What do you think CNET needs?" CNET is the Internet company Minor founded in 1992 and still runs as CEO. Answering his question wa...
Kim Miller is vice president for Internet strategies for macys.com, the online shop of the well-known department store. Established in 1996, macys.com offers more than 250,000 products on its site....
Everyone loves a bargain, and dotcom shares sure look cheap. But before we start talking about Internet stocks as "value plays," let's do some simple math. Since April's peak, the BancBoston Robert...
Most of the time I spent visiting with Halsey Minor was perfectly amicable. As the young CEO of CNET showed me around the bright-yellow work spaces of his San Francisco Internet company, we chatted...
By most standards SportsLine USA is a new-media success story. It's the second most popular sports site on the Internet, behind ESPN. It benefits from a valuable alliance with CBS Sports. Its ad re...
Ever since Tandy introduced the first laptop in 1983--the TRS-80 model 100, with no hard drive and only a 24K sliver of RAM, barely enough for a large text file or small photo today--the portable P...
Given that tech stocks were hammered in August 31's stock selloff, you might expect people in Silicon Valley to be a little bummed out. But that, as I discovered when I went hunting for sob stories...
In a good week, NBC sells $100 million of TV advertising. That's more than Yahoo has sold so far this year and about four times what MSNBC.com has sold since its launch two years ago--evidence that...
If you weren't spending most of the past year reading computer trade rags, you may have missed the point at which Silicon Valley redefined your everyday Web "search engine" as a "portal." Sounds me...
When December quarterly earnings from companies like Yahoo, Excite, and CNET are released in the next few weeks, don't be surprised if it looks as if the Internet's prayers for stronger advertising...
For starters, let's grant that the commercial promise of the Internet remains great. Neil Weintraut, a former Hambrecht & Quist analyst now turned venture capitalist, may well be right when he says...
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