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Palm picks new pilot
to run company
2 hours, 12 minutes ago
Ed Colligan is stepping down as chief of the smartphone maker, and Jon Rubinstein takes over, just days after the launch of the high-profile Pre.
Microsoft Money
goes bust
The software maker has notified financial institutions that it plans to stop selling its long-running personal finance program, CNET News has learned.
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IAC's Diller: The iPhone is our crystal ball
4 hours, 55 minutes ago
Apple's ubiquitous handset is the best indicator of how people will pay for media content in the near future, says the InterActiveCorp CEO at the Advertising 2.0 conference.
(Posted in Digital Media by Caroline McCarthy) -
2.8 million not ready for DTV transition
6 hours, 28 minutes ago
As the June 12 deadline for the digital-TV switch approaches, the number of homes not ready represents 2.5 percent of the market, according to a report by Nielsen.
(Posted in Digital Media by Lance Whitney) -
Apple selling iPhone 3G S at 8 a.m. June 19, AT&T at 7 a.m.
2 hours, 48 minutes ago
Attention dedicated iPhone line-waiters: Apple releases the specific time the latest version of the device will be available to purchase, AT&T pre-order customers get theirs an hour earlier.
(Posted in Apple by Erica Ogg) -
Neste biodiesel passes Mercedes truck test
8 hours, 36 minutes ago
Pilot project claims significant carbon dioxide reduction with trucks and buses running on diesel fuel made from sustainable biomass.
(Posted in Green Tech by Candace Lombardi) -
Apple finalizes PowerPC divorce with OS upgrade
12 hours, 22 minutes ago
Mac OS X 10.6 won't work on PowerPC-based Macs. But Apple picked a good moment to put its foot down and focus on multicore chips of the future.
(Posted in Apple by Stephen Shankland) -
Reports: DOJ steps up probe of Google Books deal
20 hours, 17 minutes ago
Justice Department sends formal requests for information to publishers involved in the settlement, possibly signaling the agency's opposition.
(Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil) -
The velvet rope: 10 exclusive tech betas
12 hours, 22 minutes ago
Remember when the private beta was something special? We do. Here are 10 sites that brought it back in the past two years.
(Posted in Webware by Rafe Needleman) -
NASA hacker McKinnon 'at risk,' lawyer says
12 hours, 27 minutes ago
At a hearing in London, the defense argues that Gary McKinnon could suffer "psychotic disruption" if his pending extradition to the U.S. is upheld.
(Posted in Security by Tom Espiner) -
Will Apple offer ratings for iPhone games?
3 hours, 26 minutes ago
The president of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board says that it's a "no-brainer" for iPhone games to be rated the same way console or PC games are.
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Chilirec records Net radio music to your PC
3 hours, 31 minutes ago
Swedish start-up's software records music from Internet radio stations based on your music preferences, legally and for free.
(Posted in Digital Media by Mats Lewan) -
Microsoft takes aim at fake antivirus program
5 hours, 36 minutes ago
As part of Patch Tuesday Microsoft adds a fake antivirus program to items targeted by its Malicious Software Removal Tool.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) -
A Google design contest for Guggenheim fans
10 hours, 21 minutes ago
Architecture contest celebrating the anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's famous New York creation asks for Google Sketchup submissions by August 23.
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HP ProLiant SL goes for the extreme
10 hours, 24 minutes ago
A new line of HP ProLiant servers dubbed as Extreme Scale-Out, or ExSO, target large scale-out workloads in high-performance computing and Web 2.0.
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