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Facebook's COO: Response to disabled accounts was... →
PALO ALTO, Calif.— Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg admitted in a talk here on Thursday evening that the company’s response to a database outage that knocked out…
Does anyone else think that, just for a second, someone who’s running in your same general direction might be a zombie?
Google's happy days are here again →
Google CEO Eric Schmidt feels like a man with a glimpse of open highway after being stuck in traffic for hours.
Google is ready to once again hit the gas, with plans to invest in people, products,…
Wolfram Alpha opens API to developers →
Developers can now put Wolfram Alpha results in their own applications. The company today opened up its API to open access, allowing coders to query the Wolfram system and incorporate its data,…
Great read: @stshank’s “Why hack a calculator? Why climb Mount Everest?” at http://bit.ly/3YE07U
Google's quarterly revenue, profits increase →
Updated 1:30pm PDT with a few additional details, and again at 2:40pm following the conference call. Google’s revenue grew more strongly than expected during its third fiscal quarter, in a sign…
Live on Real Deal podcast w/ @acedtect, @b1g1nj4p4n. Topic: Windows 7, your Q’s, A’d. http://bit.ly/K6alq. Call-in: 888-900-2638(CNET)
Just launched a new CNET feature: Design Review, in which we “read” the industrial design of gadgets. First issue: http://bit.ly/4fra25
YouMail visual voice mail iPhone app gets pushy →
This activities ribbon is a welcome addition to YouMail on iPhone.
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We’re big fans of visual voice mail, which lets you view, and then…
Amazon offers same-day delivery to select cities →
Amazon.com on Thursday announced that customers looking to get their packages sooner will have a couple new options available to them.
Amazon customers living in New York, Philadelphia,…
Browse the news in tags with Zen News →
Zensify, the makers of the Zensify iPhone app, have a new iPhone app out called Zen News that helps users discover the latest headlines from a dozen news sources. These range…
Twitter to squeeze the wine business for charity →
“ABC” refers back to the mission. But no bird?
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For your non sequitur of the day…
In an attempt to boost literacy rates around the world, Twitter has…
How Chrome users can scrub Yahoo logo off Flickr →
Those of you who hate the recent arrival of Yahoo’s logo on Flickr now have an easy way to erase it—and get a number of useful features—as long as you’re using an edgy version of Chrome.
Stuck in San Francisco. Damn you overturned grocery trucks and Bay Bridge S-curve! You’re keeping me from carnitas.
Business as usual in search market share →
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New month, same story: the Internet search market doesn’t move very much.
Comscore released the latest data on search engine market share Wednesday, and stop me if…
Poland launches Auschwitz page on Facebook →
When I lived and worked in Warsaw, Poland, just before the turn of the century, I had a client who was about to make a TV spot. The client insisted on a Polish director. We offered the name Marek…
Is Quicken at the end of the road? →
Conventional wisdom is that Intuit’s acquisition of the personal finance Web service Mint will mean the end of the line for the company’s standalone software app, Quicken. Upstart Mint, which…
Online Web-design tools for the beginner →
If you’re not an advanced Web designer, and you don’t want to pay a company to create a Web site for you, there are services across the Web that can help you create the site you want. All of the…
Iron Mountain introduces a cloud storage API →
The iron mountain
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Iron Mountain, a longtime provider of physical- and digital-records management, on Wednesday announced a cloud storage API that enables…
Live on Buzz Out Loud now with @acedtect @mollywood @rayguno1. Just us live at http://live.cnet.com
Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right →
Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications has made 1-megabit broadband Web access a legal right, YLE, the country’s national broadcasting company, reported on Wednesday. …
Chrome Mac beta nearer; Win 7 features recede →
Programmers have mostly overcome a crucial hurdle to releasing a beta version of Chrome for the Mac, printing support, but several Windows 7 features won’t make the cut for the present 4.x version…
Pretty Web journal tool Penzu goes pro →
Penzu, the stylish Web word processor we checked out about a year ago, is ready to make a business out of its hosted writing tools.
The company on Wednesday introduced a…
Opera prepares Unite for release →
Opera Unite was going to change the Web, according to the hype from the Norwegian browser maker. Despite only being available for a number of months in a beta separate from the main Opera…
Twitter enlists users to help fight spam →
Twitter has added a “Report as spam” feature to its service in an effort to get help from its users in fighting spam, the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. “Folks can now help…
Just signed @fmanjoo of Slate & @maryjofoley of ZDNet for Reporters Roundtable about Win 7 launch. Fri 1pm PDT at http://live.cnet.com
Throwdown: Microsoft's My Phone vs. Best Buy's mIQ... →
Best Buy Mobile’s mIQ dashboard is easier on the eye.
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Microsoft introduced its My Phone service last week, an online dashboard for…
Google adds 'invite a friend' feature to Google... →
Google will now allow Google Voice users to invite friends to the service, the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
Google Voice invites in action.
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According…
Google's Postini suffers prolonged e-mail delays →
As of 2:15 p.m. Tuesday e-mail delivery had started to return to normal for some Postini customers, although problems remained.
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Some customers…
Enough with the Mad Men avatars.
My iphone’s index of my Outlook inbox is more up-to-date than my PC’s. Crazy.
Yahoo's Bartz to deliver CES keynote →
Carol Bartz will bring Yahoo back to the CES keynote stage this January, the Consumer Electronics Association announced Tuesday.
Yahoo has given CES keynotes in the past but skipped last…
Gmail gets another tool for dummies: Name check →
Gmail’s labs section is full of tools that help advanced users fine-tune the interface of the free Web mail service. What may be more impressive, though, are its tweaks for the…
Google Voice latency (esp GVoice-to-GVoice calls) makes it nearly unusable for me.
ViVu raises $3 million for video conferencing →
Video-conferencing service ViVu announced on Tuesday that it has raised $3 million in a Series A round of funding that was led by Inventus Capital Partners. Draper Fisher Jurvetson and…
Pepsi tweets apology for 'bad taste' iPhone app →
Amp Up Before You Score iPhone app.
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PepsiCo has tweeted an apology on its Amp Energy Twitter account, as well as its Pepsi account, to those who may be offended by its…
Online tools for more productive blogging →
Since I spend so much of my time writing on the Web, I’ve come across some tools that have helped me become more efficient. Of course, there are lots of resources available to bloggers, so I should…
A new space race: Bing vs. Google →
A Boeing Delta II 7920 launches DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 satellite.
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Bill Hartenstein, Boeing
In 2008, Google got its logo on the rocket launching the GeoEye-1 satellite…
Next Firefox can detect computer orientation →
The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you’re listing to starboard—and pass that information along to applications running in the browser.
Gist's people organizer comes to the iPhone →
Gist on Tuesday is releasing an application for the iPhone that brings many of the site’s big features to user’s small pockets. The free app is meant to compliment Gist.com’s…
Mix-A-Lot's posse route tracked in Google Maps →
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Screenshot by Matt Hickey
For most people, Sir-Mix-A-Lot is synonymous with his hit “Baby Got Back.” But for his real fans, or fans of early hip-hop in general, the greatest…
We learn by failing →
Technically, we can’t blame the loss of Sidekick users’ data on a failure of either the concept or the technology of “cloud computing.” But Microsoft’s clear bungling of basic information…
Next Firefox can detect computer orientation →
A demonstration application that shows Firefox adjusting a Web page graphic according to how a MacBook is tilted.
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The upcoming version…
Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000 →
Thousands of Facebook users who have been unable to access their accounts for nearly a week and a half now are now seeing their profiles restored—but some data related to recent…
Dictionary.com now available on BlackBerry →
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Thanks to Dictionary.com, I won a contest this weekend. The challenge: who could find synonyms for a word fastest (it was “fancy,” as in “stop being so fancy…
The 'Tweance': Talk to dead stars on Twitter →
If you have been trying to tweet Michael Jackson over the last few weeks without even a squeak of success, might I sing you a song of hope? A remarkably forward-thinking psychic has decided to hold…
Google Docs adds live sharing to folders →
Google Docs has long let users share documents between one another, but folders—a feature Google begrudgingly added to Docs back in mid-2007, have largely been left out of the…
Poll: What's your favorite iPhone Twitter app? →
Tweetie 2 adds a boatload of new features, including persistence: It returns you to where you left off the last time you used the app.
Twitter apps are like candy bars: everybody’s got…