- Tue Dec 29 2009 Time to update the software user's bill of rights
More than a decade ago, an IBM researcher proposed a computer user's bill of rights. Ten years later, we need to lower our expectations.
- Wed Dec 30 2009 Five cheap lessons learned in 2009
What a long, cheap trip it's been! As we look forward to 2010, let's take a look back at some of the things we learned about scoring deals and saving money.
- Mon Dec 28 2009 10 music-tech trends that will shape the next decade
By 2020, we'll be streaming songs from the cloud instead of buying albums and storing them on our hard drives, and suggestion services like Pandora will become essential.
- Tue Dec 29 2009 2010 the year of cloud-computing...M&A
Cloud computing is becoming less about science projects and more about real-world deployments, which should lead to big vendors buying start-ups to round out their offerings.
- Tue Dec 29 2009 E-tail Scrooges and how one woman defeated them
This is no "It's a Wonderful Life," but the thousands stung by Web marketing practices now under government scrutiny may find it a feel-good story anyway.
- Wed Dec 23 2009 DDoS attack hobbles major sites, including Amazon
More than a mouse was stirring Wednesday night on the Internet, as an attack on a major DNS provider to sites such as Amazon.com and others hobbled service for about an hour.
- Tue Dec 22 2009 AT&T strategist learns lessons of battlefield
Jim Cicconi, a senior AT&T exec who runs legislative affairs, digs deep into strategy when it comes to getting what he wants in Washington, D.C.
- Tue Dec 22 2009 Top 10 news stories of the decade (images)
Let the debate begin: Was the iPhone more important than iTunes? Was anything bigger than Google finding a great business model? CNET offers its list of the 10 most important stories of the '00s.
- Mon Dec 21 2009 Seven businesses to look out for in 2010
In January 2008, I wrote a somewhat tongue-in-cheek post that outlined seven businesses I thought would be good to start. Here's why I predict this upcoming year those businesses will come alive.
- Thu Nov 16 2000 Net access providers struggle to pay broadband bills
If Internet service providers were hospital patients, many of them would be in critical condition right now.




