- Thu Nov 19 1:58 PM PST 2009 Crave giveaway of the week: official rules
These are the official rules for CNET's Crave blog giveaway of the week contest.
- Thu Nov 19 4:00 AM PST 2009 Broadband economics: How I'll save $700
Competition is the key to getting great deals. In testing that theory, CNET's Maggie Reardon finds she can save nearly $700 next year by switching providers.
- Tue Nov 17 6:06 AM PST 2009 AOL to spin off Dec. 9, begin trading Dec. 10
Shareholders will get one share of AOL for every 11 shares of Time Warner, giving the former an implied value of $3.2 billion--a fraction of its estimated $20 billion valuation in 2005.
- Tue Nov 17 4:00 AM PST 2009 FAQ: Recognizing phishing e-mails
Phishing attacks have spiked this year, recent reports show. Here's a primer on what phishing is and how to avoid it.
- Tue Oct 27 11:55 AM PDT 2009 BOL 1093: E-book Mania
MySpace and Facebook are hooking up? In a way. Maybe. But the real meat of the news today is all the e-book hype. Barnes and Noble will sell the Que, Bridgestone has a color one coming out, and Barnes and Noble may not always have its own Nook eReader.
- Mon Oct 26 6:36 AM PDT 2009 A Blu-ray player + Netflix streaming for $99.99
Best Buy's house-brand Insignia player offers a couple high-end features at a low-end price. It can not only tap BD-Live features, but also stream movies from Netflix.
- Thu Oct 15 5:00 AM PDT 2009 AVG Free 9 offers speed, lacks etiquette
Security software maker claims significantly faster scan times in AVG Free 9, but some unfortunate behavior from its LinkScanner tool might annoy some enough to swear off that otherwise excellent feature.
- Wed Oct 14 4:00 PM PDT 2009 Is Quicken at the end of the road?
Intuit's acquisition of the personal finance Web service Mint means great things for Quicken users, but not for a while.
- Mon Oct 12 11:45 AM PDT 2009 BOL 1082: Just another outage Monday
First, apologies for the song that will be stuck in your head for at least a week. Blame the chat room. In the news today, the T-Mobile Sidekick outage, the ongoing Facebook outage, the IBM outage that briefly crippled Air New Zealand...
- Thu Oct 1 9:19 AM PDT 2009 Ooma's next-gen 'free' phone system, the Telo, is finally available
Ooma's much-anticipated Telo VoIP phone system, which allows you to make free calls, is finally hitting stores 10 months after it was announced with a list price of $249.99.



