- Fri Nov 20 5:31 PM PST 2009 Multiservice chat and 3D racing: iPhone apps of the week
This week's apps include a new (to iPhone) multiservice chat client and a stunt racing game with beautiful 3D graphics.
- Fri Nov 20 1:21 PM PST 2009 CNET News Daily Podcast: Nokia's layoffs and Skype's eBay adieu
Nokia is cutting its R&D workforce, while eBay says goodbye to Skype. Hear more about these stories and others in today's episode.
- Fri Nov 20 11:53 AM PST 2009 Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1111: Facebook is depressing
Why the long Face...book? A woman battling depression put some pictures of herself having fun privately on Facebook. Somehow the insurance company found them and cut off her benefits saying she looked happy enough and must be cured.
- Fri Nov 20 7:42 AM PST 2009 Twitter's geotagging API goes live
The geolocation tool allows developers to incorporate a user's location in tweets. It's an opt-in service.
- Thu Nov 19 11:33 AM PST 2009 Is Apple using software to check App Store submissions?
Apple may be using new software to perform additional automated checks for the presence of private APIs in all new App Store submissions during the app review process.
- Thu Nov 19 9:00 AM PST 2009 Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
Newsy searches won't just produce links to stories now on Yahoo. Searchers will be able to see photos, videos, and tweets from the main search results page.
- Mon Nov 16 9:00 PM PST 2009 Crowdsourced cartography in PublicEarth, OpenStreetMap
Can a crowd of amateur mappers create better guidebooks and maps than professionals? Signs point to yes.
- Mon Nov 16 12:43 PM PST 2009 Five competitive differentiators for cloud services
Public cloud computing vendors are offloading "commodity" IT functionality to large multi-tenant data centers. How can these vendors differentiate themselves, and what should you look for in a cloud service.
- Sun Nov 15 3:00 PM PST 2009 Hackers create tools for disaster relief
At the first-ever Random Hacks of Kindness event, developers work on technology tools that emergency relief workers can use in disasters.
- Wed Nov 11 1:54 PM PST 2009 Security considerations for virtual environments
Virtual environments have as many security risks as their physical counterparts. Users need to take security into consideration throughout their design process.




