- Sat Nov 21 4:52 PM PST 2009 GrandCentral Web site to jump the tracks
Google on December 31 will shut down site for GrandCentral, which it acquired and reworked into Google Voice. Users should back up old messages now.
- Fri Nov 20 3:20 PM PST 2009 Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Tech biz turkeys
In the history of tech, some decisions stand out as truly awful. This week, Rafe Needleman, Charlie Cooper, and Jim Kerstetter go over some of the worst ever.
- 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.
- Thu Nov 19 3:40 PM PST 2009 eBay sets Skype loose at $2.75 billion valuation
The auction site has sold off its telephony unit, finally, after plans to take it public and a legal dispute with the company's founders.
- Wed Nov 18 10:32 AM PST 2009 Fring VoIP app now a 'go' on Android
Fring 1.0 brings multinetwork IM and Internet calling to Android users.
- Tue Nov 17 12:55 PM PST 2009 Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1108: Tracker pulling
No, no, fellow residents of southern Illinois, not tractor pulling--Tracker pulling! The Pirate Bay has pulled out the trackers. But that doesn't mean you can't download anything.
- Tue Nov 17 4:00 AM PST 2009 Real-time newcomer Factery Labs finds you facts
A new semantic search tool promises to both sort out search results as well as cut down some of the need to read them. Is it too good to be true?
- Mon Nov 16 12:12 PM PST 2009 Buzz Out Loud Podcast 1107: Vote for us or the chicken gets it
The Podcast awards are on and we're up against TWiT again, so we had to get drastic. We will no longer protect your chicken from Dokken if you don't vote for us. So there. Also Psystar is no longer protected from Apple and Modern Warfare 2 is no longer
- Thu Nov 12 4:49 PM PST 2009 Google buys Gizmo5 for Google Voice
Terms of the deal for the VoIP software company were undisclosed, but Google's second acquisition of the week will be used to help Google Voice.
- Wed Nov 11 1:30 PM PST 2009 Chumby gets leaner, cheaper, and faster
The second generation of the Chumby, a do-it-all touch-screen box for checking news, playing games, viewing photos, and listening to music, is on sale for $99.




