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- Week in review: Old faces in new places
- Google adds streaming news to Google Finance
- Behind last night's Bing outage
- Google edges toward Rosetta Stone status
- Apple updates Mac Pro with 3.33GHz chip option
- Solar Impulse aircraft flies, briefly (photos)
- Cisco works percentages toward Tandberg takeover
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Blogs and opinion
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Stephen
Shankland: - Google edges toward Rosetta Stone status
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Josh
Lowensohn: - Hardware for Gmail: The 'Gboard' keyboard
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Brooke
Crothers: - Acer 17-inch, Intel dual-core laptop falls to $479
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Chris
Matyszczyk: - Doctors told to say no to Facebook come-ons
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Google edges toward Rosetta Stone status
Wonder what the French really think? The search giant offers a native-language view of the Web through translated search results. Also new: a dictionary service.
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Solar Impulse aircraft flies, ever so briefly
photos It didn't go very high or very far this time, but the prototype is designed eventually to fly night and day, and around the world.
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Solar plan's first test flight
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Apple grabs top U.S. retail sales spots in October
Apple secures 2 out of the top 3 desktop spots, in terms of retail sales, and 4 out of the top 10 notebook spots for computer sales in October, according to NPD Group's Stephen Baker.
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Google adds streaming news to Google Finance
Google is betting that real-time news (or something closely resembling it) will attract more financially oriented visitors to its Google Finance pages.
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Video site Vevo close to signing EMI
Vevo, a site scheduled to launch Tuesday that hopes to become the MTV for the next generation, continues to sign licensing deals with the top labels.
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Cisco works percentages toward Tandberg takeover
Just shy of 90 percent of Tandberg shares as it passes a self-imposed drop-dead deadline, Cisco says its acquisition plan is still very much alive.
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Apple updates Mac Pro with 3.33GHz chip option
Apple updates its Mac Pro line of desktop computers with an option to add the quad-core Intel Xeon. This would add $1,200 to the price of the base configuration, currently priced at $2,499.
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Coke eyes climate-friendlier vending machines
The soft-drink company plans to replace hydrofluorocarbon, a contributor to greenhouse gases, in its new vending machines and coolers by 2015.
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Hardware for Gmail: The 'Gboard' keyboard
Gmail's got desktop hardware now, though not from Google. The Gboard is a new Gmail-centric keyboard with colored shortcut keys that let you zip around your in-box.
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Can Comcast-NBC play nice with Hulu?
With the advent of the media joint venture, Hulu's development may have just hit a wall. Plus, Netflix and iTunes could be competing with a major supplier.
(Posted in Media Maverick by Greg Sandoval)
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Behind last night's Bing outage
Microsoft says that a change that was being tested was mistakenly moved onto the live site, causing Thursday night's sitewide outage.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)
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Viewers to explore 360 degrees of MTV Woodies
On Friday night, MTV will be showing its 2009 Woodie Awards online, utilizing a new spherical-video platform developed by Calgary, Alberta-based Immersive Media.
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Defense Dept. pulls software over privacy issues
EPIC complaint alleging privacy issues with Echometrix parental control software prompts Defense Department online store to pull the product.
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Sony unveils online plan for recovery
The company says it will create an online network that pipes its films, music, games and other content to its TVs, Walkmans, and PlayStation game machines.
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The FTC is talking to Nvidia about Intel
The Federal Trade Commission's probe of the chipmaker's business practices has extended to Nvidia.
(Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers) - All CNET News headlines








