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Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love
November 6, 2009 2:20 PM PST
The search king has given much of its front page love this week to honor Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but it did save some space to tout the new Droid smartphone.
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Microsoft launching health tech video show
November 6, 2009 1:59 PM PST
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu is among the guests in the first episode of the Web video show, which debuts next week.
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Astronauts prep for not-so-close encounter with space debris
November 6, 2009 1:42 PM PST
Space debris had prompted NASA to make plans for the station crew to seek shelter aboard their Soyuz lifeboats, but additional analysis now shows the junk poses no threat to the lab.
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Going rogue? Palin bans gadgets, reporters from speech
November 6, 2009 1:40 PM PST
The former Alaska governor joins a tradition of controversial politicians stoking up more press criticism by attempting to avoid it in the first place.
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What integrated compute stacks mean for storage professionals
November 6, 2009 1:17 PM PST
EMC and Cisco have Vblocks. HP has Consolidated Infrastructure. Is the world changing for enterprise IT storage professionals?
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Skype, eBay move forward
November 6, 2009 11:51 AM PST
eBay settles with Skype founders, and will sell its controlling interest in the Internet telephony company.
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Sorry, kids: No social networking on the Xbox 360
November 6, 2009 11:38 AM PST
Those children under 18 who are members of Xbox Live won't be able to access Facebook, Twitter, or Last.fm when the Xbox Live update is released later this year.
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How low can online scammers go?
November 6, 2009 11:15 AM PST
In the world of the cynical online phishing scam ploy, is pretending to be a Marine stationed in Afghanistan a new low?
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Week in review: Microsoft getting lucky with 7?
November 6, 2009 11:00 AM PST
Sales and usage of new OS are up, while Intel attracts additional antitrust attention. Also: AT&T has a lawyer for that app ad.
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Adobe's Photoshop app comes to Android
November 6, 2009 10:50 AM PST
Adobe brings the popular Photoshop mobile app to Android phones, but is it as good as the version for iPhones and iPods? We take a look.
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Opera Mobile 10 beta browser: First Look video
November 6, 2009 10:33 AM PST
Even if you don't have a Nokia, Samsung, or Sony Ericsson phone, you can preview the latest Opera Mobile browser for smartphones.
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Slow start for the Motorola Droid?
November 6, 2009 10:28 AM PST
From coast to coast, customers were not lining up to get their hands on the much-hyped smartphone. But Verizon says it doesn't see that as a bad thing.
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Google trying not to cross 'the creepy line'
November 6, 2009 10:23 AM PST
When it comes to the tricky balance between providing comprehensive information and freaking people out, Google says it tries to stay on the good side of the "creepy line."
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Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
November 6, 2009 9:47 AM PST
Founder of the online community-written encyclopedia talks to Silicon.com about what's next for the site and why it needs geeks of all kinds.
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Integrated retweet on its way to Twitter
November 6, 2009 9:43 AM PST
Social network says it has a started a limited rollout of its retweet feature. The new button will work much the same way the "reply" option works.
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Smartphone market unfazed by recession
November 6, 2009 8:26 AM PST
A record 43.3 million smartphones shipped in the third quarter, according to a new report from IDC.
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Canon says firmware fixes 7D ghost images
November 6, 2009 8:16 AM PST
An update to Canon's EOS 7D SLR takes care of a problem where traces of one image could show in the next.
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Microsoft's weak cloud privacy position
November 6, 2009 7:40 AM PST
Company's cloud privacy position paper leaves much to be desired. Microsoft needs to lead its customers to the cloud and not continually lag behind.
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Wind Pole Ventures tackles faulty wind data
November 6, 2009 7:29 AM PST
Wind farms aren't just about putting steel into the ground. A start-up is carving a business out of getting better wind-speed data to predict electricity output.
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eBay's Skype sale gets go-ahead with settlement
November 6, 2009 6:58 AM PST
New deal brings in Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis as investors in a roughly $2 billion sale of the Internet telephony pioneer.
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