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  Obama vs. McCain,
  round two

  live Webcast Continuing our coverage of Election 2008, CBS News and CNET present Web-only analysis and commentary following the second presidential debate.

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  Judge keeps RealDVD
  off the market

  update A U.S. district judge has ordered that a temporary restraining order stay in place until she can hear further testimony on what, exactly, the DVD-copying software does.

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• CEA: Economy down, TV sales up

  Sales in flat-panel TVs and game hardware should do fine during the upcoming holidays, the Consumer Electronics Association says.

  (Posted in Crave by Leslie Katz)

• Click-to-buy links for songs, games added to YouTube

  YouTube is adding links to Amazon.com and the iTunes Store from the pages of thousands of its videos, making it easier for people to buy an MP3 they hear or a video game that looks good.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Jennifer Guevin)

• No escape from the perfect financial storm

  After this perfect storm, brewed out of years of habit and taken down by mortgages for the masses, consumers and businesses will be far more conservative in their spending habits.

  (Posted in Outside the Lines by Dan Farber)

• Video: Mission to Mercury

  video CNET's Kara Tsuboi talks to a NASA scientist about the tiny planet and what researchers hope to glean from a new batch of info and images.
  • Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury

• Another iPhone bug?

  Security conscious 12-year-old discovers new security hole in iPhone that allows people to see incoming text messages even when the passcode lock is enabled.

  (Posted in Apple by Elinor Mills)

• MIT prof sees no free ride to cleaner cars

  Q&A John Heywood of MIT says policies that encourage consumers to buy "green" are the only way to truly transform the nation's fleet.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Tech stocks tumble for a second straight day

  The Dow Jones industrial average takes another wild ride, marking a second consecutive day it has ended the session below 10,000.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Firefox Geode: Web sites know where you are

  The Internet is international, but increasingly local, too: Mozilla Labs' new Firefox plug-in lets Web sites know where you are.

  (Posted in Webware by Stephen Shankland)

• Microsoft search results land inside Facebook

  As part of a deal announced in July that resulted from an investment, users can now do Web searches using Microsoft's engine without leaving the social-networking site.

  (Posted in Microsoft by Ina Fried)

• EU directive could change iPhone battery design

  Regulators are considering a directive that would force cell phone makers to offer batteries that are "readily replaceable," which is not the case with Apple's iPhone.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Army plans 500-megawatt solar thermal farm

  A new Army energy strategy includes plans for what could become the world's largest solar thermal farm, as well as geothermal and biomass-to-fuel projects.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Elsa Wenzel)

• A 'fabless' alternative for Advanced Micro

  The chip company is not going fabless in the classic sense of the word: a design house without any manufacturing facilities.
  • AMD to spin off manufacturing
  • A foundry-focused restructuring

  (Posted in Nanotech: The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Government report: Data mining doesn't work well

  Using data mining to try to detect terrorists is "neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts," new report finds.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)
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