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Thu, 10/15/2009 - 00:00
China's online gaming giants are bringing in significant dollars--nearly $1 billion in just the third quarter of 2009.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 23:00
A nonprofit is helping small American companies make more money by outsourcing small tasks to workers in Kenyan refugee camps. The pay can triple what the workers were making before.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 23:00
Google's third-quarter earnings will arrive Thursday as optimism builds that the Internet advertising economy has turned the corner after a devastating year.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 18:00
Opera Unite, the server-within-a-browser, now comes fully baked into Opera's beta builds. Check out what's new in Opera 10.10.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 15:02
Larry Magid talks with Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager for Symantec Security Response, about Microsoft's biggest ever Patch Tuesday
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 14:57
Livedrive offers consumers and SMBs unlimited storage for all their documents, movies, music and more. Users need to start taking backups into their own hands.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 14:50
During Intel earnings conference call Tuesday, CEO Paul Otellini talked about notebook vs. Netbook growth and Windows 7 adoption in business, among other topics.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 13:05
Apple's co-founder and CEO beats out Oprah Winfrey and Mark Zuckerberg as the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers, according to a study released by Junior Achievement.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 12:47
Oracle's logo casts a big red glow on San Francisco as the software giant's show takes over Moscone Center. Here are some sights from the event.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:28
PC companies have already stepped on Nokia's smartphone turf, and now Nokia is taking them on in the Netbook market with the Booklet 3G.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:36
Microblogging service adds a "Report as spam" button as another way to try to combat spam accounts.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 10:36
DVR maker says Blockbuster OnDemand is available to TiVo Series2, TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL owners. Movies will be priced from $2.99 up.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 09:55
Why is Apple's new Snow Leopard OS gobbling up some users' files? We sit down with CNET's Erica Ogg to talk about the rare problem and what Apple is doing about it.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 09:39
People who work after retiring enjoy better physical and mental health, particularly when they continue to work in their original fields, a new national study finds.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 09:28
The damage is modest, but a trial run by Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser still marks a small victory for directed-energy weapons.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 09:26
Service was disrupted for a better portion of Tuesday on some portions of Google's Postini e-mail security service, with customers reporting significant delays in e-mail delivery.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 09:06
Facebook's share of the social networking market soars to nearly 60 percent, while MySpace's hold has been cut in half, according to Hitwise.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 09:04
Software maker to announce partnership with Fox that will see the new operating system take center stage during a comedy show led by the animated series' voices.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 09:03
The chipmaker's third-quarter revenue comes in at $9.4 billion, beating analysts' expectations, which hovered at just more than $9 billion.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 08:50
The community that may be most attracted to the cloud-computing model in the long term are those who have the least direct interaction with the underlying technologies that enable it--application end users.
