Tag: CNET
CBS buys CNET in $1.8B deal
Does this mean Katie Couric will be reviewing games now?"NEW YORK (AP) — Media and entertainment company CBS Corp. is buying CNet Networks Inc., an online news and information provider, for $1.8 billion in cash in...
How Many Cables do you Have Under Your Desk?
Neat idea via CNET, a company called Green Plug is having a 'what's under your desk' contest. The goal is simple, take pics of the mess under your desk, and send it in!My house has several 'choke' points of cabling:...
CNET "Realigns" 10% of Staff
In an effort to please shareholders and spur longterm growth, CNET will be cutting 120 jobs, or 10% of its staff. (I didn't realize that their staff was that big to begin with)"Business Unit Realignment: with the...
Bug Labs: Build your own dream gadget
This product takes open source thinking to an new and very interesting level. "Described as "the Lego of gadgets" by Webware's Rafe Needleman, the Bug Labs platform starts with a minicomputer, the Bug Base,...
Adult Cyber Bullying- Should laws protecting chil...
"Perspective: Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. And that irritates CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh.
By Declan McCullagh
Published: January 9, 2006, 4:00 AM PST
See all Perspectives
Tell us what you think about this...
Senate Bill 1959 to Criminalize Thoughts, Blogs, ...
"by Mike Adams
The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any...
CNET Losing Core Tech Ad Market to Blogs, Social ...
"advertisers are becoming more efficient in online ad spend and moving dollars away from portals and higher-priced vertical sites toward more cost-efficient, targeted niche technology sites and social networking...
Yahoo executives grilled by House Foreign Affairs...
Yahoo management has been publicly humiliated in Washington recently for disclosing information to the Chinese government about a dissident journalist in China. House Foreign Affairs Committee Charman called Jerry Yang a 'moral pygmy' among other things. Now it...
Dr. Spock 2.0
Below is an interview with MIT's Henry Jenkins, a media scholar that CNET is touting as the next Dr. Spock. As earlier child-rearing books begin to feel outmoded in the face of the brave new digital world, new...
WiFi With A 238 Mile Record Reach :: Symblogogy
"So you are sitting in your home in Los Angeles and you notice that among the available WiFi networks in your area, you have your own at&t DSL connection, a neighbors cable based wireless signal, and one from...
Han Solo & Chuck Norris vs. Steve Jobs & Steve Wo...
"CNET News shows off a few of what it calls "celebrity Miis." These two were the best ones of the batch, obviously of Apple Computer founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. But CNET says otherwise..."
Smartphones That Know When & Where To Move :: Sym...
"A new type of technology is making its way to the cellphone platform. The mobile phone has played host to GPS, Cameras, Symbology (barcode) Scanning, Walkie-Talkies, Bluetooth Broadcasting, MP3 Music, and...
One Laptop Per Child project already in Nigeria
One Laptop Per Child project has begun in Nigeria. My heart goes out to
Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per
Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East and everyone who...
US Govt: "We want to know ID of online photo shar...
This just came to my attention from NowPublic staffer Victoria Revay.It outlines steps that are being taken by the US Justice Department to force photo, video, and news-sharing sites like Flickr, YouTube, and...
Test Highlighting
"Highlight | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
http://www.nowpublic.com/highlight New Blogger blogs are now supported. Works with: ... Tried using firefox 2.0, tried the web "add" blog app and nothing. ...
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3511/ - 10k - Cached - Similar...
