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Mobile, the next generation

Bringing Korean innovation to backward AmericaEarthLink founder Sky Dayton talked with CNET News.com's Maggie Reardon at CTIA 2006 in Las Vegas. Dayton, CEO of soon-to-launch mobile service Helio, says the service will offer features now unavailable in the U.S., and he shows off the two devices that will work on...

Tags: Helio, Sky Dayton

Videos 2006-04-07

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News to know: Kumo; Zune; Storm; Google

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Would you 'Kumo' it? Phil Wainewright: When to spend cash in a SaaS business Brian Sommer: Taleo's November to forget ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Reliability Labs, E-mail, Home Entertainment, Handhelds, Open Source, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-24

Virgin America's Wi-Fi in the sky

CNET gets the chance to try out Virgin America's in-flight Wi-Fi service on a demonstration flight. Our slideshow puts you on the plane. by CNET News.com

Tags: Virgin America, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-22

Image Gallery: Spb Software House's Traveler 2 Windows Mobile application

Spb Software House released an update to their mobile travel product as Spb Traveler 2.0. The software serves as a travel assistant with a flight search engine powered by OAG, an animated 3D Globe with real satellite image of the sky, a Geo Game for fun and learning and tools...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Spb Software House, Spb Traveler 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller, screenshots, spb, pocket pc, windows mobile, travel assistant

Image galleries 2008-11-17

A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?

A micro nuclear reactor in your garden?Neato technology, but...I was a nuclear engineer in a former life, so I can make a pretty good guess as to what the technology in these mini-nukes is. Its all very clever, as one could imagine from a product coming out of LANL.However,...

Tags: reactor, micro nuclear reactor, nuclear reactor, garden, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Sun switches search alliances from Google to Microsoft

Sun switches search alliances from Google to MicrosoftIn related news, Paul Murphy's forehead veins all burst. nt.Make the Hurting Stop!!!!Please, I realize Sun is dead, but do they have to continue to shoot themselves in every appendage as well to prove their death is imminent. They just won't stop....

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., alliance

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

How to scale to 256 processors and beyond

How to scale to 256 processors and beyondSo in other words expecting MS to get this right is...basically a pie in the sky.Still chasing what Linux can already do...Learn from the lessons and heartache of BeOSOne of the biggest problems for BeOS as a development environment was lock and race...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, kernel, BeOS, operating system, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, processor

Discussion threads 2008-11-07

Web 2.0 Summit: Focus on solving problems, not overnight fortunes

Web 2.0 Summit: Focus on solving problems, not overnight fortunes"Thinking together about what is crucial ...... talking deeply about simple things."That's one thought I use to book-case my "GroundPlane 101", along with this:"To energize collective intelligence …… to magnetize the wisdom of crowds."Since the early 70s when I felt we...

Tags: overnight fortune

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

iClone EX Edition (German) (exe)

iClone3 is the complete 3D movie machine with real-time animation and actor creation tools for rendering movies with ultimate detail. Design actors as fully animated 3D avatars featuring custom faces, facial animation, motion, clothing and accessories. Build scenes with actor-interactive props, elaborate architecture and natural environmental elements including sky, terrain,...

Tags: Animation, Hotkey, iClone3

Software downloads 2008-11-01

Daggleland (exe)

Help the little Daggles to find their way home to the Daggleland in this great full version match 3 game. In this puzzle challenge the Daggles must be guided home by matching these cute little characters together through dangerous lands of fire and ice. Game contains 7 stages, 50 levels...

Tags: FreeGamePick, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-31

Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another 'Mojave'

Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another 'Mojave'Here we go againFocusing again on codenames instead of Microsoft's inability to deliver meaningful compelling products.There was a blog on zdnet just a few days ago that Apple will probably surpass Microsoft in market cap with just a tiny slice of the computer...

Tags: Mice, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

I secretly always wanted to see capitalism collapse . . .

I secretly always wanted to see capitalism collapse . . .So if you believe that...You putting all your money into gold? Bought a farm so you can grow your own food and spin your own cloth while the depression lasts? Put your money where your mouth is.RE: I secretly always...

Tags: Benefits, Investment, capitalism

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Why 'Azure'?

Why 'Azure'?just another immitationcan M$ create anything new?I think it's a good nameAny name with "Cloud" in it would be totally outdated in about two weeks. Cloud is the latest fad word. That leaves something super boring like 'Windows Cloud Platform' or something a little more interesting. Azure is kind...

Tags: Web services, cloud computing, Azure, Blue Skies

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexedHead in the clouds...So, Microsoft "cloud computing" is another huge boon to IT Departments who want to hire more staff? I wonder if anyone will eventually wake up and realize that IT departments can usually be replaced by a dozen temp...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Databases, Windows Azure, Azure, PDC, Microsoft Corp., data center, server, ISV

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

PDC Keynote One: Live blogging now

PDC Keynote One: Live blogging nowNot the most important thing butThe name is good. Certainly better than the rumored Strata. Azure makes me think of openness, clarity...blue sky. Nice.Two wordsUesless + BoringWaiting for the videosThey are gonna put the videos for these sessions online. That solves my problem for...

Tags: Corporate communications, PDC, Live blogging, blogging

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Take Stock. Turn Off The Tech. Turn Off The Echo Chamber. Think.

Take Stock. Turn Off The Tech. Turn Off The Echo Chamber. Think.There does need to be a timeout calledAnd the investors around the world who are scurrying around like chickens with their heads cut off need to be metaphorically tasered, tied up, and sat down for the 'big talk'.The fact...

Tags: Turn Off

Discussion threads 2008-10-25

Tech's economy careens into the great unknown

Tech's economy careens into the great unknownSo much of IT, SOA, social networking,...just to mention two, can't really prove a ROI. Those responsible for spending the IT budget are being pressured to show something but they can't. These are the IT sectors that are going to get hit first.Computers were...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Investment, social networking, information technology, software-as-a-service, Companies

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

Navigon 2000S GPS Navigator

We've reviewed several of Navigon's portable navigation devices, and it always seems to be the same story: great features, affordable price, but always coming up short in performance. The company's latest entry-level model, the Navigon 2000S, is another chapter in that saga, though it comes closer to a happy ending...

Tags: Keyboards, Performance management, Navigon 2000S, Navigon 2000S GPS-Navigator

Product reviews 2008-10-21

Real planes racing with a virtual one

A really unique competition was recently held in the skies of Spain. Sky Challenge was a race between two real planes and a virtual one organized by New Zealand based Air Sports Ltd. and the Geospatial Research Centre GRC, a New Zealand based company which is a joint venture between...

Tags: New Zealand, Plane, Roland Piquepaille, Aircraft, Satellite, Geospatial Research Centre, INS, GPS, Aerospace & Defense, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-10-19

IT warning: Turbulence ahead

IT warning: Turbulence aheadI think virtualization is going to have a much more major impact...than people think.We are getting ready to move over to a virtualized environment for our new EHR system. After a few months of running that, i am planning on moving as many running servers to...

Tags: Strategy, Turbulence, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-13