Thursday, October 25, 2012

CNET News

CNET News


Twitter predicts users' gender for targeted advertising

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:25 PM PDT

Are women about to get more promoted tweets for cosmetics, while men get power tools? [Read more]

Patent holder sues Apple over Quick Look file viewer

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:20 PM PDT

Nonpracticing entity WhitServe alleges that Mac OS X infringes on a patent it holds for "sequentially opening and displaying files in a directory." [Read more]

Feds uphold jailbreaking laws on DVDs, game consoles, tablets

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 06:25 PM PDT

While smartphone jailbreaking remains legal, new rules published by the U.S. Copyright Office dictate that cracking DVDs, gaming consoles, and tablets is against the law. [Read more]

Lapping the lightweight Lamborghini

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 06:11 PM PDT

The Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera takes advantage of carbon fiber to shed 154 pounds, while getting 10 more horsepower than the standard Gallardo. And we got to run it on a closed course. [Read more]

Jeff Bezos will keep spending, Wall Street will keep fuming

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 05:38 PM PDT

Amazon notches another quarter where it spent like a Chicago ward leader at Christmas time -- but there's a method to the seeming madness. [Read more]

Samsung posts record $7.4B profit on strong Galaxy sales

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 05:34 PM PDT

South Korean electronics giant reports that its Galaxy line contributed half its revenue for the quarter, which nearly doubled over the same period last year. [Read more]

Impact-sensing sports cap measures head injury

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 04:46 PM PDT

Reebok and startup MC10 team to make a smart skullcap that can be worn under helmets to measure impact to the head on athletes of any age or skill set. [Read more]

Windows 8 PCs rated and reviewed

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 04:30 PM PDT

The first wave of Windows 8 desktops, laptops, tablets, and hybrids has been benchmarked and tested. Find out what we loved and hated. [Read more]

Apple's fiscal 2012 in numbers: 125M iPhones, 58.31M iPads

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 03:44 PM PDT

Apple's all done with its fiscal 2012 now that it's reported earnings. Here's how the company did for the full year. [Read more]

Apple CEO Cook: We will never make a 7-inch tablet

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 03:17 PM PDT

"We don't think they're good products," Cook tells analysts. Because, you see, the iPad Mini is a 7.9-inch tablet. [Read more]

Apple: China is an 'extremely exciting' market for us

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 03:12 PM PDT

In China, the world's largest single-nation smartphone market, the iPhone remains in a distant seventh place, behind its Android-powered rivals. Apple thinks it can do better. [Read more]

Watch this DARPA robot climb, leap, and walk past obstacles

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 03:09 PM PDT

A video from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency shows a highly agile robot capable of navigating some serious obstructions. [Read more]

Biofeedback video game helps kids control anger

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 03:04 PM PDT

In RAGE Control, users with elevated heart rates lose the ability to shoot enemy spaceships and must calm down to get their game back on. [Read more]

Tim Cook compares Microsoft Surface to a 'flying car'

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 02:43 PM PDT

The Apple CEO didn't have kind words for Microsoft's Surface. [Read more]

Apple: Lower margins on iPad Mini, iPhone 5 to dampen profits

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 02:39 PM PDT

Apple's wholesale introduction of new products leads the company to project lower earnings per share for the holiday quarter. [Read more]

$99 iPad Mini clone already surfaced in China

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 02:34 PM PDT

The maker of the controversial "Goophone" that knocked off the iPhone 5 took just a few days to come out with an iPad Mini look-alike. [Read more]

How to make ColorSync profiles stick in OS X

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 02:02 PM PDT

If your ColorSync profiles are not sticking in OS X, then a corrupt colorsync cache may be to blame. [Read more]

More than 2,000 Twitter partners adding interactivity to tweets

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:56 PM PDT

In a blog post today, Twitter said there are now more than 2,000 different ways partners -- from CNN to SoundCloud, Amazon to Fandango -- are sharing interactive content in tweets. [Read more]

Apple not expecting a very merry holiday

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:44 PM PDT

The company, which tends to be overly conservative with its estimates, issues a forecast for its first quarter ending in December, calling for per-share earnings of $11.75 and revenue of $52 billion -- short of Wall Street expectations. [Read more]

Facebook execs: Zynga is down, but it will snap back

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:42 PM PDT

Shortly after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company's gaming revenue isn't where he'd like it to be, his game team talks about where Facebook's gaming platform is headed. [Read more]

Apple sells 26.9M iPhones in last quarter, up 58 percent in a year

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:40 PM PDT

Once again, the iPhone outsells its iPad and Mac cousins, in part because of a boost from last month's release of the iPhone 5. [Read more]

iPad sales miss estimates as rate of adoption slowed

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:38 PM PDT

Sales of the tablet ahead of the launch of the iPad Mini came in below analysts' projections. [Read more]

Apple earnings: $36B revenue, $8.2B profit, 26.9M iPhones, 14M iPads

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:38 PM PDT

Apple wraps up its fiscal year with mixed fourth-quarter results. The company exceeds Wall Street's expectations on revenue, but misses on profits and iPad sales. [Read more]

Apple's proposed Web radio service is no certainty

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:28 PM PDT

Apple's offer to the labels for an Internet radio service is getting mixed reviews, insiders tell CNET. [Read more]

Get prepared for Windows 8

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 01:22 PM PDT

Surface is just the start of devices from Microsoft, images leak of a 10-inch Google tablet, and there's a long wait list for the Wii U. [Read more]

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