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• Emirates airlines allows in-flight cell phone chatting
• Chip startup Calxeda raises $55 million for ARM-based servers
• Windows Phone 8 pre-orders said to start October 21
• Google to co-brand 10-inch Nexus tablet with Samsung
• Twitter makes account searches easier with Profiles Directory
• Four forgotten Google-made Android apps
• Silicon Valley's reality show: A new trailer of beauty
• Zynga executive exodus continues: Zynga Poker GM leaves
• Worm spreading on Skype IM installs ransomware
• Google nudges developers to build Android-optimized apps
• Ohio State marching band plays game tribute at halftime
• Top five budget routers that won't disappoint
• SpaceX still determining cause of Falcon 9 engine failure
• Deadly exploit briefly massacres World of Warcraft
• Zynga teases new CityVille 2 amid company struggle
• Twitter outage caused by human error, domain briefly yanked
• Kenwood Cooking Chef now available in the U.S.
• Symantec: Russian criminals sell Web 'proxy' with backdoors
• Mini Galaxy S3 evidence piling up before Samsung event
• Researchers cite 'dramatic' increase in CT scans for kids
• A high-tech way to walk through rain and not get wet
• Bots are there when you can't be (video)
• SpaceX rocket engine shut down at launch
• Facebook takes another shot at Sponsored Stories settlement
• iPhone 5 gets soaked filming FlyBoard ad, survives

Emirates airlines allows in-flight cell phone chatting Posted: 08 Oct 2012 08:12 PM PDT The Dubai-based airline is known for being on the tech vanguard when it comes to in-flight services. Now, besides texting and e-mail, it's letting passengers talk on their mobile phones. [Read more]

Chip startup Calxeda raises $55 million for ARM-based servers Posted: 08 Oct 2012 08:03 PM PDT The Austin, Texas, company builds data centers with low-power chips normally found in cell phones. [Read more]

Windows Phone 8 pre-orders said to start October 21 Posted: 08 Oct 2012 06:34 PM PDT Word has it that AT&T will begin offering pre-orders on the HTC 8X, Nokia's Lumia 920, and other Windows Phone 8 devices one week before launch. [Read more]

Google to co-brand 10-inch Nexus tablet with Samsung Posted: 08 Oct 2012 06:23 PM PDT Web giant will co-brand its first high-end tablet with Samsung, an analyst tells CNET. [Read more]

Twitter makes account searches easier with Profiles Directory Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:34 PM PDT Aiming to have user accounts show up more often in various search engines, the social network develops a directory tool. [Read more]

Four forgotten Google-made Android apps Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:28 PM PDT Here are a handful of useful, Google-produced Android apps that have managed to fly pretty low under the radar -- until now. [Read more]

Silicon Valley's reality show: A new trailer of beauty Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:23 PM PDT The new Bravo TV reality show, featuring the young, aspiring, and perspiring, debuts a new trailer -- in which everyone is clever and beautiful. [Read more]

Zynga executive exodus continues: Zynga Poker GM leaves Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:16 PM PDT Laurence "Lo" Toney, former GM of the popular Zynga Poker game, quits Zynga and adds to growing list of recently departed executives. [Read more]

Worm spreading on Skype IM installs ransomware Posted: 08 Oct 2012 04:37 PM PDT Malware is downloaded onto users' machines after they click on the message "lol is this your new profile pic?" [Read more]

Google nudges developers to build Android-optimized apps Posted: 08 Oct 2012 04:16 PM PDT With the holidays fast approaching, the search giant makes the case that Android tablet apps can be lucrative for developers. [Read more]

Ohio State marching band plays game tribute at halftime Posted: 08 Oct 2012 04:02 PM PDT Watch this YouTube video paying homage to Zelda, Halo, Pokemon, Tetris, and others at the Ohio State game against Nebraska. [Read more]

Top five budget routers that won't disappoint Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:53 PM PDT CNET editor Dong Ngo picks his top five affordable routers that will do the job well. [Read more]

SpaceX still determining cause of Falcon 9 engine failure Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:38 PM PDT SpaceX engineers are reviewing telemetry to figure out what caused a dramatic first stage engine failure Sunday night during an otherwise successful launch of a commercially developed cargo ship on the company's first operational flight to the International Space Station. [Read more]

Deadly exploit briefly massacres World of Warcraft Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:37 PM PDT Something goes terribly wrong in the most popular massively multiplayer role-playing game in the world as players fall waste to a megabug. [Read more]

Zynga teases new CityVille 2 amid company struggle Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:32 PM PDT The social game creator releases a beta version of CityVille 2, with promises of 3D graphics and the ability to craft new items. [Read more]

Twitter outage caused by human error, domain briefly yanked Posted: 08 Oct 2012 03:16 PM PDT CNET has learned a Twitter outage that left millions of users fuming when they couldn't click on links came from an unlikely source: a "phishing complaint" sent to an Australian firm. [Read more]

Kenwood Cooking Chef now available in the U.S. Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:44 PM PDT It cooks, it mixes, it blends, chops and stirs. But was the Kenwood Cooking Chef worth the wait? [Read more]

Symantec: Russian criminals sell Web 'proxy' with backdoors Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:42 PM PDT Anyone who thought they were downloading Web proxy software was instead installing a Trojan horse tied to a Russian black hat operation. [Read more]

Mini Galaxy S3 evidence piling up before Samsung event Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:38 PM PDT A European retailer lists the shrunken hit Android phone in a few different flavors. [Read more]

Researchers cite 'dramatic' increase in CT scans for kids Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:34 PM PDT Even though the appendicitis rate for kids hasn't gone up, the percentage of children who get CT scans after going to the ER for stomach pain has skyrocketed, raising cancer concerns. [Read more]

A high-tech way to walk through rain and not get wet Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:27 PM PDT Pretend your whole body is hydrophobic when you step into the RainRoom, a room full of falling water that falls everywhere except on you. [Read more]

Bots are there when you can't be (video) Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:24 PM PDT Need to be in two places at once? Perhaps a robot can come to the rescue. Companies in Silicon Valley are developing mobile bots to connect people for teleconferencing or just keeping in touch. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports. [Read more]

SpaceX rocket engine shut down at launch Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:19 PM PDT An engine on the Falcon 9 rocket had a pressure problem after takeoff; 10 million iPad Minis are expected to arrive this year; and the U.S. government doesn't trust Huawei and ZTE. [Read more]

Facebook takes another shot at Sponsored Stories settlement Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:57 PM PDT Social-networking giant agrees to pay $10 apiece to impacted consumers and set up an "easily accessible mechanism" for users to view their Sponsored Stories interactions. [Read more]

iPhone 5 gets soaked filming FlyBoard ad, survives Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:41 PM PDT The iPhone 5 gets another torture test, this time filming a commercial for a wacky levitating wakeboard, and getting wet in the process. [Read more]

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