Sunday, November 18, 2012

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CNET News


Congresswoman turns to Reddit for legislative advice

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:11 PM PST

Turning the tables, Rep. Zoe Lofgren plans to do the question asking in an upcoming Reddit forum. She needs ideas for a bill that will protect Web sites accused of copyright violations. [Read more]

GPS pioneer takes aim at the future of navigation

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:00 PM PST

After you help invent GPS, what do you do for an encore? If you're TeleNav's Bob Rennard, you make it eerily smart. [Read more]

GOP flip-flops over supporting digital copyright reforms

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 08:03 PM PST

House Republican Study Committee embraces EFF-style digital copyright reforms, then disavows its own report. RIAA says it didn't ask the GOP group to yank the paper from its Web site. [Read more]

Whoops! Warner Brothers app was mistakenly released in U.S.

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 08:00 PM PST

What was a boon to cord cutters ends up being just a tease. The app was only meant for select overseas markets. [Read more]

Judge OKs $22.5M fine against Google for Safari tracking

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 07:45 PM PST

After the Web giant put ad tracking cookies on computers of Safari users, a federal judge agrees to fining it with the largest penalty the FTC has ever levied against a single company. [Read more]

Soyuz brings three station fliers home after 127 days aloft

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 06:45 PM PST

Landing in pre-dawn darkness, three returning station fliers closed out a four-month stay aboard the International Space Station with a landing in Kazakstan early Monday local time. [Read more]

Cisco nabs cloud-networking start-up Meraki for $1.2 billion

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 05:57 PM PST

Looking to "cloudify" its software-focused products and simplify IT operations, the tech giant acquires the Wi-Fi and cloud-networking start-up. [Read more]

Netflix is immediately available on Nintendo's Wii U

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:37 PM PST

The video streaming service is ready to be used on Nintendo's new living room game console -- despite delays of TVii, Hulu Plus, YouTube, and Amazon Instant Video. [Read more]

McAfee begins writing blog while hiding from police in Belize

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:20 PM PST

The antivirus software pioneer uses new blog to criticize authorities and the media while chronicling his attempts to avoid questioning in connection with a murder last week. [Read more]

Apple ending Messages Beta on December 14

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:12 PM PST

Apple's end of its beta program means Lion users will have to upgrade to continue using the service. [Read more]

Apple's iMessage service experiencing another disruption

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 02:14 PM PST

Apple says "some" users are unable to send and receive texts on the proprietary platform but does not indicate how widespread the outage is. [Read more]

Israel government Web sites hit by hacker blitz

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 10:26 AM PST

Government says its Web sites have experienced 44 million hacking attempts but only one successful breach. [Read more]

Google app bug cancels Christmas, December

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:42 AM PST

The People app in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean leaves out the last month of the year, taking users from November straight to January. [Read more]

Facebook and Yahoo reportedly seeking search partnership

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:10 AM PST

The Sunday Telegraph reports the two companies might join forces in search. The opportunity, if not the talks, is real and could bring immense profits for both at Google's expense. [Read more]

Steve Jobs' yacht gives insights into his design process

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 09:03 AM PST

Jobs and noted designer Philippe Starck spent five years working out the details of the super yacht Venus. [Read more]

Shaken & stirred: The Hsu VTF-1 MK2 subwoofer

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 08:06 AM PST

All subs make bass, but only the best ones make bass you can feel through the soles of your feet! [Read more]

NYC crowds brave cold weather for the Nintendo Wii U launch

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 05:11 AM PST

The new console went on sale at midnight tonight, with a launch event at the Manhattan Nintendo World store [Read more]

Samsung reveals Black Friday camera deals

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 05:08 AM PST

If a camera with Wi-Fi is in your future, there are some deals here worth considering. [Read more]

Big data gets its own book: 'The Human Face of Big Data'

Posted: 18 Nov 2012 04:00 AM PST

Rick Smolan, the man behind the "Day in the Life" books, dispatches an army of photographers and researchers to capture how data is changing the world. [Read more]

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