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| Looking to Apple's past for a clue to his company's future, Michael Dell knows that reversal of fortune is a common theme in the PC industry's history. |
| If Apple can go home again, why not Dell? |
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| At San Francisco conference, company touts a rich Internet application environment and a new cloud computing service. Plus, Neil Young sings Sun. |
| JavaOne '08: Sun starts delivering |
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| EA gives up on clunky DRM. |
| EA relents on cumbersome DRM for new PC games |
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| This week, Robert Vamosi talks with Fortify CSO Brian Chess about electronic voting. |
| Security Bites Podcast: The good (and bad) news about electronic voting |
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| In an interview, Jim Wattles says a private equity firm would be a more likely buyer than Blockbuster. |
| Activist investor says Circuit City could be sold in two months |
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| Netflix has made its Watch Now instant streaming feature easier to use, but it's still lacks the overwhelming majority of the service's popular movies and TV shows. |
| Netflix Watch Now: Missing too much popular content |
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| What Yahoo has, Microsoft wants. But talks break down, and the software giant says a proxy battle isn't worth it. Tune in here for the latest. |
| Microsoft's big bid for Yahoo |
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| The software maker says it has fixed a bug that delayed an update to the free, Web-based photo editing tool. The planned updates are now available, it says. |
| Adobe says Photoshop Express glitch fixed |
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| The company that in many ways created the modern video game industry has seen its fortunes fall about as far as possible. |
| Atari gets delisted by Nasdaq |
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| Capitol Hill politicos aren't alone in considering new antipiracy mandates for schools. Tennessee just passed the first such law, and universities are bracing for other states to follow. |
| Colleges fret RIAA push for state anti-P2P laws |
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| The potential for U.S. solar energy looks bright, but what hurdles are standing in the way of its broad adoption? |
| Podcast: Shining the light on solar hurdles |
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| EarthLink is supposedly threatening to shut down Philadelphia's citywide Wi-Fi network as it negotiates a way out of its 10-year contract to build and run the network. |
| Philly's Wi-Fi network in jeopardy |
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| The social network seems ready to let users go past its traditional limit on friends, even though few have come close to that level. |
| Facebook reported ready to lift 5,000-friends cap |
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| Satellite images from NASA track a cyclone and the flooding it caused--which may end up killing more than 100,000 residents of Myanmar. |
| Images: Satellites follow killer cyclone |
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| Hot off the heels of rival MySpace's announcement that it would be connecting its profile content with other social-networking sites, Facebook revealed its own plan for exporting data to other Web sites. |
| Facebook to open the gates with 'Facebook Connect' |
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| Nearly every recent FCC decision seems to promote incumbents instead of consumers. That contradicts the regulator's raison d'etre, says guest columnist Greg Rosston. |
| Why Uncle Sam must stop subsidizing inefficient companies |
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| Noble Environmental Power files to raise as much as $375 million in an initial public offering. Can wind power whip up a storm on Wall Street? |
| Wind power company Noble files for public offering |
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| A possible merger between virtual cell phone operators Virgin Mobile USA and Helio could be good news for the companies as they struggle to deal with a weak economy and compete against big wireless providers. |
| Virgin Mobile USA and Helio in merger talks? |
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| Microsoft announces it plans to appeal the European Commission's historic fine, which dinged the Redmond giant for failing to comply with hits previous antitrust orders. |
| Microsoft to appeal EC's $1.39 billion fine |
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| New service lets people have an avatar that they can use to communicate with others visiting the same sites. |
| Weblin can make any Web site social |
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| Featured links from the CNET Blog NetworkWhy Apple should release a game console-- As more people trust and enjoy Apple products in the home, the company could easily capitalize on its success elsewhere and create a gaming console that could do the same. Verizon Wireless and I are no longer friends--There are few things in life more infuriating than dealing with cell carriers.DRM: it's like those zombie movies--No matter how many times the content owners wish it worked, DRM has a fundamental technical flaw: you have to give the key to the person you're trying to lock out! Microsoft gets this, even if the RIAA doesn't. |
| Why Apple should release a game console |
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