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| CEO Appleton reflected Micron's high-risk business |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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The death of Micron Technology's CEO during a solo flight in a hard-to-handle aircraft symbolizes the risky memory chip market that is the company's bread and butter. |
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Author: Brooke Crothers |
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| Tom Brady: I watched last year's Super Bowl on illegal site |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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In a news conference, the New England quarterback mentions that while rehabbing last year in Costa Rica, he watched the big game on an illegal site. Is this the final validation for piracy? |
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Author: Chris Matyszczyk |
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| Why Apple's A5 is so big--and iPhone 4 won't get Siri |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes. |
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Author: Stephen Shankland |
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| Super Bowl: Where to watch online, and more |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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As the Giants battle the Patriots on Sunday, viewers have dozens of ways to keep up with the game--by live streaming, watching on cell phones, or subscribing to apps and social-media feeds. |
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Author: Dara Kerr |
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| Twitter more tempting than sex and sleep, study says |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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Tweeting harder to resist than sex, coffee, and alcohol, say researchers from the University of Chicago. Now, let's just see you try to resist tweeting this story. |
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Author: Eric Mack |
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| Gamers ignore corpse in Internet cafe |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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In Taiwan, a man dies while gaming In an Internet cafe. Reports suggest no one notices for nine hours. But, regardless of how long he was actually dead, how could it be that no gamer notices until a waitress finally thinks to check? |
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Author: Chris Matyszczyk |
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| iPad-like MacBook Air now unlikely? Was it even necessary? |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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A research note from Citigroup says Apple CEO Tim Cook is not leaning toward a future MacBook Air with iPad-like features. So, now what? |
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Author: Brooke Crothers |
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| Five ways to save money on audiobooks |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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Why buy when you can rent, borrow, or stream books for a lot less cash? |
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Author: Rick Broida |
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| Zuckerberg's taxes on IPO? How about $2 billion |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he's not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction. |
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Author: Edward Moyer |
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| High-tech way to get enough orange juice |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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The Commercial Juicer at Hammacher Schlemmer offers regular consumers the opportunity to upgrade their home juicing volume. For a price. |
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Author: Brian Krepshaw |
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| RCA's 'video LP' format, doomed from the start? |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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From 1981 to 1984 RCA marketed the CED VideoDisc system. It never had a chance. |
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Author: Steve Guttenberg |
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| This week in Crave: The touchdown dance edition |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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We realize you might have been busy gathering party supplies for the Super Bowl, but we're a team player, so we've rounded up this week's top Crave stories just for you. |
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Author: Bonnie Cha |
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| Romo the smartphone robot raises $1.5M, seeks world domination |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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From Kickstarter project to startup to aspiring global power: The big ambitions of Romotive's robot phone. |
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Author: Paul Sloan |
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| Apple's week brings new hire, court rulings, iPod spy shots |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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Apple hired a new head of retail, had a few bouts in foreign courts, and potentially had the secret behind its next tiny iPod leaked out. More on those stories (and then some) in this week's Apple Talk Weekly. |
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Author: Josh Lowensohn |
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| Is Bleacher Report ready for some football? |
(Sat, 04 Feb 2012)
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day on the job At one of the biggest sports sites in the country, preparing to make its Super Bowl coverage as strong as possible is the most important job of the year. CNET was on hand to see the plan take shape. |
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Author: Daniel Terdiman |
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| Xbox co-creator channels arcade classics at mobile-game startup |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The correlations between classic arcade games like Centipede and popular mobile games like Angry Birds are undeniable: they're simple, fun, and addictive. Seamus Blackley has hired a slew of old-school game developers to try to cash in on that fact with his company Innovative Leisure. |
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Author: Blake Robinson |
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| Firefox 11 to get add-on sync |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Changes are afoot again for Firefox. The beta channel can now sync add-ons, the Aurora channel completes a smoother update process, and work on the faster native UI for Android continues. |
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Author: Seth Rosenblatt |
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| Games for football lovers on iPhone and Android |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The big game is this Sunday and I've put together a collection of games for both iPhone and Android that let you play the role of different players on a football team. |
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Author: Jason Parker |
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| Are composite pickup trucks in our future? |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Transportation design firm Motive Industries released sketches of what a pickup made of composite material could look like. |
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Author: Liane Yvkoff |
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| iPhone 5 rumor roundup |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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CNET tracks all the iPhone 5 rumors--from the likely to the crazy--that we've heard so far in 2011 and 2012. |
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Author: Kent German |
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