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Disable Windows 7 Homegroup Feature

Sep 4, 2010 12:10 pm

ShareComputers running Windows 7 are automatically making use of the Homegroup feature for easier networking between different PCs of a computer network. Single computer users, and users who do not make use of the homegroup feature may want to consider disabling it completely, to save some system... [more]

Services Suite, Better Windows Services Management

Sep 4, 2010 9:06 am

ShareMost Windows users who manage the services of their operating system do that either in MSConfig or in the Services management console. The latter offers descriptions and additional information that the System Configuration tool does not offer. Still, both applications lump all services... [more]

Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)

Sep 4, 2010 8:00 am

Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the Garmin Nuvi 3790T, the Microsoft Arc Touch mouse, and an Iomega 1TB hard drive built for the Mac. [more]

Top 5 Experimental Web Based File Sharing Services

Sep 4, 2010 5:24 am

A lot of file sharing services end their services on the Internet after operating for a while. This can usually be attributed to a disparity between server and bandwidth bills and revenue. That’s a big problem not only for Internet users but also for webmasters who tend to report on the... [more]

Telekomunikacja Says Court Ruling to Cut 2010 Profit

Sep 4, 2010 4:43 am

Telekomunikacja Polska SA said a court ruling that orders Poland’s largest phone company to pay about 2.9 billion kroner ($502 million) to DPTG I/S will have a negative impact on its earnings this year. [more]

Telekomunikacja Says DPTG Court Ruling Will Reduce 2010 Earnings

Sep 4, 2010 3:22 am

Telekomunikacja Polska SA said a court ruling that orders Poland’s largest phone company to pay about 2.9 billion kroner ($502 million) to DPTG I/S will have a negative impact on its net income in the third quarter and 2010. [more]

Blog - Chit 'n' Chat

Sep 3, 2010 11:10 pm

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week: Quantum Imaging: Scattered Observations On "Copenhagen" [more]

Texas Probes Google on Ranking of Search Results

Sep 3, 2010 10:43 pm

The Texas attorney general has opened an antitrust investigation into how Google ranks search results, striking at the heart of its main search business. [more]

Talking Business: The Struggle for What We Already Have

Sep 3, 2010 8:40 pm

The angst over net neutrality reaches from boardrooms to living rooms, but take heart: companies will breach its principles at their own peril. Consumers have come to expect an open Internet. [more]

CNET News, now on Android

Sep 3, 2010 7:54 pm

The iPhone's no longer the only smartphone with a CNET News app. Our breaking stories and in-depth features are now even easier to read and browse on Android devices from the new, free CNET News app. Read about what it does and why it's worth downloading. [more]

Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M

Sep 3, 2010 7:08 pm

Internet privacy groups will be the beneficiary of the settlement, which came as the result of a lawsuit filed over Google's maligned Buzz launch. [more]

Texas opens inquiry into Google search results

Sep 3, 2010 6:50 pm

(AP) -- Google says Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating whether its Web search rankings are fair. [more]

Google to pay 8.5 million dollars to settle Buzz case

Sep 3, 2010 6:50 pm

Google has agreed to pay 8.5 million dollars (US) to settle a privacy lawsuit over a Buzz social networking tool added to free email service Gmail in February, according to court documents. [more]

Interview: Wikipedia founder bullish on news

Sep 3, 2010 6:30 pm

(AP) -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry. [more]

Texting on the rise among US adults: Pew survey

Sep 3, 2010 6:20 pm

More American adults are texting but they are not tapping out nearly as many messages per day on their cellphones as teenagers, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. [more]

German court rules against YouTube over copyright

Sep 3, 2010 6:17 pm

(AP) -- A German court ruled Friday that Google Inc.'s subsidiary YouTube LLC must pay compensation after users uploaded several videos of performances by singer Sarah Brightman in violation of copyright laws. [more]

Reporters' Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare

Sep 3, 2010 5:45 pm

The money people in tech love check-in companies. VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations to friends and businesses. Why? On the Roundtable today we discuss these start-ups, as well as Facebook's entry into... [more]

Spammers Quick to Embrace Ping, Security Firm Says

Sep 3, 2010 5:14 pm

Apple's new music social network is especially vulnerable to spam, a security firm says. [more]

Facebook adds 'liked' news stories to search results

Sep 3, 2010 5:00 pm

Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user's friends have said they "like." [more]

Texas Attorney General Investigates Google Search

Sep 3, 2010 4:58 pm

Google said that the Texas attorney general is conducting an antitrust review on the fairness of Google's search results. [more]

No, Facebook Places Is Not Tracking You

Sep 3, 2010 4:16 pm

A widely circulated message on Facebook is spreading some misinformation about the site's Places service. [more]

Facebook Adds Remote Logout Feature

Sep 3, 2010 3:45 pm

Not logging out can be a huge privacy risk, especially on public computers but also on other computer systems that multiple users have access to. Why is that? Because everyone accessing the computer after the user may access that user’s profile on Internet websites. That was reason enough... [more]

Texas opens antitrust investigation of Google

Sep 3, 2010 3:24 pm

Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked Google for information regarding the complaints of several companies that Google is penalizing them in search results. [more]

Google updates privacy policy

Sep 3, 2010 3:10 pm

Google updated its privacy policy on Friday, a day after a video cartoon featuring the Internet firm's chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square. [more]

Menlo Ventures Said to Be Seeking up to $800 Million for Fund

Sep 3, 2010 3:00 pm

Menlo Ventures, the biggest investor in 3Par Inc., is raising capital for a new fund, said two people familiar with the matter. The firm is attempting to bring in $600 million to $800 million, one of the people said. [more]

'NHL2K11' shoots, but sometimes misses

Sep 3, 2010 2:51 pm

NHL2K11 (2KSports/Visual Concepts) tries to bring realism to sports on the Wii, but falls short because of control issues and a spotty artificial intelligence. [more]

Are the days of kidney dialysis numbered?

Sep 3, 2010 2:14 pm

A prototype implantable artificial kidney could, in the next decade, render costly and inefficient dialysis a treatment of the past, according to work out of UCSF. [more]

Google to Simplify Its Privacy Policies

Sep 3, 2010 1:57 pm

Google will update its privacy policies next month to offer simpler, more transparent language. [more]

A Move by Sony, to Compete With the Wii

Sep 3, 2010 1:00 pm

Sony's new PlayStation Move gives the Nintendo Wii some competition. [more]

Apple TV isn't 1080p and you shouldn't care

Sep 3, 2010 12:40 pm

The new Apple TV doesn't support video content with 1080p resolution, but it shouldn't have a major impact on its image quality. [more]

YouTube to turn profit this year: NY Times

Sep 3, 2010 12:35 pm

Google-owned videosharing website YouTube is expected to turn a profit this year on revenue of 450 million dollars, The New York Times reported Friday. [more]

Study finds love-hate relationship with cell phones

Sep 3, 2010 12:34 pm

Though most feel safer and more in touch with mobile phones in hand, many are annoyed by the interruption of calls, says Pew Internet study. [more]

Samsung Galaxy Tab: An Android contender

Sep 3, 2010 12:32 pm

It's got its rough patches, but the Samsung Galaxy Tab's size, screen, and performance shows Android tablets can work. Here's a hands-on look, with video. [more]

Boxee uses Apple TV to talk Box pricing

Sep 3, 2010 12:03 pm

Makers of the upcoming Boxee Box plan to release the device in November for $200, the company announced in a blog post following Wednesday's Apple TV announcement. [more]

Android gains on Apple in U.S. mobile Web use

Sep 3, 2010 12:01 pm

Apple's iOS is still dominant, but is losing share. It's to be expected as sales of Android devices continue to grow. [more]

GPS keeps track of school bus riders

Sep 3, 2010 11:50 am

Josh Case climbed aboard the yellow school bus Tuesday, lifting his backpack to scan an ID card that had been assigned to him on his first day of kindergarten. [more]

Taking the 'search' out of search and rescue

Sep 3, 2010 11:50 am

Their emergencies happened hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from one another, but the captain whose vessel had become disabled near Kamalino, Hawaii, the pilot who crashed onto the Knik Glacier near Anchorage, Alaska, and the hiker who suffered a compound fracture while hiking near Merritt,... [more]

Google Loses German Court Ruling Over YouTube Videos

Sep 3, 2010 11:45 am

Google Inc.’s YouTube video service lost a Hamburg court ruling over copyrighted video material that was posted online without permission for rebroadcast. [more]

3Par Venture Backers Reap $560 Million by Hanging On

Sep 3, 2010 11:42 am

Patience paid off for the venture capitalists who backed data-storage supplier 3Par Inc. [more]

NASA launches free iPad app

Sep 3, 2010 11:35 am

The space agency is offering a free iPad app that lets people view a variety of content in high definition. [more]

Dubai police chief calls BlackBerry a spy tool

Sep 3, 2010 11:30 am

(AP) -- Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments that suggest a tough line in talks with the smart phone maker. [more]

More Twitter users tweeting via mobile apps

Sep 3, 2010 11:28 am

Number of people accessing the microblogging tool through mobile apps jumps 62 percent since the middle of April. [more]

Drive-Thru Disk Management Software

Sep 3, 2010 11:25 am

Drive-Thru is a portable disk management software for Windows. The software offers direct disk related configuration changes in an easy to use interface. The program displays different options on the startup window, and in three other tabs. In the drive security tab it is possible to hide drives... [more]

How to Pep Up a Cheap PC

Sep 3, 2010 11:22 am

What performance gains can you expect when you add a discrete graphics card to a cheap PC? [more]

Recording companies eager for Google to launch music service

Sep 3, 2010 11:20 am

Google Inc., which is developing a digital music service, is winning over record companies that are hoping the technology company can loosen Apple Inc.'s grip on the digital music market. [more]

Hamburg Court Limits YouTube’s Use of Copyrighted Material

Sep 3, 2010 11:07 am

Google Inc.’s YouTube online video distribution service is forbidden from showing users’ postings of copyrighted video material that doesn’t have permission for rebroadcasting, Hamburg Regional Court said today in an e-mailed statement. [more]

Blog - MapRejuice is SETI@Home on Steroids

Sep 3, 2010 11:00 am

Millions of web surfers have spare cycles lying around--why not use their browsers to tap them? Unless a flash ad in one of your open browser tabs has gone rogue, it's likely you've got a few spare processor cycles available on the PC you're using to read this. [more]

Twitter tops 145 million registered users: CEO

Sep 3, 2010 10:59 am

Twitter has over 145 million registered users and more people are using mobile devices to access the microblogging service, according to co-founder Evan Williams. [more]

Review: mTrip iPhone app uses augmented reality

Sep 3, 2010 10:57 am

(AP) -- The new iPhone application mTrip is a travel guide and then some: It uses the latest in smart phone technology to make it easier to stay on track in a foreign locale. [more]

Skype updates latest beta with 10-way video calling

Sep 3, 2010 10:29 am

The newest beta of Skype 5.0 lets you video chat with up to 10 people, send an IM to someone who's offline, and better recover from dropped calls. [more]

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