Same as Web bug.
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- News to know: iPhone; Win 7 upgrade answers; Psystar; SOA; Google
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions Dion Hinchcliffe: Are the iPhone and social networks making...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- News to know: Microsoft; Google; Dell; Robo-pills; Android;
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps Gallery: Office Web Apps Technical Preview ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 2009 (Mac)
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- Software downloads 2009-09-05
- ViewRanger GPS (for touchscreens) (Mobile)
- ViewRanger turns your phone into a fully-featured off-road satnav with detailed topographic mapping. This pack includes tokens to download topographic maps directly to your phone.ViewRanger is ideal for tourists, walkers, cyclists, mountain bikers, horse riders, geocachers, river boaters - in fact anyone who enjoys the outdoors.Topographic map data available with...
- Software downloads 2009-08-22
- One example of "smarter planet"
- The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...
- Blog posts 2009-06-21
- Microsoft
- MicrosoftCompatibility IE8I just want to view websites I don't care if they're compatible. After a short time with IE8 and its 'refresh' and seeing lines out of place I might be going to Firefox.only found 1 bugI've worked with the IE8 beta and had no trouble using it.The only bug...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reason
- Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reasonWhy I started the group on FacebookI just wanted to clarify why I started the Facebook group "People Against the new Terms of Service TOS" yesterday. Personally it wasn't so much about getting Facebook to change their TOS. If you read the...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
- Facebook Connect: The masses and the fishbowl
- Facebook Connect, a service that allows someone to log on to Facebook from third party sites, is set to expand from its May launch. Reading the conversation this morning on Techmeme familiar storyline emerges. Facebook's Connect vs. the Open Social alliance between Google, MySpace and a bunch...
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!
- Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least. So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Should our President be computer literate?
- Normally I don't like to talk about my political and socio-economic opinions, particularly because as a matter of experience once people discover my true leanings, they sometimes find my completely unrelated opinions on technology, food, or whatever it else we have in common to be less...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- ViewRanger (Mobile)
- ViewRanger turns your phone into a fully-featured off-road satnav with detailed topographic mapping. This pack includes tokens to download topographic maps directly to your phone.ViewRanger is ideal for tourists, walkers, cyclists, mountain bikers, horse riders, geocachers, river boaters - in fact anyone who enjoys the outdoors.Topographic map data available with...
- Software downloads 2008-09-23
- Virgin Mobile Shuttle - red
- While we were fans of Helio handsets like the Ocean and the Kickflip, we knew that Helio as a company was struggling. Indeed, Helio was shopping around for a buyer, and in late June, Virgin Mobile stepped up to buy the fledgling MVNO for $39 million. There were many questions...
- Product reviews 2008-09-19
- Ten things missing in the iPhone 3G
- Ten things missing in the iPhone 3GYou are really reaching...Cut and paste for read-only documents? Maybe when we can edit office documents...More colors when every mac is either white or black? This isn't an ipod after all.Better camera? Ok maybe 3,4, or 5 megapixels would be better but who seriously...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect
- A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Helio
- Editor's note: Because evaluating wireless coverage requires experience with the network in a wide variety of physical locations, CNET does not rate wireless carriers. We can, however, tell you everything you need to know about the major carriers. We invite your feedback and ratings in our user opinions section--the more...
- Product reviews 2008-04-24
- Is+open+source+giving+Second+Life+a+second+life%3F
- Is+open+source+giving+Second+Life+a+second+life%3Fsecond life sucks they have the most unstable software i've eversecond life sucks they have the most unstable software i've ever used. the client crashes every few min. and when the client is running it is so laggy you can't do much with it. and it's been a a year...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world
- About 10 years ago, we used to ask Jim Barksdale, then head of Netscape, a stock question during news conferences. Did you bag any "default browser" deals lately? Inevitably Jim would demur and say they were still trying. Those were the days when the light was swiftly...
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Six Apart adds activity streams to its blog platform
- In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate, control, and share their...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Helio Mysto
- Despite not having as much market share as the four big carriers, Helio has tried to keep afloat by introducing revved-up phones and services that set the company apart from the crowd. With knockout handsets like the Helio Ocean and great Web-friendly features like direct uploads to Flickr and YouTube,...
- Product reviews 2008-01-24
- Facebook and the CIA
- In a piece of carefully researched critique, Guardian Unlimited writer Tim Hodgkinson does a masterful job unpacking the politics of Facebook, implying that the company's backer's real agenda is the realization of the original American dream: Here at last is the Enlightenment state longed for since the Puritans of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
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