Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:13:00 PDT
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The oil company turns to the sun, with plans to build a factory manufacturing thin-film solar panels with a cumulative yearly power generation capacity of 1 gigawatt.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:32:00 PDT
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After its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an 'All-Play' series for Wii.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:48:00 PDT
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News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:22:00 PDT
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He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:51:00 PDT
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Free tool helps Web developers analyze their site for a variety of cross-site vulnerabilities.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:44:00 PDT
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On Thursday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the latest development in the Google-Viacom lawsuit.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:40:00 PDT
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How engineering is helping revive post-Katrina New Orleans; Google and Viacom battle over user privacy; and what Microsoft has to do with the Facebook and ConnectU legal battle.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:35:00 PDT
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Loosely affiliated supporters mount an online protest over new laws in Lithuania banning the display of Soviet symbols.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:59:00 PDT
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Opera updates its most recent release, while Mozilla continues to support an older version of Firefox with updates.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:34:00 PDT
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On this week's EIC Squared podcast, CNET News.com's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss the week's big stories.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:23:00 PDT
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The four, which will be released next week, are considered important, not critical, says Microsoft.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:15:00 PDT
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If you'd been considering the best configuration of the MacBook Air--with a faster processor and solid-state hard drive--it's now $500 cheaper, but still expensive.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:29:00 PDT
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Sun-drenched country pushes for solar power, a soaring industry there.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:02:00 PDT
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'Missing greenhouse gas' called nitrogen trifluoride, used in production of flat-screen TVs, chips, and synthetic diamonds, could accelerate global warming, according to a report.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:59:00 PDT
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An open-source Twitter might create a true communication utility.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:57:00 PDT
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Report finds that most of Yahoo's top 20 Internet properties receive a greater share of traffic from a Google search, rather than a Yahoo search.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:00 PDT
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According to survey conductor iShare, Japanese respondents generally would prefer to keep any mobile computing for business separate from that for personal use.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:52:00 PDT
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Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:35:00 PDT
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In copyright case, Google is glad information Viacom will get to see during discovery is limited, but it's 'disappointed' Viacom will get access to users' viewing history.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PDT
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a great deal of money and effort into new hurricane protection systems that it hopes can reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in the future.
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PDT
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has more than 140 projects in the works to try to reduce the risks to New Orleans from the next hurricane.