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Yahoo tries to conceal lawsuit documents

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:25:00 PDT

Suing shareholders and Yahoo disagree about whether information on the company's employee severance plan should be public.

Podcast: How steely Pittsburgh is getting greener

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:23:00 PDT

Why Charter Communications' ad-serving plan is making waves; the Senate moves to curb online child porn; and industrial Pittsburgh sets an environmental example.

CIGS companies eye building-integrated photovoltaics

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:20:00 PDT

Thin-film solar power companies want to integrate solar cells with buildings, but they still have a way to go.

Social graphs just wanna be free, but will they ever be?

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:54:00 PDT

I can't really work up the same sense of outrage that's accompanied Facebook's decision to give Google the middle finger.

HP to launch fall line of teen PC products

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:15:00 PDT

At a Teens and Tech event, Ameer Karim, director of HP's future and innovations group for consumer PCs, says the company plans to introduce new devices this fall that will be designed by teens, for teens.

Photos: Jet-powered wing propels solo flight

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:02:00 PDT

Aerial adventurer Yves Rossy flies over the Alps for five minutes with nothing more than the jet-equipped wing strapped to his back.

Hooray! Yahoo Mail ditches tagline ads

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:42:00 PDT

No more will the one-liner text ads clutter up the bottom of e-mail messages sent with Yahoo Mail, the company said.

Conde Nast buys Ars Technica

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:24:00 PDT

Publishing company will fit the decade-old technology enthusiast site alongside Wired.com in its modest stable of online properties.

Security Bites Podcast: Fujitsu gives biometrics a hand

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:19:00 PDT

This week, CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing and business development at Fujitsu.

Sugar Labs will make OLPC interface available for Eee PC, others

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:09:00 PDT

Former OLPC president forms Sugar Labs, which will put the low-cost ultraportable's Sugar interface on devices.

Dell spikes game site with Alienware systems

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:45:00 PDT

The PC maker is promoting a peaceful coexistence for both XPS and Area-51 notebooks as it works to integrate the two development teams.

PayPal XSS vulnerability affects EV SSL

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:15:00 PDT

Users who think they are on a trusted page could access a fraudulent page and possibly have their personal information exposed.

Fake codec found in AOL forum

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:10:00 PDT

Some blog posts on a forum page discussing James Frey's latest book contain video links that can infect users with a Trojan horse.

Vodafone acquires contact management service ZYB

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:58:00 PDT

The European mobile phone giant plans to integrate the Plaxo-like ZYB, which it acquired for $48.7 million, into its Internet service offerings.

A business model for Twitter: Pay up

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:40:00 PDT

If you like Twitter so much, how about paying $5 a month for the privilege, with a guarantee of service. For some, that's less than a day's worth of coffee, a lowly beer, or maybe soon a gallon of gas.

Qualcomm to take Mobile TV abroad?

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:31:00 PDT

Company has just bought some wireless spectrum in the U.K. in what could serve as the basis for a new mobile TV network in Europe.

Why old media is running scared of Google

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:28:00 PDT

That's a big reason behind of spate of old media-new media pairings in the last year. But is it a strategy that will be enough to restrain Google's growing appetite?

Former Microsoft lawyer Neukom to head SF Giants

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:14:00 PDT

William Neukom, Microsoft's top lawyer during its landmark antitrust trial is slated to take over as managing general partner of the baseball team, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Clean tech promising but tricky in the developing world

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:05:00 PDT

Competition highlights special hurdles faced by start-ups attempting to provide clean technologies for people in developing nations.

Yahoo-Google ad deal 'still on track'

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:50:00 PDT

It's been postponed more than once, but a Google-Yahoo deal is still expected to come to fruition, perhaps next week.

Why Sega should release a new console

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:27:00 PDT

Featured links from the CNET Blog Network

Why Sega should release a new console--In an environment where we're seeing a significant push towards consolidation, the company really only has two options: sell the company to the highest bidder or develop a console.

A phase approach for open-source businesses--MySQL is essentially saying, "We've spent a decade planting. We'd like to reap a little of what we've sown now.

End of Intel, AMD duopoly near? Via readies Isaiah chip--Via's first high-performance x86 chip will be targeted at the mainstream PC market--another first for the Taipei-based chip supplier.

Add MP3 clips to your Web page with Amazon widget--The company released a new MP3 Clips Widget that lets you build playlists with 30-second samples from any of the 5 million plus songs on Amazon's MP3 store