- Friday Poll: How will Apple music event play out?
With Apple’s fall music event coming up in days, technophiles are busy tossing around speculation on what will be announced. So, what’s the most sure bet?
- Dell ups 3Par offer yet again, to $27 per share
Yet again, 3Par has agreed to be acquired by the PC maker, which has been engaged in a bidding war for the storage company with Hewlett-Packard.
- Broadcasters defend push for mandatory FM tuners
National Association of Broadcasters wants all cell phones to have FM receivers, citing public safety concerns, but critics say it’s a mere money grab.
- Virtual farm games absorb real money, real lives
Games like FarmVille have developed vast followings, but how much time and effort are some top players putting into them? And is it healthy? We talk to some of the companies involved and the players who are playing them.
- ‘Social Network’ raises questions as debut nears
The film about Facebook’s origins, with a plot the company denounced as fiction, is stirring up Oscar buzz already after a few stellar first reviews. What’s it mean for the movie and Facebook?
- Boeing announces another Dreamliner delay
The same day it demonstrated its 787 Dreamliner simulator and customer training center, Boeing announced another delivery delay for the aircraft.
- HP readies Netbooks using dual-core Atom chip
HP is readying a Netbook refresh, in the wake of Intel’s announcement that brings dual-core performance to Atom-based Netbooks for the first time.
- NASA spacecraft spots multiplanet solar system
Following on the heels of a European team’s discovery of a distant solar system with up to seven planets, a NASA spacecraft, using a different detection technique, finds another multiplanet system.
- Inside Boeing’s newest aircraft (photos)
CNET visits Boeing’s Customer Experience Center in Renton, Wash., to view mock-ups of the company’s latest aircraft.
- $2 billion ISS experiment delivered for shuttle launch
A $2 billion particle detector bound for the International Space Station aboard the final planned shuttle mission is delivered to the Kennedy Space Center after work to replace a magnet at the heart of the device.