- CNET News, now on Android
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.
- Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M
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.
- Reporters’ Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare
VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations. We find out why on this week’s show, featuring Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadWriteWeb.
- Facebook adds ‘liked’ news stories to search results
Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user’s friends have said they “like.”
- Texas opens antitrust investigation of Google
Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked Google for information regarding the complaints of several companies that Google is penalizing them in search results.
- Are the days of kidney dialysis numbered?
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.
- Apple TV isn’t 1080p and you shouldn’t care
The new Apple TV doesn’t support video content with 1080p resolution, but it shouldn’t have a major impact on its image quality.
- Study finds love-hate relationship with cell phones
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.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab: An Android contender
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.
- Gadget makers show their stuff in Berlin (roundup)
At the huge IFA consumer electronics show, the big names in tech show off their newest wares, including an Android-based tablet from Samsung and a cloud-based music service from Sony.
