Archives: 2007 August

The start-up aggregates social-networking profiles and, through TrustFuse, opens the possibility of selling that data to marketers. In the cozy Facebook social network, it’s easy to have a sense of privacy among friends and business acquaintances. But sites like Rapleaf will quickly jar you awake: Everything you say or…

From factory-constructed homes to digital cinema to “shifting” artwork, we offer a preview of what’s to come. This week we offer a preview of what may be the future of the arts, as well as the homes in which we live. CNET News.com’s Michael Kanellos takes a…

Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy.

A day after reports said NBC would not renew its iTunes contract, Apple announces it will not offer NBC’s new TV shows. This spat is about control. An Internet game of chicken is being played by entertainment heavyweights Apple and NBC Universal, and the first round likely goes to Apple….

The hackers who compromised more than a million users of the Monster.com job search site also accessed a U.S. government career site that the company runs for the U.S. Office of Personnel and Management, the government said Friday.

OPM spokesperson Peter Graves told Reuters that 146,000 users of the USAJobs.gov site had their personal information stolen […]

If you already think your fingers are too big for some of today’s small electronic devices, you likely won’t be happy to know that new discoveries from IBM could make such devices much, much smaller and more powerful.

On Thursday, the Armonk, New York-based company announced what it called “two major scientific breakthroughs.” Its researchers took […]

“What is this, amateur night?!” Once upon another time, that was the ultimate insult — as when bellowed by a bombastic director at performers rehearsing a play sloppily in the classic movie musical “42nd Street.” But the slur has lost its punch. Any given evening, on any broadcast or cable netwo…

“What is this, amateur night?!” Once upon another time, that was the ultimate insult — as when bellowed by a bombastic director at performers rehearsing a play sloppily in the classic movie musical “42nd Street.” But the slur has lost its punch. Any given evening, on any broadcast or cable netwo…

NEW YORK — Apple Inc. escalated a dispute with NBC Universal over the pricing of television shows by announcing Friday it would not sell any of NBC’s programs for this fall season on iTunes.

NEW YORK — Apple Inc. escalated a dispute with NBC Universal over the pricing of television shows by announcing Friday it would not sell any of NBC’s programs for this fall season on iTunes.