The Canadian government has put the kibosh on the $1.3 billion sale of a Canadian satellite company to a U.S. firm for fear that such a deal would give the U.S. government too much control over sensitive satellite images.
The government said Thursday that it was blocking …
An AOL-Yahoo deal, with AOL retaining its Google search relationship, could rival Microsoft’s initial $31-a-share buyout bid for Yahoo, according to Charles Di Bona, a research analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein.
That was one of three scenarios Di Bona laid out in a research note on Friday, and his …
How much RAM is installed in your PC? How fast is its processor? How much unused space is on its hard drive?
This and other basic information about your system is easy to find, but how do you find the date Windows was originally installed, how long since the last …
Microsoft’s Live Maps team just dropped a huge new version of its service in addition to the traffic updates from earlier Thursday.
Live Maps now offers a wealth of new features, including exporting to GPS devices, improved 3D imagery, and one of my personal favorites, MapCruncher integration.
Las Vegas …
Yahoo’s board is expected to debate on Friday its various options for cutting a deal with Microsoft, AOL-Time Warner, and Google, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
And while Yahoo’s board is expected to discuss its options–with many insiders still seeing a Microsoft deal, sans
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CNET News.com’s Jim Kerstetter contributed to this blog.
In a memo apparently intended to ease the nerves of AOL employees, Chief Executive Randy Falco broadly outlined the Time Warner business unit’s position in the marketplace without directly addressing the elephant in the room: Yahoo.
In recent days, …
SAN FRANCISCO–Malcolm Gladwell had a message for the hordes of security professionals attending RSA 2008 here on Thursday–too much information can impair your judgment.
That’s one of the central themes in his bestselling book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. “The ability to show judgment, to exercise judgment …
A panel of the Brazilian senate has ordered Google to provide access to account information for 3,261 suspected pedophiles who’ve used Google’s Orkut social-networking service, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday.
Under the order, a Senate committee investigating pedophilia would receive Google information identifying Orkut users who publish criminal …
The Federal Communications Commission slapped heavy fines on several retailers Thursday for failing to properly label analog TVs that will have to be retrofitted next year for digital TV when broadcasters turn off their analog signals in February.
In total, the FCC levied fines of $3.9 million on big …
Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang let rip with a diatribe against Intel at Nvidia’s financial analyst day on Thursday. Huang cited frustration with recent Intel comments stating that discrete graphics cards will become “unnecessary.”
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
(Credit: Nvidia)
Because Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, includes …