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May 2—the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold its third contest for robotic vehicles in November 2007, CNET News.com reports
May 2 -- The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold its third contest for robotic vehicles in November 2007, CNET News.com reports. First prize for a driverless vehicle able to negotiate city streets will be $2 million.
Tags: DARPA, News.com, U.S.
Research articles 2006-07-01
What makes a smart, green building tick?
CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica goes inside a greenbuilding--Genzyme Center in Cambridge, Mass., where daylight isautomatically beamed inside by heliostats and office workers have aconstant stream of outside air.
Tags: Green, Emerging Technologies, News.com
Videos 2007-08-23
Video: How Google Taps New Talent
Generation Y has a solid presence in corporate America, and as an estimated 64 million skilled workers retire by the end of the decade, twenty-somethings are only becoming more important. Google's director of staffing programs, Judy Gilbert, discusses the Web giant's strategy in attracting talented graduates fresh off the...
Tags: Andrew Hines, News.com, Video, Generation Y, Staffing, Google Inc., Talent
Blog posts 2007-06-28
Video: A Close-Up of Beijing's Piracy Problem
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos recently took a trip to Beijing, where he got to see up close just how big piracy is in China. It's nothing like a covert operation -- it's a cultural institution. Armed with a video camera, he took to the streets to examine why copied discs...
Tags: Piracy, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Andrew Hines, Video, Beijing, Corporate Communications, News.com
Blog posts 2007-06-13
Tech talk
"In terms of raw talent, the Master's and Ph.D students [in China] are absolutely outstanding."--James Yeh, director of IBM's China Research Laboratory, on CNET News.com, July 9. "Our selection process for managers needs to put more weight on their experience with and loyalty to the firm, and less on...
Tags: China, director, IEEE, News.com, talent
Research articles 2002-09-01
CNET News.com - Harris Interactive Poll Finds Tough Road Ahead for a National Broadband Network
SAN FRANCISCO -- Presidential campaign proposals by both Bush and Kerry to build a national broadband network may be more difficult to sell to the American public than expected, according to the results of a national survey released today by CNET News.com (www.news.com) and Harris InteractiveR. According to the poll,...
Tags: broadband network, Harris Interactive, network, News.com
Research articles 2004-07-26
U.S. Technology Executives Would Pay Taxes to Compensate for Offshoring, According to CNET News.com - Harris Interactive Poll
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: Harris Interactive, News.com
Research articles 2004-05-04
Facebook search gets a Twitter-like makeover
New users to Facebook (and probably some existing users, but not all of them yet) are getting a new search experience in Facebook starting this week. The new interface for search makes it possible to see all public results from Facebook users the Everyone filter, or just results from your...
Tags: Twitter, Facebook
News items 2009-08-12
Microsoft can't sell Word anymore, rules judge
A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement. Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the...
Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., XML
News items 2009-08-12
Microsoft, Nokia: 'We're going after BlackBerry with mobile Office deal'
While the iPhone may be the apple of everyone's eye, Nokia says that its main goal in partnering with Microsoft is taking on BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion. "This is really about creating a formidable challenge for RIM rather than anyone else," Nokia executive vice president Kai Oistamo said in a...
Tags: Nokia Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Symbian Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Research In Motion Ltd.
News items 2009-08-13
Google's $106.5m software buy to be challenged in court
Google's acquisition of video-compression software company On2 Technologies is being challenged in court by On2 shareholders dissatisfied by Google's $106.5m offer. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Delaware Chancery Court, seeks class action status and a permanent injunction against the deal. The suit, first reported by the New York Post, also...
Tags: Google Inc., On2 Technologies
News items 2009-08-13
Why Microsoft Word won't disappear after 'landmark ruling'
The news that a judge has slapped an injunction that could bar Microsoft from selling its flagship Word software is a big deal. But don't expect to see Redmond allow one of its key money makers to be pulled from the market - even for a day. As part of...
Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., injunction
News items 2009-08-13
Twitter goes down as another attack hits
Twitter's servers were on the fritz again on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party applications unable to access the microblogging service. This appears to have begun around 18:45 BST. Twitter posted an update to its status blog when the servers had been in flux for about 10 minutes:...
Tags: Twitter, server
News items 2009-08-12
Inside Caffeine: Google's shot in the arm for search results
One of the largest behind-the-scenes updates to Google's search technology in three years is under way, as the company reworks its computing muscle. On Monday evening, Google quietly began soliciting feedback for Caffeine, a new system for web searches that is being tested completely separately from the live search results...
Tags: Google Inc.
News items 2009-08-12
Microsoft to announce mobile Office deal with Nokia, report says
Computerworld - Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. are said to be set to announce a deal on Wednesday that would bring the mobile version of Microsoft Office to Nokia's market-leading smartphones. The partnership was reported by CNET News.com, which cited no sources. But Microsoft has sent out invitations to a...
Tags: mobile, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
News items 2009-08-12
General Motors to start selling cars on eBay
General Motors and eBay will start a trial program Tuesday to let Californians buy cars online. Dealers at 225 locations in California will participate in the program, which will run from Tuesday until 8 September. It will be available at the co-branded website, gm.ebay.com. The site will allow people to...
Tags: car, General Motors Corp., eBay Inc.
News items 2009-08-11
Is Facebook's FriendFeed acquistion all about talent?
Surprise! Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a social network feed aggregation start-up. "Facebook and FriendFeed share a common vision of giving people tools to share and connect with their friends," FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor said in a statement. "We can't wait to join the team and bring many of the innovations...
Tags: Facebook
News items 2009-08-11
Latest Firefox version goes alpha: It's all about the speed
Mozilla has released the first alpha version of Firefox 3.6, a browser with speed improvements and new features the organisation hopes to finalise faster than its predecessor. "Unlike the year that passed between Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5, we expect that this 3.6 release will be released in a small...
Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp.
News items 2009-08-10
Cern ready to restart LHC at half power this year
After a year of setbacks, Cern plans to restart its Large Hadron Collider in November at a tempo that won't overtax the machinery behind the giant particle physics experiment. The collider, located deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, will start out running at an energy level of...
Tags: CERN
News items 2009-08-10
New Office for Mac coming next year
Microsoft on Thursday said the next version of Office for Mac will arrive by the 2010 holiday buying season, and it added that the new version will include a version of Outlook. Outlook for Mac will replace Entourage, the current email and calendar program in the Mac Office suite. Although...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Outlook
News items 2009-08-13
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