Ruling on Apple-Samsung spat in Australia coming next week?[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:16:15 PDT ]Reuters says the Australian court will decide the fate of Apple's request for a preliminary injunction sometime next week, though the exact day is currently unknown.

Google+ now makes it easier to lock your posts[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:31:57 PDT ]The social network now lets you disable comments or lock your posts before you share them, providing an added bit of security.

Sprint's 4G shift to be 'aggressive'[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:14:50 PDT ]Sprint says its aggressive LTE rollout will be largely wrapped up by 2013. It will cover 120 million people next year and 250 million people by 2013.

D.C. court to hear challenges to Net Neutrality rules[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:34:02 PDT ]The FCC will have to defend its new Net neutrality rules in a federal appeals court, which has already once told the FCC that it's overstepped its authority on this issue.

YouTube finally brings full-length films to the U.K.[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:40:49 PDT ]The service will allow U.K. customers to rent over 1,000 full-length films from the video service.

Jobs led the way in pop culture[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:07:31 EDT ]From the invention of iTunes, which completely changed the business of music, to offering the world its first completely full-length computer-generated animated film with Pixar's "Toy Story" in 1995, Steve Jobs left his indelible fingerprints on the entertainment industry.

Fans pay tribute to Jobs online, at Apple stores[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:12:01 EDT ]Details were just beginning to emerge Thursday on plans for memorial services and other tributes to Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple co-founder who died Wednesday.

Steve Jobs as master showman, cult hero[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:05:20 EDT ]Dozens of video-capable smartphones -- most of them Steve Jobs' own creations -- peered out over the sea of technology journalists like digital periscopes.

Unraveling the tale behind the Apple logo[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:57:52 EDT ]If beauty is indeed truth, as John Keats claimed, then this story ought to be true: the logo on the back of your iPhone or Mac is a tribute to Alan Turing, the man who laid the foundations for the modern-day computer, pioneered research into artificial intelligence and unlocked German wartime codes.

Steve Jobs saved technology from itself[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:20:08 EDT ]Just imagine, for a moment, a world in which Steve Jobs had never lived. How might daily life be different?

2.5M tweets on Steve Jobs in 12 hours after death[ Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:57:24 GMT ]Following the announcement of Steve Jobs' death, an estimated 2.5 million tweets about him populated social media in the 12 hours after the news broke.

Prehistoric kids left their marks in caves[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:58:10 GMT ]Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Archaeologists say the shapes of finger marks suggest that children as young as 2 years old made drawings on the walls of prehistoric caves.

6 awesome online wedding registries[ Fri, 7 Oct 2011 12:16:24 GMT ]Yes, the big-name stores have online wedding registries. But what if what you'd also really love that new camping gear for you and your honey? Here are some other online registries to check, where the sky is the limit and you can ask for anything from cookware to golf clubs.

Steve Jobs' greatest products[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 18:56:09 GMT ]Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died on Wednesday, but he left behind a legacy full of iconic products. We've rounded up some of the most significant ones for you — along with a little bit of their history.

Pre-caffeine: Nobel prizes, famous garages![ Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:20:24 GMT ]A collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.

Ruling on Apple-Samsung spat in Australia coming next week?[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:16:15 PDT ]Reuters says the Australian court will decide the fate of Apple's request for a preliminary injunction sometime next week, though the exact day is currently unknown.

Google+ now makes it easer to lock your posts[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:31:57 PDT ]The social network now lets you disable comments or lock your posts before you share them, providing an added bit of security.

Sprint's 4G shift to be 'aggressive'[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:14:50 PDT ]Sprint says its aggressive LTE rollout will be largely wrapped up by 2013. It will cover 120 million people next year and 250 million people by 2013.

D.C. court to hear challenges to Net Neutrality rules[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:34:02 PDT ]The FCC will have to defend its new Net neutrality rules in a federal appeals court, which has already once told the FCC that it's overstepped its authority on this issue.

YouTube finally brings full-length films to the U.K.[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:40:49 PDT ]The service will allow U.K. customers to rent over 1,000 full-length films from the video service.

Jobs led the way in pop culture[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:07:31 EDT ]From the invention of iTunes, which completely changed the business of music, to offering the world its first completely full-length computer-generated animated film with Pixar's "Toy Story" in 1995, Steve Jobs left his indelible fingerprints on the entertainment industry.

Fans pay tribute to Jobs online, at Apple stores[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:12:01 EDT ]Details were just beginning to emerge Thursday on plans for memorial services and other tributes to Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple co-founder who died Wednesday.

Steve Jobs as master showman, cult hero[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:05:20 EDT ]Dozens of video-capable smartphones -- most of them Steve Jobs' own creations -- peered out over the sea of technology journalists like digital periscopes.

Unraveling the tale behind the Apple logo[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:57:52 EDT ]If beauty is indeed truth, as John Keats claimed, then this story ought to be true: the logo on the back of your iPhone or Mac is a tribute to Alan Turing, the man who laid the foundations for the modern-day computer, pioneered research into artificial intelligence and unlocked German wartime codes.

Steve Jobs saved technology from itself[ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:20:08 EDT ]Just imagine, for a moment, a world in which Steve Jobs had never lived. How might daily life be different?

Prehistoric kids left their marks in caves[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:58:10 GMT ]Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Archaeologists say the shapes of finger marks suggest that children as young as 2 years old made drawings on the walls of prehistoric caves.

Birth father of Steve Jobs has no comment[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:24:06 GMT ]Steve Jobs never met his biological father, and even as his cancer progressed, he expressed no desire to talk with him. His birth father had hoped for a phone call.

Jobs' iPad a culmination of a life's work[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 18:19:48 GMT ]Though it's hard to keep track of all of the upheavals that can be attributed to Steve Jobs — in music, in cellphones, in animated film — history is already labeling the iPad as the culmination of his life's work.

The Internet mourns, celebrates Steve Jobs[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 01:29:13 GMT ]When news of Steve Jobs' death arrived, it came by email, tweet, text and status update, swift and immediate.

The Jobs legacy: Ease, elegance in technology[ Wed, 5 Oct 2011 23:53:00 GMT ]Steve Jobs will be remembered as a titan of business, of course. But for those of us who struggled decades ago to learn the machinations of lines of code in order to create something as elementary as a letter on a computer, Jobs will forever be associated with making modern computing simple, seamless and satisfying.

Apple iPhone 4S unveiled (roundup)[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:26:00 PDT ]The wait is over. Apple announces the next incarnation of its smartphone--an iPhone 4S. We've got you covered on all things iPhone.

Church leader tweets picket of Jobs' funeral--via iPhone[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:38:20 PDT ]A leader of the Westboro Baptist Church believes that Steve Jobs "gave no glory to God and taught sin." However, she tweets her call for a picket of Jobs' funeral on her iPhone.

Experts warn shoppers of fake iPhone 4S's online[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:57:11 PDT ]If the price on a new iPhone 4S from an online unauthorized reseller looks too good to be true, it probably is.

µTorrent Plus launches in limited alpha[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:17:15 PDT ]The paid upgrade version of one of the most popular torrent clients, µTorrent Plus debuts in a semi-closed, limited alpha version, with invites for CNET readers.

Nuance to buy Swype for $100 million, report says[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:40:06 PDT ]Voice dictation business to buy the company behind one of the most popular alternative keyboards for Android devices, according to an Uncrunched report.

How Steve Jobs saw the future[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:21:44 EDT ]Business historian Nancy F. Koehn says Jobs' central insight was that technology was a democratizing force, making it possible for people to do what only a few could do before.

Fans pay tribute to Jobs online, at Apple stores[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:12:01 EDT ]Details were just beginning to emerge Thursday on plans for memorial services and other tributes to Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple co-founder who died Wednesday.

Steve Jobs led the way in pop culture[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:42:33 EDT ]From the invention of iTunes, which completely changed the business of music, to offering the world its first completely full-length computer-generated animated film with Pixar's "Toy Story" in 1995, Steve Jobs left his indelible fingerprints on the entertainment industry.

Unraveling the tale behind the Apple logo[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:00:44 EDT ]If beauty is indeed truth, as John Keats claimed, then this story ought to be true: the logo on the back of your iPhone or Mac is a tribute to Alan Turing, the man who laid the foundations for the modern-day computer, pioneered research into artificial intelligence and unlocked German wartime codes.

Steve Jobs as master showman, cult hero[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:44:11 EDT ]Dozens of video-capable smartphones -- most of them Steve Jobs' own creations -- peered out over the sea of technology journalists like digital periscopes.

PhotoBlog: Pictures of worldwide tributes to Steve Jobs[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:21:24 GMT ]From Tokyo to California, Apple fans mourn.

Pre-caffeine tech: Steve Jobs[ Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:20:24 GMT ]A collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.

Tributes to Jobs pour in from around the world[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:34:20 GMT ]From the titans of high technology to teenagers armed with iPads, millions of people around the world mourned digital-gadget genius Steve Jobs.

At Apple's flagship store, the beat goes on[ Thu, 6 Oct 2011 01:53:16 GMT ]When customers at the Midtown Manhattan store launch Safari on a demo machine, they see the Apple.com home page — and a memorial picture of the company's founder — then, almost to a person, they click a shortcut and start browsing the Web.

The Jobs legacy: Ease, elegance in technology[ Wed, 5 Oct 2011 23:53:00 GMT ]Steve Jobs will be remembered as a titan of business, of course. But for those of us who struggled decades ago to learn the machinations of lines of code in order to create something as elementary as a letter on a computer, Jobs will forever be associated with making modern computing simple, seamless and satisfying.

Amazon Kindle Fire keeps racking up preorders[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:34:44 PDT ]The tablet continues to get tens of thousands of preorders, but is it really threatening to match the kind of demand that Apple's iPad has seen?

Apple fans wake up to a world without Steve Jobs[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:48:57 PDT ]Makeshift vigils adorned the outside of various Apple stores in Manhattan.

Spielberg, Dreamworks working on 'Halo' movie for 2012?[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:49:57 PDT ]A new report out of France claims Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks have teamed up to get a "Halo" film out in 2012.

Steve Jobs' most revolutionary Apple products[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:50:30 PDT ]Here's a look at the most game-changing products that Steve Jobs and Apple have created over the years.

Max Payne 3 is looking like a true sequel[ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:00:00 PDT ]Our latest "hands-off" demo with the next game in the legendary action shooter franchise has demonstrated how serious Rockstar Games is about keeping true to the Max Payne ethos.