iTunes11 finally available for download[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:47:38 EST ]At long last, iTunes 11 is finally available for download.

U.N. makes big Twitter typo [ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:03:18 EST ]Hours before the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a non-member observer state, the official U.N. Twitter account made a very unfortunate one-character typo.

Syria caused Web blackout, firm says[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:59:02 EST ]Despite claims to the contrary, the Syrian government is almost certainly responsible for a blackout Thursday that shut down virtually all Internet service in the country, according to a leading Web security firm.

Syria caused Internet blackout, security firm says[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:45:08 EST ]Despite claims to the contrary, the Syrian government is almost certainly responsible for a blackout Thursday that shut down virtually all Internet service in the country, according to a leading Web security firm.

Anonymous declares Internet war on Syria[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:52:49 GMT ]Global hacking network Anonymous said it will shut down Syrian government websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believed to be aimed at silencing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.

Load up on geeky science gifts for 2012[ Sat, 1 Dec 2012 02:10:20 GMT ]Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: What do you give the science geek who knows everything? Help us flesh out our post-apocalyptic Science Geek Gift Guide for 2012.

Could a Syria-style Internet blackout happen in the US?[ Sat, 1 Dec 2012 00:53:42 GMT ]The ongoing Internet blackout in Syria this week prompts curiosity as to whether such an event could happen in one's own country. Here's one measure that gives a rough idea of how difficult it would be for your government to legally shut down the Internet.

Powerball prize-sharing joke hits 1M shares on Facebook[ Sat, 1 Dec 2012 02:13:02 GMT ]A joke Facebook post by a man claiming to have a winning Powerball lottery ticket has been shared 1 million times just in the 24 hours since it was posted.

Holiday calendar puts Earth in the spotlight[ Sat, 1 Dec 2012 05:00:15 GMT ]Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar: A sprawling alluvial fan is one of the fantastic views featured in "Earth as Art," a NASA publication highlighting satellite imagery of our home planet.

Top streaming-radio apps for iOS and Android[ Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:14:22 GMT ]This week's collection of apps gives you three ways to listen to streaming music on your smartphone. If you want to find new music, this collection is for you. [Read more]

Facebook photo a Powerball prank? A million users hedge bets[ Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:51:12 GMT ]A Facebook user posts a photo of himself with a "winning" Powerball ticket and asks fellow Facebookers to share it for a chance at a million bucks. Does he get a response? We'll give you one guess. [Read more]

Android-based Ouya game console shipping soon[ Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:20:03 GMT ]Christmas comes twice this year for those who signed up for a developers' console in Ouya's Kickstarter campaign. [Read more]

Watch the X-47B make its first catapult take-off[ Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:00:00 GMT ]The pilotless aircraft needs to prove that it's up to the rigors of the kind of slingshot launch that it can expect soon from an aircraft carrier. [Read more]

Hsu Research's overachieving home theater speakers[ Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:36:00 GMT ]Hsu's HB-1 MK2 sats and HC-1 MK2 center-channel speaker are big enough to rock the house, but they won't break the bank! [Read more]

Apple able to meet iPhone 5 demand[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:56:41 EST ]It looks like there will not be a shortage of iPhone 5s this holiday season, with plenty of the devices for all carriers in stock at stores around the U.S.

iTunes11 finally available for download[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:47:38 EST ]At long last, iTunes 11 is finally available for download.

U.N. makes big Twitter typo [ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:03:18 EST ]Hours before the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a non-member observer state, the official U.N. Twitter account made a very unfortunate one-character typo.

Syria caused Web blackout, firm says[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:59:02 EST ]Despite claims to the contrary, the Syrian government is almost certainly responsible for a blackout Thursday that shut down virtually all Internet service in the country, according to a leading Web security firm.

Syria caused Internet blackout, security firm says[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:45:08 EST ]Despite claims to the contrary, the Syrian government is almost certainly responsible for a blackout Thursday that shut down virtually all Internet service in the country, according to a leading Web security firm.

Unlocked iPhone 5 available, but it'll cost you $649 (or more)[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:37:27 GMT ]If you really want an iPhone 5 but don't want to sign a two-year agreement, there's some good news for you this Friday morning: You can now buy an unlocked iPhone 5 from Apple. There are some catches though.

NASA dialed in to smartphone satellites[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:06:12 GMT ]NASA engineers are chipping away at how best to lower the cost of their satellites — and one off-the-shelf answer is by using smartphone electronics. Dialing in on the idea has resulted in the PhoneSat Project, a technology demonstration mission using three tiny CubeSat satellites to be launched next year.

Apple to sell new iPads, iPhone 5 in China in December[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:48:14 GMT ]Apple Inc. on Friday said its latest iPad models will go on sale in China on Dec. 7, followed by the iPhone 5 a week later.

Anonymous declares Internet war on Syria[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:52:49 GMT ]Global hacking network Anonymous said it will shut down Syrian government websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believed to be aimed at silencing the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.

Water ice discovered on Mercury[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:01:40 GMT ]It's time to add Mercury to the list of worlds where you can go ice skating. Confirming decades of suspicion, a NASA spacecraft has spotted vast deposits of water ice on the planet closest to the sun.

Richard Branson on LinkedIn: First to 1M followers[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:15:57 GMT ]And that's twice as many followers as the first runner-up among LinkedIn Influencers, U.S. President Barack Obama. [Read more]

Staples to offer in-store 3D printing on demand[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:29:10 GMT ]The office supply chain is getting set to upgrade its 2-D print services to add another dimension. [Read more]

Zynga shares down 6 percent after Facebook deal amendment[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:27:20 GMT ]The company's shares are now trading down as low as $2.45 -- a far cry from its 52-week high of $15.91 back in March. [Read more]

Windows 8 slower out of gate than Windows 7, says report[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:28:35 GMT ]Web traffic for Windows 8 so far hasn't matched that of its predecessor three years ago, says StatCounter. But the data also serves up hopeful news for Microsoft's new OS. [Read more]

Lots of little 'lectrics at the LA Auto Show (roundup)[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:58:09 GMT ]CNET rounds up the biggest players in the small EV class at the 2012 LA Auto Show, most of which will be on public roads within months. [Read more]

Apple able to meet iPhone 5 demand[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:56:41 EST ]It looks like there will not be a shortage of iPhone 5s this holiday season, with plenty of the devices for all carriers in stock at stores around the U.S.

Internet service shut down in Syria[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:02:50 EST ]More than 90% of the Internet access in Syria was shut down on Thursday, according to the Internet monitoring group Renesys.

iTunes11 finally available for download[ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:47:38 EST ]At long last, iTunes 11 is finally available for download.

U.N. makes big Twitter typo [ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:03:18 EST ]Hours before the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the Palestinian Authority as a non-member observer state, the official U.N. Twitter account made a very unfortunate one-character typo.

Apple now able to meet demand for iPhone 5[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:43:21 EST ]It looks like there will not be a shortage of iPhone 5s this holiday season, with plenty of the devices for all carriers in stock at stores around the U.S.

Mayan apocalypse all bunk, NASA assures us[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:28:23 GMT ]NASA scientists took time on Wednesday to soothe 2012 doomsday fears, warning against the dark side of Mayan apocalypse rumors — frightened children and suicidal teens who truly fear the world may come to an end Dec. 21.

Lost in shuffle: 400-year-old playing cards[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:01:33 GMT ]Call it a card player's dream. A complete set of 52 silver playing cards gilded in gold and dating back 400 years has been discovered.

Pre-caffeine tech: Gold LEGO, Facebook law![ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:54:49 GMT ]Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today. Consumer Reports' annual ratings of wireless providers, released Thursday, shows that the major cellphone companies still have a lot of work to do to boost customer satisfaction.

Nuclear agency: Hackers did not steal sensitive information[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:26:07 GMT ]The head of the U.N. nuclear agency said on Thursday a hacking incident involving one of its servers was "deeply regrettable" but suggested that no sensitive information related to Iran's atomic activities had been stolen.

Blackout: Syria vanishes from Internet[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:48:02 GMT ]An outage at 10:26 a.m. UTC, or 5:26 a.m. ET, shut down all Syrian access to the Web. Phone lines also appear to be down, and airlines are canceling flights. [Read more]

Verizon best, AT&T worst in Consumer Reports carrier survey[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:25:31 GMT ]Consumer Reports' annual ratings of wireless providers, released Thursday, shows that the major cellphone companies still have a lot of work to do to boost customer satisfaction. In fact, none of the big four national carriers had an overall satisfaction score above 72 percent, across the board lower than their overall scores from just two years ago.

Low Latency No. 45: Parking lot Thanksgiving[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:00:00 GMT ]This year we had Thanksgiving on the side of a big box retailer so that we could save $30 on an HDTV. [Read more]

Clay Jam: Zynga goes claymation, with help from new partner[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:00:00 GMT ]Fat Pebble, one of five developers partnered with the struggling social-gaming company to make mobile games, releases a quirky claymation game. [Read more]

Nintendo's Iwata 'very sorry' for Wii U's launch omissions[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:06:03 GMT ]The Nintendo president said that console buyers should be able to use all of the hardware's features right away. They couldn't with the Wii U. [Read more]

AT&T's rugged Samsung Rugby III lands Dec 14 with PTT[ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:08:44 GMT ]The rugged flip phone will feature a rubberized casing to help protect it from the elements, and enhanced push-to-talk capabilities. [Read more]

Bing's most-searched news of 2012[ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:27:48 EST ]Poor Microsoft. People who use your search engine seem especially interested in ... Apple.

Where are women 'game creators?'[ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:47:32 EST ]A question on Twitter helped spark creation of two hashtags about women in the gaming industry. #1ReasonWhy focuses on social issues, and #1ReasonMentors aims to connect like-minded women.

9 innovations we're glad not to see[ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:47:20 EST ]There have been tons of exciting innovations unleashed upon the masses this past year, but there's also a passel of new ideas that we're glad never caught on.

A ban on laws about the Internet?[ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:29:07 EST ]In an unusual step, a U.S. congressman is proposing a two-year ban on all new federal legislation regulating the Internet.

How fake Google story spread online[ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:47:10 EST ]A fake story about Google buying a Wi-Fi company was picked up by many news websites, illustrating some of the pitfalls of fast-paced online news.

U.N. atom agency says stolen information on hacker site[ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:19:31 GMT ]The U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday that information stolen from one of its former servers had been posted on a hacker website and it was taking "all possible steps" to ensure its computer systems and data were protected.