Tag: cnet

News (594)

Study: businesses start to embrace Windows 7

A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year. Read more »

Microsoft nixes barrier to Windows 7's 'XP mode'

Although Windows 7's "XP Mode" has been a welcome feature of the new operating system, there's been a fair bit of confusion brought on by the virtualisation layer's hardware requirements. Read more »

Bing Maps adds a telescopic lens

On Wednesday, Microsoft is adding a star-gazing feature to its Bing Maps service, allowing users to "look up" and see what the stars look like from any point on earth. Read more »

Windows Phone forgets how to copy and paste

Although previous versions of Windows Mobile have long supported a clipboard to move content around, the Windows Phone 7 Series devices due out this year won't have that ability. Read more »

Going beyond Flash, Adobe shows off web tech

Sure, Adobe Systems spends a lot of effort developing and promoting its Flash technology. And sure, a lot of the new "Open Web" technologies are a competitive threat to Flash. Read more »

IE9, Windows Phone in the Mix

This year's Mix trade show won't be the first time that people hear about Internet Explorer 9 or Windows Phone 7 Series, but it is the event where developers will get enough information to start creating products targeting the new browser and mobile operating system. Read more »

Microsoft races to plug IE hole after exploit code released

Microsoft said on Friday it is testing a patch to fix a new hole in Internet Explorer 6 and IE7 following the release of exploit code on the internet. Read more »

Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee, has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone. Read more »

New OpenGL 4.0 aims to match DirectX 11

Aiming to keep pace with Microsoft and advance the computing frontier, the group behind OpenGL has announced a new version of its interface designed to make advanced graphics easier for programmers to handle. Read more »

McAfee blog enabled IE exploit

An Israeli security researcher has published exploit code for an unpatched hole in Internet Explorer that Microsoft disclosed two days ago, using clues from a McAfee report on the hole. Read more »

More Cnet News Results

Features (76)

O'Reilly: The web is at war, and it's making me sad

Web pioneer and conference honcho Tim O'Reilly warned the audience at the Web 2.0 Expo here on Tuesday afternoon that he thinks "we're headed into another ugly time". Read more »

Thanks for giving my pixels back, browser makers

I'd personally like to offer browser makers my gratitude for realising that my screen isn't big enough. Read more »

Are economic conditions changing how you manage server turnover?

Regardless of the few reports that are out there indicating that the recession might be coming to an end, more people than not are feeling the squeeze these days. Read more »

How do I assign permissions to users to see SQL Agent Jobs?

You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here's how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server. Read more »

Taking on Twitter with open source software

One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »

Avoid problems when redirecting via drop-down lists

One of the most important skills a developer needs is the ability to debug and fix problematic code whether it is their own or another developer's handiwork. This article shows how to solve a problem involving redirection and drop-down lists. Read more »

Brazil's love of Linux

Walk into the Ponto Frio electronics store at Sao Paulo, Brazil, which proudly displays a penguin-shaped logo, and you will find a healthy supply of Linux PCs alongside the usual Windows machines. Read more »

Uncloaking 'invisible' Flash Web content

Adobe announced yesterday that it was providing optimised Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic Web content and RIAs that include SWFs. It sounds exciting, but what exactly does it mean for Web searchers, Web masters, and Flash creators? CNET News.com asked Adobe, Google, and Yahoo and got some answers. Read more »

Disclose data collection practices via privacy policies

Since Web site visitors are (understandably) wary of providing personal data, a common practice for Internet sites is to provide a privacy policy. Read more »

Easily manipulate data with LINQ

The buzz around .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is hard to ignore, especially since Microsoft is embracing it with the latest release of the .NET platform (beginning with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0) and Visual Studio 2008. Read more »

More Cnet Features Results

Video (32)

Play!
CNET first look at Google Buzz

CNET's Josh Lowensohn takes you through some of the main features of Google's new social publishing tool Buzz, which is being made available to all Gmail users this week. Read more »

Play!
Open-source bonuses for the big guys

At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, panelists discuss benefits that huge companies like Google and Facebook could get from embracing open source, such as third-party developers integrating their products into new application versions and easier connectivity with emerging technologies. Panelists include Ron Yekutiel, CEO of Kaltura; Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource; and moderator Matt Asay, vice president of business development at Alfresco and a member of the CNET Blog Network. Read more »

Play!
Wolfram Alpha: First hands-on

CNET's Rafe Needleman gets a look at the eagerly anticipated new computational search engine, Wolfram Alpha. Is it a Google killer? No, but it has the potential to change the way we view data on the web. Read more »

Play!
Microsoft: Internet safer and more dangerous

In an interview, Microsoft security executive Scott Charney tells CNET News' Ina Fried about the latest threats as well as new ways that Microsoft is trying to thwart the hackers. Read more »

Play!
Behind the Apple-Google API dustup

Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone. What are the implications for developers and for users? Join Charles Cooper and Tom Krazit on the CNET News Daily Debrief. Read more »

Play!
Why Chrome is catching on

When Google introduced a Web browser earlier this fall, the debut was accompanied by much expectation as well as by much skepticism. But Chrome is starting to win over more converts -- including CNET News' Stephen Shankland, who explains why on today's CNET News Daily Debrief with Charles Cooper. Read more »

Play!
Interplanetary Internet a possibility

Sending e-mails or online shopping while orbiting the Earth in outer-space seems like the stuff of science fiction movies. But in this Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Rafe Needleman discuss how NASA is working to make these far-fetched ideas a reality. Read more »

Play!
The Sun sets for 6,000 employees

Sun Microsystems is the latest tech giant to announce dismal numbers for the fourth quarter and the need to layoff a significant portion of its workforce. On this Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Dawn Kawamoto discuss the 6,000 expected layoffs and possible next steps for this Silicon Valley institution. Read more »

Play!
Is Windows 7 Vista all over again?

Although Windows 7 is still months away from a public release, word on the street is that Microsoft's new OS is only marginally different from Vista. CNET senior writer Ina Fried got her hands on a prebeta laptop with Windows 7 and shares her first impressions with Kara Tsuboi on this edition of the Daily Debrief. Read more »

Play!
Ozzie paints Windows Azure

Chief software architect Ray Ozzie talks with CNET News' Ina Fried about Microsoft's OS for the cloud. Read more »

Blog (37)

Chrome gets bookmark sync with version 4.x

[blogs:syslog] -- Google has issued the first developer preview version of its Chrome browser to reach the version 4.x milestone, a phase that should bring some advanced features in the forthcoming HTML 5 specification for web pages but that for now just sports a cloud-based bookmark synchronisation tool. Read more »

2 comments

Log in

News and features

Latest
Popular
Features
Most Discussed

Blogs

Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff
IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

-- posted by Chris Duckett
Google launches Apps Marketplace

Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff