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Telenor Seeks Norway’s Help After Cancellation of India Permits
Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Telenor ASA has enlisted the help of the Norwegian government to protect its investment in India following the cancellation of 122 mobile-phone licenses by the nation’s...


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Panasonic Forecasts Record $10 Billion Loss on Floods, Charges
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Panasonic Corp. almost doubled its annual loss forecast to a record 780 billion yen ($10 billion), the latest Japanese electronics company to predict weaker earnings because of...
Micron CEO Steve Appleton Dies in Airplane Crash
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Ashok Kumar, senior technology analyst at the Maxim Group, talks about the legacy of Micron Technology Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Appleton and the outlook for the...
Exclusive Look Inside Facebook Headquarters
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Douglas Creutz, analyst at Cowen & Co., and Paul Kedrosky, author of the Infectious Greed Blog and a Bloomberg contributing editor, talk about the relationship between Zynga...
Tech firms offer solutions in developing countries
In 2007, while on a medical research trip to Malawi, Stanford undergraduate Josh Nesbit made two startling realizations. First, residents' access to health care was much worse than he was used...
Yelp reports wider loss as marketing costs climb
Yelp, the user-generated review site that's planning an initial public offering, reported a wider loss in 2011 after increasing spending to attract reviewers and make the service easier to use. ...
Best Wi-Fi radios for Net-only stations and beyond
Wi-Fi radio with built-in speaker and color LCD display; stylish exterior design and outstanding button placement on front panel; can access thousands of freely available Internet radio stations;...
Iran vows retaliation as nuclear tension grows
Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- Iran's supreme leader lashed out at the United States in a defiant speech Friday, vowing to retaliate against oil sanctions and threats of war over Iran's...
Prosecutors close Lance Armstrong investigation
CORRECTS YEAR OF FILE PHOTO TO 2004, NOT, 2005 - FILE - In this July 22, 2004, file photo, overall leader Lance Armstrong reacts as he crosses the finish line to win the 17th stage of the Tour de...
Can Susan G. Komen for the Cure erase blemish?
Even as Susan G. Komen for the Cure reversed course Friday on its plans to deny funding to Planned Parenthood, questions remained about whether it was enough to control the damage that three days of...
San Quentin inmate admits killing fellow prisoner
A convicted murderer has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a fellow inmate who had just been incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison for killing a 9-year-old Novato girl in a drunken crash. Frank...
Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call
LONDON (AP) -- Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous,...
Google's Bouncer Ejects Malware From Android Market
Google, which has always maintained that the Android Market, although not immune to malware, was not heavily affected by it, revealed Thursday it has been using...
Virus Hits Part Of U.S. Commerce Dept.
Slideshow: Best Government Web Sites A virus has caused the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) to disable its email and Internet access indefinitely while the...
iPhone App Contains Secret Tethering Capability
iRandomizer Numbers contains an unexpected function: It allows users who enter the undocumented codes to create a tethered Internet connection. Thereafter, other nearby computers can join an ad-hoc...
KDE Plans Open Source Linux 'Spark' Tablet
KDE , the software community that produces its namesake desktop environment for Linux, is planning to release a tablet that runs a completely open and unlocked Linux software stack. The Spark...
Google Rejects EU Request On Privacy Policy Consolidation
(click image for larger view and for slideshow) A European regulatory group focused on data protection has asked Google to delay its planned privacy policy consolidation, which is scheduled to take...
National Security Agency Plans Smartphone Adoption
Today, strict security requirements mean most employees at the National Security Agency have to leave their mobile devices in their cars in the parking lot rather than bringing them in to work....
How To Spot A Fake Facebook Profile
Want to know who your real Facebook Friends are and are not? Turns out there are some common characteristics of the fake Friend, according to new data revealed Thursday by Barracuda Networks. For...
Micron Technology CEO Steve Appleton Dies in Airplane Crash
Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Appleton, who took charge of Micron Technology Inc. at 34 and went on to become the memory- chip industry’s longest-serving chief executive officer, died after...
Anonymous posts audio of FBI call
Hacker group Anonymous, in an embarrassment for law enforcement, released a recording Friday of a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard discussing operations against the hacking...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 4
Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to...
RIM Claws Back Against Apple and Google With Free Tablets
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop put it best: ';The industry has shifted from a battle of devices, to a war of ecosystems.'; In other words, a smartphone or a tablet is only as good as the apps it...
Motorola Tablet Snafu Exposes Some Users to Privacy Risks
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com At Gadget Lab we’re system-wiping fools. With new smartphones and tablets coming through the office every week, we’re religious about doing complete system...
Mark Zuckerberg, the Hacker Way and the Art of the Founder's Letter
For a founder of a highly touted Internet company undertaking an IPO, the "Letter to Shareholders" in the S-1 prospectus has become a rarefied form of performance art. Going public is the...
Micron chief Steve Appleton dies in plane crash
Steve Appleton, chief executive of semiconductor firm Micron, has been killed following a small plane crash. "Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this...
Facebook malware scam takes hold
A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi...
The future of hypervisors
The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses. One expert says the difference between the two is...
Micron CEO dies in plane crash, industry stunned
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Micron Technology Inc. Steve Appleton speaks at the Reuters Semiconductor Industry Summit in San Francisco, California in this November 2, 2005 file...
Xbox co-creator channels arcade classics at mobile-game startup
(Credit: Edward Moyer/CNET) Innovative Leisure is a startup with a singular purpose: Create great mobile-gaming experiences. To accomplish that mission, co-founder Seamus Blackley has assembled...
Firefox 11 to get add-on sync
Firefox stable earlier this week, Mozilla released today updates to its Aurora and Beta versions that introduce some pretty hefty changes for the Firefox on PCs. Firefox 11 beta (download...
Games for football lovers on iPhone and Android
(Credit: CNET) The big game is this weekend and most American's will tell you it's a lot more than just a football game. Many people make an event out of the game with parties,...
Are composite pickup trucks in our future?
(Credit: Motive Industries) Transportation design firm Motive Industries released computer-generated images of what a pickup made of composite material could look like. The Bison is a...
iPhone 5 rumor roundup
(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Editors' note: This roundup was originally published June 24, 2011, and is updated regularly. After unveiling a marginally...
Ford Edge Ecoboost a harbinger of the new efficiency
(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) With the 2012 Ford Edge, the Ecoboost engine is like having your cake and icecream, too. The Edge is a tank of...
Military, government officials could get secure Android phones
. Citing a source close to the project, CNN says that developers in a government program are working on smartphones that run a customized version of the OS with security improvements. Though the...
Apple cleans App Store of high-profile lookalike apps
(Credit: CNET) Apple has declared war on lookalikes in its App Store. The company today removed a handful of iOS applications that bore a resemblance to more popular apps, and had climbed the...
A hydrogen fueling station powered by the wind
(Credit: SourceOne) By building a wind turbine to power a hydrogen production and fueling station, a little hamlet in Long Island is positioning itself as the bellwether for carbon-neutral...
Verizon Galaxy Nexus loses Google support?
Galaxy Nexus get caught in the middle of a lovers' quarrel between Google and Verizon today? That's the way it appeared at first with the news that Google had dumped the CDMA version...
Reading this kitchen scale takes on new meaning
(Credit: Williams-Sonoma) Despite the availability of a plethora of recipes online, many good old-fashioned cookbooks still quite often do the trick; they are easy to thumb through, they are...
Mozilla preps the Web to push
(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) Mozilla engineers have begun work on a new API for Web sites that will allow them to notify you when they update, similar to how a mobile app...
Cryoscope lets you feel your forecast
Weather forecast icons can be cryptic. There's only so much that can be communicated by a picture of a gray but-not-too-gray cloud with some raindrops and a sun poking out behind it. All you...
GloSpex glasses light up, freak people out
(Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET) GloSpex have one-way illuminated lenses. That means that the light glows out, but doesn't shine into the wearer's eyes. A $20 pledge...
Anti-SOPA forces have ISP snooping bill in their crosshairs
, is being targeted a second time: for championing legislation that would require Internet service providers to keep track of their customers, in case police want to review those logs in the future....
HP awards new CEO Whitman with $16.5M pay package
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling...
Apple, Motorola in patent struggle in Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist...