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CNET News Daily Podcast: Sony busts a move

2 hours 32 min ago
Sony's PlayStation 3 motion controller finally gets a name. We also talk Bill Gates' drop into being merely the world's second-richest man, and the results of Pink Floyd's court battles with EMI.

Airline Twitter promotion attracts huge crowds

3 hours 10 min ago
JetBlue said it had 1,000 free tickets to give away to New Yorkers who showed up at a location broadcasted via Twitter. The only complaint so far: Couldn't there be more?

Bing use inches up in February

3 hours 21 min ago
Share of U.S. search requests for Microsoft Bing rises to 11.5 percent, though Google still leads the pack with 65.5 percent of all search queries, says ComScore.

What's in a title? For broadband, it's Oz vs. Kansas

3 hours 50 min ago
A push by Net neutrality advocates to reclassify ISPs as telecommunications providers has dangerous implications, argues Stanford Law Fellow Larry Downes.

Why Google Android is winning

3 hours 51 min ago
Google's open-source approach to Android is a key reason that it is quickly gaining ground on closed-source competitors like Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry. But challenges remain.

Sen. Reid helps win wind turbine plant for Nevada

4 hours 18 min ago
Production and assembly factory producing 1,100-megawatts worth of turbines annually will create 1,000 permanent jobs for the state.

GDC 2010: Scaling the summits of gameplay

4 hours 31 min ago
roundup This week's Game Developers Conference brings together designers, programmers, publishers, and others for the latest from the world of video play.

Italy green-lights largest PV solar plant in Europe

4 hours 34 min ago
SunEdison's 72-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant finds a home in Italy's Veneto region.

HP aims for 'amazing' with ad campaign

4 hours 39 min ago
Hewlett-Packard is ready to go with a new series of ads intended to jazz up its image among businesses, consumers, and even its own employees.

Mobile tycoon edges out Gates as richest man

4 hours 52 min ago
Worth $53.5 billion, Mexican mobile tycoon Carlos Slim Helu is now the world's richest man, according to Forbes, putting Bill Gates in second place with only $53 billion.

Researcher publishes exploit for new IE hole

5 hours 22 min ago
Clues in McAfee blog post led researcher to existing exploit code, which he then analyzed to write his own code.

New king of Donkey Kong crowned

5 hours 30 min ago
Donkey Kong, the arcade game that dates back to the '80s and has launched numerous Mario related spinoffs, has a new world record high score.

Dolby bringing 3D voice chat to consoles, Mac

5 hours 49 min ago
The audio specialist is bringing its 3D Axon technology to video game consoles as well as the Mac to enable a bunch of neat new voice chat tricks for console games.

InstantAction to offer embeddable console games

5 hours 50 min ago
At GDC 2010, InstantAction follows rival OnLive in announcing a service that lets gamers quickly rent or buy console games over the Internet.

Browser ballot not on tap for Asia

5 hours 52 min ago
Opera won't be lobbying for a browser choice screen to be implemented in Asia-Pacific, while Mozilla's Open to Choice campaign stays within Europe.

Sex.com sells

6 hours 12 min ago
Target starts a coupon program for mobile phones, Google launches a fancy new RSS reader, and Sex.com is up for grabs.

Pink Floyd wins court fight on downloads

6 hours 41 min ago
The U.K.'s High Court sides with famed British rock band and tells EMI no more selling individual song downloads without Pink Floyd's permission.

New OpenGL 4.0 aims to match DirectX 11

7 hours 1 min ago
The cross-platform graphics interface adds support for tesselation and better general-purpose computation.

Motorola bringing Bing to China, via Android

8 hours 3 min ago
Microsoft's Bing search engine hitches a ride to China aboard handsets from Motorola.

Opera releases Mini browser beta for Android

8 hours 6 min ago
Google's phone operating system gets a new browser choice as Opera begins the upgrade process for its lower-end mobile browser.