Tendril is trying to make the smart grid smarter about people. The company announced today the release of Energize, an application that seeks to im... read more »
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European consumers may finally be able to pay for items via their smartphones next year, through a system under development by LG Electronics. Goog... read more »
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eBay is continuing to press into markets beyond its original model of running an auction house and global garage sale. And I don't mean it's buyi... read more »
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There was a day when exploring that famed fractal, the Mandelbrot set, took a supercomputer. Now Google has created a Web application that--while... read more »
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Hewlett-Packard announced today that customers can return products that use Intel's faulty Sandy Bridge chipset, following a similar announcement yes... read more »
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All signs point to Amazon.com launching a streaming service to compete with Netflix. However, its arrival may already be delayed. Citing unnamed s... read more »
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iPhone users can now rely on Google for a helping hand the next time they go shopping. (Credit: Google) The search giant yesterday launched a vers... read more »
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Home of the future A Web-based application for managing home energy, a smart thermostat, and display for notifications and energy data. (Credit: Sc... read more »
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You can now see opinions from your Google Hotpot friends in your regular search results. (Credit: Google) Google users who've tapped into the comp... read more »
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Solar road panels are layers of photovoltaic cells, heating elements, and wireless LED lights encased in durable glass that provides asphalt-like t... read more »
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Vivint is a home security company looking for growth in home energy and solar installations. The company, formerly called APX Alarms, today is sche... read more »
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One end of the CMS detector during the LHC&39's assembly in 2007. (Credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN) The Large Hadron Collider, CERN's particle acce... read more »
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Apple is now trying to enforce an ignored but apparently existing rule that specifically targets publishers of e-book apps offered in its App Store. ... read more »
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Verizon Wireless doesn't want to see the iPhone in its employees&39' hands any times soon. (Credit: Bonnie Cha/CNET) Citing expected "unpreceden... read more »
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If only. If only Google had been run by at least one touchy-feely human being, as opposed to a goosey gaggle of engineers. If only Microsoft had made... read more »
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Weeks after Google announced it would drop support for H.264-encoded video from Chrome, Microsoft announced it's adding support back in through a... read more »
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HP&39's Sandy Bridge-based laptop is for sale, but the delivery date is quoted as March 1--possibly allowing time to get a fixed chipset from Intel... read more »
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Gawker Media&39's new look, as shown on the site io9.com. (Credit: Gawker Media) When blog network Gawker Media announced last year that it would ... read more »
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Energy-efficiency company Comverge is getting less picky about whether the hardware it works with is an electric vehicle or an air conditioner. (... read more »
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Mirco Wilhelm&39's photo account is back on Flickr after it was inadvertently deleted. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) Flickr acci... read more »
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