A watchdog group that is also a longtime Google ally on copyright issues, has accused the company of being hypocritical when it recently removed a co... read more »
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Jim Bankoff, the former AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had left the huge tech sit... read more »
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The launch of Google Street View in Germany seems to be causing civil unrest. Which has now reportedly mutated into uncivil unrest. Should your mind ... read more »
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BeamItDown, the maker of the iFlowReader apps for iOS, had harsh words for Apple as it announced the end of its e-reader app. (Credit: BeamItDown) ... read more »
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commentary Is it OK for AOL's TechCrunch editors to invest in companies they write about It's a question we once had figured out but a new generati... read more »
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Nothing is ever truly serious unless a politician says it or does it. So there can be no question that Facebook has been been rocked to its sneakers ... read more »
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Music-sharing service Grooveshark responded late today to having its Android app dumped from the Android Market, saying it wasn't sure why, exac... read more »
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I imagine that if I was a U.S. soldier coming home from Afghanistan, the last thing I'd want to think about is my baggage allowance. Still, Staff Ser... read more »
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Google announced its first Chrome-based notebooks at its Google I/O conference here. (Credit: CNET/James Martin) SAN FRANCISCO--Google announce... read more »
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Of course you love Facebook. You love the way it makes you feel to have so many friends. Yes, thousands of them. You love the fact that you can have ... read more »
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Facebook and its opt-out-by-default policies have struck again, this time with automated photo-tagging through facial recognition, which had been i... read more »
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Don't expect Apple's cloud-music service to come free of charge, at least not forever. Apple plans to eventually charge for its cloud music servi... read more »
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Maria Jesus Galan had 600 Facebook friends. She liked to communicate with them, to spread good news. However, her Facebook habit has lost her somethi... read more »
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When she was in high school, all of her friends wanted to work at Google. So offered Lady Gaga as she wandered into the Googleplex and showed them ... read more »
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It's always dangerous to have an emotional relationship with a business. Businesses change, often driven by innovation. Or merely the desperate desir... read more »
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Gawker&39's new look for 2011 (Credit: Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET) Web publisher Gawker Media plans to drastically change the way users ... read more »
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I've had an eyeful of television this week. Straight after the State of the Union, there was the odd state of Tea Party spokeswoman Michelle Bachman... read more »
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editor's notebook This week, New Yorkers are enjoying even more than their usual outsized share of art, with something in the neighborhood of 1... read more »
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Hope you've sated your curiosity about Sarah Palin's upcoming book: Gawker Media, which published unauthorized excerpts of the book on Thursday, ha... read more »
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It's not often that I get e-mails and calls from major Yahoo shareholders that begin with "idiotic" and end with "moronic." But that's pretty much ... read more »
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