The deal is likely to be completed and announced by early next week, at a valuation of about $80 million, barring unusual hiccups. "Light at the end of a very long and very twisty tunnel," joked one source familiar with the situation. Indeed, the wrapping-up of what has been a very convoluted funding process comes after a series of missteps and switchbacks over what's next for the start-up, which allows users to "check in" from various places.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Police push to continue warrantless cell tracking
A law requiring police to obtain a search warrant before tracking Americans' cell phones may imperil criminal investigations and endanger children's lives, a law enforcement representative told Congress this week. Obtaining a search warrant when monitoring the whereabouts of someone "who may be attempting to victimize a child over the Internet will have a significant slowing effect on the processing of child exploitation leads," said Richard Littlehale of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. "If that is acceptable, so be it, but it is a downstream effect that must be considered." Littlehale's remarks to a House of Representatives subcommittee come as an industry group called the Digital Due Process coalition is prodding politicians to update a mid-1980s federal law by inserting more privacy protections. The group includes Google, Microsoft, eBay, AT&T, the ACLU, and Americans for Tax Reform. Legislation has not yet been introduced, and coalition members have braced themselves for an extended period of negotiations among police, civil libertarians, and members of Congress that could take as long as a year or two. Meanwhile, no federal appeals court has ruled on the topic--a case is pending before one in Philadelphia--and lower courts have split over whether the U.S. Constitution requires a warrant or not.
Road Trip Pic of the Day, 6/26: What is this?
If you know what this is and where it is located, you could win a prize in the Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)
Trying to make iPad run my Road Trip
GERMANTOWN, Md.--For the last couple weeks, I've been carrying around the iPad Apple lent me for Road Trip 2010, trying to figure out how it can best be used as a traveling computer of sorts. I've read lots of commentary on the question of whether the iPad replaces other devices--be they iPhones or laptops--and so far, I'm really not sure. On the one hand, the iPad is terrific for things like loading a quick Web page or playing a game of Marble Mixer or looking up a driving route. On the other hand, it certainly doesn't meet my needs for posting blog entries or photo galleries--since CNET's publishing tool doesn't work on it--and that means it's not suitable as a full replacement for the MacBook Pro I'm also carrying with me. 
How is an iPad best used on a working Road Trip?(Credit: Apple)
Palm shareholders approve HP takeover plans
Palm stockholders at a special meeting Friday approved plans for the company's acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, according to an SEC filing. The transaction is expected to close on July 1, according to the filing. The companies announced in April that computer giant HP would buy the struggling smartphone maker for $1.2 billion. The deal then had already been approved by both companies' boards of directors. HP has long touted Palm's appealing IP portfolio and says it has plans to put Palm's WebOS on tablets, smartphones, Web-connected PCs.
Meet Oscar, the adorable bionic pet cat
This is Oscar. The cute little feline from Jersey in the U.K. had an accident about nine months ago when a combine harvester ran him over while he napped in a field, severing the bottom part of his two back legs. But Oscar is plucky. His local vet, Peter Haworth, consulted another vet, Noel Fitzpatrick of Surrey, England, who has an advanced practice. They discussed Oscar's case via phone and e-mail, and after viewing X-rays and photos, they reasoned that Oscar was a good candidate for a cutting-edge new procedure Fitzpatrick had been developing: bionic cat legs. 
(Credit: ABC News screenshot by Matt Hickey/CNET)
(Credit: ABC News screenshot by Matt Hickey/CNET) Bing-Zune integration still not working
commentary On Tuesday evening, Microsoft announced the integration of playable songs into Bing search results. At the time, when you clicked the play button by each song result, the pop-up window for the player said that this feature was "coming soon." I blogged about it anyway, relying on a forthcoming Microsoft blog post that said the feature was available "now." 
I should have known better. Nearly three days later, the feature is still "coming soon." So I visited the music page of the Bing Entertainment site to get a taste of how this feature's supposed to work. Sure enough, the player launched when I clicked on my first selection, Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down a Dream." This time, the player told me that I needed to enable application storage in my version of the Silverlight player. (Silverlight is a Microsoft platform for creating rich Internet applications, like audio and video, and basically competes with Adobe's Flash.) A casual user would have given up, but having a professional interest in the feature, I followed the instructions on the screen, only to find that my copy of Silverlight already had the box checked to enable application storage. Sigh. I unchecked and rechecked it. Still no luck. (I suppose the next step would be to uninstall and reinstall Silverlight, but it's just not worth the time.) At least the player looks cool, with a shadowy image of Tom Petty and nice album art above the error message.
The error message I receive when I try to play Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down a Dream" from within Microsoft's Bing search engine. (Credit: Screenshot)
How to hold the iPhone 4? Don't look to Apple
When reports surfaced Thursday that the iPhone 4 loses signal strength when simply held in the palm of a person's hand, Apple responded with words that have been uttered by countless engineering departments: user error. That's not a direct or complete quote, of course. Apple tossed in a couple more familiar responses, such as "everyone does it" and "there's a solution, but it will cost you." Here's its full statement: "Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases." 
Now on Facebook: Lady Gaga vs. Obama
On today's ever more open Web, to whom do you want to be closer? Is there someone for whom you wish to express your affection, your desire, or your admiration, perhaps in the hope of getting some in return?May I give you just two choices? President Obama or Lady Gaga.Perhaps you feel I am limiting you too much. But this is an issue of such importance, one that will show just what the world sees when it looks in the mirror.On the one hand, we have someone who is trying to rectify so many wrongs. Someone who wants you to know that, yes, anyone can. On the other, we have Barack Obama, who is also trying to do the same thing.
Google remotely wipes apps off Android phones
One of the proof-of-concept apps was disguised as a preview of the "Twilight Saga: Eclipse" movie. (Credit: Jon Oberheide)
Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas-fired plants the new clean-power standard. The new standards, expected to be firmed up by early 2011, will force electricity producers to phase out older, high-emitting coal-fired plants and require newer facilities to match the lower greenhouse-gas emissions of more efficient natural-gas fired plants. Canada has 51 coal-fired units producing 19 percent of the country's electricity and 13 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions. However, 33 of those plants will reach the end of their economic lives by 2025. Unless the operators make substantial investments to cut emissions from the aging facilities, they'll be required to shut down. 
Ask Maggie: On cell phone safety and avoiding data charges
It's time to Ask Maggie again.This week has been a busy one with the launch of the new Apple iPhone 4 and Motorola's new Android-based Droid X. With new smartphones hitting the market, many consumers are deciding whether they should buy something new now or wait to see what comes out later this year. Readers this week also asked about service plans, wireless operator upgrade plans, and getting the most bang for your buck--and even about cell phone safety.Readers responded well to last week's call for questions. Unfortunately, I couldn't get to everyone's questions, but I tried to choose a sampling that would answer some key themes I've heard over the past week from consumers. Please keep the questions coming. If you've got something you'd like me to consider for next week's column, send an e-mail to me at maggie dot reardon at cbs dot com. If I don't know the answer to your question, I'll do some digging and find out.
iPhone 4 antenna issue: User error or design flaw?
Apple says that the way you hold the iPhone 4 affects the reception.(Credit: Apple)
Mom posts pic of baby with bong on Facebook
This might well be a case of someone who wasn't entirely au fait with her Facebook privacy settings. Yes, not everyone knows about how easy they are. Or even that they exist. It could also be a case of someone doing something very stupid. Or perhaps both.According to Channel 4 News in Jacksonville, Fla., a 19-year-old mother in Florida took a picture of her 11-month-old son with his mouth over a bong. Just as these things sometimes happen on Facebook, someone saw it and passed it on. The Web being the Web, it kept being passed on until it ended up in the hands of both Channel 4 and the Florida Department of Children and Families.Channel 4 tracked the woman down and, in an e-mail exchange, the mother reportedly said: "If you look at the picture you can see that there is no bowl in the TABACCO (sic) pipe."
IAB sets new guidelines for online advertising
The IAB is hoping its new set of guidelines will help online advertisers better understand the interactive-ad market and how to work with ad networks and exchanges.
Get 'em, Boies: Salesforce countersues Microsoft
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff says Microsoft is a patent troll. Looks like it takes one to know one. On Thursday, the company answered Microsoft's charges of patent infringement with patent-infringement charges of its own. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware, Salesforce accuses Microsoft of willfully violating five of its patents and using them in everything from Windows 7 to the Windows Live authentication system. And the company is really going for the neck here: Not only is it seeking triple monetary damages, it has hired David Boies, the former U.S. Justice Department attorney who successfully argued the agency's antitrust case against Microsoft, to represent it. But if Microsoft finds this disconcerting, the company isn't letting on. Reached for comment, Horacio Gutierrez, vice president and deputy general counsel, said it's still intent on taking Salesforce to the mat over this. "We are reviewing Salesforce.com's filing, which we have just received," he said. "We remain confident about our position and will continue to press ahead with the complaint we initiated in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington."Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.
More people grabbing directions via mobile phones
People are increasingly relying on their mobile phones to deliver maps and directions on the go, according to ComScore.
Report: Sony PS3 may offer Hulu service
Hulu's paid subscription service may be offered on Sony's PlayStation 3 game console, according to a published report.
Facebook's 'search' not a Google warning shot
All Facebook noticed that certain search results in Facebook produce external pages that have been "liked" by users, but that does not a search engine make.(Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)
Actor's HitRecord lets more artists get in on the act
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--Joseph Gordon-Levitt has certainly benefited from Hollywood. As a young actor, he made his debut in the movie "Beethoven" and had roles in "Third Rock From The Sun" and the movie "10 Things I Hate About You." More recently he starred in a leading role in "(500) Days of Summer." 
But, despite being a product of Hollywood, Gordon-Levitt also thinks that there are plenty of good ideas from people with no access to traditional filmmaking technology. The good news, he says, is that today anyone with a laptop can make movies. "Better stories are going to be told because more people get to tell them," he said in a panel discussion Tuesday. That, he said, is preferable to the world he inhabits, which is, "let's admit it, an often narrow-minded Hollywood industry." This notion of bringing together different artists from around the world was also the impetus for his company, HitRecord.org, which lets all kinds of artists collaborate on a film, eventually sharing in the profits if something commercially viable is made. In an interview after the panel, Gordon-Levitt talked about HitRecord and how technology is changing the face of entertainment. Q: How did you get started with HitRecord.org?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: It started five years ago as more of a hobby of mine and evolved into more of a community. In 2010, it's become a production company. I'm an actor and I am lucky enough to be in a place where I can get projects off the ground. I didn't want to only work within Hollywood. I wanted to also work with any number of people all over the world who are doing all sorts of great stuff. HitRecord is kind of my way to do that. Whether you cut video or you are a writer or a graphic designer or some sort of performer, musician, anything audio, video, image, text. We make all sorts of stuff and we all collaborate together on our Web site. I'm there kind of directing. When I am able to take something we have all made collaboratively and turn it into a money-making production, then the profits get split down the middle. Half goes back to the company and half goes back to the contributing artists. For example, we went to Sundance this year. We partnered up with a company called Getac who makes hard drives. They paid for us to go there. There was enough money left up for some profits. All the different people that contributed to the short film that we screened at Sundance shared in those profits. We sent out a bunch of different checks. Now, are we talking $20?
Gordon-Levitt: A few people made close to a grand. Some people made $4. It depends. If they spent 10 minutes saying hello, as opposed to someone who contributed (a lot). It can be both.
What are some of the most interesting things that have come out of HitRecord.org so far?
Gordon-Levitt: One of my favorite things we made so far is a short film called "Morgan M. Morgensen's Date With Destiny." It started just as an idea for a collaboration. Someone said "Hey, how about we try to write with nonsensical language?" Someone else met that challenge and wrote this short story. I liked the short story so I recorded myself reading it. Then other people liked that so they started drawing the characters. Other people started taking those drawings and turning them into animations. I got together with an actress and shot a live-action version in front of white walls. The whole community started contributed visual elements to go over that. Someone else took those visual elements and remixed them together into this beautiful collage.We did the score collaboratively as well. It ends up this beautiful lush piece of filmmaking with hundreds of people having worked on it. It all took shape organically and with no budget at all. How do you think technology is changing things. Is there an audience or are we all creators?
Gordon-Levitt: I love the (Greek) tradition. That means there's a stage and there's the audience and there's a separation. But there's I think an even older tradition of more communal story telling that probably dates back to cavemen sitting around a fire telling a story. "Oh, I heard it went this way. No I heard it went this way." I think where technology can bring us is a dissolving of that division between audience and performer, where it's less about I've got something to say and you are all just going to listen. It becomes more like "Let's tell the story together and figure out what it is." That's ancient, but now because of technology, it doesn't have to be around a campfire. It can be all over the world among thousands and thousands and really millions of people. Are you more on the Mac side of things or PC?
Gordon-Levitt: I use Final Cut on a Mac and Pro Tools on a Mac, but you know, whatever works. Windows Movie Maker comes free and you can use that. I don't have any real allegiance to any particularly technology. I love the fact people can use the technology to make stuff.
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The notion of bringing together different artists from around the world was the impetus for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's start-up, HitRecord.org.(Credit: Ina Fried/CNET)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: It started five years ago as more of a hobby of mine and evolved into more of a community. In 2010, it's become a production company. I'm an actor and I am lucky enough to be in a place where I can get projects off the ground. I didn't want to only work within Hollywood. I wanted to also work with any number of people all over the world who are doing all sorts of great stuff. HitRecord is kind of my way to do that. Whether you cut video or you are a writer or a graphic designer or some sort of performer, musician, anything audio, video, image, text. We make all sorts of stuff and we all collaborate together on our Web site. I'm there kind of directing. When I am able to take something we have all made collaboratively and turn it into a money-making production, then the profits get split down the middle. Half goes back to the company and half goes back to the contributing artists. For example, we went to Sundance this year. We partnered up with a company called Getac who makes hard drives. They paid for us to go there. There was enough money left up for some profits. All the different people that contributed to the short film that we screened at Sundance shared in those profits. We sent out a bunch of different checks. Now, are we talking $20?
Gordon-Levitt: A few people made close to a grand. Some people made $4. It depends. If they spent 10 minutes saying hello, as opposed to someone who contributed (a lot). It can be both.
Gordon-Levitt wants to share more than just his Hollywood side with start-up HitRecord.org.(Credit: Ina Fried/CNET)
Gordon-Levitt: One of my favorite things we made so far is a short film called "Morgan M. Morgensen's Date With Destiny." It started just as an idea for a collaboration. Someone said "Hey, how about we try to write with nonsensical language?" Someone else met that challenge and wrote this short story. I liked the short story so I recorded myself reading it. Then other people liked that so they started drawing the characters. Other people started taking those drawings and turning them into animations. I got together with an actress and shot a live-action version in front of white walls. The whole community started contributed visual elements to go over that. Someone else took those visual elements and remixed them together into this beautiful collage.We did the score collaboratively as well. It ends up this beautiful lush piece of filmmaking with hundreds of people having worked on it. It all took shape organically and with no budget at all. How do you think technology is changing things. Is there an audience or are we all creators?
Gordon-Levitt: I love the (Greek) tradition. That means there's a stage and there's the audience and there's a separation. But there's I think an even older tradition of more communal story telling that probably dates back to cavemen sitting around a fire telling a story. "Oh, I heard it went this way. No I heard it went this way." I think where technology can bring us is a dissolving of that division between audience and performer, where it's less about I've got something to say and you are all just going to listen. It becomes more like "Let's tell the story together and figure out what it is." That's ancient, but now because of technology, it doesn't have to be around a campfire. It can be all over the world among thousands and thousands and really millions of people. Are you more on the Mac side of things or PC?
Gordon-Levitt: I use Final Cut on a Mac and Pro Tools on a Mac, but you know, whatever works. Windows Movie Maker comes free and you can use that. I don't have any real allegiance to any particularly technology. I love the fact people can use the technology to make stuff.
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Road Trip Pic of the Day, 6/25: What is this?
If you recognize this giant, let me know and you might win a prize in the Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)
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ICANN OKs .xxx domain name for porn sites
Porn sites may soon be able to tag themselves with a .xxx address now that ICANN has given the new domain name its initial OK.After denying several requests over the years for a new .xxx top-level domain, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) finally relented Friday by giving the new domain its conditional approval.ICM Registry, which would manage and sell the new domain name to porn sites, has waged a long struggle to get .xxx accepted by ICANN as a top-level domain, only to get a thumb's down at each turn. ICM's Chairman Stuart Lawley has consistently touted the .xxx domain as a way to segregate and safely filter out adult entertainment sites. However, conservative groups have in the past lobbied Washington and reportedly pressured ICANN to deny the request.
But after acknowledging that its refusal to accept .xxx was "not consistent with the application of neutral, objective, and fair documented policy," ICANN agreed to review the proposal once again, according to the Associated Press.On the ICM Web site, Lawley said of ICANN's decision: "It's been a long time coming, but I'm excited about the fact that .xxx will soon become a reality. This is great news." Lawley added that the decision brings to fruition a six-year effort to create a specific Web address for online adult entertainment, and comes on the heels of an independent review that declared that ICANN's previous decision to deny .xxx was wrong.Though ICM is declaring victory, ICANN's final and official approval of the new domain is not quite a done deal yet and faces some red tape that could delay the new domain's debut.In an e-mail to CNET, Lawley said ICANN agreed Friday to check his company's financial and technical ability to run the new registry, which he claimed is a simple exercise. The next step, according to Lawley, would be to negotiate a contract that takes into account recommendations from the Government Advisory Committee, which advises ICANN on issues of public policy. Then the matter would go to ICANN's board for final approval. Lawley said he's hopeful that ICANN will sign the final contract at its next board meeting in October, clearing the way to go live with .xxx domains at the start of next year.ICM said it already has 110,000 pre-reservations from sites looking to adopt the new address and expects that number to increase once ICANN grants formal approval.After final approval comes through, the .xxx domain name would become a new top-level domain, like .com, .net., .org., and .edu. The .xxx name would be strictly voluntary, only to adult sites that wished to adopt it.Lawley expects to make $30 million a year in sales by selling each .xxx site for $60, according to the AP, but is promising to donate $10 from each sale to child protection initiatives through a nonprofit group that he has set up.He's also looking to establish a standard code of practices that adult sites with the .xxx domain name would follow. The code would address such issues as deceptive marketing practices, the use of malware, practices designed to attract children or suggest child pornography, and the misuse of personal information. Lawley believes that the new domain and practices would help porn sites face fewer complaints and enjoy greater customer retention.
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Analyst: Nintendo 'stole the show' at E3
Nintendo 3DS "stole the show" at E3, analysts say.(Credit: Nintendo)
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Google eyes more home energy jobs for PowerMeter
WASHINGTON--Google's PowerMeter is a straightforward application for monitoring home electricity at this point, but the company expects to stretch its features toward managing an array of energy loads in the home, according to an executive. PowerMeter gets data from smart meters or home electricity monitors and displays that data on a PC or smartphone, which helps people better understand electricity usage and leads to clues on how to cut bills. But "we're just getting going" with PowerMeter, said Dan Reicher, director of climate change initiatives at Google, here at the Kema Utility of the Future conference on Thursday. 
"We're starting with electricity and we're interested in moving on to natural gas and other utilities [such as water] in the home," Reicher said, speaking to utility industry executives. Asked afterward about timing, Reicher indicated that there are no immediate plans, but more sophisticated gas and water meters open up the possibility for Web-based monitoring. Google also sees PowerMeter as a way for people to manage when and how electricity gets used in the home. Reicher said that the application could be extended to let consumers take advantage of off-peak rates when using electricity-hungry devices such as appliances. 'Demand dispatch' for appliances and vehicles
On Thursday, Reicher said that Google engineers are doing research and development around what he called "demand dispatch," in which software and the Internet can be used to lower electricity use in the home and provide services to the grid now done by power plants. Specialized power generators push more electricity into the grid to keep a balance of supply and demand or to maintain a steady frequency. The idea of demand dispatch is that small reductions of electricity use across hundreds or thousands of homes can replace supplying more power into the grid. Last year, Google engineer Alec Brooks first described experiments Google has been doing around demand dispatch using its fleet of plug-in electric vehicles. The software Google is working on is designed to slow the charge rate of electric car batteries as a way to curtail load temporarily and maintain grid frequency, he explained. Google sees demand dispatch, through which hundreds or thousands of load reductions are coordinated and communicated to grid operators, as something that can work with big electricity users other than electric vehicles. "It goes way beyond what's going on with a limited number of plug-in vehicles in the near future," Reicher said after his talk. "It's dispatching all sorts of loads in people's homes." For example, a person could start a dishwasher at 5:30 on a hot afternoon and have an option to run it then or pay one-fifth the current rate to have it run at three in the morning. Reicher said there are a number of "simple loads" in the house that can be dispatched to the grid to cut peak-time electricity usage, something that utilities and policymakers are interested in to avoid having to build more power plants. PowerMeter could play a role in this demand dispatch scenario, although Google's work in this area is still in the R&D phase, Reicher said. In March, Google partnered with embedded chip developer Microchip, which said it will use the PowerMeter API to make it easier to integrate products such as appliances. "We're looking at it and we've done some experiments with other kinds of loads [than plug-in electric vehicles]," he said. "Smartphones, smart car, smart house--where a lot of those intersect, there's a lot of opportunities."
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Google PowerMeter on smart phone.(Credit: Google)
On Thursday, Reicher said that Google engineers are doing research and development around what he called "demand dispatch," in which software and the Internet can be used to lower electricity use in the home and provide services to the grid now done by power plants. Specialized power generators push more electricity into the grid to keep a balance of supply and demand or to maintain a steady frequency. The idea of demand dispatch is that small reductions of electricity use across hundreds or thousands of homes can replace supplying more power into the grid. Last year, Google engineer Alec Brooks first described experiments Google has been doing around demand dispatch using its fleet of plug-in electric vehicles. The software Google is working on is designed to slow the charge rate of electric car batteries as a way to curtail load temporarily and maintain grid frequency, he explained. Google sees demand dispatch, through which hundreds or thousands of load reductions are coordinated and communicated to grid operators, as something that can work with big electricity users other than electric vehicles. "It goes way beyond what's going on with a limited number of plug-in vehicles in the near future," Reicher said after his talk. "It's dispatching all sorts of loads in people's homes." For example, a person could start a dishwasher at 5:30 on a hot afternoon and have an option to run it then or pay one-fifth the current rate to have it run at three in the morning. Reicher said there are a number of "simple loads" in the house that can be dispatched to the grid to cut peak-time electricity usage, something that utilities and policymakers are interested in to avoid having to build more power plants. PowerMeter could play a role in this demand dispatch scenario, although Google's work in this area is still in the R&D phase, Reicher said. In March, Google partnered with embedded chip developer Microchip, which said it will use the PowerMeter API to make it easier to integrate products such as appliances. "We're looking at it and we've done some experiments with other kinds of loads [than plug-in electric vehicles]," he said. "Smartphones, smart car, smart house--where a lot of those intersect, there's a lot of opportunities."
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Week in review: iPhone 4's reception
Apple's latest phone hit stores Thursday to lines of people--some of whom waited six hours to buy one. But almost as soon as the device arrived on the doorsteps of customers who placed early preorders came scattered reports of reception problems, discolored spots on the screen, easily scratched exteriors, and issues with third-party accessory connections. Being popular and being perfect are definitely two different things.
• Long lines mark phone's arrival
• Apple acknowledges antenna issue in iPhone 4
• iPhone 4 owners reporting yellow, discolored screens
• Full review: iPhone 4
• Getting a look inside the iPhone 4
• AT&T delays retail iPhone 4
• Apple: White iPhone 4 coming 'second half of July'
• Apple's iOS 4 already hacked More headlines
• Photos: The gear of Road Trip 2010
• Biden to file sharers: 'Piracy is theft'
• Jammie Thomas lawyer not hopeful on mediation
• Congressmen query Apple on privacy policy changes
• ACLU fights N.C. quest for Amazon customer data
• Facebook boosts D.C. ranks with public policy hire
• Twitter, FTC reach agreement on security
• Verizon keeps unlimited data for new Droid X
• Inside the Motorola Droid X
• B&N adds $149 Wi-Fi-only Nook, cuts Nook 3G to $199
• Facebook blocking parts of Twitter's FB app
• Facebook, Twitter no place for the lonely
• Four major holes in Google Voice
• Microsoft shoots for the stars with Bing update
• Microsoft, Hollywood debate future of entertainment
• Adobe moves mobile Flash from rhetoric to reality
• Flash arrives in Google's Chrome browser
• Apple: 3 million iPads sold in 80 days
• Analyst estimates 16.5 million iPads sold by 2012
• Intel, FTC in talks to settle antitrust claims
• Sears, Kmart to offer streaming movie service
• Mars cave opening found by 7th graders
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• Long lines mark phone's arrival
• Apple acknowledges antenna issue in iPhone 4
• iPhone 4 owners reporting yellow, discolored screens
• Full review: iPhone 4
• Getting a look inside the iPhone 4
• AT&T delays retail iPhone 4
• Apple: White iPhone 4 coming 'second half of July'
• Apple's iOS 4 already hacked More headlines
Road Trip 2010
CNET's Daniel Terdiman is on the road again. This time, he's driving a Porsche loaded down with tech gear and searching the East Coast for the most interesting spots for technology, military, R&D, naval shipbuilding, and more.• Photos: The gear of Road Trip 2010
Google defeats Viacom in landmark copyright case
Judge grants summary judgment in favor of Google's YouTube, deciding that it is protected by the DMCA safe-harbor provision against copyright infringement claims.• Biden to file sharers: 'Piracy is theft'
• Jammie Thomas lawyer not hopeful on mediation
FTC says current privacy laws aren't working
In a preview of what may be in a forthcoming report, a senior FTC attorney says existing U.S. law unreasonably places "too much burden" on people to understand privacy policies.• Congressmen query Apple on privacy policy changes
• ACLU fights N.C. quest for Amazon customer data
• Facebook boosts D.C. ranks with public policy hire
• Twitter, FTC reach agreement on security
Motorola takes wraps off its Droid X
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the new Android device, made for video, should have people "thinking mobile first instead of desktop first."• Verizon keeps unlimited data for new Droid X
• Inside the Motorola Droid X
Amazon drops Kindle price to $189
After Barnes & Noble drops the Nook's price to $199, Amazon answers back with a price chop of its own.• B&N adds $149 Wi-Fi-only Nook, cuts Nook 3G to $199
Why Twitter still has to get its game on--fast
The media's love affair with Twitter could take a sharp turn for the worse if it continues to crash embarrassingly in the wake of unexpected World Cup victories.• Facebook blocking parts of Twitter's FB app
• Facebook, Twitter no place for the lonely
Google Voice now open to all in U.S.
The Web-based call-forwarding and voice mail translation service has been invitation-only for the past year and a half, but no longer.• Four major holes in Google Voice
Microsoft adds music to Bing search results
An update to Microsoft's search engine adds playable songs and lyrics to search results and expands the Zune Marketplace to the Web.• Microsoft shoots for the stars with Bing update
• Microsoft, Hollywood debate future of entertainment
What's Adobe's 64-bit Flash plan?
Adobe Systems pulled the plug on its only 64-bit version of Flash, an experimental version for Linux. But the project remains a "high priority."• Adobe moves mobile Flash from rhetoric to reality
• Flash arrives in Google's Chrome browser
French regulators: Google snagged passwords, e-mail
Privacy regulators in France determine that Google stored some people's e-mails and passwords when it was collecting data from unsecured Wi-Fi hot spots.How Microsoft foresaw--and still missed--the iPad
In a little-remembered speech from 2005, Bill Gates showed a concept for a tablet much like the iPad. So how did Microsoft miss the boat?• Apple: 3 million iPads sold in 80 days
• Analyst estimates 16.5 million iPads sold by 2012
Smart grid security to become multibillion-dollar industry
Report predicts that a total of $21 billion worldwide will be spent on cybersecurity for smart grids between 2010 and 2015. Also of note• Intel, FTC in talks to settle antitrust claims
• Sears, Kmart to offer streaming movie service
• Mars cave opening found by 7th graders
Source: CNET News (http://cnet.com/)
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