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Laying the grid for the electric car (photos)
Hoping to energize the electric car industry and make the Bay Area the electric car capital of the United States, San Jose, Calif., installs the first of hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations.
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Mitsubishi i-Miev in the city
CNET Car Tech spent some time with the Mitsubishi i-Miev in San Francisco.
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Do unto others--Jasmine's Tech Dos & Don'ts
Get schooled by CNET editor Jasmine France. This week she gives tips on how you can use technology to do good things for fellow humans.
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Firefox Home for iPhone, Firefox Sync see fixes
Updates to the Firefox cloud-based syncing tools for iPhone and for the Firefox browser correct three of users' top complaints, according to Mozilla.
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Google services reported down in China
But those reports, which said nearly all of the Internet giant's services were blocked Thursday, turned out to be erroneous.
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Can your calls be intercepted? This tool can tell
Airprobe software, combined with hardware and crypto cracker tool, allows people to test the snoop factor of their GSM mobile phones--and even intercept calls of others.
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NY Giants, Jets bring replays to in-stadium fans
The New York Giants and Jets will soon offer replays, statistics, and live feeds of other games to fans at the New Meadowlands Stadium.
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Bob Kerrey not joining MPAA after all
Talks to hire the former U.S. senator as head of the film industry's trade group fall apart.
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U.S. military cyberwar: What's off-limits?
Ex-NSA and CIA head tells Black Hat crowd that rules for when military can attack foreign networks might exempt power grids and financial networks.
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Ballmer says Microsoft at work to rival iPad
Though short on details, Microsoft's CEO said it is "job one" to make sure that Windows 7 is an attractive option for slates and tablets.
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Graphics chip market seeing big changes
As Nvidia falters, AMD's ATI graphics unit is on the rise, spurred by "radical" shifts in a notoriously fickle market, says Mercury Research.
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Ballmer talks up Microsoft's consumer business
Microsoft's CEO takes the stage at the company's financial analyst meeting. CNET's Ina Fried is in Redmond with coverage live from the event.
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In D.C., digital transparency has grown messier
The government using the Web to make its policies and processes more "open" sounds sunny, but the inability of a Supernova conference panel to go into much depth about it highlights its complexities.
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Searchable Facebook user data posted to Pirate Bay
The names and Facebook profile Web addresses for 171 million accounts are scraped from the site and posted on file-sharing site Pirate Bay.
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EV charging station recharges without wires
Evatran introduces a "hands free" EV charging station that eliminates the need to remember to recharge at the end of the day--or dirty your hands.
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The future of concert ticketing
An experiment by Topspin and the Pixies for a couple of U.K. concerts demonstrates that in the future many acts won't need ticket brokers or promoters.
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The jailbreaking exemption has its limits
The "essential use" exemption means that only customers can legally perform jailbreaks. And it doesn't stop companies such as Apple from various work-arounds, argues Stanford Law Fellow Larry Downes.
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Who's bringing what? Divvyus helps you sort it out
Planning a barbecue, dinner party, or anything else that means group resource gathering? Divvyus lets you dole out those tasks in an orderly fashion.
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YouTube bumps video limit to 15 minutes
Want to put videos longer than 10 minutes up on YouTube? It's now a reality, with a new 15-minute limit.
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HTC revamps key management staff to spur growth
Taiwan mobile phone maker announces series of new jobs and promotions in management staff as part of ongoing effort to drive future growth.
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