Microsoft Keynote The line for the Microsoft E3 2012 keynote presentation.Click here to view this gallery. Microsoft kicked off E3 2012 with a bang on Monday, highlighting its biggest upcoming games, as well as its future plans for …
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We Found the Best Dog Website Ever: OMFGDogs
The rest of your day is going to go to the dogs.In a hypnotic, ultra-cute style that can only be likened to Nyan Cat, OMFGDogs.com is just as addicting as it is colorful. A pack of dogs — with a Corgi leading the way an…
Google has acquired Meebo
It looks like the rumors were true: Google’s picked up Web IM company Meebo.Meebo announced the news in a blog post today (via TechCrunch):We are happy to announce that Meebo has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google!…
Microsoft has a new gaming handheld…and it’s the iPad
(Credit: James Martin)LOS ANGELES — You can forget about your dreams of an Xbox 360 Portable. That’s so 2006. No, at this year’s E3, Microsoft did something much more surprising: instead of getting proprietary, it hopped on every…
The 404 1,066: Where it’s the CNET minority report (podcast)
Microsoft SmartGlass: Xbox Live Companion on steroids?
(Credit: Microsoft)As many of my readers know, I’m not a video game fan, nor I am I a big TV fan. So sitting virtually through a two-hour E3 keynote address, chock-full of video game first-person-shooter previews…kill me now (pu…
Corning eyes flexible glass in products by 2013
CNET staffers try to break Gorilla Glass at a Corning facility.(Credit: Lynn La/CNET)Phones, tablets, and TVs with thinner, flexible screens may be available to consumers as soon as next year.Corning, the maker of glass used in Ap…
A Brainwave-Scanning Headset That Actually Reads Your Mind
(This post was first published by our friends at Gear Patrol.) Futuristic “bio sensor” company NeuroSky has finally perfected what Professor X was born with – a brainwave-scanning headset that can read your mind. Parts of it, at…
Obama Senior Advisor Joins Twitter, Pushes for Equal Pay
Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s Senior Advisor for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, joined Twitter on Monday under the username @vj44.She immediately went to work promoting the Paycheck Fairness Act, which calls…
Google agrees to acquire Meebo to expand its Google+ team
As expected, Google has agreed to buy social messaging and advertising company Meebo, a move that will help the search giant fill out the Google+ team.“For more than seven years we’ve been helping publishers find deeper relati…
Internet Explorer Coming to Xbox
At E3 2012, Microsoft announced its plans to help complete a chapter it helped open more than 15 years ago with WebTV: Internet Explorer is coming to the Xbox.Game consoles have had web browsers since the days of the Dre…
Google Acquires Meebo
Google has acquired Meebo for an undisclosed sum, the latter announced on its company blog Monday afternoon. Earlier rumors suggest that Google paid around $100 million for the seven-year-old startup.Rumors that the two co…
Location Apps: 4 Privacy Settings You Need to Know
Kate Brodock is executive director of digital and social media at Syracuse University, where she leads efforts in the space. Connect with her on Twitter at @just_kate and @othersidegroup. There are roughly 792 mobile apps …
United Nations views Flame as cybersecurity opportunity
The United Nations has seized on the appearance of the Flame worm, which targeted computers in the Middle East, to argue that it should have more authority to deal with cybersecurity threats on the Internet.Last week, the United N…
Witness the maturation of Xbox Kinect
(Credit: James Martin/CBS Interactive)LOS ANGELES–If you thought Microsoft’s motion sensing controller-less technology, Kinect, was going to take a backseat this year, you were wrong. In the minutes leading up to the press confer…