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Google plans Chrome for Mac and Linux

News Walker said: "Once the design started to settle down, we started adding Mac and Linux engineers to the team, and they started getting the ball rolling on those platforms. Google has revealed it's already working on a version of its Chrome Internet...

Tags: linux, platforms, chrome, released

4 September 2008, 9:27

Microsoft and Yahoo re-enter talks

News And Yahoo, which sources told CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com, considered the ball to be in Microsoft's court since it was the one to walk away from the deal, faced the ire of its major shareholders after those deal talks failed.

Tags: proxy, deal, continue, advertising

19 May 2008, 10:21

Photos: High tech travel in Ford's taxi

News The silvery ball -- Ford calls it 'Sputnik' -- allows passengers to get cash to the driver. Ford Motor has long been a big-time supplier of taxis, from the Crown Victoria, with its generously proportioned sedan stylings to the Explorer Hybrid, with...

Tags: driver, connect, credit, auto

21 March 2008, 8:00

Photos: Busting up a PlayStation

News If this happens, the main screen's rotating blue ball doesn't move and the clock's numbers won't change. CNET News.com is publishing this excerpt. Released in 2000, the PlayStation 2 (PS2) was Sony's second game console.

Tags: ports, post, chip, cable

1 February 2008, 9:53

Game industry hits record $18bn sales

News But] Nintendo has certainly been the belle of the hardware ball this year, capturing the top two spots for hardware units sales for the year with the DS followed by the Wii. As widely predicted, 2007 was a record year for the industry, with...

Tags: titles, industry, console, retail

18 January 2008, 10:15

Photos: Fighting crime with 'nonlethal' tech

News It fires pepper-ball projectiles. Cdr. Charles 'Sid' Heal heads the technology exploration program in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The program's goal is to identify and help develop technologies that may have some use for law enforcement...

Tags: law, station, wave, ground

31 October 2007, 9:51

News.blog: Coalition forms for copyright protection

News Google is continuing to play hard ball," he says. A who's who of media companies -- CBS, News Corp's Fox Entertainment Group, NBC Universal, Viacom and Disney -- as well as Microsoft and the News Corp-owned MySpace, along with video-sharing sites...

Tags: filtering, released, youtube, copyright

19 October 2007, 10:05

News.blog: Physical sciences will change society

News Nordan showed off a ping pong ball covered in a nano-nickel material engineered by Integran Defense Systems. He smashed the ball between two pieces of wood with a hammer and wasn't able to dent it. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

Tags: engineering, technologies, scale, material

16 October 2007, 8:41

NY's 'Halo 3' launch nearly starts riot

News Best Buy and Microsoft staff kept their swag giveaways going, insisting that the rambunctious crowds cheer at the top of their lungs in order to get a free t-shirt or bouncy ball thrown at them. But a block away at the Best Buy store on 5th Avenue...

25 September 2007, 8:14

Photos: Famous films, Lego style

News In fact, this is a slightly bastardised version of the original in which Indy, after avoiding the giant ball, shouts out a giant cheer. It may be one of the most famous scenes in movie history: Indiana Jones running away from the giant stone ball...

24 September 2007, 10:49

Sony lines up iTunes video challenger

News Unless the company can find a new approach, something that moves the ball forward, I don't see how this latest video effort is going to go in Sony's favour. To Sony, the weak spot in Apple's iTunes fortress could be in video downloads.

6 September 2007, 9:03

News.blog: The camera behind Google's Street View

News Thanks to our good friend Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing, we now know that many of the images, at least those shot outside the San Francisco Bay Area, were shot using this fairly disco-ball-esque device by the outside contractor, Immersive Media.

1 June 2007, 9:51

Dell chooses Ubuntu for Linux PCs

News I don't think this is going to be a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park home run," said IDC analyst Al Gillen, who still doesn't see a major Linux draw for most Windows PC users. Dell is trying a second time to sell personal computers with Linux...

2 May 2007, 10:07

News.blog: Samsung hybrid drives ready to spin

News Hybrid drives and technologies such as Intel's Robson are expected to get the ball rolling, but some laptop makers might experiment with all-flash laptops this year. It's almost too bad: if my IT department buys hybrid hard drives, I won't have...

8 March 2007, 9:45

Photos: Around and about the Macworld floor

News There were other companies showing off brand-new products, but if Macworld had a belle of the ball, there's no question who would have won. Scores of companies gather at the conference each year to show off their wares to the estimated 40,000...

12 January 2007, 11:41