Report: Microsoft, Verizon score low in customer satisfaction
Customer satisfaction with Microsoft and Verizon ranks low among IT pros, according to a VendorRate report, while IBM's Informix ranks high.
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Apache and the future of open-source licensing
The GPL makes sense as a way to protect open-source software from proprietary interests, but doesn't this simply make it a less efficient form of proprietary software?
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Road Trip pic of the day, 7/15: What and where is this horse?
As part of his Road Trip 2009 project, CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman passed by this painted horse sculpture. Can you identify what it's part of, and where it's located?
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Adobe: Lightroom slows photo export on purpose
Why does it take Lightroom less time to export three batches of 100 photos than one batch of 300? So you can do something else while it's at work.
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Venture financings are up. Is this a good thing?
The VC industry may be recovering, but it might actually be healthier for a significant part of it to die.
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MTV Networks: Which video ads work best
A survey tested effectiveness and consumer opinion of different video ad formats across MTVN's media properties. The winner? A five-second pre-roll with a short pop-up in mid-clip.
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State Dept. to Clinton: Please let us use Firefox
The Department of State wants to use the Mozilla browser, but support costs may get in the way. Is Firefox easier and more cost-effective to support than IE?
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Embedded Linux company boasts 1-second boot
MontaVista demonstrates a vehicle dashboard system going from cold boot to "fully operational" in one second. The time may not translate into a desktop OS, though.
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End of an era for Office 2000
With Office 2010 just around the corner, Microsoft finally ends support for the version that, in 1999, it said "unleashes the power of the Web work style."
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YouTube pulls audio from greatest music video ever
At the request of Warner Music Group, a video that embeds the "Keyboard Cat" into an '80s-era Hall & Oates video has been silenced. Tragic!
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At FireLab, studying how fire works in order to battle it
As part of Road Trip 2009, CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman visited the U.S. Forest Service's Missoula, Mont., Smokejumpers center and its FireLab program to see how the government battles and studies fire.
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Google Voice coming to Android, BlackBerry
iPhone users will have to wait, but those on Android and BlackBerry devices will now be able make Google Voice calls directly from the handsets with two new mobile apps.
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Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS
In his first comments on the new Windows threat, Gates tells CNET News Chrome is neither the first OS from Google, nor the first time Microsoft has had to fend off Linux.
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Gates on physics, Chrome OS, and Project Natal
In an interview with CNET News' Ina Fried, the tech icon talks about life beyond Microsoft as well as some of the latest developments from Redmond.
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Xobni gives Outlook a premium boost
Xobni updates to version 1.8 and introduces a second layer of features while it's at it. Xobni Plus, as it's dubbed, is a premium feature bundle that takes Outlook search to the next level.
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Bill Gates offers the world a physics lesson
In an interview with CNET News, Gates talks about why he spent his own money to make a series of classic physics lectures available free on the Web. He also touches on Project Natal, Google's Chrome OS and more.
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Gates: Natal to bring gesture recognition to Windows too
In an interview with CNET News, Bill Gates notes that Microsoft has broad ambitions for using gesture-sensing cameras in the home and office.
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VoxOx 2 sounds better--but is it?
When VoxOx was released last November, it was hard to deny that the communication tools it offered were impressive. Its stability was also impressive--in a bad way. Check out what this new version's got, and why it's worth looking at.
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Stop cyberbullying with education, not new law
Larry offers advice on how to recognize, prevent and stop cyberbullying and points out the problems of a proposed federal law
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Woman twitters her way through a bank heist
Just at the moment a bank she was in was being robbed, a woman realizes that the track ball on her BlackBerry is broken and she cannot make a call or send an e-mail. So she twitters.
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