Podcast: One-stop online shopping for public assistance
A new Web-based service helps people in need of pubic assistance find and apply for multiple programs with a single application.
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FAQ: Recognizing phishing e-mails
Phishing attacks have spiked this year, recent reports show. Here's a primer on what phishing is and how to avoid it.
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Real-time newcomer Factery Labs finds you facts
A new semantic search tool promises to both sort out search results as well as cut down some of the need to read them. Is it too good to be true?
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Chip designer ARM leads Android alliance
Chip designer launches an alliance of 35 companies to support developers of products running Google's operating system.
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Adobe releases new Flash, AIR betas
Flash Player 10.1 gets a hardware video boost, and AIR 2 gets tighter integration with desktop computing resources such as USB drives and multitouch interfaces.
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Crowdsourced cartography in PublicEarth, OpenStreetMap
Can a crowd of amateur mappers create better guidebooks and maps than professionals? Signs point to yes.
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Report: Countries prepping for cyberwar
U.S., Israel, Russia, China, and France are gearing up for cyberoffensives, according to a new McAfee report.
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Google scoops up ex-Microsoftie Don Dodge
Microsoft's former director of business development takes a position at Google, evangelizing their technologies to the developer community.
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A new antidepressant really turns women on
Flibanserin, designed to fight depression, turns out to be a poor antidepressant but a great libido booster in women who report low sex drives, new studies find.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 banned in Russia
Russian gamers and politicians are offended that Russians are portrayed as somewhat terroristic, so they ban the console version and force edits in the PC and Steam versions.
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Audio Slideshow: Hackers use tech to solve disaster relief challenges
At Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, Calif., developers come together with NASA, the World Bank, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to exchange emergency response ideas.
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Firefox-syncing Weave updates to beta
Mozilla's homegrown tool for synchronizing Firefox across computers and devices graduates to beta and introduces incremental syncing and a more streamlined, less obtrusive experience.
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Paul Allen diagnosed with cancer
The Microsoft co-founder has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to a memo sent by his sister.
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Finding safe toys this holiday season
Toys might top your kids' holiday lists this year, but finding safe toys for them might be a little difficult. This roundup offers resources for determining whether your prospective purchase is a safe toy.
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Senate to disclose findings in Web 'mystery charge' probe
Numerous shoppers have traced mystery credit card charges to Webloyalty, Affinion, and Vertrue. Congress will reveal the results at a hearing Tuesday.
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Supercomputers and the future of Hulu
We talk supercomputers and Hulu, in just that order. Who's got the fastest supercomputer? And will you soon have to pay to use Hulu.com to watch TV shows and movies?
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Microsoft opens app store to more phones
Although Microsoft has just made its mobile marketplace available for Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1, Microsoft will have to do more if it wants to reach Apple's 100,000 apps--and counting.
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Office 2010 beta available for developers
The updated test version is now available to members of Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet developer programs.
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Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal
Opponents of Google Books settlement say the search giant will still have exclusive rights to digitize orphaned out-of-print works.
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Upping the ante in the supercomputer stakes
roundup This week's SC09 conference puts the spotlight on the highest of high-end computing systems.
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