Built-in solar struggles with costs, efficiency
Given their unobtrusive nature, photovoltaic materials integrated into rooftop material were once touted as the next big thing in solar power. Instead, they're in the doldrums.
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Report: Amazon eyeing gadgets beyond Kindle
Amazon's Lab 26, the unit responsible for the Kindle, is looking to create other devices beyond the e-book reader to broaden the company's reach in digital content, says The New York Times.
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GE Research looks to the future (photos)
Road Trip 2010: CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman gets a chance to visit General Electric's global R&D facility in Niskayuna, N.Y.
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Qualifications needed to be HP's next CEO
There are plenty of names being tossed around for who'll take over Mark Hurd's old job. CNET takes a look at what qualities HP's board should be seeking in that candidate.
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Behind the scenes at GE Global Research
As part of Road Trip 2010, CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman spends a day at General Electric's famed R&D labs and sees a glimpse of some of the technologies the industrial giant will be coming out with in the future.
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Study: iPhone grippers have more sex than Android clutchers
A study by OKCupid suggests that anyone with an iPhone, male or female, has twice as much sex as anyone with an Android phone. Why might this be?
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Inside the Droid 2 lurks a Droid X
The Motorola Droid 2 is like the Droid X in a number of important ways, largely due to the Texas Instruments' chips used in both phones.
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Report: EU joining FTC Apple probe
Reports point to the European Union's regulators getting involved in the FTC probe launched last month that is examining Apple's role as a mobile software distributor.
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Zeus Trojan steals $1 million from U.K. bank accounts
New, dangerous combination of banking Trojan and exploit toolkit enables criminals to transfer money out of accounts while users are logged into the bank site, without them knowing it.
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Twitter's new deceased-user policy vs. Facebook's
Twitter now has a policy to help families disable or archive the accounts of deceased loved ones. How does it compare to the policy launched by the much larger Facebook a year ago?
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Plastic Logic cancels Que e-reader
After several delays and amid rapidly falling prices, the start-up says it has canceled plans for the pricey book and document reader.
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Google rallies opposition to Calif. energy measure
A ballot measure to suspend a California emission-reduction law until unemployment improves is decried by Google, which thinks that could derail clean-tech investment.
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Report: Crafty quit note outs boss' FarmVille habit
A woman reportedly decides that she's had enough of her boss and the way he monitors his staff's online activity. So she uses a dry board and the office e-mail to reveal, among other things, his FarmVille obsession.
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Facebook's Foursquare competitor is imminent
The massive social network is within weeks of finalizing a long-rumored product that will let users share their locations and give developers more location-based data to work with, sources tell CNET.
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Could phones become 'viable threat' to gaming devices?
Shipments of game-capable mobile phones are expected to grow about 11 percent this year, as shipments of consoles and handhelds slow, according to iSuppli.
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Robot could open door to Great Pyramid secrets
An international team of scientists is putting the final touches on a robot to explore mysterious air shafts leading from the queen's chamber.
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First SMS-sending Android Trojan reported
Trojan comes hidden in a media player app and then sends expensive text messages after it is installed. It appears to be affecting Android smartphone users in Russia and to only work on Russian networks.
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Record Patch Tuesday yields critical Windows, IE fixes
Microsoft says four fixes dealing with audio and video codecs, Office, .Net, and Silverlight should be priorities. Meanwhile, Adobe releases 10 critical fixes.
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What the Google-Verizon proposal really says
The framework is no more and no less than an offer of peace in the raging Net neutrality war, issued by two of the leading combatants, argues Stanford Law fellow Larry Downes.
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EnerG2 ultracapacitor plant eyes auto, grid storage
Start-up opens DOE-funded pilot facility to make nanomaterials optimized for energy storage in ultracapacitors and batteries for hybrid vehicles or grid storage.
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