Here's AOL's now-live new home page
The home page revamp focuses intently on editorial "curation," rather than a more social direction being taken by rival Yahoo.
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Microsoft to acquire gesture control maker Canesta
Canesta, which a year ago took in a $16 million round of funding, makes technology that enables people to control devices using motions instead of hardware interfaces.
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Mitsubishi to unveil 2011 i-Miev at LA auto show
Mitsubishi confirmed on Twitter that the U.S. version of its electric 2011 Mitsubishi i-MiEV will be unveiled at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show next month.
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Facebook holding mobile event next week
Despite shooting down rumors that the company was working on a mobile handset earlier this year, Facebook is holding a mobile-focused event at its headquarters next week.
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Is wireless better in Europe?
CNET chats with Olaf Swantee, an executive vice president for the wireless carrier Orange. Swantee manages the company's operations in 11 countries in Europe and the Caribbean.
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NCSA director: GPU is future of supercomputing
The director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications says the hybrid supercomputer in China is a harbinger of future high-performance computing that combines high-end CPUs and GPUs onto one chip.
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California unveils greenhouse gas trading plan
Final draft of cap-and-trade system ensures easy compliance terms in early years, and planners reserve the right to give preferential terms to industries at risk of fleeing the state.
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Waiting for Spotify, act gazillion and one
We've seen lots of positive press about Spotify, but the European music service trying to jump to the U.S. just can't seem to put nagging doubts about its business model behind it.
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IT's new sheriff: The Open Data Center Alliance
The new organization includes more than 70 global IT leaders, representing $50 billion dollars in annual IT spend. They've banded together to learn from each other and together influence IT procurement.
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Facebook acquires file-sharing service Drop.io
The New York-based start-up has close ties to Facebook going back to its early days; founder Sam Lessin, a college classmate of Mark Zuckerberg's, will be joining Facebook.
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Google spent $1.6B on 40 companies in 9 months
AdMob, Slide, and On2 Technologies were the big winners of Google's 2010 spending spree, but 37 other companies have cashed in so far this year.
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Snooki, Lady Gaga top Halloween costume queries
Experian Hitwise's annual tally of the top costume searches of the season indicates that over-the-top reality show and pop stars are still the most common routes for adult Halloween apparel.
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Ask Maggie: On disabling unwanted Android apps, recycling cell phones
This week's Ask Maggie tech advice column helps readers with questions about getting rid of unwanted Android apps, demystifying 3G connections, and how to recycle cell phones.
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LCD vs. e-ink: The eyestrain debate
With the upcoming release of the Barnes & Noble Nook Color "reader's tablet," a lot of people are talking about eyestrain when using a backlit display technology like LCD. Is it a myth?
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Microsoft unlocks Windows Phone 7 developers
The software maker is changing its policies to allow developers to write apps that run even when the phone's screen is locked. Previously, such apps had to first get a user's permission.
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Laptop nightmares: Scary systems with fatal flaws (photos)
We've compiled our own list of the scariest laptops of 2010--the models that either had one or more frightening flaws, or else were just dogs.
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1 billion hours logged each month on Xbox Live
Microsoft's Xbox Live platform is extremely popular. And now, Microsoft wants the world to know it. The company says that each month gamers spend 1 billion hours using Xbox Live around the world.
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Tesla opens its Model S electric car factory
Tesla leads a tour of its new facility where it will build the Model S electric sedan.
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3G sets up base camp at Mount Everest
Ncell, a TeliaSonera subsidiary, has launched 3G services covering the Khumbu region, with the main aim of providing coverage of the tourist walking route up to Everest.
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