Twitter, the social networking site that allows users to say something in 140 characters or less, passed another milestone on Saturday with the sending of tweet number 20 billion. The Twitter message was sent at 3:44pm GMT by “GGGGGGo_Lets_Go,” a graphic designer in Tokyo who works at an advertising agency, according to the user profile. [...]
If you know what this is and where it's located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) This might look like an optical illusion at first sight, and maybe it is. Either way, if you know what this is and where it’s located, you [...]
A new permanent celebration of baseball great Hank Aaron opened in 2009 at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman visited the Hall as part of Road Trip 2010. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) COOPERSTOWN, New York–For a lifelong baseball fan like me, visiting this little town on the edge of [...]
Microsoft is hard at work preparing a Windows-based alternative to Apple’s already-popular iPad tablet, the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts on Thursday. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, and Toshiba are cooperating with Microsoft on such a device, expected later this year, in a bid to catch up with Apple and Google Android. “It is job-one [...]
Samsung appears to have won the race to be the first device manufacturer to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission for a phone based on the 4G LTE standard. The state of 4G in 2010 Currently known as the Samsung R900, the device will have LTE connectivity as well as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G [...]
A calculator is a calculator is a calculator, right? Unless you’re talking about TLA Systems’s PCalc, which is, of course, the calculator. The latest update to the iPhone and iPad version of the app, PCalc 2.2, brings a bunch of improvements, not least of which is a slick new theme. Developer James Thomson describes the [...]
A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they’re at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn’t be a bad idea, either. Social engineering hackers — people who trick employees into doing and saying things that they shouldn’t — took their best shot at the Fortune [...]
McAfee Inc.’s second-quarter profit jumped 38% as the antivirus-software maker posted strong revenue growth in North America, although margins fell slightly. The results mark a sharp improvement over the first quarter, when McAfee’s profit dropped despite an increase in revenue, as the security-software maker was hit by currency fluctuations and delays in deal closings. "It’s [...]
Microsoft is hard at work preparing a Windows-based alternative to Apple’s already-popular iPad tablet, the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts on Thursday. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, and Toshiba are cooperating with Microsoft on such a device, expected later this year, in a bid to catch up with Apple and Google Android. “It is job-one [...]
Samsung appears to have won the race to be the first device manufacturer to gain approval from the Federal Communications Commission for a phone based on the 4G LTE standard. The state of 4G in 2010 Currently known as the Samsung R900, the device will have LTE connectivity as well as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and 3G [...]
