A new survey released by ChangeWave Wednesday makes it clear that despite a relatively strong first quarter, Apple is not out of the woods yet. Of respondents planning to buy a notebook in the next 90 days, the percentage of those planning to buy an Apple notebook fell six percentage points to 28 percent, as [...]

A Cea of gadgets Although some participants were feeling the credit crunch, the annual parade of gadgets that is Ceatec generated much industry buzz. The electronics show in Japan, although a bit smaller this year, remains the place to see highly imaginative prototypes, as well as get a glimpse of what will actually be on [...]

“Doing nothing was basically agreeing to watch your industry get totally decimated. It was a hard decision to make but it was one where there was no alternative.” –Cary Sherman, RIAA president

Representatives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet-rights advocacy group, disagree.

Sherman spoke to CNET News hours after The Wall Street Journal [...]

Users could order customized cards based on their musical profiles or Pandora stations. They’d have to be created on demand, which would be more costly than mass-producing the same card thousands of times, but Pandora already has the algorithms and infrastructure to create customized radio stations on the fly, so how much more expensive could [...]

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Nortel has been struggling to regain its footing since the last economic downturn in 2001 and 2002, which hit the telecommunications industry particularly hard. But the recent credit crunch may end up as the death knell for the company, making it difficult for Nortel to fund its operations. At the same time, customers have also [...]

Gmail now lets you merge multiple contacts.

Of course, there are legitimate occasions when Gmail might have multiple entries for the same person, such as when a friend whose personal e-mail address you use then e-mails you from her work address.

(Via the unofficial Google Operating System Blog.)
(Credit:
Google/CNET News)

Google now offers to treat the symptom, if [...]

“Over the years, we have taken different approaches to naming Windows,” Nash wrote. “We’ve used version numbers like Windows 3.11, or dates like Windows 98, or ‘aspirational’ monikers like Windows XP or Windows Vista. And since we do not ship new versions of Windows every year, using a date did not make sense. Likewise, coming up with an all-new ‘aspirational’ name does not do justice to what we are trying to achieve, which is to stay firmly rooted in our aspirations for Windows Vista, while

Good luck, Tesla, but Washington ain’t Interop. You can throw lots of clean-energy market hype around, but there won’t be much support in Congress to bail out VC firms, Valley multimillionaires, and a shoe-string manufacturer of cars for fat cats. There are too many others who really need the money.

Tesla Motors, a start-up focused on high-performance electric
cars, appears to be in a bit of trouble.

Tesla may be a technological marvel and it is located in Silicon Valle