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Tech Awards honor techy solutions for developing world
From one-time-use syringes to fire logs made from an invasive African plant, the 2008 Tech Awards honored five innovators with $50,000 for creating technology ...
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GPS cell phones plot, predict traffic
With the popularity of GPS-enabled cell phones, it makes sense to use that mapping technology to plot traffic speeds. A new UC Berkeley and ...
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San Jose mayor announces 'green' award recipients
At a press conference in San Jose, Calif., Mayor Chuck Reed announces the winners of the inaugural Green Vision Innovation awards. The awards are ...
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Netflix Chief Product Officer: Streaming movies right to your TV
Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer of Netflix, believes that the future of movies is going to go right back to the television. With bigger ...
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Holidays look more humbug than happy for electronics chains
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about the effects of the economy on the tech sector as the holidays approach ...
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'60 Minutes': Toxins inside your computer (Part 3)
Scientists discuss e-waste, the fastest-growing component of the municipal waste stream worldwide, and the impact it has on those whose lives depend on it.
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Al Gore electrifies Web 2.0 Summit
Environmental Activist and former Vice President, Al Gore talks about the internet, electricity, and the past presidential election at the Web 2.0 Summit in ...
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Clean Tech Open entrepreneurs win big
In a relatively inhospitable economy for tech start-ups, the Clean Tech Open and its six $100,000 cash prizes are like oases in the desert. ...
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John Doerr: How Obama can kick start 'green' innovation
Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr discusses his views on clean tech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "The most important thing" that ...
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Otellini demos enterprise social-networking app
At the Web 2.0 Summit, Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows a new social-networking application targeted for businesses. He shows how an employee of a ...
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Intel CEO previews new handheld gadget
At the Web 2.0 Summit, Intel CEO Paul Otellini demos an unnamed handheld device in early development. The always-connected device uses a "smart" camera ...
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Why did Jerry Yang take the CEO role at Yahoo?
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media Publishing, talks to Jerry Yang about his job as CEO ...
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Jerry Yang reflects on Microhoo deal
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, John Battelle of Federated Media Publishing questions Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang about Microsoft's bid to buy ...
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Dreamforce '08: New cloud applications revealed
At Dreamforce 2008, ZDNet senior editor Sam Diaz hits the show floor and talks to technology vendors about new applications they are developing for ...
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Larry Brilliant outlines Google's giving strategies
At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google.org, declares that Google ripped off Salesforce's 1/1/1 model--and the company is ...
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Using social media to help ride out the downturn
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Senior Editor Sam Diaz at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco about why some are hesitant to put ...
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Salesforce to partner with Facebook
At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, and Steve Fisher, senior vice president of the platform division ...
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Benioff launches Sites
At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can ...
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Ozzie paints Windows Azure
Chief software architect Ray Ozzie talksd with CNET News' Ina Fried about Microsoft's OS for the cloud.
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Green leases allow tenants to be sustainable
At the Green Legal Strategy panel in San Francisco, Louise Adamson, a partner at K&L Gates, explains the commercial interiors certification within the LEED ...
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Ozzie paints Windows Azure
Chief software architect Ray Ozzie talksd with CNET News' Ina Fried about Microsoft's OS for the cloud.
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LucasArts unleashing new Star Wars game
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed uses ground-breaking new technologies to put players inside the story line, bridging the gap between the film prequels and the original Star Wars. For some close-up screenshots, check out our Force Unleashed image gallery.
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Iomega packs 1TB into tiny NAS device
Staying true to its heritage of releasing innovative external dedicated storage devices, Iomega is now shipping the $349 StorCenter Network Hard Drive: a storage device attached to a gigabit Ethernet network that in addition to providing 1 terabyte of JBOD, RAID 0 or RAID 1 configured storage, is also a print server.
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Do HP Pavilions have a Wi-Fi problem?
Tipped-off by a reader, ZDNet's David Berlind takes HP to task in Tech Shakedown for what appears to be a serious problem with the Wi-Fi feature on some Pavilion notebooks. Despite many complaints listed on HP's Web site over nearly five months, there's been little response from HP. Instead, the forum shows customers banding together to figure out the remedial steps to solve the problems.
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Opera browser for cell phones mimics iPhone's Safari
At the Digital Life Show in New York City, ZDNet executive editor David Berlind gets a demonstration of an iPhone-like browsing feature that Opera will be introducing into Opera Mini, a browser designed specifically for cell phones.
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Intel's new Nehalem processor
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Calif., Intel CEO Paul Otellini discusses the company's next-generation, 45-nanometer microarchitecture, Nehalem. The company says the processor will offer better performance and energy efficiency than its predecessors. It's scheduled to go into production in 2008.
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Nokia's pricey, unlocked E90 smartphone: Slick design for business elite
While cruising the floor at Interop, ZDNet executive editor David Berlind stopped by the Nokia booth to take a look at the E90 Communicator. Between its numeric keypad (on the outside of its clamshell design), a QWERTY keyboard (on the inside), a great display, and a full complement of software for business professionals, might the E90 be the perfect business accessory?
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Dell and Sun partner on Solaris
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Dell CEO Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers.
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Plat'Home's Linux server fits in your palm
On the floor of Interop New York 2007, ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind stops by the Plat'Home booth to take a closer look at its new--and small--Linux servers. With no moving parts, the OpenBlock S266 and the OpenMicroServer can operate in places where there is little room as well as little tolerance for machines that produce excessive heat.
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Nokia announces N810 Internet device
Look out, iPhone. Nokia's latest handheld Internet access device browses the Web, runs Flash and has GPS. It'll sell for $479 when it comes out in November. The downside: it has no cellular modem built in, so you have to use Wi-Fi or reach the Net via a Bluetooth link to your phone. Webware's Rafe Needleman takes a look.
