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A toast to online wine
With old-fashioned liquor laws and complicated shipping procedures, selling or buying wine online has never been easy. But as CNET's Kara Tsuboi explains, it ...
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Twitter to Facebook, thanks but no thanks
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Facebook's proposal to buy Twitter for $500 million in stock and why the ...
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Wi-Fi while you fly
Imagine sending e-mails, browsing blogs, and booking your next trip with ease while soaring above the clouds. CNET's Kara Tsuboi tests out Virgin America's ...
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State of California CIO: E-governing with Web 2.0
Teri Takai, CIO of the State of California, discusses how she plans to use collaboration and knowledge sharing tools to help communicate with the ...
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Can Obama bring tech respect to Washington?
Senior editor Sam Diaz talks about how President-elect Barack Obama will use technology when he becomes president. Diaz says, while Obama might have to ...
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The BlackBerry Storm touches down
The BlackBerry Storm has been one of the most hotly anticipated cell phones of the year. On Friday, November 21, it hit store shelves ...
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Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging
ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft's Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz ...
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The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences
Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's ...
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Singing Elvis, Wii lightsabers top Kara Swisher's holiday list
At a Churchill Club event, All Things Digital's Kara Swisher shows CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber some new tech ideas for the ...
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SF Bay Area plugs in
The mayors of the San Francisco Bay Area's three largest cities gathered Thursday to announce their ambitious new initiatives to make the region the ...
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Walt Mossberg picks hot holiday gadgets
At a Churchill Club event, The Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg shows CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber new gadgets consumers might ...
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Choosing Yahoo's next CEO
At a Churchill Club event, Wall Street Journal columnist Kara Swisher tells CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber whom she'd pick to succeed ...
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Research In Motion aims to take smartphone market by Storm
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about the upcoming launch of the much-anticipated BlackBerry Storm. Diaz also details how the ...
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Yang resignation, successor the talk of the Valley
Silicon Valley is atwitter over what kind of CEO Yahoo needs to hire to replace the outgoing Jerry Yang. CNET's Kara Tsuboi hears opinions ...
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Yang's out. Is Microsoft in?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Jerry Yang's resignation from the search giant and why it wasn't entirely shocking. ...
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Browser wars: who’s the fastest?
Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks about the race for the fastest browser engine. Google, Microsoft, Appleare all competing with Mozilla. The competition, he ...
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Livescribe digital pen is Mac ready
CEO Jim Marggraff shows off the latest improvements to the Livescribe digital pen. Mac fans, take note: the company is coming out with a ...
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Livescribe digital pen gets student test
A UC Berkeley student has become such a devotee of the Livescribe digital pen that he's now one of three dozen "campus scribes" paid ...
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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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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.
