stephen shankland cnet news
47 Results
Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts & Resources
-
Smarter Servers
Servers. They're the brain of your company. Get a smarter one. Learn about IBM's line of System X servers in this brochure that details the different types of hardware available for your server needs.
-
Hacker dual-boots iPhone to run Android OS
A member of the a group called the iPhone Dev Team devoted to hacking iPhones posted a video demonstrating Google's Android operating system on an Apple iPhone.
-
Microsoft sponsors new Web font standard
With a surprise boost from Microsoft, the promise of rich typography on the Web just got a big step closer to reality.
-
Help coming for judging phone camera quality
The International Imaging Industry Association, a consortium involving more than 30 companies, is working on a test that will use a five-star rating and a basic accompanying chart to judge image...
-
Next Firefox to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support
Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers.
-
Google execs convicted in YouTube Italy case
An Italian court handed out guilty verdicts on Wednesday for three of four Google executives charged a case concerning a YouTube video posted of a teenager with Down Syndrome.
-
-
Google donates $2 million to Wikimedia
Google has made a $2 million donation to the Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind the widely used Wikipedia reference site.
-
Facebook, AOL link instant messaging
Facebook's and AOL's instant-messaging systems now can link together. It's a step forward--but one that also shows how backward Net communications are today.
-
Google seeks four patents for Web app tech
Google has filed at least four patent applications for technology it is building into its Chrome browser to try to make the web a more powerful foundation for applications.
-
Opera gets a new CEO
Opera Software has promoted Chief Commercial Officer Lars Boilesen to chief executive, the Norwegian maker of the Opera desktop and mobile browsers.
-
Mozilla hopes to finish Thunderbird 3.1 in April
Mozilla Messaging hopes to release Thunderbird 3.1 in early April, a date that reflects a new frequent-release strategy adopted from the better-known Firefox effort at Mozilla.
-
Mobile Firefox nears launch
Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence.
-
Intel demos 48-core chip
Pushing several steps farther in the multicore direction, Intel on demonstrated a fully programmable 48-core processor it thinks will pave the way for massive data computers powerful enough to do...
-
Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics
Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But Mozilla could be one step ahead.
-
Google hopes to remake programming with Go
Google hopes to boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an open-source experimental programming language project called Go.
-
Thunderbird 3: Near-final version due next week
Thunderbird 3, an update to the email software Mozilla hopes will give it some of the advantages its Firefox browser has enjoyed, is due to arrive in near-final form next week.
-
Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday.
-
Chrome 4.0 gets beta release
Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, and now it is also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16.
-
Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
In September, Intel introduced its idea of tiny 'microservers'. Now the company wants to make the design into a standard others can use, too.
-
Xerox prints computer smarts on fabric, plastic
In conjunction with a conference in Europe this week, Xerox has announced a new ink technology for printing electronic circuitry on everything from clothes to roll-up computer displays.
-
Firefox's crossroads: Cutting-edge or mainstream?
Mozilla has built the Firefox browser from a largely unsuccessful remnant of the Netscape era of the 1990s into the browser that nearly a quarter of people on the Web use. Now the challenges are...
The best of ZDNet, delivered
ZDNet Newsletters
Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox
