September 2009 - Industry News

Intel Forum preview: Moore's Law expressed as fewer chips

Intel plans to express Moore's Law as integration of functions into fewer chips later this month at the Intel Developer Forum. Read More...

Published 09-13-2009 2:00 PM by CNET News.com

Point of Wealth: The reverse ATM

Paid in cash? Point of Wealth lets you put it where you should, when you earn it. Read More...

Published 09-22-2009 8:14 AM by CNET News.com

Gist opens up, adds noise and friends filters

E-mail helper service Gist is now open to everyone and has some new ways for users to focus how much information they see. Read More...

Published 09-14-2009 10:00 PM by CNET News.com

Two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking

The more people know about how they're being tracked by online advertisers, the less they like it, a survey found. (From The New York Times) Read More...

Published 09-29-2009 1:55 PM by CNET News.com

Filed under: Media

Now syncing: Google history on mobile phones

Google has made two enhancements to Google.com on mobile phones: history sync and local search. See what's new. Read More...

Published 09-30-2009 2:51 PM by CNET News.com

How Yahoo is betting its cloud will pay off

With Yahoo counting on cloud computing to accelerate development, a behind-the-scenes IT guy like Shelton Shugar moves into the spotlight. Read More...

Published 09-30-2009 9:00 PM by CNET News.com

Twitter launches 'Lists' in limited testing

Microblogging service rolls out a user grouping feature, Lists, to a small subset of users with plans to expand to the entire user base once tested. Read More...

Published 09-30-2009 10:09 AM by CNET News.com

Supercomputer to use new Nvidia 'Fermi' chip

Oak Ridge National Laboratory announces plans for a new supercomputer that will use Nvidia's next generation GPU architecture. Read More...

Published 09-30-2009 8:05 AM by CNET News.com

Phone calling coming to Twitter

A beta service expected to launch Thursday will allow Twitter users to make voice calls to each other without needing to know someone's phone number. Read More...

Published 09-16-2009 9:46 AM by CNET News.com

OLED TV makers look to shift out of neutral

The technology is still years away, though Samsung and LG say they intend to increase production of bigger TVs using the new technology. Read More...

Published 09-30-2009 8:41 AM by CNET News.com

U.S. geothermal could supply 7 million people

Report shows state-by-state analysis of how much U.S. geothermal energy power is potentially available if current projects are completed. Read More...

Published 09-30-2009 11:38 PM by CNET News.com

Cisco to buy video firm Tandberg for $3 billion

As part of its expansion into videoconferencing and collaboration, Cisco Systems antes up for the Norwegian video communications company. Read More...

Published 09-30-2009 11:45 PM by CNET News.com

World's smallest neurostimulator gets green light

The Brio, which treats the symptoms of Parkinson's, gets European approval and is implanted in a 67-year-old man, though it is yet to be approved for use in the U.S. Read More...

Published 09-10-2009 6:49 AM by CNET News.com

Facebook Beacon has poked its last

As part of the terms of a class-action settlement against the ill-fated advertising experiment, Facebook will finally shut it down--and create a $9.5 million "settlement fund" to create an independent online privacy foundation. Read More...

Published 09-18-2009 4:58 PM by CNET News.com

802.11n Wi-Fi standard finally approved

After seven years, the new, faster standard for wireless networking finally makes it past the draft stage. Read More...

Published 09-11-2009 10:33 AM by CNET News.com