NCT Newsletter

Stay informed on our latest news!

Syndicate content

Feed aggregator

Laying the grid for the electric car (photos)

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 22:33
Hoping to energize the electric car industry and make the Bay Area the electric car capital of the United States, San Jose, Calif., installs the first of hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations.
Categories: Technology

Mitsubishi i-Miev in the city

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 19:33
CNET Car Tech spent some time with the Mitsubishi i-Miev in San Francisco.
Categories: Technology

Do unto others--Jasmine's Tech Dos & Don'ts

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 19:29
Get schooled by CNET editor Jasmine France. This week she gives tips on how you can use technology to do good things for fellow humans.
Categories: Technology

Black Hat shines light on security (roundup)

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 19:11
Las Vegas is the setting this week for two of the most popular annual security events. First comes Black Hat for the professional crowd, followed by the more antic Defcon gathering.
Categories: Technology

Firefox Home for iPhone, Firefox Sync see fixes

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:55
Updates to the Firefox cloud-based syncing tools for iPhone and for the Firefox browser correct three of users' top complaints, according to Mozilla.
Categories: Technology

Google services reported down in China

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:55
But those reports, which said nearly all of the Internet giant's services were blocked Thursday, turned out to be erroneous.
Categories: Technology

Can your calls be intercepted? This tool can tell

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:44
Airprobe software, combined with hardware and crypto cracker tool, allows people to test the snoop factor of their GSM mobile phones--and even intercept calls of others.
Categories: Technology

NY Giants, Jets bring replays to in-stadium fans

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:19
The New York Giants and Jets will soon offer replays, statistics, and live feeds of other games to fans at the New Meadowlands Stadium.
Categories: Technology

Bob Kerrey not joining MPAA after all

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 17:01
Talks to hire the former U.S. senator as head of the film industry's trade group fall apart.
Categories: Technology

U.S. military cyberwar: What's off-limits?

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:43
Ex-NSA and CIA head tells Black Hat crowd that rules for when military can attack foreign networks might exempt power grids and financial networks.
Categories: Technology

Ballmer says Microsoft at work to rival iPad

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:35
Though short on details, Microsoft's CEO said it is "job one" to make sure that Windows 7 is an attractive option for slates and tablets.
Categories: Technology

Graphics chip market seeing big changes

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:31
As Nvidia falters, AMD's ATI graphics unit is on the rise, spurred by "radical" shifts in a notoriously fickle market, says Mercury Research.
Categories: Technology

Ballmer talks up Microsoft's consumer business

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:16
Microsoft's CEO takes the stage at the company's financial analyst meeting. CNET's Ina Fried is in Redmond with coverage live from the event.
Categories: Technology

In D.C., digital transparency has grown messier

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:05
The government using the Web to make its policies and processes more "open" sounds sunny, but the inability of a Supernova conference panel to go into much depth about it highlights its complexities.
Categories: Technology

Searchable Facebook user data posted to Pirate Bay

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 15:20
The names and Facebook profile Web addresses for 171 million accounts are scraped from the site and posted on file-sharing site Pirate Bay.
Categories: Technology

EV charging station recharges without wires

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 15:19
Evatran introduces a "hands free" EV charging station that eliminates the need to remember to recharge at the end of the day--or dirty your hands.
Categories: Technology

The future of concert ticketing

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 15:10
An experiment by Topspin and the Pixies for a couple of U.K. concerts demonstrates that in the future many acts won't need ticket brokers or promoters.
Categories: Technology

The jailbreaking exemption has its limits

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 14:45
The "essential use" exemption means that only customers can legally perform jailbreaks. And it doesn't stop companies such as Apple from various work-arounds, argues Stanford Law Fellow Larry Downes.
Categories: Technology

Who's bringing what? Divvyus helps you sort it out

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 13:56
Planning a barbecue, dinner party, or anything else that means group resource gathering? Divvyus lets you dole out those tasks in an orderly fashion.
Categories: Technology

YouTube bumps video limit to 15 minutes

CNET news.com - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 13:13
Want to put videos longer than 10 minutes up on YouTube? It's now a reality, with a new 15-minute limit.
Categories: Technology