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• iPhone 5 mockup drawing attention at IFA 2012

  by Sindhuri G September 4, 2012
  The iPhone 5 has materialized at the IFA trade show in Berlin. In mockup form, at least. The tech-news site GSMIsrael was apparently the first to report on the iPhone 5 mockup, which it claims to have seen courtesy of the CEO of a major cover and case manufacturer. Like just about all the iPhone 5 ...

• BlackBerry 10 London leaked photo shows touch-screen phone

  by Sindhuri G September 4, 2012
  new leaked photo of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone, or the "London," promises a completely different looking BlackBerry than the world is used to. According to the BlackBerry news site N4BB, a photo of the device (which is designed by Porsche) shows a slender touch-screen phone that is the color "gun...

• Audi A7 vs. BMW 640i Gran Coupe: CNET On Cars Episode 1

  by Sindhuri G September 4, 2012
  Hope you've enjoyed the first episode of CNET On Cars. I'd love to hear your thoughts, via either the comments or email link on this page. With each of our bi-weekly shows, I'll be posting my personal notes about what took place behind the scenes. Think of it as show notes with a story to tell. A l...

• AntiSec claims to have snatched 12M Apple device IDs from FBI

  by Sindhuri G September 4, 2012
  An online hacker group associated with Anonymous claims to have posted 1 million Apple Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) by breaching FBI security. A UDID is the unique string of numbers that identifies each iOS device, formerly used by developers to track their app installations across Apple's use...

• What the mobile payment craze is really about: Coupons!

  by Sindhuri G September 4, 2012
  Your smartphone is going to get more adept at handling money, but maybe not in quite the way you've been imagining it would. There's been a lot of talk lately about mobile payments and how new apps or NFC technology will let you pay for things with your smartphone. But the truth is that this market...

• Can iWork on the iPad really compare to a Mac?

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Apple offers versions of its iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) for both the Mac OS and iOS platforms, and given that the new school year is right around the corner, students might be weighing the options for creating and managing projects using either iPads or Macs. While having been a fan of A...

• iPhone 5 rumor roundup

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  After unveiling a marginally improved iPhone 4S in 2011 instead of a radically different iPhone 5, Apple has returned to its development labs to cook up (no pun intended) the next iteration of its popular phone. In 2012, we're fairly certain that the real iPhone 5 will roll out of Apple's gates and ...

• What happens to the value of Samsung's 'outlaw' phones?

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Earlier this week I heard from Gazelle.com that the buy-back site saw a 50 percent jump in trade-ins of Samsung phones, particularly the Galaxy S II, in the three days immediately following a jury's finding that the GSII and a number of other Samsung phones had infringed on Apple patents. Now, on i...

• Apple rejects app for tracking U.S. drone strikes

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Apple has rejected an iPhone app designed to keep track of fatalities caused by U.S. drone strikes for its "objectionable" content. The company withheld App Store approval for Drones+, an app that sends text messages to iPhones whenever the media reports casualties resulting from a drone strike and...

• Leaked images tease new 'Kindle Paperwhite'

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Amazon is widely expected to unveil new Kindles next week, and it looks like we have been treated to an early peek at the new e-readers. Images obtained by The Verge show a device whose shape is largely unchanged from the previous generation of Kindles, although the button below the display has van...

• Clint Eastwood's RNC Obama chair gets own Twitter account

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  You know that wooden chair Clint Eastwood was talking to during tonight's speech at the Republican National Convention? It already has its own Twitter account. At least two actually. For those who might have missed it (but expect to hear plenty about it during upcoming RNC post-mortems), the iconic...

• How many pixels can Apple pack into a 4-inch screen?

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  A bigger screen on the iPhone 5 means more pixels in order to maintain the Retina branding. So, what can we expect exactly? I asked Paul Semenza, senior vice president of analyst services at NPD DisplaySearch. "To the best of our knowledge, the display will be 4 inches, with the same 326 ppi [pixe...

• At $249, the iPad Mini would be hard to stop, says analyst

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Will Apple lowball the iPad Mini? That's a crucial question for competitors staring down the barrel of a smaller Apple tablet, an analyst told CNET. The answer comes down to whether Apple wants to "crush the opposition" or just maintain dominance, said Rhoda Alexander, an analyst at IHS iSuppli. "A...

• Yep, even more iPhone 5 photos leak

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  French Web site Nowhereelse.fr has alleged images of the next iPhone. (Credit: Screenshot by Roger Cheng/CNET) So much for Apple's veil of secrecy. Another set of pictures and a video have emerged purportedly comparing the front face of the next iPhone, which many have taken to calling the iPho...

• Google, Apple: Talking patent peace in our time?

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Maybe Google got the hint after watching what happened to Samsung last week, but CNET has confirmed that the CEOs of Apple and Google have held at least one conversation in a bid to resolve the myriad intellectual property and patent disputes between the companies. Apple's CEO Tim Cook and Google's...
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• Virus knocks out computers at Qatari gas firm RasGas

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Less than two weeks after 30,000 computers at a Saudi oil company fell prey to a virus, a Qatari gas firm's Web site and corporate network are also down because of a virus. An unknown virus has affected office computer systems since Monday, a spokesman for RasGas, the second largest producer of liq...

• Facebook ad targeting to use e-mails, phone numbers

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Facebook plans to roll out a new advertising tool that will let companies target their ads to existing customers based on their phone numbers and e-mail addresses. The social network is launching the new tool next week and touts it as a way for businesses to reengage with customers who have already...

• Belts

  by Sindhuri G August 31, 2012
  Human space travelers will not find a hospitable welcome in a couple of doughnut-shaped radiation belts that stretch thousands of miles into space. Known as the Van Allen belts, the region is filled with killer electrons, plasma waves and electrical currents. Scientists believe similar radiation bel...