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Sources: YouTube, not Warner Music, pulled videos
In contract negotiations, Warner made "11th-hour" demand and received its answer from YouTube when the company began yanking the label's videos.
An end to the Google bonus fairytale?
Google employees used to fairytale-like cash bonuses on the north side of $20,000 will have have to put up with a cell phone this year.
Scrapplet takes portable site creation to a new level
Scrapplet enters public beta for all your Web customization needs.
EA to offer 'Spore' DRM-free
It will be one of several titles distributed via Valve's Steam platform. The move is likely to win EA points with gamers.
Red Hat's third-quarter earnings suggest resilience
The software maker has been hit by the global economic slowdown, but its quarterly numbers suggest it is weathering the storm better than most.
Playfish launches premium in-game campaigns
Creative monetization will drive revenues for game providers. Dependence on advertising revenue is a no-win situation.
5 little Gmail annoyances Google needs to fix
Gmail may be great, but it's annoying sometimes too. Find out some of those attributes that Don Reisinger thinks Google should address.
Chamber backs broadband deployment--without Net neutrality laws
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is releasing a series of papers studying the benefits of broadband and advocating for a continued loose regulatory framework.
Puzzle extension turns any Web image into a game
Turn any image into a puzzle with a new extension for Firefox. It can make your dreary work day that much more exciting.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo as Ford, GM, and Chrysler
Analyst draws parallels between tech industry titans and Detroit in the early 20th century. They're thought-provoking, but is he right?
Microsoft grants Windows XP a reprieve
System builders and resellers get extra time to obtain licenses for the discontinued XP for their systems.
Prudery in the cause of cyber-censorship? Hardly
The Guardian claims we don't have the guts to call things by their name because we're a bunch of prudes. Au contraire, Baudelaire.
The great paradigm shift of cloud computing is not self-service...
Tremendous opportunity and innovation has been delivered by self-service cloud platforms. But this shift will be peanuts compared to a great technological transition now in the works.
The White House reboots
As the president-elect gets ready to take office, he offers a fresh take on technology, with plans to give weekly YouTube addresses, promote green tech, and more.
Mint.com brings personal finance to the iPhone
The free personal finance iPhone app features very little in the way of security, but comes with ease of access.
'60 Minutes' video: Governator's green challenge
Arnold Schwarzenegger says he'll stick to his environmental plans, despite the economic crisis: "Green technology's where it's at," he says, while fighting the Bush administration and others.
Year in review: On Web, innovation meets hard times
A lot of progress took place this year in Web start-ups and online technology, before the dark clouds of recession and layoffs swept in.
CNET News Daily Podcast: Our last podcast for the year
As Christmas beckons, Palm gets a new lifeline; phone rumors swirl around Garmin; and there's more fallout from the recording industry's ISP turnaround last week.
iPhone Nano cases appear online
Another indication that Apple could be readying a smaller iPhone Nano appeared Monday in the form of a product listing on a case manufacturer's Web site.
Obama names science and technology team
President-elect Barack Obama has named leaders in climate change, cancer research, and genetic research to head his science and technology team.
