As far as buttons go, on the right side, the bottoms from top to bottom are: Home, Next Page, Menu, a joystick, and Undo. On the left side, there’s Previous, Page, and Next Page. We’re told the buttons are significantly smaller, to avoid accidental page turning. The joystick takes the place of the scroll wheel [...]

Occasionally, intelligent conversation erupts online–this time as the KDE open-source community tries to figure out whether it needs users or simply contributors. Jason Harris suggests:
Given that Harris is apparently not trying to make a living directly from KDE, his view is understandable. It is true that open-source projects flourish when people contribute code, rather than [...]

In this quick Prizefight, CNET TV’s Brian Tong and I pit the two against each other in a 3G speed test, clocking the time it takes for each device to load CNET News from start to finish. Now, there are a couple of things to remember. Both smartphones use different Web browsers, and there are [...]

Two fellow Microsoft-watchers, Todd Bishop of the Seattle P-I and Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet, have both commented on the move of former Media Center leader Joe Belfiore to the Zune team, which Directions on Microsoft noticed in our latest tracking of the Microsoft organizational structure. (Todd called me for comment and quotes me in [...]

The CX7450 employs four separate ink cartridges (one each for black, cyan, magenta, and yellow) and promises print speeds of up to 28 pages per minute. It includes a memory-card reader, a 120-sheet paper tray, and fairly basic scan/copy features. It’s new, not a refurb. As for the camera, well, it’s junk. It does double [...]

Why believe Schmidt can succeed where Gates couldn't?
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Back to Google. The company’s enjoyed an incredible run. But with the wilting of the company’s shares, toughing it out for the duration suddenly sounds a lot less appealing. With all due respect to Google’s ruling troika, “Do no evil” is not poetic enough to set [...]

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I’ll be a bit honest here. If I see another live video broadcasting tool for Nokia phones my head is going to explode. These things are all over the place, but admittedly far from useless. There’s [...]

In the past few months, these two mastodons of Wi-Fi portable media stampeded through the CNET office, leaving a trail of awestruck and dumbfounded reviewers in their dust. It seemed only natural to pit these two behemoths against each other in a prizefight worthy of their intimidating giantism.

Which super-size Wi-Fi portable video player will win [...]

Mozilla Labs plans to announce a plug-in called Geode on Tuesday that gives the
Firefox Web browser a better ability to understand and use geographic information on the Web.

There also are plenty of cases in which Web sites have geographic information such as a business address that’s not formally encoded as geographic data. The gradual arrival [...]

The previously announced cable, dubbed the Trans-Pacific Express, is scheduled to be partially operational before the Beijing Olympics begin on August 8. It will be the first direct connection between the United States and China.
The $300 million fiber-optic cable will stretch approximately 10,000 km (6,214 miles) under the Pacific. “Google’s partners in the consortium, dubbed [...]