Sending e-mails or on the internet shopping while orbiting the Earth in outer-space seems like the stuff of science fiction movies. But in this Daily Debrief, CNET’s Kara Tsuboi and Rafe Needleman discuss how NASA is working to make these far-fetched ideas a reality.
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The company teams up with YouTube for a coming-out celebration showing off its in-flight Wi-Fi service.
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Google’s CEO is wrong to play politics with the company’s brand — Google CEO Eric Schmidt should have left his corporate logo behind when stumping for Obama.
Audacity: free general-purpose sound-editing tool — A colleague needed a easy tool for editing audio. Audacity fit the bill.
Yeti footprints found by (alleged) scientist — Yeti’s footprints were all that was captured by a seven-man, 42-day expedition in Nepal.
Identify mystery startup apps in XP and Vista — Unless you built your Computer yourself, there are probably a bunch of programs installed on your system that begin with Windows, though what they do–and whether they really need to begin with Windows–is anybody’s guess.
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Google’s CEO is wrong to play politics with the company’s brand — Google CEO Eric Schmidt should have left his corporate logo behind when stumping for Obama.
Audacity: free general-purpose sound-editing tool — A colleague needed a simple tool for editing audio. Audacity fit the bill.
Yeti footprints found by (alleged) scientist — Yeti’s footprints were all that was captured by a seven-man, 42-day expedition in Nepal.
Identify mystery startup apps in XP and Vista — Unless you built your Computer yourself, there are probably a bunch of programs installed on your system that start with Windows, though what they do–and whether they really need to begin with Windows–is anybody’s guess.
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Despite a hectic past two months fighting off a proxy battle with investor Carl Icahn, Yahoo is rumored to be sending out buyout feelers for social-networks company Demand Media.
Yahoo’s Hilary Schneider, who was recently promoted to oversee the company’s U.S. go-to market operations, traveled to Demand …
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The SC-MX20 will be available in August for $279.99.
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Each month seems to bring a new YouTube-centric digital camcorder and July is no exception: Samsung has announced the SC-MX20, a $279.99 model that’s the successor to the SC-MX10. It’ll arrive in stores in August …
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The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B spreads 1TB of capacity over only three platters.
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Hitachi was first to hit the terabyte mark when it announced the 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive in January 2007. Fast forward a year and a half, and the company is back with not a …
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Updated at 2:20 p.m. PDT, with details about an opinion piece by Yahoo board member Gary Wilson in The Wall Street Journal.
After taking a one-two punch from investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang threw a few punches of his own in …
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Updated at 2:20 p.m. PDT, with details about an view piece by Yahoo board member Gary Wilson in The Wall Street Journal.
After taking a one-two punch from investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang threw a few punches of his own in …
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Yahoo’s third largest investor offered up some advice Tuesday to dissident shareholder Carl Icahn on what it may take to swing investor votes his way in a proxy fight, according to a Reuters report.
Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller had this observation to offer to Reuters, when queried …
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