As music sales shrink, some new acts are reluctant to social network to help promote themselves. The labels tell them nowadays acts must connect with fans.

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Some Facebook users get messages meant for strangers after bug interferes with routine software update on the social networking site.

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Adobe partners warn the company of an exploit in the wild targeting a vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat 9.2.

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Despite a few big space discoveries being made, cutting edge breakthroughs were concentrated on solving earthbound problems this year.

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A mathematician in the U.K. has created a formula that explains exactly how you can fit your vehicle into a parking spot.

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Chipmaker’s “Nehalem” Core i architecture is finally coming to the mainstream mobile space. New MacBook Pros will follow.

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Here are a few of CNET’s favorite items from the past week, including the Sony Ericsson Aino, 2010 Lincoln MKS, and the HP Pavilion dm3-1002.

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After Google distributes its Android phone to employees to test, CNET gets a look. The slick-looking unlocked HTC “mobile lab” device runs the Android 2.1 operating system.

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In the suit and countersuit currently being played out between eBay and Craigslist, there’s really only one question: which famous tech character is to be believed?

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Start-up 1366 Technologies wants to transform the energy business one solar cell at a time. Can it make renewable energy cheaper than fossil fuels?

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