He added, “There’s a rate at which this will happen, and if we aren’t on the edge of pushing this out, then we aren’t doing our jobs.”

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One of the key factors driving this evolution, Zuckerberg said–as he’s said before–is the fact that Facebook deals with the bleeding edge of information sharing and that the site has had to gradually incorporate new features as its users become more comfortable with making more p

In the U.S., smartphone prices have fallen dramatically. For example, Apple is offering its 8GB
iPhone 3G phone for $99 with a two-year service contract from AT&T. Other older models of smartphones can also be bought for $99 or less with mail-in rebates and other incentives.

Motorola’s market share fell to 5.6 percent from 10 percent in the second quarter of 2009. And Sony Ericsson’s market share fell to 4.7 percent from 7.5 percent.

So where will this leave handset

After taking Natal for a test drive, CNET News' Ina Fried wants to know when the rubber will meet the road. One game maker suggests the answer is late next year.

Microsoft has also said it has plans for Natal that stretch well beyond just gaming or the
Xbox. Chairman Bill Gates told CNET that it is a technology he sees moving onto Windows, while Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie has shown some of the same gesture, voice, and facial recognition technologies a

The system has more of an allure for parents though. It’s easier for them to dole out cash and track where it goes. In other words, your kid can have the $20 they said they needed for gas money, but if it ends up being for the late-night beer run, you’re going to know about it.

One thing that makes the service really neat is that if the child runs out of money, they can send a text to PayPal to request more. The parent then gets a text message from PayPal asking if they

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For my part, I hope that Radiohead will release new singles early and often, with an emphasis on getting them out quickly to test their appeal, then fine-tuning them over time. The same holds true for software. My only question is if at some point in the future we’ll see Linus Torvalds and Thom Yorke jamming together on stage.

Ditto for software. Google has already showed one way to get beyond the “

The move to require editors’ approval before edits go live was hatched three years ago, as CNET News reported first at the time. Back then, the idea was one that was going to be tested out on the German Wikipedia site as a way of seeing how to fix problems with vandalism that were increasingly creeping up. It was thought that if the test was successful in Germany, the same system could then be rolled out on the English version.

This week, much of the movers and shakers in the Wik

Air flows along a predetermined path with “cold aisles” pumping cooled air to the front of equipment from the floor and hot air behind server fans being sucked upward from the ceiling in “hot aisles.”

And the investments IBM made in making the center more efficient are “very cost justified,” said Patrick Toole, the company’s newly named chief information officer, in an interview. IBM as a company has wrung $3 billion in costs over the past year, which it plans to continue, he sai

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In this day and age, it’s hard to imagine that there might be an automotive speed record left that’s only slightly north of 100 miles per hour. Heck, I’ve been passed by Audis on the autobahn that seemed to be going twice that fast.

Will they be cooking with, um, gas later this month when officials of the record-vetting Federation Internationale de l’Automobile join them in the desert? We’ll know soon enough.

Now along comes a 21st-

Ninety-two percent of the 300 U.S. companies in IDC’s “Green IT & Sustainability Survey 2009″ said getting customers to move from print to online services is a goal they hope to initiate within 12 months.

It’s not your imagination. And you’re about to be inundated with even more requests to opt-in to paperless communications, according to an IDC survey released Thursday.

The survey also shows an increased interest from companies in implementing gr

This is basically something that many blogging and publishing services already do: offer a way to automatically syndicate a short blurb and a link onto Twitter. It’s a no-brainer. But Facebook and Twitter have a complicated history. Facebook attempted to acquire Twitter last year, and Twitter turned the offer down. Then, earlier this summer, Facebook did acquire FriendFeed, a social-network aggregator that failed to gain mainstream traction but pioneered many of the real-time, streaming featu