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Photos: Messenger returns to Mercury

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:52:00 PDT

NASA's Messenger spacecraft makes second pass by Mercury as part of effort to slow down enough to orbit the barren planet in March 2011.

At last Google invents something truly brilliant

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:25:00 PDT

GMail Goggles stop you from drunkenly sending an email you might regret.

MyPunchbowl gets new look, snazzy invite designer

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:37:00 PDT

Party-planning tool MyPunchbowl has a new "design studio" for creating online invitations. It looks startlingly like paper.

ZoomProspector helps you relocate your business

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:29:00 PDT

Commercial real estate site designed to help businesses find communities for new offices or plants, and then find the properties that fit their needs.

EU directive could change iPhone battery design

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:24:00 PDT

Regulators are considering a directive that would force cell phone makers to offer batteries that are "readily replaceable," which is not the case with Apple's iPhone.

Virgin turns down $1 million for galactic porn movie

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:05:00 PDT

Virgin Galactic declines an offer from a porn producer to shoot zero gravity sex.

Analysts cut Google and SAP price targets and earnings estimates

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:01:00 PDT

Shares continued their downward trek as Wall Street weighed in Tuesday with earnings cuts.

MIT prof sees no free ride to cleaner cars

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:00 PDT

Q&A John Heywood of MIT says policies that encourage consumers to buy "green" are the only way to truly transform the nation's fleet.

CBS live Webcast: Presidential debate, round two

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:00 PDT

Continuing our coverage of Election 2008, CBS News and CNET are presenting a live Webcast of Tuesday's presidential debate, followed by Web-only analysis and commentary.

Solar start-up scores with series of tubes

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:50:00 PDT

Maker of CIGS thin-film solar tubes secures $600 million in funding and $1.2 billion in contracts.

Government report: Data mining doesn't work well

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:30:00 PDT

Using data mining to try to detect terrorists is "neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts," new report finds.

Why I can't wait for the iPod to die

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:03:00 PDT

Don Reisinger wants to see the iPod die as soon as possible. Apple fans may not like that, but would it make things better?

If the economy tanks, will subscriptions become a panacea?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:58:00 PDT

Zuora debuts online payment service with PayPal connection, the second product from a start-up focused on the software-as-a-service business.

At CERN, computers to tackle the Big Bang

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:56:00 PDT

Scientists hope the Large Hadron Collider will offer clues to the origin of the universe. They'll get some help from a well-stocked data center.

Apple's 'Brick' manufacturing rumors--not so revolutionary?

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:43:00 PDT

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AMD to spin off manufacturing--Company is expected to announce a long-expected restructuring of its manufacturing operations.

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Mozilla: The right attitude for the Web's gatekeeper--Mozilla has a dream of winning, but not in the traditional free-market methodology.

Kleiner Perkins backs smart-grid firm Silver Spring

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:11:00 PDT

Venture capital firm digs into its Green Growth fund to lead a $75 million investment in a company that uses Internet Protocol-enabled devices to improve grid reliability.

AMD finds 'fabless' alternative

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:45:00 PDT

The chip company is not going fabless in the classic sense of the word: a design house without any manufacturing facilities.

VeriSign sells Jamba stake to News Corp.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:38:00 PDT

The domain registrar sells its 49 percent share of the mobile-entertainment joint venture to its partner, News Corp., for $200 million. Ringtones sound good to Murdoch's media empire.

Open source does not mean 'open to pilfer trademarks,' suggests Google

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:37:00 PDT

Some want Google to give away its trademarks. This is silly and wrong.

Verizon loses patent suit against Cox

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:18:00 PDT

A federal jury in Virginia rules that cable provider Cox Communications did not infringe on Verizon Communications' patents related to Internet telephony.

PayPal rival details fees for launch on eBay

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:11:00 PDT

ProPay, a credit card processor and e-payment service, will try its luck as an alternative to PayPal on eBay before month's end.