Expect analysts to push for some more details on Microsoft’s plans to significantly boost Windows marketing, particularly as Apple is gaining not only mindshare with its anti-Vista ads, but also market share.

We’ll have the earnings report just as soon as its out, as well as some insight ahead of the earnings conference call and then [...]

But as the world economy slows down, will phone companies and cable operators around the world be able to afford these upgrades? Shetty said that they have little choice if they want to remain competitive.
Shetty said that over the next few years, service providers will have to upgrade their networks to keep up with a [...]

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.–I’d just walked into the press center here the day before the scheduled landing of Space Shuttle Discovery and located Allard Beutel, the head of public affairs, when I sensed that something was wrong.

I particularly enjoyed seeing one of the parachutes packed up and ready to go. There was one already packed [...]

Via is also planning a dual-core processor but is no hurry to bring it out. “We’ll do it when Intel makes us do it,” Henry said. “I don’t think the devices we’re talking about need dual core.”
One of the principal differences between Nano and Atom is that Intel’s chip uses a more simple “in-order [...]

There’s been a lot of activity this week in the world of
mobile browsers. On Friday, Mozilla introduced an alpha build for Fennec, the very-much-in-development mobile browser that will grow up to become
Firefox for Mobile. Monday’s news brings Opera Software’s release of its most recent beta for the Opera Mobile browser. It’s the second beta for [...]

And as a little icing on the cake, Google’s logo is on the side of the rocket set to launch the 4,300-pound satellite in six days from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Each day, the satellite will be able to gather a high-resolution “pan-sharpened” format surface area equal to [...]

Later in the day we’ll have tons of photos, lots of video, and the initial reactions of CNET Reviews staff–before they jet off to the desert for CES–to whatever new products Apple has on tap. So stick around all day; it’s not like anybody’s getting much work done the first week back from the [...]

Seven NATO allies signed an agreement Wednesday to open a cyberdefense center in Estonia, according to the Associated Press.

That evaluation led to the Allied Defense Ministers report in October, which recommended the establishment of a NATO cyberdefense policy and a number of new measures to improve the countries’ cyberattack defense. The allied nations agreed to [...]

Sprint is expected to have a majority ownership in the new joint venture, since it owns most of the 2.5GHz spectrum that is being used to the build the network. The new venture will be called Clearwire and will be run by Clearwire CEO Ben Wolff. Craig McCaw, the cell phone pioneer and Clearwire founder, [...]

This doesn’t mean that Comcast is giving its On Demand service an unfair advantage. It’s a classic fair advantage. Comcast deployed a cable infrastructure that has enough bandwidth to carry two services; the company is entitled to run two services and treat them as separate businesses.
If we throw in the number of pay-per-view channels, [...]