Samsung Electronics said today that it had sold 3 million units of the Galaxy Note 2 after just 30 days, or three times faster than its predecessor. The determine represents an outstanding charge of adoption for Samsung, which has essentially created a new category of oversized mobile phones that many have taken to calling “phablets”. [...]
After spending most of the business day offline, services are restored for Go Daddy customers, company says. Web sites serviced by Web hosting and domain registrar Go Daddy were back online early this evening after being down for much of the work day, a company spokeswoman told CNET. All services are restored and at no [...]
A new browser benchmark suite is cruising down Main Street: Google Octane, which updates the V8 benchmark by adding more tests. Although speed is a major factor in browser choice, many people don’t want to know why their favorite browser is fast — they just care that it is. But the standards and assessments used [...]
The design, which is thought to be highly fuel efficient and offer longer range, could someday become the universal standard. But first comes several more years of tests. NASA said today that its experimental X-48C hybrid wing-body airplane took flight for the first time. A remotely powered prototype that’s housed at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research [...]
The BlackBerry PlayBook will be available to Canadian customers first, the company says. It will be available in the U.S. and other territories “in the coming months.” After a long wait, Research In Motion has unveiled its 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook. The device will be available to Canadian customers first and come with 32GB of [...]
Microsoft’s new Outlook.com address is pushing out Hotmail, Curiosity will soon meet Mars, and we look at the head-scanning technology used by EA Sports. It’s not often we get a shakeup in the email world, but say hello to Microsoft’s new free email account, Outlook.com. It’ll eventually be replacing Hotmail, but you might want to [...]
Web giant’s 39-year-old co-founder is reportedly back at work after an undisclosed illness caused the loss of his voice and sidelined him from public events for several weeks. Google co-founder Larry Page is recovering from an unspecified illness that sidelined him for several weeks and caused him to lose his voice, but he has returned [...]
Given recent headlines about cloud music, you might be forgiven for thinking that the feature is huge with consumers. Word came Monday that Apple has finally caught up to Google and Amazon and begun to stream songs from the company’s cloud. The following day, CNET broke news that Amazon is very close to reaching agreements [...]
The Creative Suite 6 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and all their companion apps are now for sale. Adobe’s subscription for them arrives Friday. Adobe Systems today began selling Creative Suite 6, its mammoth but expensive collection of software for designers, artists, photographers, videographers, publishers, and others in the “content creation” business. The [...]
An update that brings with it Internet tethering is reportedly about to roll out to the two Lumia handsets in certain countries. Nokia’s Lumia 710 and 800 phones may be one step closer to gaining the ability to act as Wi-Fi hot spots, though the company itself isn’t confirming or revealing any details on the [...]