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The ad that uses YouTube brilliantly

A Liquid Paper-like product’s ad, created specifically to run on YouTube, shows the possibility of creating something remarkable on a site for which display advertising is becoming a key profit-making component.

4 September 2010 at 20:24 - Comments

Craigslist censored: Adult section removed

In a remarkable twist to the battle over Craigslist’s Adult Services area, the site removes the section and replaces the home-page link to it with a “censored” tag.

4 September 2010 at 18:22 - Comments

Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)

Here are a few of CNET Reviews’ favorite items from the past week, including the Garmin Nuvi 3790T, the Microsoft Arc Touch mouse, and an Iomega 1TB hard drive built for the Mac.

4 September 2010 at 13:00 - Comments

CNET News, now on Android

The iPhone is no longer the only smartphone with a CNET News app. Our breaking stories and in-depth features are now even easier to read and browse on Android devices, with the new free CNET News app. Read about what it does and why it’s worth downloading.

4 September 2010 at 00:54 - Comments

Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M

Internet privacy groups will be the beneficiary of the settlement, which came as the result of a lawsuit filed over Google’s maligned Buzz launch.

4 September 2010 at 00:08 - Comments

Reporters’ Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare

VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations. We find out why on this week’s show, featuring Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadWriteWeb.

3 September 2010 at 22:45 - Comments

Facebook adds ‘liked’ news stories to search results

Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user’s friends have said they “like.”

3 September 2010 at 22:00 - Comments

Texas opens antitrust investigation of Google

Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked Google for information regarding the complaints of several companies that Google is penalizing them in search results.

3 September 2010 at 20:24 - Comments

Are the days of kidney dialysis numbered?

A prototype implantable artificial kidney could, in the next decade, render costly and inefficient dialysis a treatment of the past, according to work out of UCSF.

3 September 2010 at 19:14 - Comments

Apple TV isn’t 1080p and you shouldn’t care

The new Apple TV doesn’t support video content with 1080p resolution, but it shouldn’t have a major impact on its image quality.

3 September 2010 at 17:40 - Comments