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Cisco finally makes its big announcement–and it’s a router. Plus, Sony 3DTVs are on the way, and is the Drudge Report spreading malware? Listen now:Download today’s podcast Today’s stories: Cisco’s big announcement? A new router Drudge Report accused of serving malware, again Sony 3D TVs to arrive in June Samsung partners with Barnes & Noble on new e-reader Report: Google testing TV search Documents in Viacom vs. Google unsealed soon GDC 2010: Scaling the summits of game play (Credit:http://news.cnet.com/) [....]

(Credit:Guger Technologies) Austrian biomedical firm Guger Technologies is promoting a new electroencephalography (EEG) device that lets users type with their minds, calling it the world’s first commercial brain-machine interface for personal use. Consisting of an EEG cap, display, and computer, Intendix is designed for severely disabled patients and people with symptoms of locked-in syndrome, a condition (featured in the movie “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”) in which patients suffer near-total paralysis while their minds continue to function normally. After only[....]

Apple-owned FileMaker on Tuesday unveiled the next major version of its database product, FileMaker Pro 11. In a recent study, the company found that 80 percent of the people who look at FileMaker already have a task in mind. With this type of feedback, FileMaker set out to make the new version faster and more productive for new users. “It’s very much a back to basics release for us,” Ryan Rosenberg, vice president of marketing and services at FileMaker, told CNET. “We think ease of use is the core proposition in a database.” To help users get started,[....]

A CNET reader grabbed this screenshot of what looks like a fake antivirus warning that popped up on Drudge Report. (Credit:CNET reader) For the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge Report say they got malware in addition to the Web site’s usual sensational headlines. Matt Drudge denied that his site was infecting visitors, however it’s likely that the malware is coming from ads delivered by a third-party ad network and not the site itself. “I can personally vouch for disinfecting my mom’s desktop yesterday after visiting this Web page,[....]

Security firm Panda says it found several types of malware on an HTC Magic on an Android-based device from Vodafone. (Credit:HTC) An employee at Spanish antivirus firm Panda Security received a new Android-based Vodafone HTC Magic with malware on it, according to researchers at Panda Labs. “Today one of our colleagues received a brand new Vodafone HTC Magic with Google’s Android OS,” researcher Pedro Bustamante wrote on the Panda Research Blog on Monday. “The interesting thing is that when she plugged the phone to her PC via USB, her Panda Cloud Antivirus went[....]

BOSTON–For consumers, the face of the smart grid is most likely to be a home energy monitor that gives people insight into home electricity use. But from a business perspective, there may be more action catering to business customers, rather than homeowners. A panel of smart-grid company executives here at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen East conference on Tuesday said saving commercial, industrial, and business customers is an easier sell than helping consumers save on utility bills. Images: The many faces of the smart grid View the full gallery Home energy monitoring systems and Web[....]

HTC is the manufacturer of the Google Nexus One phone, which Apple says is one of several phones that infringe on iPhone-related patents. Apple’s suit against HTC for patent violation didn’t appear out of the blue, according to an analyst report Tuesday. In January, Apple began approaching the executives of competing handset makers and warning them it planned to take legal action against those that infringed on technology related to the iPhone, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner wrote in a research note, first reported by Fortune. Reiner says he learned this by doing[....]

Microsoft’s Adrian Stone and Jerry Bryant explain the security bulletins in a video on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog. (Credit:Microsoft) Microsoft warned of a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and IE 7 that has been targeted in attacks, and released fixes for eight holes in Windows and Office as part of Patch Tuesday. The company issued Security Advisory 981374, which addresses a privately disclosed vulnerability. The hole could allow an attacker to take control of a machine if a user visited a malicious Web site, Microsoft said. There are some features[....]

For at least seven years, a handful of politicians in Washington, D.C., have been unsuccessfully trying to make it more difficult for countries such as China or Iran to censor and monitor the Internet. There was a failed 2003 bill directing the U.S. State Department to develop anti-”jamming” software, and another two years later. A 2007 effort by Rep. Christopher Smith, a New Jersey Republican, to ban Internet companies from storing personal information about users inside a “designated Internet-restricting country” never received a vote. Neither has a bizarre new[....]

Sony's PS3 could win the console war, analysts say. (Credit:Sony) Even though Sony’s PlayStation 3 is far behind both the Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 in console sales, analysts at Strategy Analytics contend that when all is said and done, Sony will sell more consoles than its competitors. In a report titled, “Taming the Waves: Games Console Life Cycles and Platform Competition,” analysts from Strategic Analytics said the PlayStation 3 will have a much longer shelf life than current market leader the Nintendo Wii. In fact, the analyst firm claims that the PS3 will be a[....]

If you’re looking forward to a future of streaming movies, gargantuan Internet file exchanges, and other high-bandwidth activities, cheer up. Broadband service providers in most of the major markets around the country will soon be able to deliver 100Mbps broadband service with no problem. That’s enough to download a music album in as little as 5 seconds, an hour-long TV show in about 30 seconds, and a high-definition movie in roughly 7 minutes, 25 seconds. But it’s going to cost you. This should make the Federal Communications Commission’s goal of getting 100Mbps[....]

Ngmoco’s Eliminate for the iPhone was a groundbreaking game in two ways. One was its pay-to-score business model, which offered the game for free, but required users to have virtual energy units (which could be bought) to gain rank and equipment bonuses. The second, and more important one, was the back-end server technology that let players hop onto online matches over 3G. This feature was not so simple to implement, as Ngmoco’s director of engineering Stephen Detwiler and lead engineer James Marr mapped out during a talk at Tuesday’s Game Developers Conference in San[....]

(Credit:Seven45 Studios) Announced Tuesday at the start of the Game Developers Conference, Power Gig: Rise of the SixString is a novel approach to the well-trod music game genre. Instead of using plastic simulations of guitars that are essentially just dressed-up plastic game controllers, the game uses fully functional six-string guitars that control the game, but can also be played in real life. As one might imagine, the game is being developed by a company connected with the guitar business. Developer/publisher Seven45 Studios is a sister company of First Act, a leading[....]

"So, uh…nice scarf? (Credit:Screenshot by Sharon Vaknin/CNET) Nowadays, online interaction is done within our selective network of friends– people we carefully choose to share our lives with. A few months ago, this sense of comfort was disturbed when Chatroulette launched, a site that pairs users with random Webcam partners. Media coverage is highly negative, mostly because of the half-naked men who (unfortunately) discovered the site. But Chatroulette also attracts teens, inebriated 20-somethings, old people, kids, and generally every curious type. According to the[....]

With only a few days to go before the annual South by Southwest Interactive, location-based mobile networking service Foursquare has unveiled its plans for the Austin, Texas digital culture festival: 16 new “badges” that users can unlock by “checking in” to certain venues, with cryptic names like “Swimmies,” “Decathlon,” and “Survivor.” The company says users will be able to score temporary tattoos of the badges if they show the digital badge to a member of the Foursquare team at a designated location, meaning that there will[....]

loadUniversalPlayer({playerType: 'ces2010-small',lumiereQueryType: 'id',lumiereQueryValue: '50084686',useCurrentPageUrl: true,relatedVideo: false,preRollAd: true,hideLeftTab:true,wrapperFloat:'right'}); This week on preGAME, hosts Jeff Bakalar and Mark Licea take a sneak peek at God of War III! Join us as we play it live on the show and talk to the game’s lead designer, Todd Papy. We chat with Todd about wrapping up Kratos’ epic saga, some of the new elements found in the game, and pushing the PlayStation 3 to its limits. But before the demo, we kick off with some headlines[....]

Detailed instructions for the BackChatter Twitter game. (Credit:BackChatter.com) Both Twitter and Facebook are immensely popular social networking tools that offer real-time sharing of ideas and updates — but of the two, only Facebook has a second life as a huge gaming platform. After all, the sheer simplicity of Twitter makes it hard to even imagine what kind of games could even be developed for it. BackChatter is a project created especially for the Game Developers Conference, using Twitter as the basis of what is being called a “massively multiplayer GDC game.” While[....]

For as far back as we’ve been discussing social networks, there have been question marks around the best ways to monetize users. To date, advertising has been the primary strategy, with virtual goods starting to pull in some serious revenues. But the challenge with advertising is that users tend to ignore ads that are not highly targeted. Even precisely targeted ads are largely ignored, which is why you see more and more of them taking up screen real estate. This has also led to more sites adopting a “freemium” content model. And targeting is even more of a challenge[....]

Computing industry pioneer Chuck Thacker was honored Tuesday with the industry’s highest prize–the A. M. Turing Award. Thacker, who these days works in Microsoft’s Silicon Valley research lab, helped create personal computing at Xerox’s famed Palo Alto Research Center and is one of the co-creators of both the Alto personal computer and Ethernet networking. Thacker (Credit:Microsoft) In an interview Tuesday, Thacker said he was surprised that he would even be considered for the Turing Award, which typically goes to folks on the software or theory side of[....]

ScatterTunes is a Texas start-up focused on making the experience of digital music more visual and interactive. In September, the company introduced its V-Album format, which includes audio tracks in unprotected MP3 format, plus material such as lyrics, photos, videos, and links to merchandise and (where applicable) concert tickets. Although the audio portion of the download works with any software, and can be exported to any MP3 player, the video part requires downloading and installing the free ScatterTunes Player. So far, ScatterTunes has only released a couple of V-Albums, and none by[....]