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  • Red Hats 1Q net up on higher subscription revenue

    Red Hat Inc., the company behind the Linux open-source operating system, said Wednesday that net income in its fiscal first-quarter grew 8 percent as subscription revenue increased.Shares added $2.78, or 6 percent, to $49 in after-hours trading. Red Hat's stock has dropped 13 percent in 2013 and closed down 41 cents at $46.22 Wednesday.The Raleigh, N.C. company earned $40.4 million, or 21 ...

  • Stratasys buys Makerbot 3-D printing company for $400 million

    ) to compete more in the consumer 3-D printing space. Makerbot makes less expensive systems for hobbyists, though they're not exactly cheap -- the Makerbot Repolicator 2 sells for ...

  • Microsoft talked with Nokia about buying devices unit report

    SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp recently talked with Nokia about buying the Finnish phone maker's devices unit, but the discussions faltered and are not likely to be revived, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday in its online ...

  • Solving read-only conditions for external hard drives

    Do you have an external hard drive that you cannot write to on your Mac? While most external storage media's default formatting and other setups should make them both readable and writable on most Mac systems, there may be times when this is not the case. NTFS formatting The first detail to check is if the drive is formatted to the popular NTFS format used in Windows systems. Often ...

  • Enjoy all 1.3 billion pixels of this impressive Mars panorama

    massive image of the surface of Mars that hits 1.3 billion pixels . The interactive view of the Rocknest landscape is courtesy of the Curiosity rover. It took the rover's three cameras and image collection activities spread over several different days to gather all the visual data. This is the first NASA-produced image from the surface of Mars to top the 1-billion-pixel ...


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Airplane! [DVD]

Airplane! [DVD]

Having already honed and perfected their unique brand of guerilla comedy in their long-running Kentucky Fried Theater and 1977's The Kentucky Fried Movie (which was directed by John Landis), it was finally time for the ZAZ team (brothers David and Jerry Zucker and their childhood friend Jim Abrahams) to make their own feature-length movie. The possibility of pulling it off seemed slim, ... ...

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  • Twitter acquires Spindle and shows more interest in local discovery

    acquired Spindle, a mobile application for learning about what's happening nearby, the companies announced Wednesday. "We've spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: 'What's happening nearby right now?'," the startup said in a blog ...

  • Spill a lot NeverWets ready to coat your gear

    This superhydrophobic coating is truly stunning The NeverWet package contains two cans -- a base and top coat -- capable of covering 10 to 15 square feet with water-repelling action on a multitude of surfaces including metal, wood, fabric, and plastic. The base coat takes about 30 minutes to dry, and the top coat takes another 30 minutes to cure. Unfortunately, it's not wise to use ...

  • Facebook weaves new network fabric

    (Credit: Facebook) Facebook has a communication problem. The apps are talking the network but with limited context and bottlenecks inside its data centers. Now, the social network is planning to improve the communication with a new networking fabric to serve its 1.1 billion users. "Networking is built around ISP networks and protocols for interconnecting of ISP networks. It's not ...

  • App lets you show a doctor your um rash down there

    (Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Sometimes my CNET handlers like to challenge me. Or perhaps they're sending me a discreet message. Today, for example, one of my knowing leash-pullers sent me details of an app he thought might interest me. I took one look and wondered what he might have meant, for this was not something I would ever Pinterest. You see, I now have set ...

  • Microsoft pulls a 180 rescinds Xbox One connection mandate

    (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft backtracked today on its much-derided policy that would have required Xbox One gamers to connect their consoles to the Internet once a day to prevent game piracy. Microsoft faced a huge ...

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