• How to migrate a user account to another OS X system

  If you are using more than one Mac, or have replaced your Mac with a new one, there are several ways you can migrate your account to the new system. Conventionally, when you get a new system you are presented with the OS X Setup Assistant, which will guide you through migrating your data from an existing system or a backup. In addition to Setup Assistant, you can use Apple's Migration ...

• Staying at the Burj Al Arab Enjoy a 24-karat gold iPad

  iPad for the hotel last October in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. "The Gold & Co. London 24-carat gold iPad is the ultimate in luxury accessories, hence we wanted it to be paired with Burj Al Arab, the world's most luxurious hotel," Amjad Ali, CEO of Gold & Co. London, said in a release. "The symmetry is obvious, as both the gold iPad and the hotel are ...

• Used games are here to stay with Xbox One but details hazy

  Xbox One users must install games on the console's hard drive, which means a disc can't be easily sold or shared. But Microsoft says it will support secondhand ...

• UPDATE 1-Court revives lawsuit vs Electronic Arts over video game image

  Tue May 21, 2013 5:10pm EDT * Ex-Rutgers quarterback Hart may challenge use of image * Activision, Take-Two, media companies supported EA By Jonathan Stempel May 21 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit against Electronic Arts Inc by a former Rutgers University star football quarterback, who accused it of using his image in a video game without permission. By a 2-1 ...

• Game on Microsoft new Xbox One powered by voice and facial recognition

  21 May 2013 Microsoft has launched a new Xbox video games console that it claims will become the single device that users need to control TV, video games, music and entertainment in the living ...

• Commodities Tomorrow All About the Fed

  CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets. Traders remain focused firmly on tomorrow's testimony from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. And expectations for this week's oil ...

• Windows role at the core of Microsofts Xbox One

  (Credit: Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft's Xbox One home-entertainment console has three operating systems at its core, company officials said during the Tuesday unveiling of the device. Why three? Marc Whitten, Microsoft's chief production officer of its Interactive Entertainment Business, explained during the hour-long reveal event in Redmond, that there'd be ...

• The new consoles from Microsoft Nintendo and Sony

  NEW YORK (AP) -- Microsoft is the last of the three big video game console makers to unveil its latest gaming system. Tuesday's unveiling comes nearly eight years after the Xbox 360 went on sale. It follows last fall's debut of Nintendo's Wii U and a preview in February of the upcoming PlayStation 4 from ...

• Apple CEO makes no apology for companys tax strategy

  1 of 7. Apple CEO Tim Cook (C), CFO Peter Oppenheimer (L) and Apple Head of tax operations Philip Bullock appear before a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, ...

• Sony to assess spin-off proposal for entertainment business Nikkei

  (Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering evaluating a proposal from top shareholder Third Point LLC to spin off part of its movie and music business, Japanese daily Nikkei ...

• Samsungs men are pigs ad for TVs gets YouTube love

  You might have missed a Samsung ad for its Evolution TV Kit. However, almost 9 million have analyzed its depiction of men as Neanderthal slobs on ...

• Human-like opponents spur gamer aggression study says

  It's not the bizarre monsters that really bring out the aggression in gamers, concludes a study that monitored Quake 3 Revolution players. It's the human-like characters that get people ...

• Optical drives not working with Mountain Lion for some

  inability to access their systems' internal optical drives . Once installed, inserting a disc results in a couple of noises before the disc is ejected. While this can sometimes happen for burned discs that are no longer readable, it appears to happen for all discs, be they home-burned or commercial. If this is happening on your system, first try testing the problem with multiple operating ...

• Get a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad for $39.99

  Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad for $39.99 shipped . It lists for $99.99 and sells elsewhere (like at Amazon) for around $75-80. True to its name, the Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad is an iPad cover with a built-in keyboard -- and it's ultrathin. It connects via Bluetooth, runs for months on a battery charge, and holds your tablet in either portrait or landscape orientation. ...

• Heres what we know about Xbox One games

  Xbox One , and it will be a machine that will wear many hats. But what did we learn about the games? First off, Microsoft tells CNET that the Xbox One will not be backward compatible with any previous Xbox game. Xbox One games will also need to be fully installed, and if the install disc is used on another console, there will be a small fee for doing so. We don't have a lot of the details ...

• Telecom Italia mulls mobile unit spinoff sources

  By Stefano Rebaudo and Alberto Sisto MILAN | Tue May 21, 2013 4:30pm EDT MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia is mulling spinning off its mobile unit along with its fixed-line network to bring new investors on board, three people, including a senior political source, told Reuters on Tuesday. "The three-way split would allow the company to reduce debt and staff costs and favor the entry ...

• Microsoft announces its Xbox 360 successor the Xbox One

  Microsoft has launched the Xbox One, the entertainment and gaming hub that will replace the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 was released in Winter 2005, and the replacement has been heavily hyped and heading towards us for years. The countdown has finished, the wait is over and we can now confirm that it is called the Xbox One and has an eight-core x86 processor with more than 5 billion transistors. A ...

• UPDATE 2-PayPal to increase marketing this year for offline push

  Tue May 21, 2013 3:53pm EDT By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO May 21 (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payment operation owned by eBay Inc, will increase marketing spending to support its push into physical stores, President David Marcus said on Tuesday. "You'll start seeing us amping marketing up later this year," Marcus said in an interview with Reuters. PayPal is trying to become a ...

• VMware launches network-savvy cloud service

  VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud ...

• 10 killer new features of Microsofts Xbox One

  Xbox game console Tuesday, touting a device it claims will revolutionize the experience of using your television. Eight years after the launch of the Xbox 360, which is currently the best-selling games machine in the U.S., Microsoft finds itself the last of the three big game-makers to show off new hardware. The device is due out later this year. No price was announced. Here's a closer ...

• Mr. Cook came to Washington and escaped unscathed

  an apology . John McCain (Rep., Ariz.), after a bout of tax dodging rhetoric, wanted to know why his iPhone was constantly updating its apps. Even Levin was having a hard time getting up a head of righteous steam. Working from staff-prepared notes (and whispered instructions) on material he didn't seem to have mastered fully, he was left, at the end, with no choice but to filibuster. ...

• Spielberg to work on new live-action Halo TV series

  (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Microsoft and 343 Industries have recruited film director Steven Spielberg in the creation of a new Halo live-action TV series. The companies announced the new series during ...

• The OEMpire strikes back -- Microsofts best buddies go Google

  With Windows PC sales falling like Steven Tyler at an Aerosmith concert, all the major PC manufacturers are unleashing a brace of innovative, competitive products based on Google's Android platform. In some cases, the Android alternatives go head-to-head with the same manufacturer's Windows 8 boxes, with the Android machines always cheaper and sometimes better endowed. It's almost ...

• 2013 is the year of the voice command

  Xbox One , I was struck by just how many voice commands Microsoft programmed into the device. Kinect brought a rudimentary set of commands to the gaming console, but now everything from opening movies to launching apps can be done via voice. "Xbox, Live TV" may be my new favorite phrase in the living room. Microsoft's not the only one who's betting big on voice commands. The ...

• Five unanswered questions about the Xbox One

  Live Blog: Next-Generation Xbox Unveiled With the pre-E3 announcement of Microsoft's next living room video game console, the parlor game of speculation about all the missing details can begin. As with ...

• NASA funds attempt at 3D food printer for pizza

  (Credit: Systems and Materials Research) "Star Trek" food replicators will always be the holy grail of space-snack technology, but we could be edging a step closer to the dream thanks to the work of mechanical ...

• EA announces Ignite engine for next-gen sports games

  (Credit: Screenshot by David Carnoy/CNET) Over the years, sports games have become more and more realistic, and EA is promising to take that realism to a whole new level in next-generation versions of many of its popular sports franchises. At Microsoft's unveiling of ...

• Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4

  With specs revealed for the Xbox One, we finally have a chance to directly compare it with that other yet-to-be-released gaming console, the PlayStation ...

• Supercharged Xbox Live enhances cloud support for Xbox One

  Live Blog: Next-Generation Xbox Unveiled The Xbox One was just announced, and with it, Microsoft unveiled a new Xbox Live. The service will include more capabilities, such as Skype and a dedicated game DVR for capturing in-game footage. The company also said that users can install games in segments so they can play without waiting for the whole program to install; the system will download and ...

• PayPal to be in all RadioShack stores starting in May

  By Alistair BarrSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payment operation owned by eBay Inc, announced a new partnership on Tuesday with RadioShack Corp that will introduce PayPal into all of the electronics retailer's stores starting this month.PayPal has been testing a way for customers of smoothly store Jamba Juice to order ahead using PayPal's smartphone application and pick ...

• France Tel to invest up to 50 million euro in Dailymotion report

  PARIS | Tue May 21, 2013 2:43pm EDT PARIS (Reuters) - France Telecom plans to invest between 30 and 50 million euros ($64 million) in its video-sharing website Dailymotion and begin a fresh search for a partner in the autumn, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Stephane Richard also said in an interview with RTL radio that "the door is not closed" to Yahoo Inc, which had been ...

• Microsoft unveils next Xbox games console

  Microsoft Corp has given a first look at its new game console, hoping the newly named Xbox One will build on a solid core of gamer fans and become a hub for living room entertainment. The third-generation console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled by games unit chief Don Mattrick at an event at the software company's campus near ...

• UPDATE 3-Microsoft unveils Xbox One with Spielberg Activision tie-up

  Tue May 21, 2013 3:21pm EDT By Bill Rigby and Malathi Nayak REDMOND, Wash. May 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp gave the world a first look at its new Xbox One on Tuesday, announcing that its first gaming console in eight years will come with exclusive video and software content, including a "Halo" series produced by Steven Spielberg. The Xbox One, which will be available later this year ...

• Senate panel peels back Apples offshore taxes

  1 of 7. Apple CEO Tim Cook (C), CFO Peter Oppenheimer (L) and Apple Head of tax operations Philip Bullock appear before a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, ...

• Verizons CTIA event Join us Wednesday 11 a.m. PT

  Join CNET for coverage from Verizon's press conference at the CTIA Wireless show. Our live blog will kick off about 30 minutes beforehand and bring you news updates, photos, and running ...

• Whats new in Xbox Live

  The Xbox One has just been announced and Microsoft has unveiled a new Xbox Live which will include more capabilities such as Skype and a dedicated game DVR for capturing in-game ...

• New smart fabric mimics the way skin perspires

  Lab on a Chip describes the fabric's microfluidic platform. Multiple woven threads suck droplets of water off the human skin and into the fabric. Those droplets then drain along the threads and are expelled from the fabric's exterior -- in effect, making the fabric water-repellent. What's more, this expelling action continues to work even after the fibers are totally saturated ...

• Sprint says more to come from BlackBerry

  (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) LAS VEGAS--Sprint Nextel is planning at least one more BlackBerry to join its line up this year. "We're not done with BlackBerry," said Lois Eichelberger Fagan, director of product portfolio for Sprint Nextel, in an interview with CNET on Tuesday. "There's more to ...

• PayPal wants to get rid of your wallet

  (Credit: PayPal) SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- PayPal spotlighted its retail partners Tuesday, showing off new campaigns for its in-store purchase feature as it tries to get into 2 million locations by the end of this year. PayPal president David Marcus said PayPal is expanding its Jamba Juice "order ahead and skip the line" feature to more of the juice chain's locations and taking ...

• Acting FCC Chairwoman Were still focused on spectrum

  (Credit: CNET/Marguerite Reardon) LAS VEGAS --Acting Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Mignon Clyburn said that the agency is not slowing down when it comes to getting new spectrum on the market, even though the commission is down two members. Clyburn, who made her first appearance as the interim head of the FCC at ...

• Boost Mobile wants to be its customers digital wallet

  (Credit: Roger Cheng/CNET) LAS VEGAS -- Sprint Nextel's prepaid arm, Boost Mobile, is taking its own stab at the digital wallet. The company on ...

• Galaxy S3 arrives at Boost Virgin Mobile armed with LTE

  Galaxy S3 to its prepaid Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile brands next month. The device will operate on 3G and LTE networks for both operators. The design and features of the reborn GS3 will be unchanged from the original version. Expect the same slim profile and 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, while inside you'll ...

• Twitter granted refresh patent vows to use it only defensively

  (Credit: Twitter/USPTO) Twitter has won a new patent that it hopes to use as an example to stem the tide of patent lawsuits. Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today, the patent named ...

• Operas Android browser leaves beta stage

  Android , which was available as beta software in the Google Play marketplace, is now complete and officially launched. Getting it out of beta means that Opera is confident that most of the bugs are gone and the software is ready for wide ...

• Lost and Found Facebook Page for Tornado Victims

  devastating tornado strike in Moore, Okla. , ripped through many homes, displacing irreplaceable possessions, in some cases, more than 100 miles away. In an attempt to reconnect victims with lost valuables, Facebook users across Moore and neighboring areas have created online groups to share information of found items and pets. Tulsa, Okla., resident Leslie Hagelberg lives roughly 100 miles ...

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