 Technology to detect whether CEO is telling the truthUsing a new technique, Layered Voice Analysis, can decipher whether CEOs are lying or not, a study reveals.
Duke University and University of Illinois researchers turned to an Israeli firm... | |
| Facebook 'helping Tourette’s plague spread' Videos posted on Facebook by sufferers of a mysterious Tourette's-like illness in New York state could be helping the mysterious affliction spread, according to a doctor. Fourteen teenagers,... |
| Google faces privacy rollout delay Open the Google Chrome browser Click Tools icon>Options>Under the Hood>Content Settings Check Allow local data to be set Uncheck Block third-party cookies from being set Uncheck Clear... |
| Olympus ex-CEO Woodford sees more revelations Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford speaks to a reporter from inside a van as he leaves a news conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo January 6,... |
| CommVault says will go it alone, despite M&A buzz NEW YORK (Reuters) - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that... |
| iPad, Kindle Fire are not post-PC, says IDC analyst (Credit: Amazon) Are we in a post-PC era as the late Steve Jobs famously claimed? Not really, says IDC. This ivory-tower debate resurfaced this... |
| Just a bluff? Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran FILE- In this April, 9, 2007, file photo Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 kms 186 (miles) south of capital Tehran,... |
| Shop the outside aisles, but don't fear the inside When you start to care about where your food comes from, you learn to shop the edges of the grocery store as opposed to the center aisles. Here's where you'll generally find the fresh... |
| Bigger U.S. role against companies' cyberthreats? Legislation set to come out in the days ahead is intended to ensure that computer systems running power plants and other essential parts of the country's infrastructure are protected from hackers,... |
| Fun and Play Are Key to Survival for Bears, Humans and Even Ants A growing number of scientists are amassing evidence that an innate impulse and ability to play has been favored by evolution, because it is somehow associated with animals surviving... |
| Huge warehouse burns on Mare Island A warehouse fire on Mare Island filled North Bay skies with smoke early Sunday, as firefighters from two counties battled the five-alarm blaze. The fire began around 10 a.m. at a massive condemned,... |
| 2012 already looks like bad year for ticks Ticks are taking over the coastal foothills right now. Some days are like a horror film, with Dracula bugs everywhere - in the high grass, on the low-lying limbs of chaparral - waiting for a victim... |
| Disruptions: Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where's Our Cut?' Facebook 's founder and chief executive, owes me about $50.Without me, and the other 844,999,999 people poking, liking and sharing on the site, Facebook would look like a scene from the... |
| TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report (Reuters) - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on... |
| Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics Facebook has a long and tortured relationship with breasts. Now women around the world have decided to tell the site to grow up. They are staging protests in order to get Facebook to change its... |
| Kia offers 5 hours of Adriana Lima for Super Bowl They say this year's Super Bowl will be the most socially networked--the most Twitterized, Facebooked, and Tumblred. Kia is trying to understand this--and you--as best it can to acknowledge... |
| Coke's polar bears ready to talk Super Bowl live online If you don't like Coke's polar bears, you simply haven't come to terms with your childhood yet. It really wasn't all your Mom and Dad's fault. So please try and enjoy the... |
| Corning's mind-blowing concept of a glass future (Credit: Corning) "Gorilla Glass" could one day become a household phrase, but Corning has even larger ideas. "A Day Made of Glass 2" is a montage of "how highly... |
| Apple's Siri the butt of Doritos Super Bowl ad (Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Make Siri mad and she'll let you know. For you might not realize that she actually has large metal tentacles that can get right into your... |
| VW adds a driver's car to the Jetta model range (Credit: Wayne Cunningham/CNET) With the 2011 Jetta update, Volkswagen made some compromises to get the price low, but the GLI restores handling and power to this otherwise humble model. ... |
| Woman accused of trying to sell fake Facebook stock , proceeded to buy Facebook stock from her. Oh, perhaps I failed to mention that this lady allegedly told them that her daughter, thanks to her inside acquaintance, had been given $1 million worth... |
| Should Apple stop holding its big launch events? iPad 2S. For years now, the Apple faithful have allowed their nervous systems to respond to these excitements. For years now, the rumors have been even lengthier and more outrageous than the launch... |
| Obama supporters pick Patriots, GOPers go for Giants? Saygent conducted a survey asking 205 people for their Super Bowl predictions and then did a bit of data crunching using its voice response and analysis platform. Saygent's algorithm looked at... |
| US, Australian filmmakers die in helicopter crash (02-05) 11:16 PST Sydney, FL (AP) -- Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia,... |
| State asks homeowners to stop deducting some taxes The California Franchise Tax Board is leaning on taxpayers and tax preparers to start complying with a widely ignored law that prevents property owners from deducting... |
| Olympus to Hold Special Shareholders Meeting April 20 Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Olympus Corp., the Japanese camera maker suing 19 current and former executives over accounting fraud, will hold an emergency shareholders meeting on April 20, it said yesterday... |
| Blackstone Said to Eye Brocade Buyout as Deal Interest Fades Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private-equity firm, is studying a leveraged buyout of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., said a person with knowledge of the... |
| New York Giants Web site says they've already won Super Bowl New Yorkers bathe in their cockiness. Which is odd for a city that enjoys the Knicks and the Mets. What, though, can one make of the fact that yesterday, the New York Giants Web site offered that... |
| How to get Internet in every room of your house Wi-fi is the most common and obvious solution for getting the Internet throughout your entire house. A single router broadcasts a wireless signal that passes through walls, floors, ceilings, and any... |
| Best printers for home office, small business Lexmark Prevail Pro705 The attractive Prevail Pro705 bundles a useful set of features for the office crowd, including wireless connectivity, an autodocument feeder and duplexer, speed text out and an... |
| SF Giants' Buster Posey to try new catcher's mask Thousands of fans attend AT&T Park for the annual Giants FanFest. The next big event is Feb. 18 when pitchers and catchers report for spring... |
| Get a kick out of new 'SoulCalibur' sequel Namco Bandai's SoulCalibur V is now here for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and while it doesn't do much to advance the series or genre... |
| Sony, Panasonic Forecast Worsening Losses as Samsung Dominates Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s biggest makers of TVs, phones and chips say they’ll lose about $17 billion this year, about three-quarters of what Samsung Electronics Co. will spend on... |
| Nokia Fourth-Quarter Net Loss EU1.07 Billion, Missing Estimates Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj reported a fourth-quarter net loss of 1.07 billion euros. Analysts had predicted a loss of 90.3 million euros, the average of 23 estimates compiled by Bloomberg... |
| Telenor Writes Down $721 Million on India License Decision Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Telenor ASA, the Nordic region’s largest phone company, will write down 4.2 billion kroner ($721 million) on its Indian venture after the government said it will cancel... |
| Panasonic Forecasts Record $10 Billion Loss on Floods, Charges Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Panasonic Corp. almost doubled its annual loss forecast to a record 780 billion yen ($10 billion), the latest Japanese electronics company to predict weaker earnings because of... |
| Will Monster's new in-ear headphone dazzle audiophiles? I'm hoping the whole celebrity-branded headphone shtick will soon run its course, but I have to admit Monster's new Earth Wind & Fire Gratitude in-ear headphones are pretty spectacular.... |
| What if the Vita had an Apple logo instead of Sony's? Sony PS Vita the other day. That's right, I plunked down a $50 deposit at a Gamestop near work, thereby earning the right to own Sony's new handheld game console the day it comes out here... |
| Mieulis, Yorks feud over value of 49ers are trying to cheat them out of millions of dollars. The issue: The Mieuli heirs want to sell their piece of the Niners, and they say the Yorks are lowballing them on the value of the team. The... |
| Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American' This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012 photo shows Gibre George, who started a Facebook page called 'Don't Call Me African-American," in Hollywood, Fla. The labels used to describe Americans of... |
| Venice rebels against cruise ship intrusions In this photo taken on Jan. 27, 2012 a cruise liner sails past the Giudecca canal in Venice, Italy. The fatal grounding of the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast has sharpened the focus on the... |
| Nigeria oil line on fire; militants claim attack (02-05) 03:15 PST LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, their first alleged assault in... |
| Moscow support for Assad well-calculated Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at his meeting with local residents in the village Rosa in the Chelyabinsk region in the Ural Mountains, about 1500 kilometers (950 miles) east of Moscow,... |
| 'Walker Evans' review: Photographic eye on America Walker Evans' influence so suffused the work of younger artists that we can barely see what he produced on its own terms. We can sense the force of his example everywhere, from the photography... |
| Kids relive history with free role-playing game Players step into the shoes of Lucy King, a 14-year-old girl enslaved at a plantation in Kentucky in 1848. By assuming Lucy's identity and making her decisions, kids experience life on a southern... |
| Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally (02-05) 06:27 PST MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- The most popular protest song in Moscow today comes from burly men in blue berets, unlikely heroes of a peaceful middle-class movement challenging the... |
| iPad drawing interest as device for disabled WASHINGTON, US (AFP) - Most people view the iPad as a slick multi-media entertainment platform, but Gregg Vanderheiden, a university professor, sees other potential uses for Apple's new... |
| Cellphone satnav use surging in Europe HELSINKI - Europeans are increasingly using their cellphones for satellite navigation in cars, directly threatening the personal navigation industry, research firm comScore said Friday. Competition... |
| Countries to release anti-piracy text as deal nears WASHINGTON - Countries negotiating a deal to curb trade in fake and pirated goods are close to reaching an agreement in talks that have raised concerns among digital rights advocates, U.S. trade... |
| RIM says video is big challenge to networks TORONTO - Research in Motion Ltd says it is far from certain that video will become the "killer app" that defines smartphones, but even so the BlackBerry maker says developing more... |
