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The deal for CNET is CBS's biggest online acquisition since it hired Quincy Smith, a former media and technology investment banker, to lead its interactive unit in late 2006.

New York - TV Network CBS is buying CNET, the internet's leading provider of hi-technology information for 1.8 billion dollars, the company announced Thursday. The move will greatly expand CBS' presence on the web and allow it to reach a greater inte...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The new technology which enables small payments from mobile phones by just flashing the handset is likely to reach masses only around 2012, when one phone from five sold will be equipped with the technology.

NEW YORK -- CBS Corp. agreed to buy online technology news and entertainment company CNet Networks Inc. for about $1.75 billion, expanding its access to the burgeoning Internet advertising market.

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Multiple readers have written to let us know that an experiment at the upcoming Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference will use RFID to track the movements of at least 1,500 registrants for the duration of the conference. Those movements will be transmitted onto screens which 'show in real-time where people go, with whom they associate, for how long and how often.' The system will also be used for games which involve manipulation of the available data. Meanwhile, researchers at the Georgia Institute of technology have developed a method for testing large quantities of RFID tags, which may serve to greatly speed distribution. of this story at Slashdot.

OCZ technology this week brought out a new spin on an old product: the build-it-yourself notebook PC.

Developers of applications using Adobe Systems' Flash technology can now include Google Maps data, thanks to a new application-programming interface.

NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS Corp. agreed to buy online technology news and entertainment company CNet Networks Inc. for about $1.75 billion, expanding its access to the burgeoning Internet advertising market....

So many tech writers and analysts focus on the negatives about tech. Here's some stuff our columnist actually loves about tech!