Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard
This update should be worthwhile for security-minded businesses and creative firms. With Acrobat 9, Adobe brings new Web relevance to print-ready PDFs by enabling embedded video and animation. Forms, security, and overall ease of use are also enhanced.
2008 BMW M3 Coupe
The 2008 BMW M3 is a tame lion. It's easy to handle among traffic and urban driving, while ferocious on the track or out in the hills. Its cabin electronics are among the best available.
2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG
The 2009 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG combines very impressive performance on road and track with first-rate cabin electronics, making it fun and convenient. Just make sure you budget for gas.
Sony Ericsson W760i - black (unlocked)
The Sony Ericsson W760i is the best Sony Ericsson Walkman phone we've seen, by far. It corrects one of Sony Ericsson's usual design pitfalls while offering a generous feature set and satisfying performance. We can suggest a few tweaks that should make it a winner.
Seagate FreeAgent Go (blue, 320GB)
The Seagate FreeAgent Go is our favorite portable hard drive to date and takes our award for Editors' Choice. The drive is well designed and fast, and you won't find a better value for the price.
Toshiba Qosmio G55
Toshiba's Qosmio G55-Q802 adds some dubiously useful gesture-control gimmicks, but the real promise is in speedy video transcoding, as long as you use the right software.
Lenovo IdeaPad S10
Lenovo's "me, too!" entry in the Netbook sweepstakes, the IdeaPad S10, gets the price and features right, but falls behind on battery life.
Lenovo ThinkPad X200
The Lenovo ThinkPad X200 lacks some basic features you may require--touch pad, optical drive--but the 12.1-inch ThinkPad X200 offers strong performance and the longest battery life we've seen.
HP HDX18
HP already makes some of the best multimedia laptops, and trading up to a true 16:9 18-inch display makes for an impressive semiportable home theater in the form of the HP HDX18.
Alienware Area-51 m17x
If you're looking to drop some major change on a show-off gaming laptop, it's hard to do better than the Alienware Area-51 m17x, a mean-looking, high-performance black slab.
Buzz Out Loud 829: No 55-year-old pervert, that's a robot!
On today's show, the world of anonymous chatting gets even more confusing, thanks to the increasing numbers of computers passing the Turing test. Is it a pervert? Is it a computer? Is it both? In other news, Chrome breaks Molly's heart, Sony breaks all...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Will Silverlight 2 match Microsoft's expectations?
Earlier on Monday, Microsoft announced that it is ready with a final version of its Silverlight 2 media player, which is a rival to Adobe Systems' Flash. But despite the original hoopla, Silverlight has enjoyed uneven success. Now the company is...
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MP3 Insider 118: MP3 Insiders get silly
The Ion Block Rocker in all its boxy glory.Donald and Jasmine intersperse the silliness with details on the latest iPod Classic review, as well as information on the Sony E-Series Walkman and a very special member of the S-Series family. Also on...
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Buzz Out Loud 828: Things change, suck it!
Financial markets will collapse, venture capitalists will cause a run on start-ups that will lead to even more financial collapses, companies that try to disable their DRM servers will inevitably reverse that bad decision, and Web redesigns will happen...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: How will Web 2.0 weather current financial storm?
Angel investor Ron Conway is warning his start-ups to start saving up cash and reducing costs quickly. He's not the only one who says the current economic crisis is similar and perhaps worse than the dot-com bust of 2000-2001. CNET's Rafe Needleman,...
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Google to appeal German copyright decisions
German courts rule in favor of content owners in two separate cases Monday, both having to do with display of copyrighted content in thumbnails attached to search results.
New laws track child predators online
Two laws the president signed Monday will increase the coordination between Internet companies and law enforcement to track sex offenders online.
Microsoft: Mac buyers pay Apple tax
Ahead of what many expect to be the introduction of cheaper Macs, a top Windows exec says Apple users pay hidden costs.
