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"Rubin ... scoffed at the notion that the company would 'compete with its customers' by releasing its own phone," a report by CNET said.

Read more: Reality Check: Google Phone Far From a Sure Thing | In this article: Google, Yahoo, Michael Arrington, Android, Andy Rubin, Sprint, AT&T, and Google Chrome OS

"This will be the next big thing," said Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC. "Apple is going to wow everybody with the tablet." "Apple will come out with the tablet and blow everyone away," said Dan Ackerman, senior editor at CNET.

Read more: Apple Tablet Speculation Reignited by CNN Report | In this article: Apple, Palm, Nokia, Microsoft, IPod, and CNN

"Apple will come out with the tablet and blow everyone away," said Dan Ackerman, senior editor at CNET. "Instead of taking along a Kindle and an iPod, that [tablet] could become the device you carry with you."

Read more: Apple tablet: One tech gadget for all | In this article: Apple, Iphone, Steve Jobs, Yankee Group, Cnnmoney.com, University of Southern California, and CNET

"Intel's tactics with Ion have been the most aggressive we've seen from a competitor. They have offered the Atom [a total of three chips] for $25, but when the one-chip Atom is used with Ion, it sells for $45," Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang said in a statement provided to CNET. "A customer can't even choose to resell the chipset and use Ion instead. What's the point of Nvidia getting an Intel bus license if it's impossible to overcome Intel's pricing bundles?"

Read more: Nvidia calls Intel's graphics chip tactics 'aggressive' | In this article: Intel, Nvidia, CNET, Jen Hsun Huang, Advanced Micro Devices, Cease and desist, and Chrome OS

In a statement to CNET, a Verizon spokesman said: "We recognize the importance of copyright and the need to enforce those copyrights. Without that enforcement, intellectual property won't be generated at all. At the same time, it's important for our customers to be assured that they won't have their privacy rights trampled."

Read more: Verizon tests sending RIAA copyright notices | In this article: Cox Communications, CNET, Qualcomm, Disney, File sharing, AT&T Communications, Comcast Communications, and Intel

"We've been working on it for the last few weeks," Blake Whitman, Vimeo's director of community told CNET News. "This is sort of the prelude of offering Plus members iPhone support; and in the future, an app," he said. In the meantime, the only member videos that get chosen to get the mobile encoding treatment are those that get picked by the site's editors. "In the future, like the next several weeks--maybe longer, we'll be offering Plus users the option to transcode their videos to an iPhone version too."

Read more: Vimeo's videos get iPhone, Android-friendly | In this article: Vimeo, Iphone, Android, CNET, IPod, YouTube, Twitter, and Google

"I certainly don't think we've seen the last of Pikmin," he said. "I definitely would like to do something with them, and I think the Wii interface in particular is very well suited to that franchise." A later CNET interview reported that "For now, Miyamoto looks ahead to other projects for the Wii, mentioning his desire to continue the Pikmin series."

Read more: Pikmin (series) | In this article: Pikmin, Pikmin 2, Wii, Pikmin, Luigi, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Nintendo

"The Poblano Effect". At the end of May, Silver revealed his identity to his readers on FiveThirtyEight.com. As a CNET reporter wrote, "Even though Silver launched the site as recently as March, its straightforward approach, daring predictions, and short but impressive track record has put it on the map of political sites to follow.

Read more: Nate Silver | In this article: Silver, Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight.com, Baseball Prospectus, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, KPMG, Chicago, Major League Baseball, and Romulan

"Ultimate was a much bigger part of what Microsoft did with Vista, whereas this time I think they not only kept the price very high, but really kept the focus on the Premium product and the Premium three-pack," explained the author of the report, NPD's Stephen Baker, to CNET News. "Most of the promotional fire that they've put out there has been focused on those, for example, 'Buy a computer, get a $50 copy of Home Premium.' The pre-sales were all pretty much focused on Home Premium."

Read more: Windows 7 sales outshine Vista | In this article: Microsoft, NPD Group, Recession, CNET News, Revenue, and Twitter

"If you create something so bad that it goes viral, is it a public relations disaster or a video marketing triumph?" Barbara Lippert, ad critic for Adweek magazine stated "This is so beyond-belief bad that I just cannot believe it's for real ... the script is so fake, with all the sales messages in there… if this is what they think is hip, it's just so sad - and poignant" Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post described the video by saying "by two minutes into the video, I could only hold my head in my hands, cringing and saying, "No, no, no, this can't possibly be real! "" CNET described the video as looking "like the Food Network threw a cooking party only to have it geek out and go completely sideways", and came as part of a pattern of Microsoft advertising such as that for a previous piece of software that was such a "weird (to say the least) attempt to humanize software that failed so terribly I still find it hard to believe it was real." Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist James Lileks said of the video: "If Microsoft had been put in charge of marketing sex, the human race would have ended long ago, because no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool."

Read more: Windows 7 | In this article: Microsoft, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Media Center, Internet Explorer, Windows Mail, Windows Calendar, MSDN, Microsoft Windows, and Windows Live Essentials