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One of the biggest stumbling blocks that trips up most entrepreneurs is their lack of market and competitive research. more

Microsoft knew that the RT version of Windows 8 was going to face higher hurdles than the tried-and-true Intel version. more

The Microsoft Surface tablet needs the Microsoft Store -- or something just like it. The hey day of CompUSA-like big box retailers is fading fast. more

A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and a European Space Agency physician-astronaut closed out a six-month stay in space early Sunday with a pinpoint landing in Kazakhstan. more

The addition of an extra second to the world's atomic clocks was apparently too much for some popular Web sites and software platforms to take. more

Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson sees around the corner as it relates how the shift from web to mobile will impact the form and design of apps. more

Bennett Compagno turned his deli near the world-famous Defense Language Institute into a second home for servicemembers. They've returned the favor with an amazing series of military gifts. more

A teen is watching Food Network at home, when a SWAT team bursts down her door and spoils her digestion. It seems her wi-fi may have been purloined by someone offering online threats. more

Can a $249 digital-to-analog converter/headphone amplifier deliver state-of-the-art sound? The Audiophiliac listens to the AudioQuest DragonFly to find out. more

This week's new product announcements say far less about Google's view of technology than they do about its view of humanity. more

Don't be fooled. Microsoft's entrance into the tablet market shows nothing less than a willingness to overhaul its business model. more

If you know what today's picture is, you could be eligible to win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day contest. more

Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and Oprah Winfrey are among those who have provided seed money to #waywire, co-founded by Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker. more

Facebook's new unified e-mail and its implementation is causing unwanted changes to users' address books; worse, the changes have gone unnoticed by users and vital communication is being lost. more

The U.S. International Trade Commission has sent the case -- related to Motorola patents -- back to the ITC judge who recommended the ban, Reuters reports. His reconsideration of the case will probably take months. more

Steven Guggenheimer, who for four years oversaw Microsoft's relationship with makers of Windows PCs, is moving to a different role. The company says the move isn't related to Surface tension. more

One of the super-cheap Linux systems is going on a journey worthy of a Hollywood movie, or at least a blog. more

Expressways in Japan could start seeing self-driving cars in 10 years, according to discussions by Tokyo and carmakers. more

Blackie Pagano builds custom gear, and counts David Bowie, Nada Surf, and the Strokes as customers. more

If you know what today's picture is, you could be eligible to win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day contest. more

An outage in Amazon's cloud means that some of the world's greatest and most frivolous entertainments are suddenly not available. Immediately, customers whine. more

In a test by analysts Piper Jaffray on a busy Minneapolis street, Apple's Siri managed to perform searches correctly 62 percent of the time. Oddly, Google's voice assistant was right 86 percent. more

Researchers say criminals are moving their malware heavy lifting from end user PCs to servers in the cloud. more