 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.
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| Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free (Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note. So here we were,... |
| White Male Facebook Board Prompts Questions Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Most of Facebook Inc.’s more than 800 million users are women. You wouldn’t know it from looking at the board, whose seven directors are all... |
| Vodafone Said to Abandon Greek Merger After Opposition Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Vodafone Group Plc has decided to abandon an attempt to merge its Greek unit with rival Wind Hellas after facing European Union regulatory opposition, according to a person with... |
| KT Fourth-Quarter Profit Misses Estimates on Tariff Cut, Costs Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- KT Corp., South Korea’s largest phone and Internet company, reported fourth-quarter profit that missed analysts’ estimates after the carrier cut tariffs under an... |
| Nikon Jumps After Higher Profit Forecast on Cameras: Tokyo Mover Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Nikon Corp. surged the most in three years in Tokyo trading after the world’s second-biggest maker of professional-grade cameras raised its profit forecast on higher-... |
| Hacker Group Anonymous Intercepted U.S. Call Over Probe Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The online hacker group Anonymous intercepted a telephone call between FBI agents and U.K. authorities involving a joint investigation of the group, according to the U.S.... |
| Hackers seize NSW Government-run website A mysterious band of cyber pirates have hijacked a NSW Government sailing website, re-directing users to a page of threatening messages written in Turkish. Sydney yachties navigating their web... |
| As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue (Reuters) - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then... |
| The Super Bowl ads: Tech winners and losers The Super Bowl is a game in which even the punters get excited. It's also a game in which America looks at ads that tell it how the corporate world sees, well, America. If the tone of ads is... |
| Sac Bee fires photographer over altered pictures (02-05) 12:36 PST Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- The Sacramento Bee has fired a longtime photographer who editors say broke newspaper policy by digitally altering photos. In a letter to readers... |
| Ford asks GM to pull Super Bowl ad (02-05) 13:39 PST LAS VEGAS, (AP) -- Ford is demanding that rival General Motors pull a Super Bowl commercial that implies the Chevrolet Silverado pickup is more dependable than the Ford F-Series. ... |
| A new ballgame for Curt Schilling: 'Kingdoms of Amalur' Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the first game from 38 Studios, the development company he founded six years ago, arrives in stores Tuesday ($60, for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PCs, ages 17-up).... |
| Q&A with game creator Curt Schilling Q: When did you decide to make the leap from gamer to gamemaker?A: I had the conversations every gamer has. Why did they do this? Why didn't they do that? The next evolution of that is, I can do this... |
| 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.... |
