Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)CNET reviewers check out the X-Mini Max II capsule speakers, the GoPro Motorsports HD Hero camera, laptops from Sony and Dell, and more.AT&T has refurbished 16GB iPhone 3Gs for $49Carrier is offering refurbished 16GB iPhone 3Gs for $49 and waiving the $35 activation fee.Tips for safe online shoppingAs the holiday season begins, Larry Magid offers some tips on safe holiday shopping.Black Friday at Best Buy: What's the big deal?An early morning visit to a Best Buy in Marin City, Calif., reveals no lines, no craziness, and some fairly sleepy Best Buy employees.Shuttle Atlantis glides home after station visitThe shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth after an 11-day three-spacewalk mission to deliver 15 tons of equipment and spare parts to the International Space Station.Apple sues power adapter knockoff makerApple filed a lawsuit against Media Solutions Holdings for selling replacement power adapters that infringe on its patent.Trend watch 2010: Mobile moviesStreaming movies will become more common to mobile devices as more people switch to smartphones. Can wireless networks keep up with the demand?HP Envy eclipses the Apple MacBookThe Hewlett-Packard Envy 13 moves past the Apple MacBook Air in some important respects, but the price tag is a problem.Handbrake 0.9.4: Your best deal on Black FridayHandbrake, the world's best video transcoder, just hit its 0.9.4 release and delivers more than 1,000 changes while improving speed, quality, and file size.Apple's 2009 Black Friday deals: all MacBook Pro models $101 off According to purportedly leaked documents on the tech rumor site Boy Genius Report, Apple is gearing up to offer a series of a variety of bargains on products from iPods to MacBooks. NASA tech simulates moon landing (audio slideshow)Inside the massive Vertical Motion Simulator at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., engineers test designs for next-generation lunar landers.A wild ride on NASA's massive flight simulatorThe Vertical Motion Simulator trains all comers in capsule landings, helicopter flights, and even bobsled runs. Now it's helping in the design of next-gen lunar landers.
Science untarnished by 'Climategate,' U.N. saysChair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says stolen e-mails do not damage the credibility of findings that humans are to blame for global warming.U.S., China help climate talks, but tangles remainWhile some progress has been made ahead of next month's climate change talks, there will still be plenty of big tangles in Copenhagen, observers say. EU hearing on Oracle-Sun set for Dec. 10Oracle is set to meet with European Commission regulators to make its case for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Note to hospitals: The pen is mightier than the data entry worker Shareable Ink is hoping to popularize a camera-in-a-pen that wirelessly transfers text written on paper to a remote database to better track such data as glucose levels.Big changes in Security Starter Kit 2010Planning on getting a new computer this holiday season? Stay safe into the New Year with the overhauled Download.com Security Starter Kit for 2010.AT&T gets Luke Wilson to hit Verizon againPhone company continues to fight accusations that its 3G network is poor. One new spot uses the same strategy as the iPhone, featuring simultaneous voice and data.ComScore: Online video scores another big monthMarket research firm ComScore releases its data on online-video viewing for October 2009. Not surprisingly, YouTube is leading the pack by a large margin.At its best, is open source unbeatable?Open-source development, when it works, perhaps works so well and at such a frenetic pace that no proprietary vendor can hope to compete.Survey: IT spending to recover in 2010Goldman Sachs' latest IT spending survey suggests a return to growth with a few big vendors aiming to get even bigger.
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