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17 unusual facts about CNet


Beyond Compare

In an April 2009 review, Beyond Compare was awarded four out of five stars by CNET.

Brian Cooley

Brian Cooley is an Editor at large for CNET and their senior pundit, seen frequently on CNN, ABC News, CNBC as well on the TV screens in most major tech retailers around the U.S.

CEA-Leti: Laboratoire d'électronique des technologies de l'information

1991: Leti joins forces with the Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (CNET), France’s national telecommunication research center, to form the Grenoble Submicron Silicon Initiative (GRESSI).

CNET

Current American Idol host Ryan Seacrest first came to national prominence at CNET, as the host of The New Edge and doing various voice-over work for CNET.

CNET also announced that it could no longer review any product or service provided by companies that CBS are in litigation with (which also includes Aereo).

The decision also drew the ire of staff from the Consumer Electronics Association, the organizers of CES; CEO Gary Shapiro criticized the decision in a USA Today op-ed column and a statement by the CEA, stating that "making television easier to watch is not against the law. It is simply pro-innovation and pro-consumer."

CNET editors such as Brian Cooley, Jeff Bakalar, Bridget Carey and Brian Tong host shows like Car Tech, The 404 Show, Quick Tips, CNET Top 5, Update, The Apple Byte, video prizefights, and others, as well as special reports and reviews.

Dash Navigation

In January, Dash Express won "Best of CES" awards from both CNET and LAPTOP Magazine.

I-drive

The service was rated as a "Top 5 Web Application" by CNET in 2000 and one of the "3 Top Technologies to Watch" by Fortune Magazine in 2000.

John C. Dvorak

Dvorak was on the start-up team for CNET Networks, appearing on the television show CNET Central.

Kobo eReader

The original Kobo received a mediocre review from CNET, which said that, while the Kobo was compact, lightweight and affordable, the lack of Wi-Fi or 3G made it outdated, especially when there were similarly priced eReaders available with those features.

Molly Wood

Wood is well known for being the host of CNET tech show Always On, in addition to her podcast "It's a Thing," an effort reuniting her with former BOL co-host Tom Merritt.

Nintendo DS line

CNET and PCWorld considered the DSi Shop to be the most important buying incentive for current DS owners.

Samsung SGH-A167

CNET gave the phone 2 and one half stars out of five (or overall near a 50% rating).

Samsung SGH-C417

The SGH-417 was rated a 7.0 (3.5 stars) by CNET The phone was praised for its sleek design and affordable price.

StoryServer

StoryServer was the name the company Vignette gave to CNET's web publishing application "PRISM" when they bought it.

Troy Wolverton

Prior to his current post, Wolverton was a senior writer for TheStreet.com and a writer for CNET.


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Anystream

Anystream's Agility software has become a standard for streaming media encoding and broadcast transcoding for such media companies as BBC, Red Bee Media, BskyB, CNet, CNN, AOL, ESPN, Fox News, Foxsports.com, NFL Films, weather.com and others.

CNET Content Solutions

CNET Content Solutions, (formerly CNET Channel) a division of CBS Interactive, is an independent source of technology product information.

Loomia

Loomia has worked with major media companies to optimize their Web site content such as Time.com, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNET, US News & World Report, and others.

MinWin

Several months after Traut's demonstration, some confusion arose from an interview by Ina Fried of CNET's News.com with Steven Sinofsky, the vice-president of Windows engineering at Microsoft.

MPEG-1

--at ???--> Optimum Coding in the Frequency domain (OCF) the doctoral thesis by Karlheinz Brandenburg at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM) by J. D. Johnston at AT&T Bell Labs, and Transform coding of audio signals by Y. Mahieux and J. Petit at Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT/CNET).

Newsy.com

The purpose of Newsy.com is to compare how multiple news outlets from around the world (e.g. The New York Times, France 24, NDTV, Xinhua, Fox News Channel, The Guardian, and CNET.com) cover the day's events for people who want to stay up to date, but don't have the time to seek out multiple sources on their own.

Sony NW-A810

Crave, the CNET gadget blog, named the NW-A810 series as one of the MP3 players that shaped year 2007, with another three, the Zune 80, iPod touch, and the ZEN.

The Laziest Men on Mars

The track "We Are Something Awful" is a Laziest Men On Mars song, but was not available on MP3.com at the time of Vivendi's sale of the site to CNET in 2003.

ToneThis

ToneThis is a CNET Top 10 Mobile application and is available in retail stores including CompUSA and Best Buy.

TV.com

CNET had originally acquired the domain name (among other generic domain names like news.com, radio.com, etc.) in the mid-1990s to host a website for the company's technology-related TV shows.