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CNet Scoring System Analyzed; 70% of all gadgets between 6.0 and 7.9 [Meta]

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2008-05-05 18:01:10 by Brian Lam in Gizmodo
...CNet about their rating system, which appears to always rate products between 7 and 8, meaning everything is more or less "very good" in score. Ecoustics has done the job of analyzing 1,325 reviews from 2007 (all of them?) and figured out the exact math: 96% of all ratings from last year fell between 5.0 and 8.9; about 70% fall between 6 and...
 
Tags: cnet, cnet scale, cnet score, score, reviews, average, average implies, video game reviews, outweigh
 
 
 
 
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CBS to buy CNET for $1.75bn

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2008-05-15 12:28:59 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
...CNET, which adds up to nearly $1.8bn, instantly turning it a big player in the tubes. Fortune says that's a 44 percent premium over Wednesday's closing price, which is basically them saying "Damn, this company is run terribly . Grab it Here's CEO Les Moonves. There are very few opportunities to acquire a profitable, growing, well-managed...
 
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CBS to Acquire CNET for US$1.8 Billion - Mr.Gadget very open to similar offers

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2008-05-16 05:52:09 by Mr.Gadget in Mr.Gadget Australia
...CNET Networks for the handsome price of US$1.8 Billion CNET Networks, Inc. () is an Internet-based American media company based in San Francisco, California co-founded in 1993 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie. A publicly held company, its stock trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol CNET. It has operations in 12 countries...
 
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CNET Asia's Top 5 Blu-ray Notebooks Exemplify NVIDIA GPU Leadership

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2008-04-13 07:03:39 by HASH0x8ba0948 in Mobilewhack
...CNET Asia's Top 5 Blu-ray notebooks articles, all sport NVIDIA's GeForce GPUs. This includes the Dell XPS m1730 , popular for winning the CNET's Editor's Choice and Reader's Choice awards All of these PC's feature a Blu-ray HD drive and are all based on GeForce GPUs with PureVideo HD technology, which provides outstanding visual quality and...
 
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Panasonic's Hot 85U Series Plasma Reviewed by CNet: Very Black, Not Better Than Pioneer's Kuro [Plasmas]

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2008-04-18 15:39:08 by Brian Lam in Gizmodo
CNet's David Katzmaier eats, breathes and shits Giant Plasmas, so when he gave me the heads up on his review of Panasonic's 85 series plasmas, their best until the 800 and 850s come out, I noticed. In a nutshell, the 46-inch (yes, 46-inch) 1080p set's 30,000:1 contrast ratio gives it some of the blackest blacks he's ever seen...but...
 
Tags: cnet, 1080p set, panasonic, set, shits giant plasmas, power consumption, black, stubby scale, hdmi ports
 
 
 
 
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CNet Loaded News

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2008-02-05 01:42:46 by GadgetManiac in GadgetManiac
...CNet TV today. The show is called Loaded and features Natali Del Conte as senior editor. In todays first episode, Natali said Loaded will provide in-depth real-world technology-focused daily news, issues and backgrounders from the shows base in NYC The 1st show discussed among other things, Fridays $45B offer by Microsoft for control of...
 
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CNet Gives Logitech Squeezebox Duet the Ol' Editor's Choice Stamp [Home Entertainment]

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2008-03-04 19:30:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...CNet has favorably reviewed the $400 Squeezebox Duet we told you about at CES, it may well have a shot That's right, in living video, our buddy John Falcone explains the Wi-Fi-powered system, and notes that, aside from DRM protected content, the Squeezebox Duet gets at "any music, anywhere" including stuff from Rhapsody, Slacker, and Pandora,...
 
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Mac Ad on CNet

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2008-03-21 16:03:35 by Laura Moncur in Gadgets Page
 
...CNet . You can see it here I love that this ad wouldnt work on any other medium except on the web. I especially love that it doesnt start talking at me the second I load up CNet. It just silently moves in the background and Im not assaulted with it unless I choose to press the play button. I also like that it STOPS moving after a few...
 
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CNET's Tech Tips Can't Be Beat

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2008-05-12 16:45:49 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...CNET to be very useful, especially for its handy Tips & Tricks . In fact, it's usually my first stop when I've got to figure something out and don't already have that knowledge stored somewhere (usually in my own unique personal storage device -- my head Take a look at their latest Top 5 list, which includes Moving your iTunes library from PC...
 
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