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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 doesn't know what a BSOD looks like

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2008-11-17 09:42:42 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...CNet's gadget blog, Crave reads "CNET News reporter Elinor Mills knows what it's like to feel frustrated by computer glitches." Apparently! Look at her: the woman is so perturbed she actually needs to clamp the lid of her skull down on the pan, lest her brain boil over. One would imagine that even the citizens of Hiroshima, witnessing an...
 
Tags: cnet, computer glitches, tech fails cnet, crave reads, pop-up window, word document, finger nails, gadget blog, brain boil
 
 
 
 
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Video: Third generation Zune gets reviewed by CNET

2008-10-01 07:00:08 by Editorial Staff in GadgetLite Blog
 
...CNET and heres the verdict in one quick summary The good: The 120GB Microsoft Zune MP3 player has expanded the usefulness of its Wi-Fi and social music-discovery features, added support for games and audiobooks, and maintained enviable features, such as a 3.2-inch glass LCD, friendly interface, exceptional navigation control, audio- and...
 
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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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