On April 22, 2005, TV Tome officially announced its absorption by CNET, much to the dissent of many members.

In July 2000, it was announced that ZDNet would be acquired by CNET, placing ZDTV in the awkward position of using the initials and logo of a company that soon would belong to its main TV programming rival.

E-mails to MP3. com artists and a placeholder message at MP3. com announced that CNET would be coming up with replacement services in the future, based around its current download. com facilities.

On July 19, 2000, CNET Networks — parent company of CNET, ZDNet's largest rival — announced that it would acquire ZDNet for about $ 1. 6 billion.

On May 17, 2008, CBS Corporation announced that it would acquire CNET Networks for approximately $ 1. 8 billion.

On October 25, 2007, it announced the purchase of Webshots from CNET for $ 45 million in cash.

In May 1999, a deal was announced to use Xoom. com as a vehicle for NBC's internet ventures, that combined Snap. com ( owned by CNET and NBC ), and various NBC internet assets plus $ 400M of NBC on-air promotion to form NBC Internet ( NBCi ).

On May 15, 2008, CBS formally announced its purchase of CNET Networks, and the company changed its name to CBS Interactive.

Halsey McLean Minor ( born 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA ) is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993 ( initial plans for the company began in 1992 ).

Initial plans by Matra included the deployment of 25 units to France's Centre national d ' études des télécommunications ( CNET of France Télécom ) for their internal use in 1972.

In hindsight, after Messier departed Vivendi, the new Vivendi management determined the corporate acquisitions spree to be reckless and later sold MP3. com to CNET which now manages the site.

The Crolles site hosts an 8 inch ( 200 mm ) and a 12 inch ( 300 mm ) fab and was originally built as a common R & D center for submicrometre technologies as part of the 1990 Grenoble 92 partnership between SGS-Thomson and CNET, the R & D center of French telecom company France Telecom.

Vivendi had difficulties growing the service and eventually dismantled the original site, selling off all of its assets including the URL and logo to CNET in 2003.

It led its closest rival, CNET, by a 26 percent margin and was the 13th most popular site on the Web, reaching 8. 4 million users, or 13. 4 percent of all users on the Web.

In 2002, CNET Networks launched ZDNet sister site Builder. com, a site intended for enterprise software developers.

The entire site was realigned as part of a CNET Networks B2B portfolio that included CNET News. com, Builder. com and TechRepublic.

In May 2010, ZDNet redesigned its site to place emphasis on the topics its blog network covers — now " Companies ," " Hardware ," " Software ," " Mobile ," " Security " and " Research "— and de-emphasize the downloads and reviews it imported from CNET post-merger.

The site still offers product reviews and software downloads, which are mostly imported from CNET.

CNET Networks in India closed their operations in 2001, but they continue to have the jobs site of ZDNet operational.

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.

Movie Tome was the sister site for TV Tome, now the CNET website TV. com.

On December 7, 2006, CNET launched a new version of the site, changing the name to FilmSpot. com ( similar to the conversion of TV Tome to TV. com and probably in the same trend as GameSpot. com ).

Since the 2006 operational takeover by CNET, the site had been in " beta stage ".

In 1971, NAS Pensacola was picked as the headquarters site for CNET ( Chief of Naval Education and Training ), a new command which combined direction and control of all Navy education and training activities and organizations.

CNET then acquired TV Tome, a popular fan-run television database, and TV. com was launched on June 1, 2005 with many of the features and content of the original TV Tome site.

On July 7, 2002, CNET Networks acquired Newmediary for its database of more than 30, 000 enterprise IT white papers.

The first public record of the new website and its objectives was on CNET News in 2001.

In discussing the quality of the Hammer Bros., CNET editor Nate Lanxon commented that " when preparing defenses for your forts of the future, you can take your grumpy little mushroom things and Lakitu's lame cloud ," showing preference to Hammer Bros. Editor Scott Jones listed Lakitu and its cloud as an uncomfortable pairing, joking that " if that cloud ever gets free of Lakitu, it will need many years of therapy just to feel like a normal cloud again.

In August 2011, Download. com introduced an installation manager called CNET TechTracker for delivering many of the software titles from its catalog.

While users could freely redistribute Sugar Open Source and the license allowed for the inspection and modification of the source code and for the creation of derived works, critics, including Dan Farber, editor in chief at CNET, expressed some concern over SugarCRM's use of the term " commercial open source " to describe its products.

The website, which started in 1996, has become virtually synonymous with online satire ; its content is syndicated through mainstream media sites such as CNN and CNET.

CNET intended to guide its initial use towards the business sector, to be later followed by personal home usage.

Studies of applications of videotelephony were conducted by CNET in France in 1972, with its first commercial applications for videophones appearing in 1984.

CNET reviewed the Samsung Craft in October 2010 and said: " The Samsung Craft is one of MetroPCS ' most advanced feature phones, and its 4G capabilities are an added draw for those in the carrier's LTE markets.

The program's video also streams several hours after broadcast on CBSNews. com and CBS Interactive property CNET TV.

CNET bought TV Tome for US $ 5 million in January 2005.

* CNET TV, TechTV's primary competition until the 2004 merger with G4.

CNET TV once aired syndicated on USA Network and the Sci-Fi Channel ( SyFy ), it now runs as an Online Video network and through On-Demand service with cable and satellite.

The shows are distributed through a wide range of platforms and distribution partners, including Virgin America's in-flight entertainment system, CNET TV, iTunes, BitTorrent, YouTube, PyroTV, Miro, TiVo, and Zune.

On the other hand, Web-based newspapers such as CNET use the term in both editorial and journalistic contexts, for example " Windows Live to Get Censorware.

Bob received the 7th place in PC World magazine's list of the 25 worst tech products of all time, a spot in Time magazine's list of the 50 Worst Inventions and number one worst product of the decade by CNET. com.

Then, in 1944, the National Centre of Telecommunications Studies ( CNET ) was created to develop the telecommunications industry in France.

Moreover, with the help of French manufacturers, the numerical switching, the Minitel and the GSM norm were invented by engineers and CNET researchers.

This division was derived from different ancient entities, such as CNET ( Centre national d ' études des télécommunications ) created in 1944, the CCETT created in 1972, as well as other entities.

* Molly Wood, executive editor at CNET. com

* Sharon Vaknin, CNET. com editor / host

Palm OS software programs can also be downloaded from CNET, PalmSource, Handango, and Tucows.

The Dish Network ViP722 HD DVR ( Record up to 350 hours of standard-definition ( SD ), up to 55 hours of high-definition ( HD ) replacement to the ViP622 has received generally positive reviews from CNET and others.

In a 2003 editorial, CNET News. com's chief political correspondent, Declan McCullagh, speculated that, soon, every object that is purchased, and perhaps ID cards, will have RFID devices in them, which would respond with information about people as they walk past scanners ( what type of phone they have, what type of shoes they have on, which books they are carrying, what credit cards or membership cards they have, etc .).

The second-generation RL appeared on Car and Drivers Ten Best list for 2005, and also garnered an CNET. com " Editor's Choice " Award for Top Tech Car.

" 18th-century theory is new force in computing " CNET News, 18 Feb 2003.

* Moore says nanoelectronics face tough challenges – By Michael Kanellos, CNET News. com, March 9, 2005

* CNET: Google balances privacy, reach ( July 14, 2005 ), which uses Eric Schmidt as an example of the personal information held by Google.