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• Working at Home: A Wi-Fi, H1N1 Survival Guide The ultimate guide to surviving the 2009 holiday season: How to visit family and reconnect with old friends and still get done all that work while out of the office.
• Torrent Giant Mininova Forced to Go Legit Mininova, one of the largest peer-to-peer file-sharing sites next to The Pirate Bay, has now removed most of its links to copyrighted content.
• 10 Free Downloads for Your Laptop With these no-cost tools for syncing data, monitoring battery life, working with wireless networks, and using a thumb drive, you can get the most out of your laptop or netbook.
• Microsoft Technology Reduces Network Redundancy Microsoft Research India has developed host server technology for reducing redundancy on wide-area networks.
• Speed Up Everything Is your PC dragging? Does your broadband network creep along at dial-up speeds? Do Web pages take forever to load on your smartphone? Don't wait! These fixes will get you back into the fast lane.
• AT&T's Verizon 'Map' Suit a Risky Necessity, Lawyer Says The false-advertising claim is a "gamble worth taking," says an intellectual property attorney watching the case.
• Cell Phones Drive Social Networks Now, IDC Reports Mobile devices have edged PCs as the tool of choice in Asia for online social networks, researchers find.
• Google Chrome OS on the PC World Podcast PC World editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, Melissa Perenson, and Nick Mediati discuss the potential impact of Google Chrome OS on the computing industry. This is PC World Podcast episode 54.
• AT&T Loses in Court, but Catfight with Verizon Continues AT&T's ongoing legal battle only serves to make itself look bad. Here's why.
• NTT DoCoMo Moves up Date to Shut off 2G Mobile Japan's biggest wireless service provider plans to shut off its 2G mobile phone network in March 2011.
• Wipro Uses Wireless to Monitor Patients Remotely Wipro has designed a gateway that allows remote collection of patient information using wireless and wired communications.
• Hello, Sezmi -- Goodbye, Cable The Sezmi TV service aims to provide a more personalized, Net-savvy, inexpensive alternative to cable and satellite.
• Cisco Ups Offer for Videoconferencing Firm Tandberg to $3.4B Cisco has raised its bid for Norwegian video conferencing vendor Tandberg to about US$3.4 billion. The previous offer was US$3.0 billion.
• Augmented Reality: Coming to a Device Near You We've all seen augmented reality in the movies: A character puts on a pair of glasses and suddenly data about their surroundings appears within their field of vision. Now this technology is available on a device near you.
• AT&T's Verizon Ad Battle: Who's Being Hurt Worse? AT&T's fighting Verizon over its network-bashing ads -- and, according to some new data, the public is starting to take notice.
• AMD and Intel Patch Things Up, HP Buys 3Com We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending...
• DNS Problem Linked to DDoS Attacks Gets Worse ISPs are distributing consumer modems that could be used in DDoS attacks, researchers say.
• Wall Street Beat: Big Tech Deals Stir Market Acquisitions and legal deals among vendors sparked investor interest this week by potentially altering the shape of the tech market.
• Google's Free Wi-Fi Gift: Lessons for Airports to Learn Sure, it's nice to get free Internet access this holiday season. But why should we have to pay for it the rest of the year?
• How to Deny Service to a Federal Wiretap Researchers have discovered flaws in the wiretapping standard used to define how switches should transmit wiretapped information to authorities.
• HP to Buy 3Com in Networking, Data Center Bid Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion.
• HP to Acquire 3Com for $2.7 Billion HP to acquire 3Com for $2.7 billion
• Thanks Google, But Airport Wi-Fi Should Always Be Free Google's getting lots of kudos for sponsoring free airport Wi-Fi during the holiday season -- but free airport Wi-Fi should be the rule year 'round.
• New Malware Affects Jailbroken iPhones Yesterday, security firm Intego reported the discovery of a harmful piece of malware affecting jailbroken iPhones that can obtain personal data.
• Google's Free Airport Wi-Fi: Five Ways to Protect Yourself Free Wi-Fi while waiting for your flight sounds like a nice holiday gift, but public hotspots can be insecure. Follow these security tips to keep away hackers and humbugs.