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• ShareTool Extends Bonjour Over the 'net I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to access data and media hosted on a machine that I'm not near--I use Dropbox, LogMeIn, Timbuktu Pro, and...
• Wall Street Beat: Cautious Optimism Reigns for Tech Despite lingering concerns, analysts for the most part remain confident that IT will continue to lead markets out of the recession.
• Google Public DNS and Your Privacy Google's expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Here's a detailed look at what the system will collect from you and how that data will be used.
• Securing Your iPhone Jailbreak To those who have already jailbroken, or are considering making the jump- fear not! Your jailbroken iPhone can be just as, if not even more secure than any stock iPhone. Here are a few tips.
• AT&T and Verizon Pull Lawsuits, Save Face Attorneys for AT&T and Verizon Wireless agreed to drop two federal lawsuits over Verizon advertising about its 3G network.
• Broadcom Buying Dune Networks for Cloud Switching Broadcom has agreed to acquire Dune Networks, a privately held maker of high-speed switch fabrics, for about US$178 million.
• 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?