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• Black Friday Sales Gains Higher Online Than in Stores The holiday shopping season finds more people hitting the keyboards than the sidewalk -- and they're buying electronics.
• Baidu Targets Google With Mobile Search App Top Chinese search engine Baidu.com is pre-installing a mobile service app on handsets, its latest blow to Google over mobile search in China.
• 5 Free Web Apps to Help Organize Your Holidays Tips and tech tools to help manage the kitchen, the shopping, the mailing and more.
• Struggling Wikipedia Sheds Thousands of Editors An academic researcher questions the site's viability, but Wikipedia defends its policies.
• Twitter Inspires More to Go Mobile Increasing numbers of tweets are being sent from mobile devices, researchers report.
• Cyber Monday: E-Shop Til You Drop If you didn't scoop up all the Black Friday bargains you'd hoped for, get ready for a new round of dirt-cheap discounts on Cyber Monday.
• IRemember 2.5 These days, we can view and share photos almost as fast as we can capture them. With a quick click of a button, your photos can be stored and sent to friends...
• Viviane Reding Picked to Re-write EU Data Protection Laws Viviane Reding has been picked to take charge of a re-write of Europe's 15 year-old data protection laws due to start next year.
• 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.
• China Warns About Return of Destructive Panda Virus A computer worm that China warned Internet users against is an updated version of the Panda Burning Incense virus, which infected millions of PCs.
• India to Set up Automatic Monitoring of Communications India setting up new system for monitoring communications in the country.
• PC World's Top Ten Funniest Videos of 2009 Some, like our iPhone stress tests are pretty funny, and others confirm that geeks don't always make excellent comedians. Take a look.
• Chinese EBay Rival Branches out With Branded Mobile Phone China's biggest online auction and retail Web site, Taobao.com, plans to stamp its name on a new mobile phone, the brand's first foray into devices.
• Black Friday Deals, Tips, Gotchas, and Gripes on the PC World Podcast The busiest shopping day of the year is nearly upon us. PC World editors discuss some of the best deals, worst gotchas, and hottest Web sites for tech bargains.
• Can Video-Streaming Site Joost Avoid Going Off the Air? Video streaming Website Joost will sell most of its assets to Adconion in a bid to stay alive
• Get $10 Back When You Buy Something with Bing Tired of giving money to Microsoft? Get a little back when you sign up for a Bing Cashback account and buy, well, just about anything.
• Sept. 11 Pager Messages Published Online Wikileaks is publishing 573,000 pager messages sent nationwide on Sept. 11, 2001.
• 5 Hopes for an iTunes-Style Magazine Store Magazine publishers may pool their resources to go digital; here's hoping they don't overlook these concerns.
• Redirecting DNS Requests Can Harm the Internet, Says ICANN ICANN on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting requests for nonexistent domains as a threat to the smooth functioning of the Internet.
• Racist Image Tops Google Search Results for Michelle Obama A racist caricature is currently the top-ranked image of first lady Michelle Obama on Google's image search engine.
• 3G Means More Porn, China Laments Amid Cleanup China called for a cleanup of mobile porn Web sites on Wednesday as it blamed their rise on high-speed 3G mobile data services.
• Will Google’s Deal with TiVo Push More Video to the Web? Google's advertising division will get unprecedented levels of information about viewer habits.
• Sleazy Marketing Ploys Not a Concern to Online Merchants Orbitz, Priceline, and United Online seem to believe that if a consumer gets confused by their offers and signs up without intending to, it’s the consumer’s fault.
• Top 10 Black Friday Websites Get warmed up for the biggest shopping day of the year by bookmarking the hottest destinations on the Web touting Black Friday deals.
• Holiday Newsletters With iWeb '09 This year, easily put your holiday greetings online with a Web newsletter.