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• 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.
• How to Lose Your Identity This Holiday Season Looking to expose your personal data to online thieves? Follow these five easy steps — or better yet, use them as a cautionary tale.
• Psystar Hoped to Sell 12 Million Mac Clones Annually The unauthorized maker of OS X computers that Apple is trying to put out of business shared fantastic sales projections with potential investors.
• iPhone Owners Gobble Up Online Media According to a new study, iPhone owners are more likely to purchase online media — such as on-demand TV on their phones — than average consumers.
• Why E-book Readers Make Bad Holiday Gifts Sure, the e-book market has never been better — but that doesn't mean you should buy an e-book reader as a gift. At least not this year.
• Retail Mania, IE Woes, EU Charges Although this is a normally slow tech news week, some real news occurred, what with the ongoing IE exploit and the larger world not sidetracked by holidays.
• British Hacker Loses Another Extradiction Appeal The U.K. Home Minister says Gary McKinnon must face his charges in the U.S., as the latest in a line of rebuffs.
• 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.
• Oddball Gifts for Offbeat Tech Lovers Odd, expensive or unique and silly tech gift ideas for the hard-to-shop-for geek on your holiday list.
• Lenovo Buys Back Phone Unit With Eye on Mobile Web Products Lenovo will buy back the mobile phone unit that it spun off last year, hoping to tap the mobile Internet device market.
• 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.
• Black Friday Deals: Buy the Right PC, Not the Cheapest Computers may be on sale at insane prices, but take a careful look at the bottom line — and exactly what it is that you're buying.
• A Retro PC Celebration for the Whole Family Gather the kids round your Apple II and enjoy these nostalgic, vaguely unsettling vintage ads.
• Picture Perfect: Virtual Frames Enhance Digital Photos Leverage the aesthetic power of frames, mattes, and borders to enhance your digital photos, even if they never leave your computer.
• Top 10 iPhone Apps for Hobbyists Grilling. Bird watching. Shopping. Whatever your downtime passion, there's an app for that. Here's a look at ten intriguing options to help you recharge.
• 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.
• Dissecting a Black Friday Doorbuster: Is That $197 HP Laptop Any Good? We deconstruct a Best Buy holiday promo to determine whether the cheap laptop is actually a bargain.
• EU Charges Philips, Others With Forming CRT Screen Cartel The EC has accused manufacturers of cathode ray tubes of running cartels in the markets for computer monitors and TVs, the regulator said Thursday.
• Wipro Sets up Global Services Delivery From China Wipro opens its first services delivery center in China for global customers.
• A Smartbook by Any Other Name? Looks like it might be time to come up with a new moniker for 'smartbooks' — and that's a good thing.
• Kindle, Nook and Other E-Readers to Take Off in 2010 Lower prices, ease of use, and improved technology could give e-readers a big boost in the coming year.
• A Gamer's Guide to Black Friday The gaming industry's recession jitters are your gain. Delve into these Black Friday deals to see how you can save.
• iPhone App Rejected? There's a Site For That Apple's notorious App Store rejections now have a Web site all their own.
• Crunching Data on the Cheap Data warehousing and analytics need not be expensive, thanks to fairly rich free products now available.