• 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.

• Snow Leopard Update Zaps Bugs, Kills Hackintosh Netbooks

  
  Apple update will fix important flaws in the Snow Leopard operating system along with killing support Atom-based netbooks popular with hackers.
• Droid Sales Are Fine, But Seem Familiar
• CES 2010 Preview: Gloom, But Not Doom
• Nokia Announces Charger Recall: What You Need To Know
• Windows 7 For Less: Where to Find Discounts
• Google's Buy of Skype Rival Gizmo5 Could Benefit You
• Verizon's Droid Launch: Your Complete Guide

Latest News

• Samsung Intros Bada Mobile OS: Do We Need It? Samsung is introducing a mobile operating system called Bada it hopes will be competitive with Apple and Google's offerings.
• Nokia Expands CDMA Range in China With Three Phones Nokia has launched three new CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phones for the Chinese market.
• Elpida Signs on Another Taiwan DRAM Maker Elpida signed Winbond Electronics to a technology and outsourcing deal, raising its Taiwan allies to four.
• China Lauds IPhone App That Spreads State Views Chinese state-owned news outlets are increasingly offering iPhone apps as the country looks for new ways to project its official political views abroad.
• Kindle for PC: Try E-Books without Buying an E-Reader Amazon releases Kindle for PC, Windows software for reading Kindle e-books on a PC — a Mac version is coming soon.
• Windows 7 on Netbooks: Destined to Disappoint? Most Windows 7-equipped netbooks ship with the underwhelming Starter Edition, and new evidence shows that Linux on netbooks is alive and well.
• Firefox Faces Its Future as It Turns Five As the Mozilla foundation celebrates five years of Firefox this week, bloggers bake a cake and light the candles.
• Facebook Denies Hijack Facebook Groups were disrupted by a warning to "Control Your Info" but no damage occurred besides disruption, Facebook says.
• Snow Leopard Update Nukes Atom Support Apple's Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update kills support for Intel Atom/netbooks — netbook users running Intel Atom likely won't be able to upgrade beyond 10.6.1.
• Motorola Droid: Off to a Fast Start Verizon sold 100,000 Droids over its first weekend, early estimates show.
• Cisco Showcases Big Bets on Collaboration Unveiling 61 new products and features, Cisco Systems executives emphasized the importance of collaboration at an event in San Francisco on Monday.
• Apple's Snow Leopard Update Also Bans Hacked Macs Apple's release of Mac OS X v.10.6.2 squashes bugs and blocks Atom "Hackintoshes" in the process.
• At Modern Warfare 2 Launch, Activation Honors Vets Game Maker Activision Blizzard is donating $1 million through its Call of Duty Endowment charity to unemployed veterans.
• Windows 7 May Be Secure, but Are Windows Users Safe? Windows 7 users got a nice surprise on Tuesday when Microsoft released its first set of security patches since unveiling the new operating system last month. Of...
• Microsoft Releases Office 2004, 2008 Updates Microsoft on Tuesday issued updates for its venerable Office suite versions 2004 and 2008.
• Clearwire Claims 173,000 WiMax Users Wireless broadband provider Clearwire had about 173,000 WiMax subscribers at the end of September, the company said Tuesday.
• Logitech to Buy HD Video Company for $405 Million Logitech has agreed to buy HD video communications company LifeSize for $405 million.
• Google Creates Programming Language to Simplify App Dev Google has created a new programming language designed to simplify application development.
• 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.
• Google Maps Shows Flu Shot Providers in the U.S. Google Maps now shows providers of flu shots in the U.S.

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Today in PCW Blogs

• Today @ PC World
  Samsung Intros Bada Mobile OS: Do We Need It? Samsung is introducing a mobile operating system called Bada it hopes will be competitive with Apple and Google's offerings.
• Today @ PC World
  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.
• Today @ PC World
  CES 2010 Preview: Gloom, But Not Doom The new frugality takes hold, but consumers still want electronics.
• Today @ PC World
  Droid Sales Are Fine, But Seem Familiar Like the Palm Pre, the last smartphone to be touted as an 'iPhone killer,' 100,000 Droids have sold in the phone's opening days. Will the Droid continue to follow the Pre's trajectory?
• Security Alert
  Microsoft Patches Critical Drive-by Flaw Today's Patch Tuesday fixes a major Web-based risk for Windows, along with security flaws in Office and network-based risks.
• Today @ PC World
  Free Wi-Fi Wars: Google vs. Microsoft vs. Yahoo Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are each offering free Wi-Fi to consumers this holiday season.
• Tech Inciter
  Can Firefox Last Five More Years? Forecast: Cloudy The biggest danger to Firefox, as it enters its second half-decade, is the changing role of browsers, from surfing the Internet to running applications.
• Today @ PC World
  AMD Previews Dell Inspiron Zino and Other Emerging Win 7 PCs AMD shows off snazzy new Dell gear for the living room, office. and for those on the go.
• Game On
  Demon's Souls, The Hardest Game You've Ever Played Atlus's PlayStation 3 exclusive Demon's Souls may be the hardest game ever made, and it's the best of any I've played all year.
• BizFeed
  Apple Breaks Hackintosh Netbooks with Latest Update Apple's most recent update for the Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system breaks hackintosh systems by removing support for the Intel Atom processor commonly found in netbooks. Apple is more concerned with maintaining the customer experience than in gaining market share.
• Tech Inciter
  Google's Free Holiday Wi-Fi Beats Airport Grinches Google is providing free Wi-Fi at 47 U.S. airports until Jan. 15. The deal makes Google look good and airports bad.
• Today @ PC World
  LinkedIn and Twitter Partnership: Do's and Don'ts for Users Better watch your tweets! A partnership between Linkedin and Twitter now allow for your tweets to appear next to your Linkedin profile.
• Today @ PC World
  Kindle for PC Released, Color Kindle Coming Soon? Amazon offers free Kindle software app for PCs, Apple version on its way.
• Today @ PC World
  Apple's Snow Leopard Update Zaps Bugs, Kills Hackintosh Netbooks Apple update will fix important flaws in the Snow Leopard operating system along with killing support Atom-based netbooks popular with hackers.