• 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.

• 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.
• Gallery of Best Windows 7 Tweaks
• Leaked: Project Natal Launch Date November 2010
• Google Latitude Gets Snoopier
• Samsung's New Smartphone OS: It's Bada News
• Modern Warfare 2: Abundant and Available
• Google's Free Airport Wi-Fi: 5 Ways to Protect Yourself
• Verizon's Droid Launch: Your Complete Guide

Latest News

• Microsoft Stole Mac OS Aesthetics? So What! So what if Microsoft ripped off Apple when it comes to design aesthetics.
• AMD, Intel Settle Antitrust, IP Cases Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Thursday announced that they have settled all antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes between the companies.
• Modern Warfare 2 Pulls $310m Day One in US and UK If accurate, Activision's claims that Modern Warfare 2 sold $310m during its initial 24 hours would shatter day-one entertainment sales records across the board.
• Mint Puts Twitter to Work Mint's new Money Tweets feature shows how businesses can put Twitter to good use.
• Motorola Droid Laid Bare, Reveals All In Teardown Motorola's Droid gets laid bare, thanks to a post-launch teardown courtest of PhoneWreck.
• 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?
• Microsoft Bans Up to One Million Users From Xbox Live In an attempt to combat piracy, Microsoft cuts off users who have hacked their Xbox 360 consoles to play pirated games.
• Mafia Wars Creator: "We Did Every Horrible Thing in the Book" Earlier this week, we delivered the news that EA purchased the social-networking focused developer Playfish for $300 million.
• Banned Xbox 360s Flooding Craigslist, Ebay Gamers offloading their banned Xbox 360s via auction and classified listings after Microsoft disconnects LIVE accounts for illegal activity.
• Fujitsu's Latest Cell Phone Splits in Two Fujitsu's latest phone can be separated into two functional pieces.
• HP-Cisco Battle Spreads to China With 3Com Deal HP's purchase of networking gear vendor 3Com could unlock sales opportunities for its other hardware and services in China, where 3Com has a strong base.
• Top 25 Quotes in Tech These 25 notable quotes in tech history have become legendary sound bites.
• Infosys Acquires BPO Company in the U.S. Infosys' BPO business to acquire a BPO company in the U.S.; focused on the insurance and financial services market.
• AMD Promises Big Jump in Performance With Magny Cours Advanced Micro Devices is gearing up for the 2010 launch of Magny Cours, a more powerful Opteron server processor.
• GlobalFoundries Woos Customers With Expansion Plans The acquisition of Chartered by ATIC and its planned integration with GlobalFoundries will help the contract chip maker win more customers.
• 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.
• Open Source Software Ready for Big Business Open source has moved into a new phase where it is evaluated more on its technical merits than on the community model of software development. Here's a...
• HP Heats Up Cisco Rivalry with 3Com Purchase HP is intensifying its rivalry with Cisco. The purchase of 3Com signals that the gloves are off and the battle for the data center is getting hot.
• AMD Talks Bulldozer, Hemlock and Fusion AMD gave its road map for the next two years on Wednesday, including the 'Danube' quad-core notebook chip, due early next year.
• Bing Now a Serious Challenger to Google Bing has added valuable tools and fun technology, making it a formidable Google competitor.

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  World Tech Update: Ballmer in Asia, Droid in Stores, and More... Steve Ballmer tours Asia, Motorola preps the new Droid phone for launch, and more...
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  First Smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.5 Ships in Europe, Asia HTC's HD2 smartphone is the first phone to run Windows Mobile 6.5, and will be available in the U.S. in early 2010.
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  Digital Demolition: Can a Phone and Camera Withstand the Dunk Test? The Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 point-and-shoot and the Sonim XP3 Quest rugged phone are supposed to be tough. So can they handle a trip to the pool and being run over by an SUV?

Today in PCW Blogs

• Today @ PC World
  Microsoft Stole Mac OS Aesthetics? So What! So what if Microsoft ripped off Apple when it comes to design aesthetics.
• Game On
  Modern Warfare 2 Pulls $310m Day One in US and UK If accurate, Activision's claims that Modern Warfare 2 sold $310m during its initial 24 hours would shatter day-one entertainment sales records across the board.
• Today @ PC World
  Mint Puts Twitter to Work Mint's new Money Tweets feature shows how businesses can put Twitter to good use.
• Geek Tech
  Motorola Droid Laid Bare, Reveals All In Teardown Motorola's Droid gets laid bare, thanks to a post-launch teardown courtest of PhoneWreck.
• Today @ PC World
  Microsoft Bans Up to One Million Users From Xbox Live In an attempt to combat piracy, Microsoft cuts off users who have hacked their Xbox 360 consoles to play pirated games.
• Game On
  Banned Xbox 360s Flooding Craigslist, Ebay Gamers offloading their banned Xbox 360s via auction and classified listings after Microsoft disconnects LIVE accounts for illegal activity.
• Linux Line
  Open Source Software Ready for Big Business Open source has moved into a new phase where it is evaluated more on its technical merits than on the community model of software development. Here's a...
• BizFeed
  HP Heats Up Cisco Rivalry with 3Com Purchase HP is intensifying its rivalry with Cisco. The purchase of 3Com signals that the gloves are off and the battle for the data center is getting hot.
• Today @ PC World
  Bing Now a Serious Challenger to Google Bing has added valuable tools and fun technology, making it a formidable Google competitor.
• Today @ PC World
  Facebook Invasion: Beware of New 'Smart' Worm Hot on the heels of a reported hijacking of hundreds of Facebook groups, a new variation on an old worm is crawling its way into the social network's walls.
• Today @ PC World
  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.
• Geek Tech
  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.
• Tech Audit
  Microsoft Patch Tuesday: What You Need to Know There are 6 new Security Bulletins this month: 3 rated as Critical and 3 rated as Important. Not all Critical Security Bulletins are created equally, though.
• Geek Tech
  Zune HD finally gets its 3D games Audiosurf, Vans SK8, Project Gotham Racing, and more...but not Facebook or Twitter just yet