• Track Santa Online With Google Earth

  
  NORAD and Google have teamed up to track Saint Nick's journey, but you can use their tools to teach your kids a little something about the Earth, too.

• Apple Tablet Coming in January?

  
  We still know so little about the long-rumored Apple tablet. But that could be about to change, as Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce the device next month.
• E-Book Piracy: The Publishing Industry's Next Epic Saga?
• Google's Nexus One Details: What We Know So Far
• What a Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech
• The 20 Dumbest Questions on Yahoo Answers
• HDTV: 10 Top Trends Coming to a Screen Near You in 2010
• Top 10 HDTV Trends for 2010

Latest News

• Hacker: I Broke Kindle's DRM Hacker claims he can break through copyright protection on e-books formatted for the Amazone Kindle.
• Videoconferencing at 30,000 Feet: Mostly Amazing Thanks to Virgin America's free in-flight Wi-Fi, I was able to conduct a live video conference while on a plane.
• CES: DisplayLink Says USB 3.0 Video Coming Soon DisplayLink plans to show off a new chip that supports the USB 3.0 standard at the Consumer Electronics Show next month in Las Vegas.
• High Windows 7 Satisfaction Spurs Business Spending After just two months on the market, Windows 7 is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave said.
• Track Santa Online With Google Earth NORAD and Google have teamed up to track Saint Nick's journey, but you can use their tools to teach your kids a little something about the Earth, too.
• Ballmer in 2010: Should He Stay or Should He Go? Will 2010 be the year the Ballmer era ends at Microsoft?
• Apple Tablet Coming in January? We still know so little about the long-rumored Apple tablet. But that could be about to change, as Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce the device next month.
• Indian Startup Designs Tablet PC Running Android Indian startup Norton Ink is designing a tablet PC around Android and is targeting the device at the global market.
• Bugs & Fixes: Getting EyeTV Live 3G to Work Elgato recently released EyeTV Live 3G, a free Web app that works with the iPhone to stream video content from the EyeTV application on your Mac. With this...
• Last Minute Gifts for Entertainment Lovers Whoops. It seems that you've forgotten to buy a holiday gift for your second favorite nephew. Time is running out. What do you do? What DO you do?
• Will We See the Famed Apple Tablet Next Month? We doesn't normally report on Apple gossip from rumor Websites, but when heavyweights like The Financial Times report on Apple news--even if it sounds a bit...
• More IPhone Time-tracking Apps Your time is precious. My time is expensive. Effective time management isn't just a virtue. For many professionals, it's a necessity. Several months ago, I...
• DDoS Attack on DNS Hits Amazon and Others Briefly A distributed denial-of-service attack affected Northern California Internet users Wednesday.
• Japan Sees Third Straight Month PC Unit Shipment Growth Unit shipments of PCs in Japan registered their third straight month of gains in November based on year-ago levels, an industry group said Thursday.
• Facebook Traffic Jumps in Japan but It Still Lags Mixi Facebook has seen an almost fourfold increase in the number of visitors to its Web site from Japan in the last year, NetRatings Japan said Thursday.
• Google Purchase of AdMob Gets Closer Antitrust Review The Federal Trade Commission has asked Google for more information about its proposed $750 million purchase of mobile advertising company AdMob.
• Twitter Buys Mixer Labs to Enhance Geolocation Services Twitter bought Mixer Labs, which provides an API to write geolocation-aware applications.
• E-Book Piracy: The Publishing Industry's Next Epic Saga? With the rise of e-book readers like the Kindle, Sony Reader, and Nook comes the scourge of the digital world: pirates.
• 2009's Most Memorable IT Apologies Top tech companies issued a bundle of apologies for their assorted mistakes and misdeeds in 2009. Some said they were sorry with style, while others offered up mealymouthed mea culpas.
• Nine HDTVs With Excellent Picture Quality These HDTVs showed the brightest, boldest, and sharpest picture displays of any sets recently tested by the PC World Labs.

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  2009 in Review: Microsoft's Big Year 2009 was a big year for Microsoft. The company launched a new OS, a search engine, and updated its gaming hardware.
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  World Tech Update: Lawsuits, RFID, and PhotoDNA The EC ends its investigation of Microsoft, the FTC files a lawsuit against Intel, TeliaSonera launches an LTE network, and PhotoDNA helps find missing children.
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  Final Fantasy XIII Video Game Launches in Tokyo Final Fantasy XIII, one of the most awaited video games of the year, is now available for the PlayStation 3.

Today in PCW Blogs

• Today @ PC World
  Track Santa Online With Google Earth NORAD and Google have teamed up to track Saint Nick's journey, but you can use their tools to teach your kids a little something about the Earth, too.
• Today @ PC World
  Apple Tablet Coming in January? We still know so little about the long-rumored Apple tablet. But that could be about to change, as Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce the device next month.
• Tech Inciter
  Vonage Offers Unlimited Int'l Calling for iPhone, Blackberry The company now offers a $24.99 monthly subscription for unlimited VoIP calls to 60 countries.
• PC World Podcast
  The '00s: A Decade In Tech PC World's editors take a look back at the past decade's greatest tech breakthroughs and setbacks.
• Today @ PC World
  Google's Nexus One Details: What We Know So Far For all that we know about the Google phone, its business model -- arguably the most interesting thing about it – remains a big question mark.
• Tech Inciter
  Outage: BlackBerry Users May Be Upset, But Have Few Options The second e-mail outage in a week leaves BlackBerry users concerned, but where can they really go?
• Today @ PC World
  OLPC Plans Super-Thin, Super-Cheap Tablet Non-profit says the touchscreen tablet, called the XO-3, will cost $75, and is slated for release in 2012.
• Today @ PC World
  Blackberry Outage: RIM Should Compensate Users For the second time in a week, a service outage has left BlackBerry users without access to e-mail.
• Tech Inciter
  Microsoft Loses Lawsuit, But Word Likely to Stay Microsoft has lost its appeal of a patent case involving Microsoft Office and Word. Good news: We keep our software and sales expected to continue.
• Geek Tech
  HP's Racial Webcam Woes -- Just A Case Of Bad Lighting? A YouTube video claims that integrated HP webcams don't recognize black faces. We tried it ourselves and found that lighting may play as large a role as skin color.
• Geek Tech
  Panasonic's New Battery Designed with Safety in Mind Safer laptop batteries on the way courtesy of Panasonic.
• Geek Tech
  GeekTip: It's a Cinch to Add Aero Snap to Mac OS X Why should Windows users have all the Snap fun? A new shareware utility brings this useful Windows 7 feature to Mac OS X.
• Today @ PC World
  Facebook's Other Top Trend of 2009: Divorce Facebook is cited in one out of every five divorce petitions, according to some new research published this week. So what's going on?
• BizFeed
  Microsoft Strikes Out in Word Patent Appeal An appeals court has decided against Microsoft and upheld an earlier judgment claiming that Microsoft has infringed on technologies patented by i4i.