• Broadband Innovations, Part 4: The Doctor Isn't In but Can Still See You

  
  How telehealth is changing the way America gets well.

• Yahoo: Burn Your DRMed Tracks to CD Now

  
  Yahoo has become the latest company to abandon customers who bought tracks from its music store encoded with DRM.

Latest News

• Broadband Said to Hit 77% of US Households by 2012 Only about half of Americans have broadband now, but Gartner expects a speed boost soon.
• Possible Preview of the Guitar Hero: World Tour Set A set list got loose, but is it the real thing? Take a look and decide for yourself.
• Give Vista Another Chance Analysis: Upgrading to a new operating system is a traumatic experience, but you'll get used to Vista.
• Ditch Your CD Rack, Install a Server Home servers with huge storage will become common as part of the 'terabyte lifestyle,' researchers say.
• Mozilla Plugs Nine Holes in Thunderbird The update patches nine flaws, including one that was patched last week in Firefox.
• Taliban Goes High-Tech The movement that once rejected technology is now exploring its use as a propaganda tool.
• XBox Delivers a Profit Nintendo still dominates, but Microsoft's Xbox Division posted its first-ever annual profit.
• AT&T Objects to Sprint-Clearwire Deal The FCC gets a formal complaint from a rival to the WiMax network planned by Clearwire and Sprint.
• OS X Virus Described Mac antivirus vendor Intego warns of a possible OS X virus offered for sale.
• FCC OKs Sirius Acquisition of XM The deal will leave the US with a single satellite radio service.
• Broadband Innovations, Part 4: The Doctor Isn't In but Can Still See You How telehealth is changing the way America gets well.
• Gateway to Stop Selling PCs Through Web Site Gateway on Friday said it would not directly sell PCs through its Web site any more, but will now sell PCs through retail and...
• Adobe's Photoshop Express Taken Offline for Maintenance Users of Adobe's online photo sharing and editing Web site, Photoshop Express, may have noticed it is currently offline. Not...
• It's a Crime-filled Week in IT Land In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing...
• List the 64-bit GUI Programs on Your Mac The evolution in computing horsepower is more of everything--first it was more gigahertz, then more cores, and on top of that...
• Google Counts More Than 1 Trillion Unique Web URLs Google has identified more than 1 trillion unique URLs on the Web.
• Microsoft Bolsters Ruby Efforts Company unveiling initiatives accommodating popular language.
• Infineon Lays off 3,000, Reorganizes Divisions Infineon is laying off 3,000 employees and reorganizing divisions in an effort to cut costs and return to profitability.
• Microsoft: Stodgy or Innovative? It's All About Perception Microsoft executives responded to many analyst questions about how it can solve negative perception problems in the market.
• The Portable Office: Travel Terrors Readers share tales of the worst things that have befallen them when they've hit the road with their Macs.

Playing in PCW Video

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  World Tech Update: Hackers, Xbox News, and Robots Hackers descend on New York, Microsoft's online services head departs, NTT DoCoMo shows off Super 3G, augmented reality mixes PCs with the real world, Microsoft announces plans to make your own Xbox games, and a robotic device helps paralyzed people walk again.
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  Interactive CG Characters on Your Desktop Geisha Tokyo Entertainment develops a system for interacting with computer-generated (CG) characters on your desktop. The system involves a Webcam recognizing a 2D barcode on a small cube.
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  Flip Mino: Shoot and Upload Video Directly to YouTube Pure Digital has made it easier than ever to get videos of your escapades up on YouTube.

Today in PCW Blogs

• Steve Bass's Tips & Tweaks
  Physics-Based Game is aTotal Waste of Time It's Saturday and Rex W. sent me a link to People Bucket, a game designed to torment people like me.
• Today @ PC World
  Innovative Voice in Tech Passes: Randy Pausch, 1960-2008 Early Friday, virtual reality pioneer, Randy Pausch, 47, died of pancreatic cancer.
• Community Voices
  Purchasing Windows XP As you may or may not know, retailers can no longer sell computers with Windows XP preinstalled.
• Game On
  Did Rare Metallic Ore Fuel African "PlayStation War"? Remember the 2006 movie Blood Diamond. Academy Award nominated flick starring Leo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly about conflict diamonds mined in African war zones and sold to diamond manufacturers to profit warlords and fund brutal wars involving shocking human rights violations.