• The 25 Funniest Vintage Tech Ads

  
  My oh my, how things have changed. These 25 vintage tech ads are guaranteed to take you back -- and, in most cases, remind you how truly terrible our tastes once were.

• 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.
• Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Succeed
• Windows 7 Sales Brisk? Can't Give it Away
• Google Chrome OS: Big Brother Google Gets Bigger
• California Energy Commission Rule to Impact HDTV Industry
• AT&T's Anti-Verizon Ad Is a Stinker
• Google Unveils Chrome OS; Tech World Yawns
• Technology We'll Miss When It's Gone
• AT&T's Gripe About Verizon Ads Doesn't Sway Judge

Tech Industry How-Tos

• How to Install Windows 7 (Before Your OS Launch Party) Welcome to the party! Senior Editor Robert Strohmeyer shows you how to install Windows 7 before you celebrate its launch with your friends.

Tech Industry News

• Google Chrome OS: Big Brother Google Gets Bigger If Google Chrome OS supplants Windows in a meaningful way than we can kiss our privacy goodbye.
• Tech Workers Dubbed the Unhealthiest Pounding on a keyboard and consuming caffeine simply isn't good exercise, researchers report.
• Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 The Gartner Symposium serves up a selection of hottest issues and challenges for technology management in the next year.
• Google Unveils Chrome OS; Tech World Yawns The much-anticipated Chrome OS is available and the early returns are underwhelming (but many).
• PlayStation Helps Feds Catch Pedophiles The federal government is using Sony's PS3 to crack passwords and investigate suspected child pornographers.

Tech Industry Playing in PCW Video

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  World Tech Update: Google Chrome, Obama in China, and More... Google open sources its Chrome OS, Obama in China, and an application from Microsoft displays massive amounts of data graphically.
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  Augmented Reality: Coming to a Device Near You We've all seen augmented reality in the movies: A character puts on a pair of glasses and suddenly data about their surroundings appears within their field of vision. Now this technology is available on a device near you.
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  World Tech Update: CES Preview in NYC, Hacked iPhones, and More... Intel and AMD settle their legal disputes, New York hosts the annual CES preview, iPhones are hacked, and more...

Tech Industry Slideshows

• Mac OS X Snow Leopard: New Bells and Whistles Explained An in-depth visual tour of the new Mac OS features that every user will want to know about.

Tech Industry Reviews

• Why Is TomTom's iPhone App Still $100? Despite Google's free Maps Navigation app for Motorola's Droid, the price of TomTom's iPhone navigation app hasn't budged one cent.
• Motorola Droid Gets a Cautious Thumbs Up Motorola's Droid features a 5-megapixel camera, a full-QWERTY keyboard, a high-res screen, and Google Navigation
• Get Prints in Minutes with the Fujifilm Instax Mini 7 Camera Lightweight and compact, Fujifilm's Instax Mini 7 is a modern version of a Polaroid camera.
• Top 10 Netbooks Netbooks (aka mini-notebooks, mini-notes...."laptots"....take your pick) are perfect travel companions and meet basic computing needs, including e-mailing, Web surfing, and document creation. Best of all, these low-powered machines cost less than the standard-issue laptop.
• Are the QWERTY Keyboard's Days Numbered? I’m guessing that the decline, fall, and disappearance of physical QWERTY will take a decade or two — if it happens at all.