| Rogue antivirus lurks behind Google Doodle searches
In Esperanto the word is "malica." It means malicious and it's the best way of describing many of the search results Google visitors got Tuesday when the clicked on Google's front-page Doodle sketch, dedicated to Esperanto's creator. 2009 Holiday Laptop Gift Guide
Whether your tastes run to business or pleasure, whether you're a jet-setter or a multimedia fiend, we have some great-looking laptops for you (or for someone you want to spoil) this year. McDonald's to offer free, unlimited Wi-Fi
McDonald's restaurants may soon be the easiest spot to find free Wi-Fi and browse the Web as long as you like. Microsoft legally promises not to sue open source developers
As part of the agreement Microsoft has struck with the European Commission to offer a ballet screen for browsers, Microsoft has issued what it calls the "Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers." The pledge tells open source developers that Microsoft won't sue them for developing open source software for its flagship products as long as they are not selling their software. FTC files formal antitrust complaint against Intel
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust-related lawsuit against Intel, charging the world's largest computer chip maker with illegally using its dominant market position to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly for a decade. HP products target hybrid cloud computing
HP Wednesday announced products it says will help enterprise IT and service providers ease the adoption of internal cloud computing setups as well as public cloud services. News podcast: Network World 360
The Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, charging the world's largest computer chip maker with illegally using its dominant market position to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly for a decade. Also, server and storage vendors suffered painful revenue declines throughout 2009, but the IT hardware markets are starting to show signs of life and are in position for a small rebound in 2010. (5:53) Top 5 Insider Attacks of 2009
This year saw an increasing number of insider attacks and data breaches that created some high-profile news reports. Keith Shaw discusses the top types of attacks with Robert Grapes, chief technologist at Cloakware, as well as what IT can do to prevent them at their enterprises. (16:42) They Own What? Nine Tech Patent and Trademark Oddities
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." Legend has it that U.S. Patent Commissioner Charles Duell wrote that in a letter to President William McKinley in 1899. Internet habit? Dependency? Addiction? Pop psychology?
The popular press is full of articles braying news about Internet addiction; try typing "Internet addiction" into the search field of your favorite search engine and start browsing. A Google search in mid-December brought up 768,000 English, French and German pages on the topic. Amazon's "Virtual Private Cloud" enters unlimited beta
Amazon's "Virtual Private Cloud," a cloud computing offering that is more secure than the company's previous services, is now available to the general public in an open beta trial.Amazon unveiled the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in August but made it available only to a portion of its customer base. Military aircraft are melting shipdecks?
I have to wonder why the Navy in particular didn't see this one coming. Military scientists at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week said they was looking for technology the military can use to stop aircraft landing decks on aircraft carriers and other ships from buckling and melting. Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: Top 10 areas that CIOs needs to focus on for 2010 and VARs lining up for UCS, VBlock; On Microsoft Subnet Microsoft admits it copied Plurk, shuts down Juku: On Google Subnet: 10 best Chrome extensions Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
Here is a quiz on the most important or quirkiest tech stories to hit the front pages over the first 10 years of the 2000s.
Best picks from this year and a look back at 10 years of tech toys and gadgety gifts.
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