PC World's Daily Technology News [11/21/2008]

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Death, Taxes, and the RIAA Tennessee will spend $9.5 million on hardware, software, and the salaries of 21 staffers whose job is to monitor campus networks for signs of illegal file swapping. Read the story Mobile Finance: Indigenous, Ingenious or Both? In Ghana, it's popularly known as susu. In Cameroon, tontines or chilembe. And in South Africa, stokfel. Today, you'd most... Read the story Who's a Worse Economist: Yang or Paulson? Which one of the two do you think has made more boneheaded decisions? Read the story IT Slowdown Hits Dell's Revenue, Net Profit A slowdown in global IT spending has hit Dell, which recorded a drop in revenue and net income. Read the story Oracle Subpoenas Firm That Hired Ex-TomorrowNow Workers Oracle has subpoenaed a Colorado company that hired TomorrowNow workers, seeking a range of documents. Read the story Samsung Starts Mass Production of 256GB SSDs Samsung on Thursday said it has started mass production 256G-byte solid-state drives, which could make its way to notebooks in... Read the story Survey: US IT Spending Forecast Worst Since 2001 US companies are set to slam the brakes even harder on IT spending, according to a new study. Read the story Wall Street Beat: Tech Shares Sink to 6-year Lows An upbeat earnings forecast from HP and better-than-expected October PC sales in the U.S. could not boost confidence in the... Read the story VMware Security Chief Leaves to Run OpenDNS VMware security chief Nand Mulchandani has left to be CEO of OpenDNS. Read the story Spending Time Online May Help Teens, Study Says Study suggests Internet use by teenagers could actually be helping their development in ways past generations don't always understand. Read the story World of Warcraft Expansion Breaks All-Time Record Wrath of the Lich King, the expansion to Blizzard's popular World of Warcraft online multiplayer game, is now the fastest selling PC game in history. Read the story Virgin's In-flight Wi-Fi Coming Monday Virgin America's in-flight Wi-Fi service will launch on Monday for a beta test that is intended to last one week. Read the story Google Adds Customization Feature to Internet Search Google is launching SearchWiki, a way for signed-in users to customize searches. Read the story Japan's Music Downloads Rise 30 Percent in Q3 Legal Internet music downloads and revenues jumped in Q3 and cell phone song sales made up more than half the market for... Read the story Apple Updates iPhone Software: Maps, Podcasts Enhanced Apple has updates the iPhone's firmware to 2.2 adding enhancements to Google Maps, podcasts, and more. Read the story MySpace App for BlackBerry Gets Big Downloads The MySpace application for BlackBerry is being downloaded in record numbers. Read the story Six Apart Updates TypePad Blogging Service Six Apart is enhancing its TypePad blog publishing service with new profiles and comment features. Read the story Economic Woes Hit CES as Hotels Slash Rates Most major Las Vegas hotels still have rooms available for CES and some hotels are cutting rates to attract visitors. Read the story Asia Shines for Dell Despite Economic Downturn Dell says Asian revenue and profits grew even as the company's overall revenue and profits declined. Read the story Hands On with Square Enix's The Last Remnant The new "East-meets-West" roleplaying game from Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix is tactically adventurous but visually confusing. Read the story Black Friday will be Big Despite Lousy Economy, Survey Says Digital gear tops the shopping lists of many who plan to line up after Turkey Day. Read the story Folding Screen for Mobile Phones Unveiled ITRI revealed a bendable screen technology for mobile phone that enables 5-inch screens. Read the story Why I Didn't Skip Microsoft Vista: Security Microsoft's Windows Vista OS continues to be dogged by a bad reputation, but some recent security reports give it an edge over Windows XP. And some users say security is precisely why they didn't skip Vista. Read the story Verizon Flunks Privacy Test Employees who snooped on Obama's account are suspended, but why aren't telecom companies guarding our privacy? Read the story Obama Will Inherit Cybersecurity Challenges There has been a 'fundamental ignorance' by the Bush administration on modern threats, says one expert. Read the story Google SearchWiki Addition Fails to Wow Did Google fall flat on its face with Google SearchWiki? I think it did. This feature has got to go. Read the story Verizon Employees Accessed Obama's Mobile Record Verizon Wireless has suspended several employees who accessed account information for a flip-phone formerly used by President-elect Obama. Read the story YouTube Experiments with High-Quality Video A few options offer an escape from grainy, blurry video--but there's not yet much of the high-quality stuff to see. Read the story Microsoft to Launch IE8 in '09; RC Due out in Q1 Web developers complain that it's moving too fast to catch bugs. Read the story IT Has the Power to Green the World Applying smart technology to various sectors could yield huge cost and carbon savings. Read the story IETF: Should We Ignore the Kaminsky Bug? Standards body debates fixing DNS or pushing new security scheme. Read the story Amazon CloudFront: No Threat to the Incumbents Is it the Ford Model T of Content Delivery? Read the story Why Sun Should Spin Off Java Sun's insistence that Java is still its flagship product is holding back both the platform and the company Read the story New Version of Office-in-a-Box Think of this as a phone system with extra stuff, rather than a file and print server with added phones. Read the story Check out PC World's blogs: Today @ PCWorld--for the latest in news and trends from PC World's editors and staff Game On--The hottest info on PC gaming, hardware, and news from Matt Peckham

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