Google Offers Free Wi-Fi in 47 Airports for Holidays

From DailyTech: One inevitable fact of the holiday season is that airports around the country will be packed. That means that millions of American's will be schlepping through airports on layovers looking for something to do with their time and keep in touch with friends and family...

Mozilla fixes Firefox crash bug

From InfoWorld: Just a week after it last updated Firefox, Mozilla has rushed out a new version of its browser to fix a crash bug that programmers inadvertently introduced.

Firefox 3.5.5, which Mozilla posted for download late Thursday, fixes a small number of what the company...

Microprocessor sales reach record levels

From InfoWorld: Intel's Atom processor, which is used in netbooks, helped PC microprocessor makers sell record numbers of chips during the third quarter, although the overall value of the market fell, according to market researcher IDC.

The PC processor market has made a remarkable...

Nokia Announces Charger Recall: What You Need To Know

From PC World: Nokia says it will replace for free millions of faulty cellphone chargers that pose a shock hazard to its users. Nokia announced the recall program Monday reporting the Nokia-branded chargers were manufactured by a third-party supplier BYD Electronic Company of China...

iPhone 'Rickroll' Worm Is No Threat To Most Users

From PC World: The first worm to infect the iPhone will not affect most users of Apple's smartphone, despite worrying reports. The ikee worm only affects jailbroken iPhones, representing a minority percentage of iPhones on the market.

Reports this weekend warned of a number of...

Cisco ruffles feathers with new collaboration tools

From CNET News.com: Cisco Systems is once again stepping on its partners' toes and taking on new rivals as it adds new capabilities to its suite of unified communications products and services.

On Monday, the company will announce several new and enhanced software tools for instant...

Droid Phone Released, Bests iPhone in Many Areas, Lags in a Few

From DailyTech: While the Blackberry is currently the bestselling smartphone, thanks largely to a strong core of business users, sales numbers indicate the iPhone dominates the multimedia entertainment phone market. Verizon's Droid phone, which launched on Friday, may change that as...

Intel Plans “Fast” Transition to Next-Generation Atom Platform

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. will reveal more details about its next-generation Intel Atom platform for netbooks and nettops on the 21st of December ’09 and computers makers will launch actual systems powered by Intel Atom N450 and derivatives on the 4th of January 2010, just in time...

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