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Verizon cranked up its hype machine this weekend, preparing the launch of the Droid, Motorola’s Android-powered competitor to the iPhone. But will it be good enough to trump the iPhone? Continued here:  Can Verizon’s Motorola ‘Droid’ Live Up to the Hype?  Read More →

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is predicting that use of the company’s Android phone OS is about to explode. That’s exactly the sort of thing you’d expect the CEO of Google to predict, but in this case the self-serving prediction looks like it might be the accurate one, too. Continued here:  Android 2.0: A Preview  Read More →

Enabling employees to work from anywhere can save companies time and money while boosting productivity. Here’s how to do it right. More:  Do you know where your employees are working?  Read More →

Hold on to your balloons! This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer, Ginny Mies, Tim Moynihan, and Mark Sullivan try to cover as much of the week’s tech news as possible in 20 minutes. Original post:  Podcast 49: Google Donut, BlackBerry Storm 2, Wi-Fi Direct  Read More →

U.S. President Barack Obama has urged Americans to help guard against cyberattacks in a first-of-its-kind video published on the White House Web site. Original post: Obama calls on Americans to help with cybersecurity  Read More →

Small businesses can buy Asterisk open source IP PBX software as an add-on to IBM’s Smart Cube office-in-a-box package. View post:  Asterisk teams with IBM for small business VoIP  Read More →

If Microsoft’s Sidekick data disaster has taught us one thing, it’s that backups are important. Even though Microsoft subsidiary Danger messed up, that doesn’t mean you can’t rely on cloud-based services for your mobile backups. The truth is, a server crash is less likely to happen compared to the chances... 

If you’re the kind of person who likes to constantly monitor your hardware’s performance, you’d do well to give the free Perfgraph a try. This simple tool runs in the taskbar, and monitors many different types of hardware performance, including CPU utilization, memory usage, CPU temperature, and more. Go...