The folks at Coveroo have been kind enough to allow TechVirtuoso to give away three of their custom device covers to our fans! This is an awesome service that Coveroo provides, one we've reviewed in the past, and I use one of their custom laser engraved covers on my iPhone all the time. This is the simplest contest we've probably ever run. In order to promote our Facebook fan page, we're going to give away the covers to three randomly selected fans. Nothing you have to do except "Like" us on Facebook. We'll be announcing the winners of the give away, exclusively on our Facebook page, these days:

• Friday, December 10, 2010
• Monday, December 13, 2010
• Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Look for a posting around noon (central time) each day. As we expect more people to become our fans through the course of this contest, your chances of winning early are better than later. You can easily become our fan by visiting facebook.com/techvirtuoso or just by clicking on the "Like" button on the Facebook widget in the site sidebar. If you just can't wait for the chance to win a custom cover of your own, you can also order one from Coveroo using our special 15% code, XMAS15, good from now until Christmas Day. They ship fast and make great personalized holiday gifts. While you're at it, be sure to follow facebook.com/coveroo as thanks for offering this great discount and free contest to our visitors! They give away a free cover ever Wednesday!

We've covered this before: the need for Mac users to secure their systems with a proper antivirus. But unlike the Windows space, there are not many/any really good, small footprint AV clients that are free. Until now. Sophos has released a free client for Mac, based on their popular business product, which you can download from their website.

"While most businesses recognise the importance of protecting their Mac computers from malware threats, most home users do not," said Chris Kraft, product management vice president at Sophos. "By offering free industrial-strength security to home users, we aim to protect Mac users against today's and tomorrow's Mac threats. Everyone knows that Macs are beautiful computers - Sophos wants to lend a hand to keep them that way."

Microsoft employees, who do you love? Is it this guy? Well you should, because your Christmas bonus this year is coming in the form of a brand new shiny Windows Phone 7. Last week at PDC, Microsoft gave all 1,000 or so in attendance an LG Optimus 7 to start testing and building applications on. This was exciting for those in attendance because it makes them one of the first in the United States to get their hands on a Windows Phone 7 device in any mass quantity. This week, however, all 89,000 employees of Microsoft will be getting a complementary, yet unannounced, Windows Phone 7 of their own. Given the diverse geography of Microsoft's employees hopefully they'll have their choice of handsets based on network providers. This should go a long way towards promoting their new platform internally. Up until now almost every Microsoft employee I've ever met in the last three years has sported an iPhone. Google made a similar move when they released the very first Android handset, the G1. via Network World