News to know: Microsoft; Facebook; Acer; WiFi health scare

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage.

Larry Dignan: Jury orders Microsoft to pay $388 million over anti-piracy patent

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft delivers SQL Server 2008 SP1

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows 7 beta testers - get ready for a wipe and reload

Sam Diaz: FCC takes first step toward National Broadband plan

CNET News: Microsoft nabs Sun chip executive

• As Sun's world turns (worse): The latest

• Oliver Marks: Google Secure Data Connector Powers Oracle Gadgets

• Andrew Nusca: New Acer laptops, netbooks: 10-hour batteries, multitouch gestures
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Acer AspireRevo nettop.

  

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• John Morris: Details on Acer's new notebooks, netbook and all-in-one
• How will Netbooks change our computing lives

Larry Dignan: The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?

• Richard Koman: Grid spyware: Deregulation bites us again
• Pentagon bill for cyberattack cleanup? $100 million

Gallery: zweiPhone stickers tone iPhone down

Jennifer Leggio: Fortune 500 Series: How Intel is listening, engaging with its community

• Facebook: 200 Million Strong 
• Diaz: Facebook celebrates 200 million members
• Zack Whitaker Facebook reaches 200m users; is it too powerful?
• Jennifer Bergen: Twitter numbers on the rise, thanks to your parents?
• Paul Greenberg: Study Says Social Media Not Useful to Close Sales. Duh.
• CNET News: Techmeme founder: WSJ, NYT are aggregators 

• Techmeme
• CNET News: Techmeme founder: WSJ, NYT are aggregators

• Yet another open source RIA tool
• Any friends OK for open source?
• Koman: Open Source Haggadah, chapter 1

• Trash to cash, any investor's dream

ReadWriteWeb: This Machine Eats Tweets: The System Behind @Comcast and Others

Matthew Miller: CTIA 09: REDFLY Mobile Viewer free beta available now

Christopher Dawson: Intel awards innovation around Classmate PC

• Intel updates Atom lineup; Eyes second half Nehalem push

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Poll: IT pros 'love' Windows 7; majority dump Vista upgrade plans

• More iPhone 3.0 hardware features trickle out
• Taiwan's Elan sues Apple over touchscreen patents

Dana Gardner: Google Apps charges ahead with improved data security and long-awaited Java support

• HCM SaaS provider Workday's advanced architecture brings cloud business agility benefits to enterprises now

Dana Blankenhorn: Voice recognition a solution for medical luddism

Jasnice Chen: Where to get the cheapest online photo prints

Paul Miller: Ivan Herman discusses Semantic Web activity at the World Wide Web Consortium

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Dancho Danchev: Paul McCartney's official site serving malware

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