News to know: MSFT-Google; Facebook; Intel; JooJoo; FCC; E-waste; Skype
News to know: Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News to Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates are BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage:
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft exec confirms Redmond's involvement in antitrust inquiries about Google and search
- Dennis Howlett: Ignore the Google and Microsoft sideshow
- Sam Diaz: Microsoft to Google: Who cares who squealed to the EU? Deal with it
Andrew Nusca: Facebook patents News Feed; sets stage for fight against social peers
Sam Diaz: Intel chip news on Monday; Faster netbooks on the way
Andrew Nusca: JooJoo tablet PC delayed; touchscreen issues to blame
Doug Hanchard: FCC Chairman forecasts wireless spectrum crunch
Heather Clancy: E-waste market to triple as more businesses develop formal policies
Joel Evans: Skype drops Windows Mobile and Skype Lite from its offerings
Rachel King: Boxee Beta now available for Apple TV
Dana Blankenhorn: HIMSS showcases bipartisan success and a market challenge
Andrew Nusca: HP debuts new sleek, refined ProBook Standard series; targets SMBs, starts $719
Dion Hinchcliffe: The Facebook imperative for enterprise software
Joe McKendrick: Report: 1980s legacy systems continue to plague some US government ops
Zack Whittaker: Facebook profiles: Society is beyond 'male' and 'female'
Jennifer Leggio: New book teaches social business users how to "Engage"
Rachel King: Snowboard made from two Apple PowerBook G4s available on eBay
Jennifer Leggio: 140 | Twitter Conference offers value beyond the hype
Rachel King: Dell Mini 5 is the matriarch for future 'family of tablets'
Christopher Dawson: Uncovering Microsoft Office Labs
Garett Rogers: Paid Android apps coming to Canada next week?
Matthew Miller: Has webOS 1.4 won me over to the new Palm Pre Plus?
Dion Hinchcliffe: Making government more open and social
Zack Whittaker: Open wireless access: 'Outlawed' by British Government
Tom Foremski: Earn 100 points - read: The reverse virutal reality world of the future
Matthew Miller: Are you kidding me Microsoft? Why confuse with Windows Phone Starter Edition?
Jason Perlow: Brandon Perlow: Apple's Influence on Visual Arts is Rotting to the Core
Joe McKendrick: When CIOs get carried away with the cloud
Christopher Dawson: Light at the end of the tunnel: driving ed reform with tech
Matthew Miller: Palm webOS 1.4 update rolls out to Pre, Pre Plus, Pixi and Pixi Plus owners
Dan Kusnetzky: Priacta, herding cats and action management: Take 2
Sean Portnoy: Shuttle's super-slim XS35 media PC can be mounted behind a flat screen
John Morris: Nvidia's next-gen GPU arrives in March to challenge Radeon 5800 series
Rachel King: Smartbook Logo CULV laptop will debut among smartbooks at CeBIT 2010
Dana Gardner: HP rolls out data center services aimed at boosting IT ROI for global SMBs
Chris Jablonski: 5 ways to critically evaluate a trend or forecast
Tom Foremski: Updated: Google's Italian problem has a Korean solution...
Sam Diaz: Google's Street View: Benefits outweigh some privacy concerns
Michael Krigsman: Six failures from poor application quality
Rachel King: Nokia Symbian^4 demo videos offer first glimpse to interface
Andrew Nusca: The 'hackable car,' tablet OLPC XO3 and other designs that challenge the status quo
Rachel King: Acer launching ultra-thin, Calpella-based laptops this year
Dana Blankenhorn: There are political advantages in vendor lock-in
Jason D. O'Grady: Apple to open 25 stores in China over next two years
Mary Jo Foley: Behind the IDC data: Windows still No. 1 in server operating systems
Dennis Howlett: Twitter porn hits 800 UK bank followers, media and government
Heather Clancy: Even green products need to be designed well
Rachel King: Viliv S10 Blade netbook features multi-touch swivel screen; starts at $699
Larry Dignan: Hey IT workers; Enough with the excuses
Dennis Howlett: SAP ecosystem: going direct for SMBs
Rachel King: ASUS Eee PC 1018P, 1016P and 1015P netbooks leaked before CeBIT
Larry Dignan: TR Dojo: Create a self-running PowerPoint presentation