Sources: Microsoft And Barnes & Noble To Announce Tablet With Xbox Live Streaming Tomorrow  —  There's a ton of speculation around what Microsoft will be announcing on Monday in Los Angeles.  Both the Wrap and ATD claim the event will showcase a Microsoft built Windows RT/Windows 8 tablet.

Mozilla takes aim at the iPad browser market with its ‘Junior’ prototype  —  When it comes to browsing the web on iOS, there are plenty of third-party alternatives to Apple's Safari.  Atomic, Dolphin, Mercury, Opera, and Skyfire are just a few that have enjoyed some measure of success on the platform …

Inside Google's Plan to Build a Catalog of Every Single Thing, Ever  —  There's a lot more to Google's Knowledge Graph than might be apparent from what you see in a casual search.  —  The ugly truth is that computers don't know anything.  They have no common sense.

Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps  —  (Reuters) - Frustrated by their inability to stop sophisticated hacking attacks or use the law to punish their assailants, an increasing number of U.S. companies are taking retaliatory action.  —  Known in the cyber security industry as …

Make Way For More Tech Investment: Index Ventures Raises Another €350M Fund  —  The economic signals coming from Europe are leading some to predict a big drop in startup investments up ahead, but that's not the message coming from one of the region's biggest VC firms.

How Apple Store Seduces You With the Tilt of Its Laptops  —  Walk into any Apple Retail Store when it opens in the morning and you might notice that all of the new MacBook Pro notebooks with retina display are positioned at exactly the same angle.  Employees who open the store use an iPhone app …

Wearable Gadgets Upset F.A.A. Curbs on Devices  —  Pity the poor flight attendant.  They didn't sign up for this: millions of petulant airline passengers surreptitiously reading digital books and magazines on their iPads or Kindles during takeoff and landing.  —  The flight attendants' job was never easy.

Acxiom, the Quiet Giant of Consumer Database Marketing  —  IT knows who you are.  It knows where you live.  It knows what you do.  —  It peers deeper into American life than the F.B.I. or the I.R.S., or those prying digital eyes at Facebook and Google.  If you are an American adult …

Worldreader: An E-Book Revolution for Africa?  —  Schools in developing countries are experimenting with digital books; endless titles, spotty electricity  —  Humble school students learning how to use Kindles in February.  ‘It took the kids just a few days,’ says a teacher.

Vizio reboots the PC: a quiet American success story takes on sleeping giants  —  McRae is more blunt, as usual.  “Trackpads have sucked for a really long time,” he says.  “We wanted to get it right.”  The machines I saw at CES had finicky pre-production trackpads, but McRae says the company …

How Depressives Surf the Web  —  IN what way do you spend your time online?  Do you check your e-mail compulsively?  Watch lots of videos?  Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications — from games to file downloads to chat rooms?  —  We believe that your pattern of Internet use says something about you.