1. : Microsoft and the European Commission agreed to terms to end the decade-long Web-browser antitrust case against the company. "I think this is a trustful deal we are making. There can't be a misunderstanding because it is the final result of a long discussion between Steve Ballmer and me," said Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes.

2. and : Extremely rude people posted information online about more than 10,000 compromised Hotmail accounts, presumably to gloat over their success in getting others to turn over personal information. Not content to stop at 10,000, webmail attackers then posted information about thousands more Gmail and Yahoo and AOL mail accounts. Read on for more news about scammers ...

3. : Good news came in the War on Phishing with word that U.S. authorities broke up a huge scam, indicting 53 people on an assortment of charges, while Egyptian authorities arrested 47 people allegedly involved in the same scam. Alas, those arrests scarcely took a drop from the great sea of phishers out there.

4. : The U.S. Department of Justice in the Obama administration continues to signal that it means business when it comes to antitrust -- next up is, apparently, IBM, with the agency opening a preliminary investigation into whether the company abused its mainframe computer monopoly.

5. and : U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Julius Genachowski grabbed headlines out of the CTIA conference, underscoring that the FCC is serious about dealing with mobile communications issues.