6. : And other of our colleagues were headed for Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, where we expect they will file a steady stream of stories next week, especially given that they were already hard at work filing plenty of stories in advance of the big show.

7. : Motorola will split into two publicly traded companies early next year, with one entity focused on enterprise communications wares and the other on handsets and home entertainment devices.

8. : French lawmakers are supposed to vote next Tuesday on a new security bill that would filter Internet traffic with the aim of catching child pornographers. Critics of the measure say it will not work but will lead to undue censorship.

9. : Unemployment, worldwide competition and slower investment than in the past could hamper Silicon Valley's road out of the recession, according to a new report.

10. , and : The 2010 Olympic Winter Games opened at week's end in Vancouver, with the sports-loving geeks among us impressed by both the athleticism on display and the technology.