Microsoft cuts contractor pay
Microsoft is cutting current contractor pay by 10% and future contractor pay by 15%.  The software giant’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, said that he plans to continue looking for ways that the company can reduce costs.  The company employs almost 96,000 people.
ComputerWorld

Facebook appeases angry users with new terms
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of social networking site Facebook, is petitioning users on their opinions over a new set of governance principles created following criticism of their revised clauses of privacy and ownership of content on the site. 
Computer Weekly

Twitter traffic trebles
Web traffic analyst Hitwise says Twitter traffic more than trebled in 2009.  Traffic to the popular micro-blogging site has increased 27 fold, and though still small in comparison to Flickr and Photobucket, it is growing rapidly within the UK, partly due to high-profile users such as Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross and Barack Obama.
Macworld

Mobile WiMAX market Up 5% in 4Q08; Cisco, Huawei Begin challenging market leaders
According to Infonetics Research the overall WiMAX equipment and device market held steady in 4Q08 over 3Q08 at $275 million, as the 802.16e mobile WiMAX segment increased 5% to counter a slight dip in the 802.16d fixed WiMAX segment.
Cellular News 

"Overheating" BlackBerry Bold pulled from sale 
The BlackBerry Bold has been pulled from sale in Japan amid reports the smartphone is overheating. Japan's biggest mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMO, has halted sales of the device saying that it has received no reports of users getting burned or of phones catching fire.
PCPro

Vodafone and Microsoft in SME services love-in
Vodafone announced on Thursday that it would start to sell and manage Microsoft products such as email, calendars, portals, instant messaging and web conferencing tools, to small and medium-sized businesses through the computer, phone and browser.
Silicon

Symbian laptops coming soon?
The world’s number one mobile handset manufacturer, Nokia, reckons we’ll see the Symbian operating system running on laptops within the next five years. Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, revealed to Finnish national broadcaster, YLE, that his firm is looking "very actively" at the opportunity. Symbian could offer a number of advantages over established CPU OS, not least of which is the potential for superior battery life thanks to its optimisation for lower power consumption.
The Register

O2 reports 10% rise after selling 1m Apple iPhones
Apple’s iPhone has helped O2 buck the economic gloom and report a 10% rise in revenues. O2 grabbed 390,000 new mobile phone customers in the last three months of 2008, cementing its position as the UK's largest mobile phone company with 19.5 million users.
The Guardian