In fact, Libya's effort to concoct an atom bomb never got very far, and its small stock of rudimentary chemical weapons is probably already in the rubbish bin.

ECONOMIST: Libya

We had a feeling we'd be hearing about Intel's Atom for smartphones here at Mobile World Congress, and Intel did in fact take the stage today to talk about its forthcoming Medfield processor.

ENGADGET: Intel talks Medfield: will ship in a phone and have the longest usage time

But for right now it's Atom, which is a big win for Intel in this space -- and in fact, Intel claims to have written half of Google TV's code.

ENGADGET: Google TV review

Also introduced were the U150 (sadly enough with no specs, besides the fact that it also ships with both HDD and SSD storage) and the WindBox, an Atom N270-based nettop designed to be VESA-mounted to the back of your monitor.

ENGADGET: MSI unveils a slew of new netbooks and one lonely nettop