Some good news for Microsoft...

Quoted: Microsoft Corp smashed Wall Street's profit and sales expectations on Friday, sending its shares up 9 percent.

Wow, pretty crazy!

Quoted: Hoping to bring the nation's census data into the 21st century, India has created the Unique Identification Authority. Under the direction of Nandan Nilekani, one of the founders of Infosys, the plan is to outfit every one of the nation's citizens with a biometric ID card that contains personal data, fingerprint or iris scans, and possibly even criminal records and credit histories.

It's only a matter of time before this happens...

Quoted: Google is working on a new operating system for inexpensive computers in a daring attempt to wrest away Microsoft's long-running control over people's computing experience.

Sort of odd that this is big news...

Quoted: Microsoft is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Hm, sounds like a pretty big discrepancy.

Quoted: A company touting an electric Hummer that it says gets the equivalent of 100 mpg is showing off the vehicle on Capitol Hill Wednesday. But whether it really delivers is up for debate -- critics say it's more like 33 mpg.

Well, it's official...

Quoted: Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it is cutting up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, a sign of how badly even the biggest and richest companies are being stung by the recession.

Sad, he must be really sick. Also, Jobs is expected to step down sometime this year, which could cut Apple's stock price by something like $ 10-15 million.

Quoted: Apple Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs says he is taking a medical leave of absence until the end of June. Jobs told employees in an e-mail that his health issues are more complex than he thought.

Sad... The article makes some really good points, though.

Quoted: A moment of sympathy, please, for newspapers, whose readers and advertisers have been fleeing at a frightening rate.

I figured it was only a matter of time... I don't think this is necessarily a threat to retailers and publishers. In fact, it could be a good thing for them - they just need to take notice!

Quoted: Thanks in part to the popularity of Amazon.com’s wireless Kindle device, the e-book has started to take hold.