Some good news for Microsoft...

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

Crazy that a swimsuit can affect times so drastically!

Quoted: Record-setting bodysuits were banned by FINA on Friday, with swimming's governing body taking a major step to limit technology in the pool.

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.

Quoted: The free version of Google Apps is history. The current sign up page makes no mention of the previously free Standard edition. Instead, ...

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.

An article about H-1B visa-holders and how they fit in to Microsoft's layoffs...

Quoted: Microsoft said it is cutting a 'significant number' of foreign workers as part of the layoff of 1,400 employees last week, a number that is due to reach 5,000 over the next 18 months.

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.