Even as it agreed in January to plunk down $1.23 billion to buy a promising but problematic search company in Norway, Microsoft knew that the company had some accounting matters to address.
Now, it appears, the acquired company, Fast Search & Transfer, may have some criminal matters to work out: Suspicions about the Norwegian search-engine company’s [...]

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Google Maps has been cranking out the updates fast and furious lately. In the last week the site has incorporated photos and Wikipedia entries, added the ability to pan upward in street views and this morning it announced a new Flash mapping API.
The biggest news in the bunch is the Flash API, which means you [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu honcho, has a post on his blog discussing “The Art of Release.” He applauds the team and community that got version 8.04 out the door precisely on schedule.
He diagrams (above) how, by design, some Ubuntu releases are supported longer than others.

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Google has rolled out a new service for web developers looking to get a better understanding of open web tools like HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Doctype, as the new service is known, is one part reference encyclopedia and one part tutorial collection drawing on documentation from Google’s own developers.
Doctype is a wiki, open to edits [...]

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Here’s a shocker for you: Facebook doesn’t want to give up its tight-knit control of your personal information. The company has officially banned Google’s recently-launched Friend Connect service, which would allow you to pull your personal data out of Facebook and use it elsewhere.
Considering that the only value Facebook actually has is all the data [...]

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