Microsoft awarded $1 million in grants for academic researchers who help further the company’s development of its Virtual Earth and Trustworthy Computing projects.

A legal brief filed with the US District Court in San Jose by Google’s attorneys criticized the Department of Justice prosecutors involved in the federal government’s grab for Google’s search records.

Google has come out swinging, defending their stance in the DOJ search data matter.

Network World’s Paul McNamara interviews Versai’s Paul McNamara.

It would not be a bad idea to be skilled in both ASP and JSP, as a number of open positions found in a recent job search asked for the two skill sets.

One Chinese blogger stays on the move, uses multiple blogs, and says the demand for non-corrupt political officials is the real foe of censorship.

A quick summary of the latest and greatest in news from Google, which seems to be having issues selling print advertising, filling up Google Base, and fixing AdWords API version 3.

BenQ-Siemens branded cell phones, from Munich-based BenQ Mobile, are set to feature Macromedia Flash Lite technology after a licensing agreement struck with Adobe Systems. The mobile handsets will be marketed in Asia, Europe, and North Latin America.

MSN Search had the drop-down menu next to its search box, while Yahoo placed tabs over its search box for users to select the type of search; now each has adopted the other’s scheme, partially.

37Signals, the hottest little company on the Web, just launched the latest in their series of Web apps – Campfire.

ClickZ has details of a new study that suggests the continued shift of ad dollars to online marketing.

Scott Stanfield dropped by my office the other day and asked “have you checked out the Coding Horror blog yet?”

Larry Ellison tried waving his American Express card at MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, but Mickos turned down his offer for the company.

I’ve had a tab open in my browser pointing at Tom’s Native to a Web of Data slide for a few days now. It’s been nagging me.

Is Microsoft coming into the mobile space fast and furious? Yes and Om Malik noticed.

From August 2005 to January 2006, monthly sponsored link ad impressions from Yahoo and Google rose from 55.4 billion to 64.3 billion, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings.

During the Congressional smackdown on search engine companies over their business practices in China, one Congressman raised the issue of surveillance with Yahoo.

Microsoft Corp. has announced the recipients of approximately $1 million in academic research funding.

The dominance of the iTunes Music Store could see a challenge from Seattle, if reports of the pending debut of an Amazon digital music presence come true.

Valleywag is running “Valleywag Hotties“, a competition asking who the hottest man in geekdom is.

The most credible source of information about a company is now “a person like me,” which has risen dramatically to surpass doctors and academic experts for the first time, according to the seventh annual Edelman Trust Barometer.

Today’s communication technologies – including cell phones, e-mail, and blogs – can drive users to a heavy sense of guilt.

The summary – a young lawyer applies for a position with a firm, which extends an offer, then cuts the offered salary; the young lawyer fires off an email declining the position, after which the fun really began.

The social search engine, Prefound announced today that it will begin sharing revenue with topic experts to provide the most relevant and up-to-date information on specific topics of interest to the PreFound.com community.