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There’s a lot of buzzing in the blogosphere right now (you can read Jordan’s coverage here), as it appears Google is under fire again for its privacy policies. AP reports that London-based Privacy International has issued a study of 23 internet companies, with Google coming out dead-last. In fact no other company studied, received the same low rating.

Microsoft's got friends in high places. One friend, anyway-the U.S. Department of Defense. A branch of the DOD known as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) will work with the software giant on Microsoft's Virtual Earth mapping project, which will be used for both military and non-military purposes.

The U.S. government will continue to keep a watchful eye on Microsoft. A ruling by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly extends federal oversight of some of Microsoft's business practices to November of 2009, with a possibility for it to be maintained well beyond.

The company announced a new search engine tool designed to help corporations find what is being said about them in blogs and other media.

Astronomers spent three years reviewing their findings before announcing the discovery of a potentially rocky neighbor 15 light years away.

Wired is running an interesting story on what Search engines know about you, with choice quotes from Danny Sullivan and Daniel Brandt, him of the Brandt Rant fame...

Most of the commentary over the George Orwell's novel, "1984" that occured in that year, was derision, saying that now it was quite clear that the eerie picture painted of "Big Brother" was unlikely, and certainly not possible.