News Brief: Facebook Sponsors Apache Software Foundation (Linux Today)
Developer.com: "After spending years using open source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) technologies to help build its social networking site, Facebook is now spending its money to give back to effort."

Android Application Development (Slashdot)
stoolpigeon writes "Googles mobile OS Android has received plenty of press. As with a lot of Google products, there was much anticipation before any devices were even available. Now a number of phones are available, with many more coming out wor

Jive Software moves to Palo Alto, beefs up work force
Jive Software is moving its headquarters to Palo Alto from Oregon, as the social business software company names a permanent CEO and plans to greatly increase the size of its local work force in preparation for going public.

Developer Shares Story of Being Threatened by Facebook for Crawling
Pete Warden, a former software engineer at Apple, who is now working on his own start-up, posted an interesting story about how Facebook threatened to sue him for crawling the social network. I reached out to both Warden and Facebook for more details

Afghanistan: Deadly Attack Against German Aid
The top United Nations official in Afghanistan has condemned an attack by gunmen against a German aid agency in the east of the country that killed a local engineer and severely injured an international aid worker.