★ Another “News Worth Technology Hire” quits after 6 months.

CNET:

James Gosling, the notable programmer who founded Java at Sun Microsystems, has joined Google, a company locked in a lawsuit over how the technology is used in Android. Gosling announced his new Google employment today on his blog. “I don’t know what I’ll be working on. I expect it’ll be a bit of everything, seasoned with a large dose of grumpy curmudgeon,” he said.

Today via Gosling’s Personal Blog: (6 months later)

I’ve surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.

You know, I think my one year at TomTom (which happens on Tuesday) might be a world record for employment if I lived in San Francisco.