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Today, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google are kicking-off the Design It: Shelter Competition, a global competition that will challenge users to design a simple shelter in 3D with Google SketchUp, give it a geographic location using Google Earth, and share it by uploading to the Google 3D Warehouse.

Today Google is launching a new dashboard feature in the Google Local Business Center (LBC) that will provide business owners with a powerful level of information about how Google users are interacting with their local listings. The Local Business Center s a free tool that enables business owners to control the content of their listings in Google Search and Google Maps.

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized management to proceed with plans for the complete legal and structural separation of AOL from Time Warner. Following the proposed transaction, AOL would be an independent, publicly traded company.

Google and Partners Welcome More than 3,000 Developers to Annual Developer Conference; New Products and Initiatives Make it Easier to Build for a More Powerful Web

Babylon Announces the Launch of its New Version - Babylon 8; After More Than 55 Million Users Worldwide and Following the Success of Previous Versions, Comes the New and Innovative Version - Babylon 8

Novell-sponsored open source projects mentor students and help them gain software development experience

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009.

Doug Morris, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s leading music company and Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer of Google Inc., announced that UMG and YouTube, a Google subsidiary, are working together to launch VEVO, a music and video entertainment service that will feature UMG’s premium video content.

Today Oracle announced Oracle® Gadget Wizard for Google Apps and support for Google’s Secure Data Connector™ with the debuts of Siebel CRM support for Google Apps and Oracle Gadget Wizard for Google Apps.

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a new version of Google App Engine, furthering its goal of making Google’s scalable infrastructure available to all developers

Consumers Encouraged to Make Smart Choices to Maximize Their Overall Online Experience

Content for the Reader Digital Book by Sony just blew wide open. Starting today, The eBook Store from Sony will provide access to more than a half-million public domain books from Google optimized for current models of the Reader.

LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, today announced the release of its new fully loaded multimedia phone, LG ARENA (LG-KM900) in Europe. ARENA is LG’s new flagship model for 2009 that offers an exhilarating audio and video experience with top-of-the-line multimedia features made possible by LG’s intuitive new 3D S-Class User Interface.

TomTom, the world’s leading navigation solutions provider, today announces the availability of the TomTom HD Traffic widget, a personal traffic application for the Internet, also known as a gadget.

Google announced today the launch of a new skills qualification program, Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ), which allows individuals to demonstrate proficiency in Google Analytics. Google provides a free online course that covers web analytics techniques and Google Analytics implementation, administration, and analysis tools. Agencies and other organizations can have staff take the course as part of professional development.

Last week at the Mobile World Congress 2009, the GSMA announced the winner of the 2009 Mobile Innovation Global Award. After a year-long search and four regional tournaments, soft keyboard for touchscreens supplier CooTek has been named the Global Champion of this most influential innovation award in the mobile industry.

Rosetta, the largest independent interactive marketing agency in the U.S., today released a study showing 37 percent of 100 leading online retailers currently offer alternative payment methods -- a 23 percent increase since November of 2007.

Google will be able to extend their value proposition to their customers through this license with Microsoft.

The HTC Dream Boasts an Intuitive Touch Screen and QWERTY Keyboard, Plus Popular Google Products and Fresh, New Applications

Intuitive Touch Screen and QWERTY Keyboard, Plus Popular Google Products and Fresh, New Applications – available from Optus.