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Bloggers Amber Borowski Johnson and Dylan Derryberry are the winners of the Microsoft Corp.-sponsored Office Winter Games contest, it was announced today. With support from the U.S. Olympic Committee, Johnson and Derryberry will go to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, and will receive Microsoft Office 2010 to help them blog daily.

CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that Saipem, an Italian company and one of the largest oil and gas industry contractors worldwide, is using CA Clarity™ Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) software to manage strategic projects among its three global business units including offshore, onshore and drilling.

Projected $2.13 Billion at Domestic Box Office Sets Studio and Industry Record, Ninth Consecutive Billion-Dollar-Plus Year Domestically

Ford is celebrating a year of success for its best-selling small car, with John Fleming, Chairman and CEO, Ford of Europe, recently collecting the 26th major European honour for the Ford Fiesta in Bucharest – the Romanian Car of the Year award.

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that, according to Q3 2009 data from Dell’Oro, it gained market share in the Service Provider Router segment for the fifth consecutive quarter.

IBM ( IBM) today announced new and extended partnerships aimed at meeting the rising demand for energy efficient data center capacity worldwide, while providing more flexible options for clients to meet business demand and IT growth.

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., today announced it will license its breakthrough "Scratch Shield" paint to NTT DoCoMo, Inc. for mobile phone application in Japan.

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA (GSK) and Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Nabi) today announced an exclusive worldwide option and licensing agreement for a nicotine conjugate candidate vaccine (NicVAX®)

Despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies continue to fail to meet the health care needs of women at key moments of their lives, particularly in their adolescent years and in older age, a WHO report has found.

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced today it had signed an agreement with the Belgian public export credit insurer (ONDD) to support the export business of Alcatel-Lucent worldwide.

After three days of seminars, teacher exhibitions and judging by an internationally renowned panel of education experts, today Microsoft Partners in Learning announced the winners of the 2009 Worldwide Innovative Teacher Awards at the Worldwide Innovative Education Forum.

LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, today announced the worldwide retail release of the highly anticipated new Chocolate (LG-BL40).

Siemens AG wants to receive orders worth more than €6 billion for intelligent power networks (Smart Grids) over the next five fiscal years: Siemens is already one of the leading international suppliers of Smart Grids and is continuing to strengthen this position.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. and Xerox Corporation will begin the worldwide introduction of a next-generation product design, based on the new Xerox brand identity adopted in 2008.

Boeing India President says India’s commercial airplane market is viable, resilient and poised to rebound supported by the country’s strong GDP growth

CNN will broadcast Michael Jackson’s memorial service live on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, on CNN, CNN International and CNN.com. Web users will also be able to share thoughts with others on Facebook while viewing the events on the CNN.com live video player if they choose.

What’s metallic, cold and floats on water? Well, if you answered "a refrigerator" you would be correct. At least in LG’s eyes.

Voting with their IT budgets, organizations choose SAS Analytics far more often than any other analytics supplier. And even as technology budgets tighten in current tough economic conditions, business leaders are increasing their investment in analytics to remain competitive and position themselves for an eventual turnaround.

FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) ranked number one in customer satisfaction in the Express Delivery industry and also first among 81 companies whose customers are surveyed in the first quarter by the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).