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Recently NASA and Microsoft Research has teamed up again for bringing "most complete and high-resolution coverage of Mars" as seen never before. WorldWide Telescope, a Microsoft Aps, which let you explore space either through a zoom-ann-pan interface or guided tour has made this available to all its users.

Microsoft is announcing today that its has integrated Facebook and windows Live Messenger into Outlook, making million of Outlook users closer to social networking and adding a bench for huge Facebook Users with Outlook. Just last year Microsoft announced the integration of Social Networking feeds into Outlook by Social Networking Connector to give you an instant information & update inside Outlook.

YouTube is not only expanding its reach to mobile network but also eyeing on your Home TV Screen and Living Room. with the launch of YouTube Leanback now viewers can have access to YouTube on their TV screens at Living Room. We days back Google has already launched its most anticipated Google TV and now with the launch of Leanback, Google is offering a compound solution to home viewers.

Recently Google INc has been granted a fresh license to continue operations in China. This came to many as surprise as few months before it was almost everything over for Google after report broke down for "illegal hijacking attempt by Chinese security agencies of Gmail user account". Google threatened to shut down all their operations in China after authorities were showing low rated co-operation for Gmail Account hijacking investigation.

From last couple of weeks every now and then I am hearing all hue and cry on iPhone 4.0 for signal issue which Apple is trying to encounter. After multiple denial finally Apple accepted its fault but in a tricky manner and putting the iPhone4.0 users in a situation where they have only option to live with it ( along with signal issue ) or return back ( with loss of hard-earned money).

Office 2010 is out in the market, on Microsoft’s volume license price lists and installed (at least in Office Starter form) on many new PCs out there. But there are still a couple of complementary technologies that aren’t available yet. I’m not talking about Office Web Apps, the free version of which is still missing some promised functionality, as Microsoft itself has acknowledged. I’m talking about other related technologies of interest to both consumers and smaller business users.

We did not see this coming: after initially dismissing the reports about iPhone 4 antenna reception issue, Apple has officially admitted it exists, promising a software fix in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, the fix may not be good news for users experiencing the problem. Apple claims it has erroneously calculated the formula which displays signal bars on the iPhone, and therefore the iPhone has been showing too many bars in areas with weak signal strength.

The world's biggest maker of Web-based software charged that Microsoft is infringing five Salesforce patents in programs, including in the Windows Server operating system and the widely used .Net platform. "Microsoft's continuing acts of infringement have caused and are causing irreparable harm to Salesforce.com," the complaint said.

Google has acquired ITA, developer of the airfare search and pricing system QPX that is used by major airlines. The deal is for $700 million in cash and comes after months of rumors about Google buying ITA. Now that it’s a done deal, Google plans to move into the lucrative travel search business and compete with the likes of Bing Travel, Expedia and Kayak.

When Google acquired Skype competitor Gizmo5 in November 2009 it wasn’t much of a stretch to anticipate a soft phone application for Google Voice to be coming soon. A few months later we heard that Google was dogfooding Google Voice Desktop internally. But then last month we learned that Google was delaying any launch of the product, and may be scrapping it entirely, because Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin don’t want Google to be in the business of creating software outside of the browser.