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Movies, TV Episodes Streamed Instantly From Netflix Headed to Nintendo’s Wii Console This Spring. Millions of U.S. Wii Owners Will Have the Opportunity to Access the World’s Largest Online Movie Rental Service

Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced the Microsoft Partner Network, the next generation of the Microsoft Partner Program. The Microsoft Partner Network combines the best of Microsoft’s award-winning traditional partner program with a commitment to communities designed to help partners forge deeper connections with customers, with Microsoft and with each other around industry, technical, and business model conversations.

Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson Become Immortalized On United States Postage Stamps
The U.S. Postal Service(R) and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising (Fox L&M) today announce that the FOX hit series THE SIMPSONS will be commemorated on 44-cent First-Class Mail(R) stamps in 2009. Featuring the iconic Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa [...]

World’s Smallest Music Player Now Talks to You
Apple® today introduced the all-new iPod® shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you. The revolutionary new VoiceOver feature enables iPod shuffle to speak your song titles, artists and playlist [...]

Online Course and Test Promote Increased Understanding of Web Analytics
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 [...]

Cambridge University Press founded by Henry VIII in high-tech Internet publishing deal with Boston University and Swedish TransLegal
Cambridge University Press, the Boston University School of Law and the Swedish language company, TransLegal, have launched the world’s first online language training for the global legal community. The training is targeted to a market of over [...]

Mobie Awards: First Major Awards for Mobile Apps
Gala Award Ceremony March 18 at the ThinkMobile Conference and Expo in New York City
Awards in over thirty categories of mobile applications will be awarded at the First Annual Mobie Awards in a gala red carpet celebrity hosted ceremony in an art deco Grand Ballroom in [...]

At the DEMO 09 conference today, Primal Fusion announced the launch of its semantic technology platform and the world’s first consumer “thought networking” service. This service provides a new way to experience the Internet without getting mired in a glut of information. Consumers easily collect and organize their thoughts about a subject, saving them [...]

Campaign empowers teens to ‘Say Something’
For more than two decades, car crashes have been the number one killer of teens in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Advertising Council joined today with a coalition of state Attorneys General and consumer protection agencies to launch a new series [...]

Walmart.com is delighting video game fans by making tens of thousands of Nintendo DSi units available for preorder today online at http://www.walmart.com/. The Nintendo DSi, an overseas sensation in Japan that quickly became one of the fastest- selling handheld consoles in history, can be preordered at Walmart.com for $169, while supplies last. Customers who [...]

Today at Microsoft Research TechFest 2009, visitors immersed themselves in technologies that promise to change the way people interact with computers, take advantage of new computing power from manycore processors and make datacenters far more energy-efficient. The technologies were being shown as part of TechFest, the research lab’s ninth annual innovation fair that draws [...]

Microsoft Corp. today announced a new initiative, Elevate America, which will provide up to 2 million people over the next three years with the technology training needed to succeed in the 21st-century economy.
Microsoft has worked for years with other businesses and community-based partners to broaden access to job opportunities through information technology education and [...]