Samsung and Google Inc. recently announced a worldwide cooperation to enable mobile phone users globally with quick and easy access to Google products and services directly from their Samsung mobile phones. This would enable Samsung users to search information, find location and manage their e-mails on move.

Samsungs has wide variety and technology in phones. Now, the combination of Google applications and Samsung’s advanced mobile devices dedicate themselves to offer a hassle – free mobile Internet experience for consumer’s world wide. Beginning in early 2007, select ed Samsung phones would be provided with a range of Google products and services aimed to provide more dynamic user experience.

Google Earth version 4 has now been enhanced with even more-realistic looking 3D models of terrain and buildings.

On other hand, Microsoft is now adding a Virtual Earth better aerial and satellite images of United States from GlobeXplorer LLC. The deal further improvises by having Microsoft’s Live Search Maps by Virtual Earth.

The interesting part is Google Earth and Virtual Earth both are desktop applications offering download at no charge. Both have search features for finding and mapping locations, and accessing driving instructions. The service also lets users cover information about locations, saving maps, and option to e-mail others.

Google Earth was just a start, now Google is planning to assist scientists and general public to explore and map the universe. This week the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project announced, which Google has joined with the team of 19 universities and national laboratories. This LSST would be the world’s largest astronomical survey project.

Scheduled to come online by 2013, LSST would completely survey the night sky every three days from a mountaintop in northern Peru. The telescope’s three billion-pixel imager, the biggest digital camera ever built would create huge quantities of data. Experts say about 30,000 gigabytes worth of images would be captured every night.

Google; the internet search giant is “The Best” company to work for in America, according to Fortune magazine’s annual list released this Monday.

Google based in Mountain View, California, now ranks No. 1 largely because of the services offered to employees, such as laundry, dry cleaning and more automotive services, a swimming spa, on-site massage, gourmet meals and free on-site doctors, Fortune stated.

The list was collected for Fortune by the Great Place to Work Institute in San Francisco, using review responses from more than 105,000 employees from 446 companies.

SAN FRANCISCO – Internet icon Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are growing their efforts to become more reachable on mobile phones, this will be a new huge battleground for these longtime rivals.

Spending on mobile ads is expected to rise for nearly $1.5 billion in this year and more than double in size by the year 2010. Both Google and Yahoo would now feature some of their products on mobile phones produced by Samsung Electronics under deals announced at the nation’s biggest gadget-fest.

OLATHE, Kan., /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) had recently announced the nuvi 680 and the StreetPilot c580, the first-ever personal navigation devices, which incorporate real-time traffic reports, gas prices, weather conditions, and as well movie times from Microsoft’s MSN Direct network. The devices were announced in combination with the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and would be on display at the Garmin booth (#36212) and the Microsoft booth (#7144).

The nuvi 680 and StreetPilot c580 got current traffic incident and flow information for major cities across the United States, it is time-saving information that drivers would find valuable even when they know how to find their destination.

Yahoo is planning to launch The Intern, a game tied to NBC’s sixth season of the Donald Trump-starring series The Apprentice, which would offer fans of the show the opportunity to compete for a chance to spend time with the reality show’s winning contestants.

The winner of The Intern contest would eventually spend two weeks shadowing the winner of this season’s Apprentice as he or she goes to work for the Trump Organization.

Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO), had announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer, Dr. Usama Fayyad, is been selected as a 2006 Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Fayyad was recognized for his extensive contributions to the fields of machine learning and data mining and for his significant scientific and commercial applications in the field of knowledge discovery in databases. Fayyad is also responsible for Yahoo’s overall data strategy, with overseeing the Yahoo! Research Organization.

“Yahoo! Research is now focusing on hiring all the big researchers around the globe in the fields of search, machine learning, microeconomics, social media, and more,” said Fayyad.

Miva give up partnership with yahoo and start a new relationship with Google as of January 27, 2007. This battle for publishing partnerships would play a major role in search industry this year and as well in expansion to international markets.

Yahoo further needs to announce a new international team in the very near future.

Yahoo and Dash Navigation had announced a partnership, which would combine Yahoo’s local search technology with Dash’s internet-connected automotive navigation system. Dash would provide location data that Yahoo could use to narrow the search results to business (through iMedia Connection and MarketingVox).

One would be able to conduct a local search and then navigate to the geographic location of the search results. The service would launch in California during spring, with a national rollout.