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Google announced the launch of App Engine. It's a soup to nuts service for web developers - not a la carte like Amazon. Developers can concentrate on creating software without worrying about servers or data storage. Is Google looking for dibs on the hottest apps?

Is your favorite band offering a search engine? A company called Prodege creates sites for bands like Kiss that are powered by Google and Ask.com. Users can get swagbucks which they can trade for... well... swag.

Some drama in the Microsoft camp! It turns out Windows 7 won't be available in 2009 as I reported on Monday, and Microsoft won't say why Bill Gates said it would. We won't see the new OS until 2010.

And then Yahoo goes and tells Microsoft, "Hey, we didn't say we don't want your money! We said we want MORE of your money!" And they're also willing to negotiate for it.

Look! Over at CERN! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's SUPER NET!

Are you addicted to playing Scrabulous on Facebook? You aren't alone. Almost 700,000 people are playing. But now Hasbro and Mattel have launched their own Facebook App called "Scrabble By Mattel" to try and lure people to the app with the copyright!

The internet has been around since 1989, and since it's inception, almost one million viruses have been created, and of those there have been 250,000 of them within the last six months.