Google and Apple are, “doing more and more things together. We have similar goals, and similar competitors.”

Apple’s new I-phone can work together with Google search and map features, but Schmidt did not state what the two companies currently work on.

The Netscape team released today the My.Netscape Beta. My.Netscape will keep its individuality as a personalized homepage, with the smallest amount of advertising. The left side of the screen includes a weather module. Logging in lets users save model layouts, and view them from anywhere. The Add Content layer makes it available for users to add modules to their My.NetScape screen. My.NetScape has around 100 modules to add, but if users don’t find what they want, Net-scape encourages them to use their generic RSS feed reader to add favorite sites.

NBC Universal and MSNBC.com have revealed a behind-the-scenes look at The Today Show Web site. Todayshow.com launched the video blog from co-anchor Al Roker with content from Today contributors and other ideas from iVillage. Today Executive Producer Jim Bell wants viewers to relate to the stories, the recipes, or just the TV personalities on the official Today show blog allDAY.
MSNBC.com’s deputy editor Randy Stearns comments on how MSNBC has highlighted this particular show with its own Web site, instead of putting it into the main MSNBC.com page. Viewers can log onto the site by clicking on allday.msnbc.msn.com.

A new UN led alliance will work to protect the environment from electronic trash, such as computers, microwaves, phones, batteries and televisions. Three UN agencies, 16 companies including Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, several government organizations and universities teamed up to create the Solving the Ewaste Problem, also known as STEP. STEP measures around 40 metric tons a year, or enough to fill a line of dump trucks stretching half way around the world. Step encourages manufacturers to make products with more durability to upgrade, rather than to throw out old appliances.

The latest Nielson/NetRatings show that Google controls the competition for online search. The ratings explain that Google performed around three-point-nine billion searches representing a little over half of all searches. Yahoo came in second with 22.7 percent of all searches, MSN at 8.9 percent, AOL at 5.4 percent and Ask.com with 1.8 percent of all searches. Google had the largest year-over-year growth percentage up 41 percent. Yahoo grew almost 29 percent, while MSN, AOL and Ask.com grew less than 6 percent.

The deal incorporated CBS shows on YouTube, sharing advertising income and Google would sell inventory from CBS radio.

Google would have guaranteed advertising revenue of more than 500 million dollars for CBS. Google sought after a five-year contract, while CBS found the deal un-workable.

Recently Viacom demanded YouTube remove 100-thousand copyrighted videos. Last year Google CEO Eric Schmidt put the idea forward that they may guarantee up to 500 million dollars in advertising revenue over several years to license Viacom’s videos. Google wanted to pay Viacom around 70 percent of advertising revenue, but Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman wanted more control of advertising and technical issues before negotiating the money. Viacom took Comedy Central away, and arranged a deal with Internet television service Joost.

NBC television executives have become furious from illegal postings of TV shows on YouTube. Ali cited a six-page letter from N-B-C to Google insisting Google keeps unauthorized content off of YouTube.

Google can’t seem to come across allies in the television business.