Acromag’s new CAN bus modules are available in an IndustryPack format or for use with their I/O Server Industrial PC to isolate and interface CAN network devices to embedded monitoring and control systems.

Google, whose Place Pages aggregate information about restaurants and landmarks on Google Maps, has integrated ads directly into Google Maps by offering branded icons for, well, whatever store or franchise wants to participate. Google is letting businesses pay to sub their brand icons on the map for the standard icons. The search engine isn’t saying how much it’s charging.

Partnering with Waste Management and CBS Radio, Event Encourages Responsible Recycling DALLAS , Sept. 2 Buzz-Issue.com– To encourage consumers to recycle electronic devices in an environmentally sound manner, LG Electronics and Waste Management Recycle America are asking Dallas-Fort Worth residents to take action and recycle their used devices at no charge in Lewisville on Saturday, Sept.

Yesterday I discussed how Google’s Gmail Priority Inbox feature is aimed at combating Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 by providing a more efficient messaging experience . I still believe that is one of Google’s goals with Priority Inbox.

Microsoft has decided to pour gasoline on its long-burning feud with VMware, with a full-page ad in USA Today meant to give customers pause before signing up for the latter’s virtualization services. If you believe it’s a coincidence that the ad appears just as the VMware-hosted VMworld kicks off in San Francisco, well, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. For cheap.

Google’s Gmail Priority Inbox feature is a nice little tool that lets users sculpt their inbox in such a way as to make sure their most important messages are front and center while their least important exchanges are put on the back burner. The software uses algorithms that sort incoming email into sections deemed important and unread, starred, and everything else, based on messages users open and reply to. This tool gets “smarter” with more use, and users can train it by clicking a plus or minus sign to designate certain content.

Microsoft has launched a new Bing for Mobile Android App, via the Verizon Android Marketplace, that does all the things you’d expect: mobile-friendly homepage, quick-access maps with listings of local businesses, a Favorites option, and instant answers for things like movies and flight status.

Google added ocean views to its Google Earth for Android application, a move that should have greater import when tablet computers based on Android arrive en masse to tantalize folks looking to surf the Web with a larger palette. Google Earth for Android 1.1 will let users check out the aquatic landscape and terrain in Monterery Bay Canyon, where users can leverage the “look around” button to tilt the view to see the undersea canyon.

Microsoft’s big plan is to launch the public beta of Internet Explorer 9 on Sept.

Windows 95 marks its 15-year anniversary this week. Reading through the online reminiscences, I realized I’d forgotten the sheer size of Microsoft’s marketing blitz behind the operating system: the Empire State Building lit up in company’s colors , the gazillion dollars reportedly shelled out for the Stones’ “Start Me Up,” and even a “cyber sitcom” starring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry.