CA Inc. (NASDAQ:CA) is a New York based enterprise server software company. The company recently announced that they have acquired NetQoS for $200 million in cash. NetQoS revenue for 2008 was $56 million and they have over 1,000 customers.

“As enterprises and service providers become increasingly reliant on the shared infrastructure of private and public computing clouds, CA and NetQoS will provide a robust level of network and systems traffic management that will be critical to successfully delivering cloud-based services,” stated CA in a press release.

NetQoS will be rolled into the Infrastrucure Management and Automation division at CA. A majority of NetQoS’ employees will be given jobs at CA and the deal is expected to close by the end of the year.

iMo is a startup that launched out of the TechCrunch50 conference that aims to make the iPhone or iPod Touch act as a gaming controller for PC games. Most PC games use a mouse and keyboard to play but sometimes people prefer to play with a wireless controller. This is where iMo’s future application comes in. iMo’s application would make the Apple iPhone or Apple iPod Touch work as a wireless controller.

The application would communicate with the PC through a WiFi or Bluetooth connection. iMo will cost $0.99 on the Apple App Store and the application will be available on the Google Android Market in the future too. Below is a video demo of the presentation from TechCrunch50.

LG Electronics has announced the LG-GW620, the company’s first phone powered by Google Android. The GW620 has a 3″ touchscreen with a QWERTY keypad. LG will be launching 13 smartphones over the next 16 months that run on Windows Mobile.

“The LG-GW620 will appeal to first-time smartphone customers by offering a new and different kind of user experience,” stated LG Electronics Mobile Communications President and CEO Dr. Skott Ahn in a press release. “Our objective is to provide a wide selection of smartphones to satisfy the diverse preferences of today’s consumers. This Android phone is just one of many smartphone models we plan to introduce worldwide in the years ahead.”

RedBeacon launched at the TechCrunch50 conference yesterday and showed a demo of their service. Craigslist has classifieds for jobs, but there aren’t actual specific times for jobs to be completed. This is what RedBeacon aims to solve, but through their own website.

Through RedBeacon, users type in the name of the service that they are looking for and the results appear. It could be anywhere from plumbers to gardeners. The website is currently in limited beta and they are inviting local services to create profiles. The website will be fully launched in two weeks.

I have my doubts about how well RedBeacon will do because the name is irrelevant to what the service actually does. And the job postings and classifieds arena is already dominated by other major players such as Craigslist. Nothing really stood out to me.

RedBeacon started in November 2008 in San Mateo, California. The company was founded by Ethan Anderson, Aaron Lee, and Yaron Binur.

Pictures of the HTC Leo have leaked. The leaked screenshots of the Leo reveal the mobile phone is all of its sleekness. The HTC Leo has a 1GHz processor, dual-flash, and runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 The network of the phone has 900/2100 MHz WCDMA/HSPA and 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/EDGE. The touch screen is 4.3″ capacitive WVGA. The camera on the phone has 5 megapixel with auto focus. The internal memory is 512MB flash with 320MB RAM. The chipset is Qualcomm MSM 8250. Other features include microSD, WLAN, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, GPS/aGPS, G-Sensor, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, and 3.5mm audio jack.

Google Labs has started a new service called Fast Flip. Many publishers and content owners will not be thrilled because clicking on a news article keeps the user within Google News. Screenshots of other websites appear on the frame in the left. The Fast Flip homepage has screenshots of recent and popular news articles.

However a large share of publishers agreed Google News to use their logos and images as part of the new user interface. Fast Flip is mobile-friendly too. Google will even share the revenue of contextual advertising with the selected publishers. This is the first time that Google will be sharing revenue for news content.

Krishna Bharat, the creator of Google News, described Fast Flip as “a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles.”

Microsoft Corporation is constantly researching ways to improve search. At the TechCrunch50 event earlier today, Microsoft gave a demo of Visual Search on Bing.com. The Visual Search engine uses images instead of text. The images are arranged by categories and various other parameters.

As of right now Visual Search is just an index of photo albums tagged with certain parameters. For example when I selected the Digital Cameras category, Bing showed me a bunch of cameras that I could click on. Then I narrowed the results to between 5 and 10 megapixels and the cameras out of those parameters disappeared. Nothing really new there. I’ve seen this technology before on e-commerce websites like eBay.

I’m just going to label this announcement as a “meh” since I’ve seen it before. Image searches have longer load times than text especially in countries with slow Internet connections. The Visual Search requires Microsoft Silverlight too.

The new operating system by Microsoft Corporation called Windows 7 has been receiving glowing reviews. Apple might have to try extra harder in order to convince consumers that Mac is the way to go when the Windows 7 operating system is released on October 22.

Now the first Windows 7 commercial is public and it features a little girl named Kylie that talks about all the “happy words” on her dad’s computer. These happy words include positive reviews from CNET, Gizmodo, Maximum PC, The Seattle Times, etc.

Kylie made a slideshow using those happy words with kittens and bunnies too. And then she said that “more happy is coming.” I must say that Kylie has good taste in music since she chose the The Final Countdown as the background music.