Five-Year Growth Expected For Federal Health IT Budget
Drivers for spending include aging baby boomers, returning veterans, and possible legislation from Congress, according to an industry report.

MySpace Music Partnership Could Create iTunes Killer
The reported talks are part of Rupert Murdoch's plans to distinguish MySpace, born as a haven for new music fans, from fast-moving rival Facebook.

Yahoo Beefs Up Employee Severance Plan As Microsoft Takeover Looms
Yahoo employees axed within two years of "a change in control" will be entitled to enhanced benefits, such as more severance pay, outplacement services, and extended medical benefits.

Microsoft SEC Filing Signals Proxy Fight For Yahoo
Microsoft warned investors that it's prepared to wrest control of Internet rival Yahoo through a proxy fight if necessary.

Might As Well Face It, You're Addicted To Tech
BlackBerry texting and ignoring offline social interaction can lead to chronic insomnia, relationship break-ups, and job loss, a University of Northampton researcher warns.

Unlimited Cell Phone Plans Prompt Price War Concerns
AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA have announced flat rate plans for unlimited calls, raising investor concerns that a price war could break out.

Wikileaks' Leaked Documents Blocked But Unbowed
The site that hosts some corporate secrets went offline last week following a California judge's order that its domain name records be disabled to satisfy the demands in a complaint.

One Third Of Americans Regularly Bank Online
In a survey of 2,000 consumers last summer, Gartner extrapolated that 71 million U.S. adults use online banking regularly.

Sabotage Eyed As Possible Cause Of Undersea Cable Cuts
Officials refuse to rule out sabotage but believe that fishing nets or ship anchors are the likely cause of the damage to the undersea cables.

E-Commerce Tops Service Industry In Customer Satisfaction
E-commerce companies hit a record score of 81.6 on the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index, up 2% from a year ago.

Microsoft To Authorize Yahoo Proxy Battle
Microsoft will authorize a proxy battle for Yahoo this week to convince the Web company's shareholders to agree on a takeover deal that the Yahoo board so far has rejected, the New York Times' DealBook blog said Tuesday.

Personalizing Search Results, Surf Canyon Risks Google's Ire
Surf Canyon re-orders search results in real time based on the users' inferred intent.

Gates Calls Microsoft's Yahoo Bid 'A Fair Offer'
Gates thinks Microsoft can make progress in the online market "with or without Yahoo."

Hacker's Firm DoubleTwist Enables Copying Of iTunes
"Users can only play back the music they have already purchased and they are authorized to play," said Monique Farantzos, 34, doubleTwists's co-founder and chief executive.

Toshiba Saves Money In HD DVD Defeat To Sony's Blu-ray
"The potential losses are small compared to the savings," said Goldman Sachs analyst Ikuo Matsuhashi. "Nobody wants this format war to drag on."

SAP Seeks Big Sales Growth In Middle East
SAP plans to quadruple by end-2010 the volume of its sales in the Middle East, an area where it holds 30 percent market share of business software sales.

Contract Worker Sues Google Over Google Sky
Hired through WorkforceLogic USA, he claims to have come up with the idea and presented it on an internal Google Groups e-mail discussion group.

Anti-Spyware Company Accused Of Deception
Harvard professor and security researcher Ben Edelman questions C-NetMedia's business and marketing practices as well as the effectiveness of its security software.

Google To Test Video Ads With Search Results
Advertisers will be given the option of running video links under the traditional text advertising that runs alongside search results.

Newspaper Chains Join Forces To Offer Online Ads
Hearst, The New York Times, Tribune Co., and Gannett launched quadrantONE to sell online ads for almost 200 Web sites.

Yahoo Re-Launches Video Service
Improvements including a larger viewer, support for files up to 150 MB, and a "my video" section for users to upload, store, and share the content they create.

Save The P***t With IBM's PowerUp Game
IBM has launched a free, 3-D online game that challenges teens to help save the p***t "Helios" from sandstorms, floods, and "SmogGobs" before natural resources are depleted.