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  Taking your health records online

  roundup Many companies are working on efforts to make patients' medical records available on the Internet.

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  Q&A: Canon helps usher in the video SLR era

  Video SLRs are rewriting the rules of the camera industry, and Chuck Westfall says Canon is learning from its early effort.

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• End nears for XP, Office 2003 support

  Microsoft will drop mainstream support for the OS and the applications suite next week. Patches and bug fixes will still be released, though, and support contracts will be honored.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Colin Barker)

• Google to publishers: We're not evil or illegal

  After executives from newspapers and wire services have renewed their threats against online news aggregators, Google's legal team fires back.
  • Wall Street Journal, AP take aim at Google

  (Posted in Digital Media by Caroline McCarthy)

• GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle

  How to fix urban transportation? GM and Segway unveil a two-wheel concept vehicle that seats two people and runs on batteries.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• NASA images show thinning Arctic sea ice

  The space agency and the National Snow and Ice Data Center are concerned over data showing smaller amounts of thick permanent ice and more thin melting ice caps.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Candace Lombardi)

• Columnist out of a job after review of pirated movie

  An entertainment columnist "parts ways" with News Corp. after downloading and reviewing an unauthorized version of the unreleased superhero movie.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• Q&A: Zend CEO talks up latest server releases

  Zend continues to push PHP into the enterprise. The upcoming product releases are designed to help make Web applications legitimate alternatives to Java, says Andi Gutmans.

  (Posted in Software, Interrupted by Dave Rosenberg)

• Windows 7 will allow downgrades too

  Software maker will let users of certain editions go back to Windows Vista or even Windows XP if they wish. The company says it's expanding Vista downgrade rights program a bit too.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Intel launches new chip logos, rating system

  Chipmaker revamps its processor badging and rating system for consumers and businesses.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Congress looks abroad to curb piracy

  Entertainment industry representatives tell Congress the U.S. should urge other countries to adopt better intellectual property protections--while the U.S. may want to consider working with ISPs as Europe has.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• Sun stands by its man

  Speculation has swirled that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz was on the outs following the collapse of merger talks with IBM, but the company has issued a statement of support.
  • Sun shares plummet on reports of IBM withdrawal

  (Posted in Business Tech by Tom Krazit)

• Comcast looks into claims of lost e-mail

  Cable giant, whose free residential e-mail service suffered an outage much of Saturday, says it is tackling an "e-mail counter issue" and addressing claims.

  (Posted in Wireless by Zoë Slocum)

• Is Time Warner finally going to unload AOL?

  It's been one of digital media's foremost will-it-or-won't-it-happen stories. But with a new CEO and Time Warner execs seeking to remove debt from the division, this could actually happen.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Caroline McCarthy)

• Amazon finds niche in iTunes-dominant market

  Research firm NPD says Amazon MP3 is gaining popularity among older music buyers. The online retailer is faring better than previous iTunes challengers.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)
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