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Google this week opened its hosted online patient medical records service to the public, seven months after first announcing plans for a foray into health care.

A social networking site that caters to an older crowd is helping the open-source Apache Web server widen its market share lead over Microsoft's Internet Information Services software, according to market research firm Netcraft.

Australian researchers announced this week that they have created a 60GHz, CMOS single-chip radio that can transmit 5 gigabits per second over about 30 feet.

Earlier this year, it looked like The SCO Group was going down for the count. It had lost a key decision in its suit against Novell, declared bankruptcy and was quickly running out of money.

The One Laptop Per Child mishegas has hit the boiling point, and the hiss of steamed "Give One/Get None" donors has finally gotten the OLPC group's attention.

It seems like every month a new technology emerges with the potential to change everything. Technology writers and analysts get hyperexcited. Everyone starts patting one another on the back and hugging. And two years later, we're still talking about the promise of that technology, with little to show in the here and now.

Novell's purchase of Linux developer SuSE Linux sets the company up to build a full portfolio of Linux-based software and to challenge Red Hat as the leading vendor of corporate Linux products, Novell executives said Tuesday in a conference call following announcement of the US$210 million acquisition.

Momentum to migrate from Microsoft's proprietary software to open source software is rapidly gaining in Germany, where numerous enterprises are reacting to the U.S. software giant's licensing policy.

Intel and Sun Microsystems have put aside high-level rivalries to pursue the smart phone and mobile computing device market by working to optimize Sun's Java software for the Intel XScale processor, which powers advanced voice and data phones and handheld devices. Analysts called the deal a smart move.