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PC World – Virtualization has moved beyond applications themselves to software that makes those applications run faster over a network.

AP – Google’s online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the public Monday, giving users instant electronic access to their health histories and worrying a privacy advocate.

AFP – Google on Monday launched Google Health, a long-anticipated medical records service letting US users store and manage their health care information online.

Reuters – Japanese videogame maker Square Enix Co
Ltd (9684.T) said on Tuesday it is considering taking stakes in
game developers to boost its competitiveness.

Reuters – Research in Motion is expected to resolve in two months Indian security
concerns about its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, Indian
Minister for Communications and Information Technology
Andimuthu Raja said on Tuesday.

InfoWorld – A code analysis of popular open source software projects has revealed that the quality and security of open source software continues to improve.

AP – Napster Inc. begins selling MP3s Tuesday, a move the online music service hopes will lure iPod users and turn around Napster’s sliding fortunes.

AP – Preparing for the eventual extinction of its DVD-by-mail rental service, Netflix Inc. on Tuesday is introducing its first solution for subscribers who want entertainment delivered directly to their television sets with just a few clicks on a remote control.

AFP – Vintners in California’s renowned Napa Valley on Monday launched an Internet tribute to pioneering US wine-maker Robert Mondavi, who died three days earlier in his home in the region.

PC World – Mobile operators may be counting on LTE (Long-Term Evolution) technology to offer high-speed mobile data access in coming…

Reuters – Napster Inc., the digital music
service, on Tuesday opened the world’s biggest MP3 download
store with more than 6 million songs in a direct challenge to
Apple Inc’s iTunes store.

PC World – Games consoles contain toxic chemicals that would not be allowed in young childrens’ toys, even though the technology to…

PC World – The unlikely story of advanced 3G cellular service in the world’s most tightly controlled and secretive country has turned…

AP – Kenny Chesney may not have wanted online voters to decide one of country music’s top awards, but he still asked his fans to click for him.

BusinessWeek Online – A summer internship can be tough enough without any extra stress, but experts agree that just showing up (even to all the planned events) isn’t the way to get the most of out an internship. Instead, career experts say that one-on-one networking during a summer internship is a must — along with not neglecting the actual job and attending events planned by intern coordinators.

AFP – Iranian authorities have blocked access to several websites and blogs of women’s rights advocates and journalists critical of the government, a press report said on Tuesday.

Reuters – Google Inc dominates Internet searches
across the world with a major exception of Russia, a gap which
Russian-born co-founder Sergei Brin is keen to fill, he said in
a newspaper interview.

AFP – MySpace launched new services in Japan on Tuesday a day after Facebook launched a Japanese version amid growing competition here between social networking sites.

AP – If someone had pulled me away from “GoldenEye 007” in the late 1990s to tell me that I’d one day be using my video game system to get in shape, I would have likely drawn James Bond’s Golden Gun and shot a hole in that cockamamie theory.

NewsFactor – Napster is looking to shake up the online music scene once more. On Tuesday, the digital-music pioneer announced the launch of what it described as “the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store.” All downloads will be free of digital-rights management (DRM) restrictions.

PC Magazine – IBM has used a magnifying glass to significantly improve solar energy output.

Reuters – The world’s top handset maker Nokia Oyj
expects the role of the Linux operating system in its product
portfolio to increase as the role of its Internet-focused
devices grows, company officials said.

PC Magazine – It may seem recently that there’s been an exodus from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). First came Activision/Vivendi’s departure, and then again more recently with LucasArts just last week. But not all agree that it was the right thing to do.

AP – A Cisco Systems Inc. executive told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday that comments in an internal document about China’s goal to “combat” a religious group did not reflect the company’s views on censorship.

AP – Attorneys for Yahoo Inc. want information in a shareholder lawsuit over Microsoft’s bid for the Internet pioneer to remain confidential, but attorneys for the shareholders say the records should be public.

AP – Strong, versatile little “nanotubes” made out of carbon are considered future stars in nanotechnology research in medicine and industry. Now a study finds that longer threads of the stuff mimic the toxic qualities of asbestos, renewing questions about how carbon nanotubes can be used safely.

Reuters – Microsoft Corp has proposed to
buy Yahoo Inc’s search business and take a minority
stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger,
a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.

Reuters – Maurice Levy, chairman and chief
executive of Publicis , said the world’s
fourth-largest advertising group hoped to give more details
about its cooperation with Web search engine Google by
the summer.

Reuters – Hulu, the online video website owned
by News Corp. and NBC Universal, said on Tuesday its service
will be distributed on seven new sites, making its archive of
popular television shows more widely available.

TechWeb – Intelligent Enterprise – Aster says its technology can turn commodity servers into a massively parallel processing relational database for analytics.

AP – The One Laptop Per Child project plans to resume its Give One Get One program, in which people spend $400 to buy one of the nonprofit’s rugged computers and donate a second one to a child in a developing country.

NewsFactor – Apple’s 3G iPhone will be available immediately after CEO Steve Jobs announces it at the WorldWide Developers Conference on June 9, a confidential source has told the popular Web site Gizmodo.

AP – The city of Chicago is suing eBay and its subsidiary StubHub for failing to collect city amusement taxes on concert and sporting event tickets sold through the Web sites.

Reuters – Motorola Inc said on Tuesday
that a U.S. judge had approved a settlement, at no cost to the
cell phone maker, related to disputes stemming from the 1999
bankruptcy of satellite service Iridium.

PC World – Microsoft on Tuesday began letting advertisers display banner ads to mobile users of Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live…

AP – Strong demand outside the United States for Hewlett-Packard Co.‘s computers, printers and other products widened its profit margin in its second quarter, but investors worry the trend will break as HP digests Electronic Data Systems Corp. this year.

PC World – A 31 percent jump in laptop PC sales helped drive Hewlett-Packard’s strong quarterly results on Tuesday, although there were…

TechWeb – InformationWeek – The open source platform will be optimized to run on Intel’s Atom processor, which the chipmaker introduced in April.