InfoWorld - Worrying news about Google, Sprint, and Nortel scared off investors in the Internet and telecom sectors this week as Dell’s results underscored a possible consumer spending slowdown.

TechWeb - The software collects contacts, appointments, music, and documents online and makes it available on PCs, PDAs, and smartphones.

AP - Google Inc. won’t sell ads to support a new Internet service that stores personal medical information, CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday in the search giant’s first detailed comments about a venture that has raised privacy concerns.

InfoWorld - Think you can get away with using e-mail and the Internet in violation of company policy? Think again.

AP - EBay Inc. has settled a seven-year patent dispute with MercExchange LLC that prompted an important intellectual-property ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.

InfoWorld - MercExchange and eBay have settled a patent dispute that in 2006 was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the case, the Supreme Court sided with the online auction house in what is considered to be an important ruling on intellectual property.

TechWeb - Google gains a huge advantage by becoming the default search option on the Opera Mobile and Opera Mini start pages.

Reuters - Swiss bank Julius Baer defended on
Thursday taking legal action to shut down a Web site that
published what the site said were details of secret accounts
linked to tax schemes.

InfoWorld - Google shed more light on the health care service it is developing, showing off a couple of screenshots of what it will look like.

Reuters - EBay Inc and MercExchange LLC have
settled a long-running patent lawsuit, said eBay on Thursday,
ending a fight that prompted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court
ruling.