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With pressure from the federal government to begin deploying electronic medical records and the systems that support them, IT vendors are finding good business in lending the money needed to hospitals and physician practices.  read more »

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled US$3.4 billion in grants to update the nation's electrical grid, but the benefits could reach to the broadband sector as well, one community broadband adviser said.  read more »

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the final version of a huge economic stimulus package, including money for broadband deployment and health IT.  read more »

A stimulus package expected to be approved by the U.S. Congress as soon as Friday includes tens of billions of spending on tech-related projects.  read more »

Parts of a huge economic stimulus package being pushed by U.S. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are running into opposition, including so-called open access requirements tacked onto a fund intended to spur broadband deployment.  read more »

Google will launch on Wednesday a reseller program for the paid version of its Apps hosted collaboration and communication suite.  read more »

Adding fuel to the idea of Flash on the iPhone, Adobe announced Monday that it had struck a deal with chipmaker ARM to bring both Flash and Adobe's runtime environment AIR to devices that use the ARM-chips. The iPhone uses undisclosed ARM processors in its hardware.  read more »

Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not as secure as they should be and insiders are mad.  read more »

Salesforce.com and Google executives had fighting words for rivals Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, saying those vendors are late to the Web-hosted software party and will pay the price for it.  read more »

Yahoo's Zimbra, the provider of a communications and collaboration suite that rivals Microsoft's Office and Outlook/Exchange, will make its cloud computing debut on Tuesday.  read more »