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Don't look now, but your mobile phone is out to get you. This deadly device can cause accidents, give you cancer or even kill you, according to a rising chorus of alarmist reports.

Google launched an ambitious initiative Monday that aims to give people a central place online to store their health records and then share them with health-care providers.

In five years, the privacy debate over personal health records will be a over, and you and I will be storing our medical records at a central location. Why? Because the benefits of better care and less paperwork will outweigh our current fears about data breaches and inappropriate data sharing. Whether that central location will be Redmond, Mountain View or Boston will depend on whom we trust most with our medical information.

I'm not a frequent gamer. Sure, I love to take a turn at Rock Band or Dance Dance Revolution every now and then, but many typical video games -- especially first-person shooters -- leave me cold.

Online participatory media is rocking. Visitors to Nike's site can create their own athletic shoes and have them custom made. Video sites Revver and YouTube pay amateurs for clips and our rankings decide what is entertaining. From Florida Today to CBS mobile, online news sites beg readers for comments, photos and videos, while sites as varied as Topix, News Trust and Real Girls Media encourage non-journalists to contribute or edit stories about local and world events.

It's likely that the Internet will soon experience a catastrophic failure, a multi­day outage that will cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars."

With easy online access to up-to-date medical information and reference materials, more adults in the U.S. are using the Internet to find out about their health, then talking to their personal doctors about what they find.

Value networking, says Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Carol Rozwell, is a method for examining the relationships among a group of related organizations or individuals to understand and categorize the value each gains from the relationship.

Telecom is among the top 10 costs for most businesses, according to industry experts, and for many it ranks in the top five. With that in mind, here are 10 tips for cutting your telecom expenses that range from organizing your bills better to rethinking how you support older technologies.

You may not have noticed recent stories explaining why German book publishers are saying no to Google's -- and previously Amazon.com's -- requests to put German-language books online. But while it's easy to dismiss this as just another publishing industry story, there are larger lessons that continue to get too little emphasis.

Forrester Research has changed its policy toward vendor-sponsored research following last month's publication of a controversial Microsoft -funded study that compared the cost of developing applications on Linux and Java to a Microsoft-based approach.