Sirius XM Prepares for Possible Bankruptcy
The filing could put pressure on satellite company EchoStar, which owns a substantial amount of the company’s debt. (NYT)+++

Intel’s Chief Calls for Investments in U.S.
The world’s largest chip maker is holding itself up as a model for others to follow by increasing capital spending during a deep economic slump.(NYT)+++

Frank Gehry’s Software Keeps Buildings on Budget
Frank Gehry, known for using curved shapes in his architecture, also offers modeling software to compute the cost of building those designs.(NYT)+++

Electronic Health Records: How to Spend the Money Wisely
Fifty of the nation’s leading experts on electronic health records warned that the government needs to be careful how it spends the $20 billion allocated to the initiative as part of the stimulus bill.(NYT)+++

Trackle Puts Web Alerts Into Hyperdrive
Trackle, which took the wraps off a public test version Tuesday, lets users monitor multiple Web alerts from one central hub.(NYT)+++

ConnectU’s ‘Secret’ $65 Million Settlement With Facebook
A law firm violated confidentiality terms when it bragged about getting a $65 million settlement from Facebook for ConnectU–and the deal probably wasn’t worth that much anyway.(NYT)+++

‘Smart’ Streetlights Hit the Streets
A demonstration of turning streetlights on and off with a cellphone shows how new LED lamps could save energy and create a “smart” lighting system.(NYT)+++

Googling Your Home Electricity Usage
Google hopes the early announcement of its PowerMeter will help its product and advocacy efforts around energy reform.(NYT)+++

The Secret to Start-Up Success: Save Customers Money
Venture capitalists say that whether a start-up is in computers, green tech or health care, it needs to save customers money to succeed.(NYT)+++

Facebook Mystery: Who Created “25 Random Things About Me”?
Facebook weighs in on the “25 Random Things About Me” craze sweeping the social network, saying it’s responsible for the creation of nearly 5 million notes in one week.(WSJ)+++

IBM Says It Isn’t Blowing Smoke About Cloud Computing
IBM is pushing ahead with cloud computing technology, says Erich Clementi, who recently added general manager of enterprise initiatives to his role at the company. (WSJ)+++

Intel To Upgrade Factories
Chipmaker plans to spend $7 billion upgrading its U.S. factories over the next two years.(SFC)+++

Calling All Startups!
The Chronicle is giving readers a chance to pitch their startup idea in the newspaper. We can’t promise you any money, but we can give you exposure, along with suggestions from some venture capitalists who will review your spiel. (SFC)+++

Circuit City Seeks To Pay Out
Doomed retailer asks a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge to allow it to give incentives to executives and other workers to stay with the company during the wind-down. (SFC)+++

Cyber Security Review Ordered
President Obama ordered a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity to examine how federal agencies use technology to protect secrets and data. (SFC)+++

Surprise! Twitter still thinking about a revenue model
Apparently Twitter is so hot among news folks right now that the company doesn’t even need to say anything new to make headlines. (LAT)+++

With JobAngels and JobShouts, Twitter helps jobless find work
If you think of Google as the Internet’s memory — the process that can access every image, sound and bit of knowledge that a decade of our online existence has generated and stored — then Twitter is its stream of consciousness. (LAT)+++

Settlement with ConnectU cost Facebook $65 million
Thanks to a slip-up by the law firm that helped ConnectU sue Facebook in 2004, we now know how much the lengthy litigation cost CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Co. It wasn’t cheap. (LAT)+++

FMyLife lets you sound off on everyday problems
Today, I discovered FMyLife.com. I got zero work done. (LAT)+++

Intel to invest $7 billion in chip manufacturing
Despite the worldwide recession, Santa Clara computer chip giant Intel said today that it will invest $7 billion over the next two years on state-of-the-art chip manufacturing in the United States, adding that its plans have drawn praise from President Obama. (SV)+++

IBM to unveil cloud computing strategy
IBM will unveil its cloud computing strategy today at a meeting in Shanghai, becoming the first technology company to offer a service that lets customers buy the equivalent of overdraft protection for data centers. (SV)+++

Microsoft’s new communications head is Simon Sproule, formerly of Nissan
Simon Sproule begins March 2 as corporate vice president of corporate communications for Microsoft, filling a role that has been vacant since Larry Cohen left the company last year to become Bill Gates’ chief of staff, the company announced this afternoon. (TST)+++

Microsoft news roundup: Business search strategy; 10,000 patents; cheers for stimulus; Windows 7 beta closing
Just over a year after moving to buy Fast Search & Transfer, an Oslo, Norway,-based leader in business search, Microsoft is articulating its plans to incorporate the technology into the next version of SharePoint, Microsoft’s popular business collaboration software.(TST)+++

‘Stimulus’ bill pushes e-health records for all
A large chunk–about 140 pages of 800–of the Senate bill creates electronic health records for “each person in the United States by 2014,” with no clear way to opt out. (CNET)+++

IPOs on deck, but none for tech
A trickle of public offerings is expected to make its way to Wall Street this week. But the high-tech industry appears to be on the sidelines.(CNET)+++

Many TV stations to make DTV switch next week
Despite a regulator-approved delay, more than a third of the nation’s TV stations plan to be broadcasting completely in digital on February 17.(CNET)+++

Report: Sirius Radio prepares bankruptcy filing
Satellite radio company faces debt crisis, and bankruptcy may force EchoStar to acquire the company, according to The New York Times.(CNET)+++

Is Cisco fattening its wallet for acquisitions?
Cisco Systems said this week it plans to raise $4 billion in cash to fill its coffers, leaving many industry watchers to speculate about potential acquisitions.(CNET)+++

Twitter may charge companies that ‘tweet’
Microblogging site is considering charging companies that use the service to market their brands, the company’s co-founder says.(CNET)+++

Book publishers object to Kindle’s text-to-voice feature
Is it lawful for a computer to read text? And if not, does that mean moms violate copyright law when reading to their children?(CNET)+++

Nvidia sales slump 60 percent as demand dries up
Graphics chip supplier also reports quarterly loss of $147.7 million. CEO says environment “clearly difficult and uncertain.”(CNET)+++

Ruling upheld against Verizon customer-retention tactics
A federal appeals court agrees with FCC that Verizon may not use certain marketing practices to keep customers from switching to another phone service.(CNET)+++

How to predict gadget success
A new methodology from Forrester Research aims to show that consumers will go for products whose entire experience offer convenience, not just the best design, lowest price, or first to market.(CNET)+++

Whee! New numbers on social network usage
Traffic firm Compete.com releases a rundown of January 2009 traffic figures from social networks ranging from Facebook to Fubar.com. Facebook comes in on top.(CNET)+++

NetSuite bucks economic trends with profitable quarter
Business management software provider reports its fourth-quarter revenue rose 30 percent from a year ago and its net loss shrank.(CNET)+++

Ticketmaster, Live Nation to merge
Unless authorities block the merger on antitrust grounds, the nation’s largest owner of concert venues and the nation’s largest ticket broker will become one company.(CNET)+++

Search guru: What Google ought to change
Search expert Danny Sullivan offers a wish list for reforms at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. For one thing, share more with advertisers and publishers.(CNET)+++

Intel to invest $7 billion in U.S. facilities
CEO Paul Otellini tells a Washington audience that economic recovery will take smart, significant investments from both the public and private sectors.(CNET)+++