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In the same boat?

But as the warring tech giants extend their reach into health care, they are saying nice things about one another--at least for now.

“I love Google Health,” said Sean Nolan, the chief architect of Microsoft’s HealthVault service. “What they are trying to do is a good thing...We are in the same boat. We’re not really fighting with these guys. We’re all trying to make it work.”

The love, apparently, is mutual. “I think it is critically important that there is more than one company trying to do this. (Personal health records) are very hard to get right,” Google Health product manager Roni Zeiger said. “We certainly haven’t done so yet.”

So what gives? Perhaps mutual interest comes before brass-knuckled competition. Google and Microsoft face many of the same issues--privacy, bureaucracy, and technological intransigence in the health industry--as they attempt to put their own spin on e-health.

- Microsoft, Google In Healthy Competition, CBSNews.com, May 18, 2009.

2. Playing the opening game of the World Cup against Italy in the Amazon jungle might easily be viewed as case of ‘I’m an England celebrity, get me out of here’.

But the England manager and TV pundits alike were keen to look on the bright side of life after being paired with Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

Whilst Manaus in the far north of Brazil was a venue Roy Hodgson was hoping to avoid, the upside of the draw was that England will be playing a fellow European team.