Evening News Round Up

• An IPod Cellphone Said to Be Imminent [NYTimes]
  ” Apple Computer and Motorola plan to unveil a long-awaited mobile phone and music player next week that will incorporate Apple’s iTunes software…”
• Apple loses 2nd patent on iPod [Mercury News]
  “Creative Technology said Tuesday that it has been awarded a patent on the way Apple Computer’s iPod organizes music, a move that could force Apple to pay royalties on sales of the digital player.”
• Yahoo lets users search e-mail photos, documents [Reuters UK]
  “Yahoo Inc., which supplies more than 200 million e-mail accounts globally, said late on Monday it has improved the way people can search text, photos and documents inside e-mail.”
• Private Phone Records Sold Online, Privacy Group Complains [InformationWeek]
  “The Electronic Privacy Information Center wants telecommunications carriers to do more to prevent customer information from being sold online.”
• CBS News counters bloggers with ‘nonbudsman’ [Cnet]
  “After a controversial run-in with bloggers last year that helped sink “60 Minutes Wednesday,” CBS has hired a “nonbudsman” to write a blog that will go behind the scenes at the news division.”
• Mobile phone cancer link rejected [BBC News]
  “Mobile phone use does not raise the risk of cancer, at least in the first 10 years of use, the largest investigation to date shows.”
• Google takes ad sales to print [Cnet]
  “Google is expanding its lucrative Internet advertising network into the print world in a bold attempt to capture traditional ad dollars.”

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