Daily News Roundup

• Tag, You’re It: Best Bookmarker [Wired]
  “Bookmarking online content and categorizing it with ‘tags’ is fast becoming an important way to surf the web. Robert Andrews talks to the most influential tagger and looks at a new search engine based on social bookmarking.”
• A Challenge to MS Office [Wired]
  “Google hooks up with Sun Microsystems in a collaboration that could pose a threat to Microsoft’s dominant Office suite.”
• Smaller Video Producers Seek Audiences on Net [NYT]
  “Video delivered over the Internet is shaping up as a way for smaller producers to reach an audience without having to cut deals with studios and networks.”
• The Digital Double Play: Camera to Printer to CD [NYT]
  “Most photo printers are made for home use, linked to a personal computer. The P450 from Lexmark is more for travelers: it can’t connect to PC’s or Macs but it can receive JPEG images from just about any digital camera or Bluetooth camera phone and - unlike other printers - it can burn images to a CD or copy them to memory cards.”
• Microsoft to Introduce New Security Software for Windows [NYT]
  “Microsoft is introducing a set of products that will move it more fully into competition with the leading makers of security software for Windows computers.”
• Network feud leads to Net blackout [CNET]
  “Two major Net companies stop exchanging traffic, cutting off access to each other’s networks for some customers.”
• Site protects rights of snappers [BBC]
  “An online service for news images launches to create a fair market and to protect the rights of “citizen reporters”.”
• Nokia launches photo competition [BBC]
  “Nokia is hoping to show off the potential of camera phones with its global photography competition.”
• Study: 32 Percent of Adults Offline [AP]
  “Despite progress getting Americans online — particularly through high-speed connections — 32 percent of adults remain unconnected, some of them by choice, a new study finds.”

Die Dulci Fruere