Daily News Roundup

• Unions seek video iPod residuals [Reuters]
  “If Apple’s new video iPod is as successful as expected in delivering paid programing over the Internet, Hollywood’s unions want their share and are worried about being shortchanged on residuals.”
• Techies: They’re everywhere [USATODAY.com]
  “The most technologically advanced households in America - the early adopters who are more likely to own and use new technologies such as TiVo or wireless Internet access - exist in nearly every county in the nation. By age, income, lifestyle and buying behavior, it’s a diverse group.”
• Biggest Wi-Fi Cloud Is in Rural Oregon [AP]
  “Parked alongside his onion fields, Bob Hale can prop open a laptop and read his e-mail or, with just a keystroke, check the moisture of his crops.”
• Cell Phone Use Changes Life in Africa [AP]
  “Amina Harun, a 45-year-old farmer, used to traipse around for hours looking for a working pay phone on which to call the markets and find the best prices for her fruit. Then cell phones changed her life.”
• ‘God Bloggers’ Head to National Conference [AP]
  “What would Jesus blog? That and other pressing questions drew 135 Christians to Southern California this weekend for a national conference billed as the first-ever for “God bloggers,” a growing community of online writers who exchange information and analyze current events from a Christian perspective.”
• Mo. May Track Cell Phones for Traffic Data [AP]
  “Driving to work, you notice the traffic beginning to slow. And because you have your cell phone on, the government senses the delay, too. A congestion alert is issued, automatically updating electronic road signs and Web sites and dispatching text messages to mobile phones and auto dashboards.”
• Nigerian e-mail frauds targeted [BBC]
  “Microsoft and Nigeria sign an agreement to jointly fight e-mail scams which originate in the African country.”
• India’s poor tackle toxic e-waste [BBC]
  “The dumping of old computers in India is seriously threatening the health of the poor there, say doctors.”
• Schoolhouse blogs [CNET]
  “As blogging enters the classroom and takes its place alongside reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, adult Web surfers have the chance to relive the trials and tribulations of the wonder years.”

Die Dulci Fruere