Daily-News-Roundup

• Google throws bodies at OpenOffice [CNET]
  “With rival Microsoft in mind, the search giant will hire people to work on the open-source software suite.”
• The future of TV [CNET]
  “The Internet soon may allow people to view TV shows directly over the Web instead of subscribing to cable or satellite services.”
• Friendster turns up multimedia features [CNET]
  “Partnership with Grouper Networks adds photo, video and music-sharing capabilities to social networking site.”
• Police blotter: Feds’ cell phone tracking denied [CNET]
  “Police must show some evidence of actual criminal activity before tracking cell phone users’ location, judges conclude.”
• Vodafone to sell phones like Coke [CNET]
  “Company plans to set up its first phone-vending machines, targeted in part to tourists, in Manchester, United Kingdom.”
• For Bloggers Seeking Name Recognition, Nothing Beats a Good Scandal [NYT]
  “The blogosphere is expanding at a rate of 70,000 sites a day, and the right bit of news can always catapult new sites into the limelight.”
• Spending: From Your Living Room to the World, Via Podcast [NYT]
  “The cost for starting up your own podcast may be as little as $10 for a microphone or as much as $30,000 for a well-equipped recording studio.”
• The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium [NYT]
  “Something curious is happening to television: it’s simultaneously growing gigantic and minuscule, stretching across living room walls at the same time it slips into pockets.”
• Public Enemy Takes It to the Net [Wired]
  “Pioneering protest rappers are back with a new album and a master plan to remake the music industry by charting their own course online.”
• Web Banking to Upgrade Security [Wired]
  “Cost-conscious U.S. banks walk a fine line between keeping your accounts secure and not spending much money to do it. But new regulations mean they’ll have to put more authentication procedures in place by the end of 2006.”
• U.S. Cell Phone Tracking Clipped [Wired]
  “Judges reject Bush administration arguments that law enforcement should be able to use cell phone signals to track users’ movements, ruling that the feds first need ‘probable cause’ to believe someone’s committed a crime.”

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