Talk works well but lacks some features (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - Recently, (Internet advertising)

Talk works well but lacks some features (USATODAY.com)USATODAY.com - Recently, (Internet advertising)

Google Talk works well but lacks some features (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Recently, Google has seemed intent on capturing every area of consumer technology that isn't nailed down. The latest examples: Google Talk is an instant-messaging program that lets you make free PC-to-PC calls. And Google Desktop 2 is a nice upgrade to the company's first desktop search program.

Recording industry sues more U.S. file-swappers (Reuters)
Reuters - The recording industry on Wednesdayfiled its latest round of copyright infringement lawsuits,targeting 754 people it claims used online file-sharingnetworks to illegally trade in songs.

Google studies selling print ads to online clients (Reuters)
Reuters - Google is looking at taking itsonline advertising program into print.

'The State'(Columbia, S.C.) Launches Community Blog, Citizen Journalism Push (Editor and Publisher)
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK The State in Columbia, S.C. is joining the citizen journalism revolution this week with the launch of TheColumbiaRecord.com, a stand-alone Web site the paper hopes will help it connect with local users and offer advertisers new and innovative ways to reach those users.

EDonkey Claims Online Software Traffic (AP)
AP - EDonkey, a popular software program for sharing video and other large files over the Internet, now accounts for the biggest slice of online file-sharing, according to a study comparing the top four file-swapping programs.

Google Wants to Expand Offline Ads (AP)
AP - In its first significant expansion beyond the Internet, Google has bought advertising in a handful of technology-industry magazines and resold chunks of the space to merchants already participating in its booming Internet marketing network.

iTunes Phone Raises Questions about iPod's Future (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - The idea that Apple will combine digital music with wireless phones at some point looks inevitable. What will that mean for the iPod?

Facebook takes plugged-in colleges by storm (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - When college student Valerie Wang meets a cute guy, she goes right to her dorm and calls up a Web site called Facebook.

News outlets, online journalists struggle to fill post-storm information gap (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Sachin Misra has glued himself to a computer screen since he hung up the phone with his elderly parents at dawn Monday. Then, five inches of water had flooded their house near the Mississippi coast as the eye of the storm approached.