The first edition of Tech News Around The World is the one you're reading now, and I hope you like it. From now on, I'll gather what I consider the best tech news at the newspapers and make a weekly post about it. A more organized system consisting of news per different areas will be made during this week.

So here you have it, enjoy:

• Census: Internet use up, users' trust down - Computer and Internet use is up, but so are concerns about identity theft and other online dangers. Fifty-five percent of American households had access to the Internet at home in 2003, more than triple the percentage in 1997, according to a report released Thursday by the Census Bureau. Internet usage increased with education, income and the presence of school-age children at home... Continue reading at CNN.com
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• Orange unveils latest smart phones - Mobile operator Orange today launched its latest own-brand smart phones, both running Windows Mobile 5.0 and manufactured by Taiwan's HTC.The candybar SPV C600 is the successor to the SPV C500, improving on the older model with the addition of a 320 x 240 colour display and a 1.3 megapixel digicam. The C600 contains 64MB of memory... Continue reading at theregister.co.uk
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• Microsoft joins book search plan - Microsoft has joined a Yahoo-backed effort to digitise the world's books and other works to make them searchable and accessible to anyone online. The software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online... Continue reading at bbc.co.uk
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• Futurists Pick Top Tech Trends - Taking a long-term view isn't easy nowadays. Even the recent past seems Blurry at times. Google's just seven years old, but it's hard to imagine life before instant search. Broadband has been widely available for only a few years, but already dialup internet seems to high-speed users like a throwback to the Neanderthal era... Continue reading at wired.com
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• Drinking Straw - A drinking straw that can purify water and a pump that irrigates fields using solar power alone - two potentially life-saving inventions for the developing world, this week on Hi Tech. From euronews.net

More news next week!