Morning News Roundup

U.S. automakers push for battery, fuel tech help [Reuters]
U.S. automakers want the government to help them develop alternative fuel initiatives and better battery technology. It might be easy to peer suspiciously at such claims, but when you're losing ground to Toyota, and Toyota is selling the environment ....

"Clearly Asian countries have made this a key technology and are throwing millions of dollars behind it," said Greg Martin, a GM spokesman. "We believe we need a comparable effort to remain competitive."

Freescale links with IBM in chip development deal [CNET]
The Apple-spurned chipmaker joins the IBM alliance. Their CPUs tend to be dull, embedded-device things, but watch out for that MRAM...

Nokia Lands High-Speed Wireless Contract From U.S. Army [InformationWeek]
HSDPA is the name of the game for the American military, and Nokia's going to build it for them. And that, dear friends, is all we know.

Thieves Busted By GPS-Enabled Booty [InformationWeek]
If one is going to steal GPS phones, one really should know how to turn them off.

Music industry divided over digital future [Reuters]
"Free is just impossible to compete with," says an industry insider. But when piracy and its containment is an industry's sole focus, it's not exactly going to be out there making culture, is it?