According to Reuters, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) warned on Sunday that computer users who type in the same username and password for multiple sites — such as online banks, travel agencies and booksellers — are at serious risk from identity thieves.

In an unrelated story, the New York Times reports that some of the attention at this week’s ITU Telecom World, the telecommunications industry’s biggest gathering, will be focused on the role of the ITU itself. The questions is, “

[s]hould [the ITU] concern itself with Internet governance — a role that its Western members find particularly objectionable — or should it focus on ground-level issues, like access to telecommunications in developing countries?”

In CNet News, Peter Yared writes that “[c]ontrary to the numerous rants in the open-source community, the recent deal between Microsoft and Novell–in which the companies have agreed to interoperability, reselling and patent protection–is actually an excellent business deal and a good thing for the open-source community.”

According to Dvorak Uncensored, movie studios are demanding that Apple implement a tougher and more restricted digital rights management system if it wants to sell their movies through iTunes.

Finally, the Seattle Times has an interesting article on Google’s attempt to define far more of the world’s computing experience by giving away to schoolchildren online word processors, spreadsheets and other programs in order to promote “its software applications in kindergarten through high-school classrooms.”