Evening roundup: Free iPod rumors and capping data

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-- Free iPods! Some purchase required. Macrumors says Apple is poised to give a $299 iPod Touch or a $199 iPod Nano to every college student who buys a qualifying Mac computer.

-- Time Warner Cable is testing a plan to limit the amount of data its broadband subscribers upload and download, the AP reports. Yeah, the same Time Warner Cable that offers fewer HDTV channels and has had trouble keeping the e-mail and Web traffic flowing for its customers in LA.

-- Another reason newspapers are hosed: Walmart.com is testing its own classified ad service. Um, anyone hiring? Reuters

-- A federal judge unsealed a Yahoo shareholder lawsuit after Yahoo couldn’t come up with good enough reasons the documents should remain secret. MarketWatch

-- The New York tax collector now cometh for online retailers. Many of them are starting to collect sales tax on Web purchases by residents of that state. NYT Bits

-- Chris Gaither