Still don't understand the financial crisis? -- Neither does anybody else, it seems, but The New York Times has a good write-up of various issues, in brief question-and-answer format.
Telephone land lines continue to get unplugged -- More people are switching to just using cell phones. See screenshot.
Conservative commenter Bill O'Reilly's site hacked -- Hackers took over billoreilly.com after his comments on the earlier Sarah Palin email hack. The full report on Wikileaks. Google has closed its Phoenix branch -- Employees will be moved to other locations. YouTube agrees to pull videos of local school fights -- Vallejo, Calif. students had been taping fights using their cell phones and uploading them to the internet. GamerDNA says that 500,000 gamers have taken its quiz for categorizing game fans -- The company uses this information to do things like recommend related games to its users.
EA loosens access to Spore software -- Players of the new world-creator game (pictured) will now be able to install Spore software on up to five computers versus a single computer, among other changes.
Ex-Google salesman David Hirsch joins Metamorphic Ventures -- More about the move here.
Oddpost cofounder launches Bandcamp, a web site publishing platform for musicians -- Features include transcoding music into different formats, streaming audio, analytics and payment processing.
Conference company DEMO shutters editorial blog -- The company decided that creating online news content was outside its organizational scope.