News Bits!

-Keeping your cell phone on in London can get you kicked out of the theatre

-Google aims to ease your holiday shopping ordeals

-MTV's Real World: Austin ends tonight. Yawn.

-The iTunes music store has become one of the top ten song sellers in the States

-The hotly anticipated Xbox 360 hit stores today - and promptly sold out

-Gary Glitter faces the death sentence in Vietnam after [allegedly] having sex with a 12-year old girl.

-An explosion in China leaves 10 million people without water

-Bob Dylan's college poems were auctioned off for almost $80k

-Iran threatens retaliation if brought before the UN Security Council

-Germany installs its first female chancellor

-Local chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor rejects city's incentives package, but opts to stay