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A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp unit hired him to develop pirating software

GigaOm reports that VoIP visionary and man behind the VON conferences and magazine has stepped down from the PulverMedia Board amid rumors that Pulvermedia is being shut down.

Some high-flying young companies have become instantaneous global brands. They do so by taking advantage of open systems rather than creating completely new ones.

ReadWriteWeb turns five and takes us on a brief tour down memory lane. To think Adsense wasn’t even around at the time. Boggles the mind.

Dilbert syndicate United Universal re-launches Dilbert.com with an emphasis on interactivity.

Humanitainment comes out with an exceptionally clever media mash-up.

As Ning begins its fourth round of funding to raise $70 million, Rafat Ali takes Fast Company to task for their sycophantic coverage of the company.

Michael Arrington of Techcrunch calls it a response to the category five hurricane that’s rained on their 250 year parade and our brains cramp thinking of a better way to put it. According to Comscore, Wikipedia holds a 184 page view to one advantage in who gets their encyclopedic knowledge where. The venerable oldy is [...]

Since we’re dwelling on fonts and design, we should point this game out: Kari Patila comes up with an Ajax-based font quiz. Think you know your stuff? Check it out.

Sites are increasingly designed around a grid and our current fav is Blueprint, an open source CSS framework. In this post though, Eric Puidokas breaks down a nifty Firefox plugin that lets you see how sites from the New York Times to Wired lay out their sites according to said grid.