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 R.I.P. GeoCities. It"s the end of an era. The free online web page hosting service GeoCities has officially been demolished. Yahoo! announced back in June that it was shutting down GeoCities, after having acquired it for billions of dollars in January of 1999. Today, October 26 was the date named for shutting it all down. "On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and file," Yahoo! wrote in a notice to GeoCities users, adding that users could port their sites to Yahoo!"s web hosting service.
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Earlier this month the SEC arrested six people in the largest ever insider-trading scheme involving a hedge fund. Included were Galleon Chief Raj Rajaratnam and executives at Intel, IBM and Bear Stearns. Today we learn of AMD"s Hector Ruiz"s involvement. The New York Times reported that the SEC accused the group of earning more than $20 million from illegal trading in companies like Google, Akamai and Hilton Hotels over nearly three years. The paper cites officials who say Rajaratnam is alleged to have had a huge network of informants who fed him tips for cash or in some cases for other insider information. 
Yesterday all 21 million Hotmail users were encouraged to change their passwords when the login details of 10,000 mostly European users were posted online. Today we learn that Microsoft"s Hotmail was not the only email provider targeted in the attack. The BBC today reports that it has received confirmation from Google that Gmail was also targeted in what the search giant described as an "industry-wide phishing scam." "We recently became aware of an industry-wide phishing scheme through which hackers gained user credentials for web-based mail accounts including Gmail accounts," a Google spokesperson told the Beeb. 
Microsoft is now hiring retail staff to man the stores it plans to open this fall. Microsoft has started recruiting employees for the company"s brick and mortar stores that will start cropping up over the news few months. The company has announced via the MicrosoftJobsBlog that it is now hiring staff to fill a number of positions in its Mission Viejo, CA and Scottsdale, AZ stores. Posts listed include, full time and part time Retail Customer Service Associates, Retail Inventory Associates and Retail Technical Advisors. So what is required of applicants hoping to secure themselves a position in one of the stores?