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AOL: We Need to Fire 2,500 ‘Volunteers’ All Things Digital
AOL, which has already told investors it will spend up to $200 million firing a good chunk of its staff, has now told employees. The company is looking for “up to 2,500 volunteers,’ CEO Tim Armstrong told his staff today. That’s a third of AOL’s payroll. The voluntary layoff program begins Dec. 4, a few days before the company spins off from Time Warner (TWX). If AOL doesn’t get enough volunteers, it will ax people on its own. This is lousy news for employees, who are faced with a “jump now or wait to be pushed’ decision, but it is designed to cheer investors: AOL says the cuts will drop its annual operating expenses by $300 million. Through the first nine months of this year, AOL’s operating expenses ran around $1.8 billion.

Porn and gaming sites common destinations for city workers: study The Local
Surfing for porn, illegal file sharing, and online gambling are common activities for users of municipality-owned computers in Jönköping in central Sweden, a recent analysis shows. Over the period of one month, officials measured how employees and students in Jönköping used the municipality’s 8,000 computers.
The results, which were presented on Wednesday, took city officials by surprise. At times, up to 80 percent of the municipality’s internet capacity was used for file sharing, an activity which is oftentimes illegal. In addition, employees and students spent an unexpectedly large amount of time visiting websites featuring pornography, weapons, racist messages, games, and online gambling.

New Program Offers Bloggers Free Legal Help MediaPost
The Citizen Media Law Project is launching a new program that will provide free legal help to small news sites and bloggers. The initiative, Online Media Legal Network, aims to assist Web publishers with a broad array of legal issues, ranging from handling complaints about copyright to dealing with threatened defamation lawsuits to filing incorporation papers. A large roster of lawyers, including First Amendment specialists like Marc Randazza and firms like Baker & McKenzie, Davis Wright Tremaine, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has already signed on. In addition, nine law school clinics have agreed to participate. The Citizen Media Law Project is jointly affiliated with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Arizona State University’s Center for Citizen Media; the Knight Foundation is funding the new initiative. The new program is designed for independent journalists who write about matters of public interest. People who engage in original reporting (or “use traditional news sources in new and innovative ways”) and adhere to standards of “truth, fairness and transparency,” will receive first priority, according to the program’s FAQ.

College students arrested for not paying tip Philly.com
It was an evening out that college students Leslie Pope and John Wagner will long remember. Not only did they get what they called lousy service, they got handcuffed and arrested. All over a $16.35 tip. They were with a half-dozen friends at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem last month, so the establishment tacked what it called a mandatory 18 percent gratuity onto the bill of about $73, according to reports. Pope and Wagner refused to pay.

UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests Associated Press
A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet’s most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday. Scotland Yard’s electronic crimes unit said a man and a woman, both 20, were arrested Nov. 3 on suspicion of helping spread malicious Trojan computer programs sometimes known as “Zbot” or “ZeuS.” Police said the viruses are thought to have infected tens of thousands of computers worldwide, and one technology consultant described them as the “most notorious pieces of malware of recent times.”

EU ombudsman rebukes EU over errors in Intel case Reuters
The European Ombudsman rebuked European Union regulators on Wednesday for procedural errors in their antitrust probe of Intel but the censure will not affect a 1.06 billion euro ($1.58 billion) fine against the U.S. chipmaker. The European Commission levied the record fine in May for illegally shutting out rival AMD. The ombudsman’s decision is non-binding but it could help the world’s No. 1 chipmaker in its appeal against the ruling to Europe’s second-highest court.

James Murdoch sees smaller role for newspapers Reuters
Newspapers will play a smaller role in News Corp’s operations in future as the group focuses on more profitable pay-TV operations in western Europe and India, the group’s head of Europe and Asia said. James Murdoch, son of News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch, also said the company would remain conservative in its use of capital. “We do not feel, looking at the overall environment, that we are out of the woods yet,” he said. “We have got to continue to be pretty cautious.” James Murdoch, told an investor conference that News Corp, the world’s biggest news company, expected to have smaller audiences for online news when it starts charging readers next spring, but journalism would still play a part in the group.

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