1. “Halo 3,”the latest in Microsoft’s megahit video game series, went on sale Tuesday. Employers of men in their early 20s may want to take this into account when going over Wednesday’s absentee data.
2. Walmart.com, in what it calls a “Customer Contact Reduction” program, is no longer offering site users a customer service telephone number. The next phase in the plan to reduce contact with those bothersome customers: an automatic redirect to Target.com.
3. MySpace is starting an ad-supported version of the social network for viewing on cell phones. Because MySpace on a regular computer screen isn’t cluttered enough.
4. The New York Times has abandoned TimesSelect, the program that reserved access to some of its online content for subscribers only. So why should I keep paying $5 a week for the Sunday paper?
5. Amazon.com just opened its “Bruce Springsteen Music Store,” the site’s largest single-artist store. It’s also the first online retail channel that rewards users for singing along at embarrassingly high-volume levels.
