Reuters - The Monster Employment Index, a gauge of U.S. online job demand, eased in September as a cooling housing market led to subdued recruitment in the financial services and real estate sectors.

InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems and Laszlo Systems are collaborating to enable applications based on the OpenLaszlo rich Internet development platform to run on devices running Java Platform ME (Micro Edition).

USATODAY.com - Rafe Banks, a lawyer in Georgia, got involved in a nasty dispute with a client over how to defend him on a drunken-driving charge. The client, David Milum, fired Banks and demanded that the lawyer refund a $3,000 fee. Banks refused.