Current Event Articles: Week of November 4, 2009

• Amazon Releases "Pay Phrase": PayPhrase is an easy-to-remember shortcut to shipping and payment information in your Amazon.com account. Use it for Express Checkout at Amazon.com and across the web.
• Yahoo announces it is closing Geocities: We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated "under construction" signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps.
• Apple's App Store reaches well over 2 billion: When it launched on July 10, 2008, Apple’s iTunes App Store held just 552 apps. Today, it boasts more than 100,000 in 21 categories (click on image below) that have been downloaded a total of “well over” two billion times.
• Google is to launch an application store for Google Wave, its real-time, browser-based collaboration tool.