In London, an earlier look at The New York Times 
Soon Londoners will be able to receive The New York Times before people living in New York. Oce, a digital printing company, signed a deal with the Times to print thousands of copies of the Times at a print shop in Wembley to be distributed throughout London, according to a story in that city’s Press Gazette. The paper will be sent to the printer in PDF format at about 4:15 each morning, and the copies will be ready to distribute at 6 a.m. Times readers across the ocean used to have to wait up to several days for copies of the paper to arrive by air. 

Yahoo removes chat rooms after ads are pulled
Following advertiser outrage over a news report on a Houston TV station, Yahoo has shut down hundreds of user-created chat rooms. A report on Houston's KPRC said that some rooms within Yahoo's chat service with names like "Girls 13 and Under for Older Guys" were used by adults to lure minors into sexual situations. Three major advertisers, Pepsi, State Farm and Georgia Pacific, pulled their ads earlier this year from the chat rooms after KPRC contacted them for the report. Yahoo then removed all user-created rooms from its system and has also blocked users from creating any new chat rooms, at least temporarily. The company has not said how long the freeze will last.

Chicago: Pay for s#^ and we'll post your photo
Prostitution is a problem in Chicago, and the city is using the internet to help curb it. On Tuesday the Chicago Police Department's web site began posting the names, addresses and photos of people arrested for soliciting prostitutes. By this morning the site (http://www.chicagopolice.org/ps/list.aspx) pictured 188 people arrested on such charges in the last month. Besides the embarrassment of having their information posted online, those convicted of soliciting prostitutes in Chicago are given fines around $1,000 and their cars are impounded. Other cities have used similar strategies to discourage prostitution. Earlier this year, Oakland, Calif., began raising billboards featuring photos of men convicted of paying for sex. More than 3,000 people were arrested on prostitution charges in Chicago last year.

Study: 18-24s lead the way in new media usage
College-age people lead when it comes to new media adoption, but it's a slightly older set that's buying into other new technology first. The latest BIGresearch Simultaneous Media Survey, released yesterday, found that adults 18-24 have the highest percentage of users of blogs, instant messaging, digital music players, satellite radio, picture phones, text messaging, digital video recorders and web radio. But 25-34s lead in adoption of satellite radio and DVRs. BIGresearch says that new media actually pushes 18-24s to use traditional media radio, magazines and newspapers more.