News Story of the Day… The Register is reporting that Google has been purchased by China! Yeah… Happy April Fools Day!

The Mobile Gazette is reporting for April Fools Day that the UK government is shutting down the countries GSM phone networks to set up a mobile gambling network. YOu can tell that this is a April Fools day thing since you can actually run gambling machines over GSM…

OpenOffice.Org is reporting on their homepage that they have been purchased by Microsoft. They are reporting that Microsoft will offer OpenOffice 2.0 file formats in office sometime in the next 15 years.

Finally, The LA Times is reporting that a poor person in California was charged about US$4300 for four hamburgers. This is not an april fools joke. The assistant accidently charged $4,334.33 instead of $4.33 when entering the details for processing on the poor consumers credit card.