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A mysterious team of hackers has managed to hijack the Twitter account of US president-elect Barack Obama along with celebrities like Britney Spears, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez and Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, Twitter confirmed Monday.

The security snafu on the trendy micro-blogging site came days after a successful "phishing" scheme tricked many users into providing their usernames and logons.

It is unclear whether the hacked accounts were a result of that scheme, but the results were undeniably embarrassing.

Just by reading this online story, you are part of a groundbreaking trend. According to a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press released last week, the Internet has passed newspapers as the most popular source for news.

Only television surpassed the Net, with about 70 percent of Americans saying they get most of their national and international news from the ubiquitous box. About 40 percent say they get most of their news from the Net, an increase of 16 percent from September 2007. Newspapers are the main source for about 35 percent.

CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin's virtual visit to the network's New York studio from a trailer outside President-elect Barack Obama headquarters in Chicago may not have been a hologram, as dozens of bloggers have spent the last 48 hours pointing out, but it was a tantalizing glimpse of the future.

On Tuesday night, during CNN's election coverage, host Wolf Blitzer warned viewers that "I want you to watch what we're about to do, because you've never seen anything like this on television."

Did Jessica Yellin really get beamed into the studios of CNN as a hologram, or was it some fancy camera maneuvering? A holography expert says the latter.

CNN focused more than 35 high-definition cameras on Yellin to get multiple views from Grant Park in Chicago for the look of a 3-D holographic image Tuesday. That made it appear as if Yellin was in the studio talking with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer.

The cameras zoomed on Yellin in Chicago were in sync with the cameras used in New York, according to CNN.

After Colin Powell endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president on NBC's "Meet the Press" last month, the video was published online within minutes. In this case, it wasn't posted on YouTube. Rather, the network's online sister, MSNBC.com, showed the video hours before many television viewers could watch the interview for themselves.

Even the old media, apparently, can learn a few new-media tricks.

It's election night, and CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer is in New York talking to an Obama campaign strategist in Chicago.

But instead of the split screen or window TV viewers might typically see during live remote interviews, the Obama spokesperson will be projected as a three-dimensional hologram, making it appear as if he or she is in the Manhattan studio with Blitzer. The network plans to conduct similar holographic interviews with representatives from the McCain campaign in Phoenix.

A teenager may be behind a bogus story posted on CNN's public-journalism Web site earlier this month that said Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack and was being rushed to the hospital.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission immediately launched an investigation into the false story posted by "Johntw" on CNN's iReport.com after the news caused Apple's stock to plunge nearly six percent that day, from $106.50 to $94.65.

The hotly contested 2008 presidential election is spilling over into yet another corner of cyberspace. The McCain/Palin Republican campaign is challenging a decision by YouTube to pull several of its videos and election advertisements from the popular video-sharing site, an action YouTube says was necessary under terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).