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Posted 5/4/06 by qtnik
Yesterday, Microsoft brokered a deal to acquire Massive Inc., a New York based advertising company, specialized in putting ads in online games.
Microsoft wants to show through this deal and other plans to advertisers that they mean business, having lost many clients to Yahoo and Google, who control a larger part of the search engine market.
The company called its latest plan AdCenter. It is . . .
Posted 5/4/06 by qtnik
The British Labour Party, headed by Tony Blair, is facing serious defeat.
The party lost over 230 seats yesterday in the local polls, as was expected. The conservatives have gained considerably.
The last two weeks have been hard for Labour, with a lot of negative publicity, including a sex scandal and the mistaken release of over 1000 criminal foreigners, most of who have since disappeared.. . .
Posted 5/4/06 by qtnik
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which was thought to be recalled, has been relabeled, getting a Mature rating.
The game was originally rated Teen, but due to graphic violence and the possibility for gamers to create topless female characters, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) revoked the rating yesterday.
The ESRB said that it was unaware of the content of the game. In a statem. . .
Posted 5/4/06 by qtnik
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of the warring groups in Sudan's Darfur region, refused on Friday to sign a peace deal with the Khartoum government, demanding fundamental changes made to the draft.
JEM chief negotiator Mohammed Tugod said in the Nigerian capital Abuja that the peace plan drawn up by the African Union (AU) failed to answer his group's demands.
Tugod said the JE. . .
Posted 5/4/06 by Pr0n
Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.
According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and wer. . .
Posted 5/3/06 by qtnik
The only terrorist on trial for the September 11 attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui, will be convicted to life in prison, after the jury rejected the death penalty.
In order for the death penalty to be carried out, the jury has to be unanimous. Apparently, three jurors objected to the death penalty.
Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan decent, pleaded guilty last year to six counts of terrorism,. . .
Posted 5/3/06 by qtnik
France and Britain have introduced a draft resolution, making it mandatory for Iran to cooperate in the suspension of uranium enrichment yesterday.
Although no clear sanctions have been mentioned in the draft, it does threaten “to consider such further measures as may be necessary to ensure compliance with this resolution and decides that further examination will be required should such additio. . .
Posted 5/3/06 by qtnik
In a surprising turn of events, Mexican President Vicente Fox did not sign the drug bill yesterday, after the president’s office guaranteed that Fox would. The bill, decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use, has come under heavy criticism, both in Mexico and the US.
Fox changed his mind hours after the US warned Mexico that the bill would lead to drug tourism. A. . .
