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MySpace to Launch Casual Gaming Space
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MySpace, the
Internet’s largest aggregator of casual users, today announced a
partnership with games company Oberon Media to in hopes of making a
collection of casual games. The two companies will launch in early 2008
“MySpace Games,” which will enable MySpace users to choose from
hundreds of online casual games to play with friends in the community. After
implementation of the new feature, MySpace users will be able to add
games to their profile pages as well as challenge friends to
multi-player games, invite them to play the same single player game or
socialize via chat services within the game. “Bringing
entertainment in the form of fun, social, casual games will enhance our
user experience,” said Amit Kapur, VP of Business Development for
MySpace. “Our goal is to provide our members with an easy way to play
with their friends and give them with additional ways to interact.” “We’re
very excited to be partnering with MySpace to provide the best social
networking casual games experience to its growing audience. Our white
label casual gaming solution is allowing us to create a customized
games platform that delivers a great experience to MySpace users,” Tal
Kerret, Co-Founder and Chairman of Oberon Media commented. “We’re
looking forward to responding to users’ needs and to involving the best
game developers to create the greatest online entertainment experience.
The opportunity to give MySpace users the chance to share the fun and
socialize within this rapidly growing media segment is thrilling.” The
two companies said that there will be “further community initiatives”
resulting from the partnership to be announced in early next year.
Interestingly, the press release asks budding game developers to submit
their ideas for new social gaming titles to myspace@oberon-media.com.
Development will supposedly be supported by a specially created
software development kit, perhaps in a move that could lead to
community-created casual games. A recent study concluded that casual gaming is the most popular online entertainment activity, ahead of streaming video and even social networking. At present time, the games.myspace.com page states that MySpace is launching a new games section, and asks users to stay tuned for updates.
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Depletion and forecasts - Oct 23
10.24
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Professor Saeedi: A catastrophic loss of 3.9 trillion Dollars in Iran's oil reservoirs Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) via Payvand News
Tehran - Recent calculations and studies by professor Saeedi, expert in oil and gas reservoirs, Dr. Derakhshan, energy economist and several other engineers, on Iran's reservoirs proves that injecting gas to increase oil extraction is the most economic alternative of gas consumption.
The Strategic Issues reporter of ISNA said these calculations is based on mathematical models run in three different scenarios to estimate the necessary amount of gas needed to extract oil.
Professor Saeedi said: If gas is injected into our oil reservoirs, the volume of Iran's fossil energy resources would become more than Saudi Arabia in the long run and Iran can gain the first place in the world.
He warned: Non-injection of gas would diminish Iran's oil production by two million barrels per day and we would be forced to import oil. (22 October 2007) Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) website (English) .
Wikipedia says ISNA: is a news organization run by Iranian university students. Established on November 4, 1999 in order to report on news from Iranian universities it now covers a variety of national and international topics.[1] Editors and correspondents are themselves students in a variety of subjects, many of them are volunteers (nearly 1000). The ISNA is considered by Western media to be one of the most independent and moderate media organizations in Iran, and is often quoted.[1][2]
Although it is generally considered independent, the ISNA is financially supported in part by the Iranian government and is supported by the officially sanctioned University Jihad, another student organization
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Wondering who you are? New site wants to tell you
10.23
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By Lisa Baertlein
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A new Web site called GeneTree.com wants to help answer the question "Who am I?" by combining DNA data with information-sharing technology popularised by News Corp's MySpace.com and Google's YouTube. The site, which launches on Tuesday at www.genetree.com, promises to give users the tools to build a family tree that reaches back before written records and into Africa and other far-away lands. "GeneTree provides a fun and compelling way to interact with friends and extended family while leaving the priceless legacy of a richly documented family history," said GeneTree Chief Executive James Lee Sorenson. GeneTree has roots in a collection of companies founded by Utah billionaire James LeVoy Sorenson -- who parlayed a gain from the sale of his company to Abbott Labs into a massive fortune -- and his son James Lee Sorenson. It taps the assets of those other family holdings in its bid to take ancestor-tracking beyond the limits of established genealogical records sites. GeneTree has exclusive rights to a database owned by the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, which by year-end should represent about 100,000 people and about 6 million ancestral links from around the world, according to the company. It also incorporates digital video compression and encoding software from Sorenson Media. Users who choose to have genetic analysis done may choose from several types of mitochondrial DNA tests that range in price from $99 (48.70 pounds) to $149. Sorenson Genomics will perform the DNA analysis.
Scott Woodward, director of the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, said mitochondrial DNA offers a deep look into our ancestry. "We can trace mitochondrial DNA to a single woman," said Woodward, referring to a woman called Mitochondrial Eve, who lived in Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago. The DNA used to reconstruct genealogy is not very useful for tracking diseases, but it is extremely helpful for making ancestral connections, he said. All the same, GeneTree's operators say they protect privacy by giving users the option to share such things as names, family photos and audio and video clips with new-found "relatives." While GeneTree is not alone in adding DNA services in a bid to fill in the blanks left by history, the company says its ultimate goal is different. Ancestry.com recently started offering Sorenson DNA testing through its new DNA Ancestry service. "GeneTree does not see DNA Ancestry as a direct competitor," said spokesman David Parkinson. Parkinson said the business model for The Generations Network of sites, which includes Ancestry.com, MyFamily.com, Genealogy.com and others, is to provide subscribers with genealogical records. "Our core business focus has always been in genetic genealogy," he said.
(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein)
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UPDATE: SanDisk Debuts New Video Player And Online Service
10.22
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SanDisk Corp. shares rose as much as 5% Monday as
the company unveiled a new device and service aimed at the market for making
videos from the Internet available to play on televisions.
SanDisk (SNDK) said its new TakeTV video player will come in two models, a
4-gigabyte version for $99.99 that holds up to 5 hours of video, and an 8GB
model for $149.99 that can hold 10 hours of programming. The devices will work
like USB drives in that they can be plugged into a computer and then removed and
connected to a television to watch downloaded programming.
In addition to TakeTV, SanDisk debuted a beta version of Fanfare, an online
video service that will launch with about titles that include shows from the CBS
network such as "CSI" and "Survivor."
SanDisk is known mostly for its flash-memory cards that are used in devices
such as digital cameras and mobile phones, and its own digital media players,
which have helped the company carve out a second-place position to Apple Inc. (
AAPL) and its line of iPods, in the U.S. market.
Earlier this year, Apple debuted its AppleTV device, a set-top box that
wirelessly streams, and then stores, digital content from Apple's iTunes for
viewing on digital televisions.
SanDisk shares were up $1.90 at $44.62 after the TakeTV was announced.
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Venezuela: Che Monument Destroyed
10.21
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A glass monument to the guerrilla leader Che Guevara on an Andean mountain highway near Mérida was destroyed less than two weeks after it was unveiled by Venezuela's vice president and Cuba's ambassador.
Images of the eight-foot-tall glass plate bearing Che's image, now toppled and shattered, were shown on state television, which said the entire country "repudiated" the vandalism. The newspaper El Nacional published a copy of what it said was a note found by the monument signed by the previously unknown Páramo Patriotic Front. "We don't want any monument to Che," it said. "He isn't an example for our children." The government will put up the monument again in the same spot, the deputy culture minister, Iván Padilla Bravo, told the state-run Bolivarian News Agency. He said the vandals not only shot at the glass, but also appeared to have taken a sledgehammer to it.
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