Last week, French mobile games giant Gameloft lent me an iPhone stuffed with its launch titles for the Apple platform

The BBC’s governing body today rejected the corporation’s controversial proposals for a £68 million online local video service, claiming it would threaten the existence of "valued" local newspapers already struggling to survive amid falling sales.

Début octobre, nous vous dévoilions le nouveau Netbook haut de gamme d’Asus baptisé N10J-HV010E. Celui-ci est disponible en France, après son petit frère N10J-HV030E. Pour rappel, l’Asus N10J-HV010E est configuré avec un chipset Intel 945GSE Express + ICH7M, un processeur Intel Atom N270 (1.6 GHz), 2 Go DDR2 667 MHz, un disque dur SATA de 250 [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LaptopSpirit/~4/460603361" height="1" width="1"/

h4Still destroying the planet, one big box at a time/h4 pThose of you who don't like trees very much will appreciate HP's continuing efforts to deforest the planet by using the a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/hp_packaging/"maximum cardboard possible/a when dispatching items to expectant customers. Here's a big box the company recently delivered to loyal emReg/em reader Simon Lucas, who's based in Tokyo:.../ppa href="http://whitepapers.theregister.co.uk/paper/view/609/?td=btmtl"Free Download - The emReg/em Guide to Storage and Storage Platforms/a/p

Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr stage protests in Baghdad against a deal to allow US troops to remain in Iraq.

Supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr stage protests in Baghdad against a deal to allow US troops to remain in Iraq.

a href="http://playauditorium.com/"Auditorium/a is a musical flash game where you influence a stream of particles with gravity-based nodes. A steady stream of particles past a collector enables a layer of music. Good fun! smallVia a href="http://jayisgames.com/archives/2008/11/auditorium.php"Jay is Games/a/small br /

When we announced the 7 finalists of the Amazon Web Services Startup Challenge two weeks ago, we dubbed Yieldex an “online ad optimization engine for Web publishers”. It’s time to take a closer look at what that means, because the company has just been awarded the top prize in the contest, bringing home $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in services credits plus an investment offer from Amazon.com.

Yieldex, not to be confused with similar service YieldBuild, has a solution for managing ad inventory, enabling Web publishers to allocate advertising campaigns more efficiently by forecasting overlapping inventory and predicting how ads are going to deliver. All in all, it seems like a nice solution to hmm … yield more revenue out of premium ad inventory, but I’m left wondering if ensuring optimal ad campaigns isn’t something that’s baked into most ad serving solutions already, or at least should be? I mean, it’s one of the core reasons for using an ad serving system in the first place, right?

Amazon.com annually rewards the most innovative US startup built on its cloud-computing infrastructure, and they get hundreds of applications every year, so there must be something about Yieldex that made them the winner.

So, congratulations to Yieldex and its founders, which consists of industry veterans from Matchlogic and NetGravity (check out CEO Tom Shields’ blog post on winning the award). The prize comes in addition to a previous, undisclosed seed funding round from Sequel Venture Partners, First Round Capital and Woodside Fund.

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h4Gaming engines to model complex aviation projects/h4 pGraphic engines used in the latest videogames are set to be see more and more service in the French aerospace industry, according to reports..../p

Orb, a $9.99 iPhone application that should be familiar to home networking buffs, is available now and will stream music from your home computer, photos, and live television from a TV tuner card - all over the Internet. It can even stream input from a webcam to your phone.

Le premier tour du vote des militants socialistes, qui désignent actuellement leur nouveau premier secrétaire, n’a pas permis de départager Ségolène Royal (43,1%) et Martine Aubry (34,5%). Benoît Hamon (22,83%) est éliminé et appelle à voter Martine Aubry. Un second tour aura donc lieu aujourd’hui.

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psmallNick Farrell a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Friday 21 November 2008. 08:08:00/small/ppi If you ask nicely /i/ppSEARCH OUTFIT Google has provided a tool that will let you tweak the algorithms for each search you do. Google's SearchWiki shows an up arrow for promoting websites, an X for deleting them and a speech bubble for adding comments..../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/269e1f9/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Google lets you tweak its algorithmslink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/21/google-lets-tweak-algorithms" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Google lets you tweak its algorithmslink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/21/google-lets-tweak-algorithms" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192746127/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/40493561/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192746127/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/40493561/a2.img" border="0"//a

psmallNick Farrell a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Friday 21 November 2008. 09:24:00/small/ppi Sold swag online for millions /i/ppA GROUP OF THIEVES which made a fortune raiding gyms and flogging stolen gear for millions on Ebay has been caught. The gang would raid the changing rooms of gyms, nick credit cards and use them to buy computers and electronic gear from Best Buy..../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/269e1f8/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Hit-and-run locker room theft ring bustedlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/21/hit-run-locker-room-theft-ring" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Hit-and-run locker room theft ring bustedlink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/21/hit-run-locker-room-theft-ring" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192746126/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/40493560/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192746126/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/40493560/a2.img" border="0"//a

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Rail passengers are to be hit again by big fare rises in the new year with some tickets going up by more than double the rate of inflation despite the economic downturn.

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La Caixa, the Spanish bank, confirmed it was in talks with Russia's Lukoil about selling part of its stake in Repsol. However, it would only agree to a sale if Sacyr, the largest shareholder in the Spanish energy group, decides to sell its stake

This week's pitch is from the team behind Strawberry Diva, an indie MMO with a casual bent aimed, as founder Paul Carey describes it, "firmly at women". The interaction is based purely on "social navigation": every action must invoke trust or disdain, affection or enmity. So no smacking rodents and orcs with handbags. Damn

The 3,000 extra UN troops being sent to DR Congo must be elite soldiers from Europe, the UN's ex-peacekeeping chief says.

The 3,000 extra UN troops being sent to DR Congo must be elite soldiers from Europe, the UN's ex-peacekeeping chief says.

The number of properties repossessed by mortgage lenders rose by 12% to 11,300 in the third quarter of the year.

We're seen plenty of cheap plastic MP3 land-fillers in our day. But those usually originate from deep-down within the fetid bowels of some no-name manufacturing house in southeast Asia, not the once illustrious Creative. The Zen Moo (yes, Moo) appears to be be a Zen Stone with extra bits of plastic and paint added to achieve Cow. Like the Stone, you get a small OLED, 2GB of memory, 20 hours of playback, and FM tuner to the delight of kids across China (where the Zen Moo was announced) -- hey, it's never too early to destroy a child's hearing. Gift-wrapped product waifs holding the accompanying speaker accessory after the break.

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A bill to extend Russia's presidential term from four to six years wins the overwhelming backing of MPs.