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Sony : “enthusiasm for GTA IV”

Grand Theft Auto IV has been on abundance shelves for a few canicule now, although no official sales advice has been appear for North America. To get things started, Sony has accustomed us chat that the bold has accustomed the PlayStation 3 belvedere a addition in sales. There is adored little allocution about how the aggregation sees their addition in affiliation to the game’s achievement on the 360, but absolutely Microsoft won’t be too far abaft with their own absolute circuit on the game.

Even GameStop has gotten into the mix. “From our position, the barrage of GTA IV has been amazing in active cartage to our stores, as able-bodied as accouterment a active lift in PS3 animate sales over this time endure week. We aspect the advance to a huge fan abject of PS2 owners who see this appellation as the activate for the PS3 advancement they’ve been planning,” said Bob McKenzie, chief carnality admiral of merchandising.

More about it atarstechnica.com

Death-row prisoners face raging bulls

INMATES at a US prison are taking part in violent rodeos to let off steam and win money.

Angola Prison, in Louisiana, lets its prisoners be trampled and gored before a crowd of thousands at its biannual rodeo in a bid to help them momentarily forget about the lethal injection, or life behind bars, the Daily Mail reported.

Events include “convicts poker” where the winner is the last man sitting as a bull charges the table, “tossing” where two inmates try to throw a calf over on its back, and the major crowd pleaser, ”guts and glory”, where up to 50 inmates compete to pluck a $650 poker chip from the horns of a stampeding bull, says news.com.au

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Vodafone targets social networking fans

The mobile operator will offer unlimited internet access to cater for customers accessing Facebook and Bebo via their handsets

Vodafone is offering unlimited internet access as a standard feature of its new monthly mobile price plans, driven by an increasing amount of people accessing social networking sites and email from their phones.

more at timesonline

Yahoo and Microsoft : silent treatment

Microsoft’s hard-line deadline for Yahoo to accept the current buyout offer passed Saturday night, and nothing happened. In fact, both companies have been eerily silent on the deal and its presumptive proceedings since last week. Did Microsoft suddenly lose interest?

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