Georgia - Russia War [Info]

NATO and Russia remained at loggerheads over the crisis in Georgia Wednesday, as the Red Cross plans to send aid workers to South Ossetia for the first time.

Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, speaking at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, said it would send workers to Tskhinvali, capital of the disputed region of South Ossetia, as well as bolster its presence in badly affected areas of Georgia.

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Firefox 3 RC1

Firefox 3 release candidate 1 has been released in to the wild. Mozzerella reckons it’s seen some 14,000 updates including some major reworking on improving performance, stability and code simplification. Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has undergone some serious development over the past 33 months.

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Nintendo launches Mario Kart Wii Tournament

The online tournaments will be offered to a common audience, with new ones actualization every few weeks on the Mario Kart Channel.

More than just a accumulating of time trials, the tournaments will at times yield the anatomy of specific challenges, like antagonism with a accurate appearance or ambassador setup, so all you Wii Wheel haters out there ability accept to aces it up regardless.

The aboriginal clash debuted bygone — a bout of the Mario Circuit — and Nintendo told players to be on the anchor for accessory changes to the clue blueprint for the tournament. From amateur reports, that “something different” includes Chain Chomp traveling backwards on the track, and a few changes with the account boxes.

More about it at blog.wired.com 

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.

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