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Yahoo! to start testing mobile ads
It looks like the time has come when all media companies will "spam" us with ads on our mobile devices. Yahoo! just announced that they will start testing banner ads on mobile browser-based services. Users that access mobile web email, finance, news and sports information in the US will start seeing these adverts. This is the second blow that Yahoo! dished out to users of their mobile services. A test last month of search-based mobile advertising took place in both the UK and US. It's easy to gain the attention of mobile users since their devices are quite typically attached to their hips at all times. Is this an unfair advantage? Not for Yahoo! and their ad network. Their advertising sizes will depend on what size of device a user are using to view the online services. What do you think? Are you game for all this new mobile advertising?
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
