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YouTube on Nokia and Vodafone
Chad Hurley spoke about his future dreams for YouTube last year: YouTube videos on mobile devices. He hoped that they would have something up and running within a year when he spoke about it in November, and now it looks like the time has finally almost arrived. With a number of deals on the way, Vodafone users in the UK will be seeing a selection of videos that are updated daily that they can forward to friends, and they'll be able to upload videos directly from their phones. Vodafone is moving to really look at what customers are doing, and improve their services accordingly. Being that Europe is on the leading edge of mobile services, it's no wonder why this is one of the first regions to embrace these types of services. YouTube and Verizon did ink a deal in the US last year to build a similar service which The Vodafone service that will be available later this year and will be accessible through Vodafone's Live Web portal, which is currently available on 4.7 million mobile devices in the UK.In the device arena, Nokia has just dropped the news that users will soon be able to check out YouTube videos with their Nseries devices. The videos will be accessible through Nokia's web browser with Mini Map through a new YouTube mobile site that will be launched. No date has been set for launch yet. The new mobile browser supports single click playback of videos and the popular mobile video AVC format. Alternatively, YouTube video RSS feeds will also be accessible through the Nokia Video Center application, which allows for users to share and view favorite content. With all of this bandwidth-chugging content coming down the pipes, I really hope that carries drop rates and come up with special packages soon.
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 ...
