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Google testing AdSense for mobile sites

AdSense for mobileAs if it wasn't hard enough to navigate the web on a 2 inch screen using a telephone keyboard, Google is making it easier for web designers to toss a few ads your way. The company is reportedly beta testing AdSense for mobile.

The mobile advertising service will work pretty much the same as the desktop version. Google will add contextual ads to sites optimized for mobile browsers. The ads should take up just a small portion of the page, and they may include dialable phone numbers as well as hyperlinks to web pages.

There's an old saying that "advertising abhors a vacuum." Apparently the same is true of AdSense.

Filed under: Audio

Pandora brings internet radio to Sprint cellphones

Pandora on SprintThe divide between online radio and terrestrial radio just got a tiny bit smaller. Web broadcaster Pandora has announced Pandora on the Go, a mobile client that works with a handful of Sprint cellphones.

While it's not exactly a $10 portable radio, you've probably got your cellphone in your pocket most of the time when you go out anyway. Go for a walk, and listen to Pandora on your Bluetooth headset. Pick up an FM adapter and you can listen in your car, while enjoying the irony of using your car radio's FM tuner to listen to internet radio streaming from your phone.

There's a 30 day free trial for Sprint Power vision customers. After the trial period, you'll have to shell out $2.99 a month.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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