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Microsoft backing ad based municipal wi-fi service
If you live in Portland, Oregon or Oakland County, Michigan you could soon be surfing at high-speed from the comfort of a parkbench without paying a dime. Microsoft has teamed with JiWire to begin testing municipal wi-fi deployment with ad revenue as it's primary funding source. Ad delivery technology by JiWire will be used to really squeeze every last dollar out of the valuable eyeballs of wi-fi users. Google, already offering a somewhat similar service in San Francisco, is handling their own ads, and Microsoft's partnership could signal a larger push to compete head-to-head in yet another market against the Google kids.
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 ...
