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Mario Kart, PSP Top Japanese Charts During Golden Week

Mario Kart , PSP Top Japanese Charts During Golden Week For the third week in a row, the two top selling titles in Japan have remained the same, as Mario Kart Wii and Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G on PSP continue to sell in large quantities during the Golden Week series of national holidays.

Stop Me If Youve Heard This One Before: Yahoo-Google Ad Pact Could Come Next Week

This is beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day, but someone is putting out these leaks for a reason. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) could announce an ad outsourcing deal early next week according to a Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) Newswires report at WSJ. Of course, this deal was said to be coming ‘next week’ last week and a couple of weeks before that.

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before: Yahoo-Google Ad Pact Could Come 'Next Week'

This is beginning to feel a bit like Groundhog Day, but someone is putting out these leaks for a reason. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) could announce an ad outsourcing deal early next week according to a Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) Newswires report at WSJ. Of course, this deal was said to be coming ‘next week’ last week and a couple of weeks before that.

Lawmakers want to regulate violent video games

After the record-breaking $500 million first-week sales of Grand Theft Auto IV, the business of video games is under the microscope again this week. This time, however, it’s not outraged parents doing the scrutinizing. It’s lawmakers. Congress introduced a bill this week pushing for government regulation of the gaming industry, just as the Federal Trade Commission released a report that found some stores are selling violent video games to kids despite a drive to have them observe the industry’s rating system. The Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act, introduced to the House floor this week by Reps. Lee Terry, R-Neb., and Jim Matheson, D-Utah, would force stores to check the identification of anyone purchasing games rated M and AO. Stores that violate the rule would be fined $5,000 by the FTC.

This Week in WTF?! May 11, 2008

Welcome to This Week in WTF?! Remember those insane Japanese Arnold Schwarzenegger commercials for some sort of crazy energy drink? Imagine that madness distilled into videogame news form, and you'll have some idea of what I have to deal with every week.

Business Week Takes On the RIAA

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Business Week magazine has gone medieval on the RIAA, recounting in grisly detail the cruel ordeal to which the RIAA has subjected a completely innocent defendant, Tanya Andersen of Oregon. Nobody can read the story and come to any other conclusion than that the RIAA and its lawyers are total jerks. Of course we've been reading about Atlantic v. Andersen on p2pnet.net and on my blog, and discussing it here, but there's something extra special about a mainstream publication like Business Week really letting them have it."

The week in blogs: the great public sector pension debate

The Money Blog this week asked a simple but important question: how do you feel about paying for the pension privileges of public sector workers? The response we got was extraordinary, highlighting how deep emotions run on this hot political issue. Anyone wanting to understand the pensions dilemma now facing the UK would do well to read Steve Bee’s original article and even a handful of the eighty or so responses received by the Money Blog on the same topic by the end of the week.

This Week's "Where in the Universe?" Challenge

Here's your image for this week's "Where in the Universe?" challenge. Take a look at the image and before proceeding to the end of this post, make your guess as to what location in the universe is represented here. It could be anywhere — nothing is off limits for this challenge! Near or distant, far and wide, Universe Today spares no expense when it comes to searching for unique and unusual images to test your visual knowledge of our universe! Give yourself an extra point for guessing (or knowing) the feature shown here, and another point for naming the spacecraft that took this image. Just a couple more ticks on the timer here before revealing the awesome power of this week's image….

Science Week an eye-opener

The Gateway shopping centre will be buzzing with pupils for the rest of the week as the annual National Science Week is now under way.

iPhone rumor roundup: one week to WWDC

Just one week left and (hopefully) your 3G iPhone prayers will be answered. With just one week left until WWDC kicks off all things Cocoa and Cocoa Touch related, iPhone-related rumors have gone from a trickle to a torrent. We at Infinite Loop are here to keep you abreast of the latest leaks, rumors, and speculation without overloading your RSS reader.

Creative arts week at Swindon's University of Bath

A free confidence boosting and informative Creative arts & advice week is running next week at the University of Bath's Oakfield Campus in Swindon.

Governor Proclaims NC Museum Week

North Carolina Governor Mike Easley proclaimed this week (May 18 – 24) as Museum Week and encourages all citizens to take advantage of the educational and cultural resources of the state’s museums.

Jamie Lynn Spears More Popular Than Big Sister Britney on This Week's Lycos Top Search...

Jamie Lynn Spears More Popular Than Big Sister Britney on This Week's Lycos Top Search List Comedian George Carlin, ABC's 'Wipeout' and Singer Tim McGraw Among Big Search Gainers on Lycos WALTHAM, Mass., July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Lycos, Inc. (http://www.lycos.com), a leading provider of social publishing, media and search services, today announced the following information from The Lycos 50(TM), the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending June 28, 2008. For a complete list of The Lycos 50 and for in-depth text of The Lycos 50 Daily Report, go to 50.lycos.com. Readers of The Lycos 50 can also share their thoughts on Internet trends and pop culture on The Lycos 50 Blog located at lycos50.tripod.com/blog/ and the all new Under the Red Carpet Blog at redcarpet.

Yahoo May Do Full Rollout of Google Ads Next Week; Could Include Non-Exclusive Ads on Competitors

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which was waiting for the other shoe to drop, is still waiting, but it is moving ahead with its plans to deploy Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) search/text ads more widely across its network after a two week trial. The rollout could start within a week, reports WSJ, citing sources. Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) hostile bid, or a raised bid offer, could come as soon as tomorrow morning (Friday AM two months ago was when it announced the original takeover offer), and Yahoo may still go ahead with the rollout irrespective.

Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending May 25, 2008 and National Lampoon and Dice.com Roll Out a Cast of Characters in New WebTV Series, ''National Lampoon's The Lemmings'' on maniaTV.c

City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 05/30/2008 - Media entertainment industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Rentrak Retail and Home Video Essentials, business units of Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT), today announced the Top 10 DVD sales and rentals for the prior week. Retail Essentials measures weekly consumer sales activity on standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles in the U.S. brick-and-mortar channel. No other service provides faster access to in-depth market data and weekly estimations of gross consumer spending. Rentrak delivers sell-through data broken down by DVD format, category, genre, TV market and more, within 72 hours after the close of each business week. Clients can access current, weekly, and historical title sales data to competitively benchmark industry performance.

PlayStation Store Update: Inertia is Fatal edition

We've got another good week with a nice breadth of content for the PlayStation Store. Fatal Inertia EX headlines the week's offerings, which also include some new Hot Shots content and the Metal Gear Solid 4 database. Check out this week's update:

PSP Leads New Entries In Japanese Charts

PSP Leads New Entries In Japanese Charts The top of the weekly Japanese software sales charts have swapped one baseball game for another this week, with Konami’s latest Powerful Pro Baseball title for PSP taking the lead. It does so with 117,000 first week sales – beating the 59,000 unit debut of last week’s number one title Let’s Make a Pro Baseball Team! on Nintendo DS.

Lil Wayne, Robert De Niro, Joan Rivers

Lil Wayne now has official numbers to back up his bragging - the rapper's new CD has sold a spectacular one million copies its first week in the United States and Canada. "Tha Carter III" is easily the best selling first week of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures. Even Kanye West's "The Graduation" didn't eclipse that mark in its first week last year (though it was only about 50,000 copies short). A prolific rapper who's been ubiquitous on the mixtape scene and on other acts' records, Lil Wayne is regarded as one of rap's most gifted performers - but he's never had a multiplatinum album.

Gilead Sciences (GILD) NewsBite : Gilead Continues to Move Higher on Patent Decision

Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD) opened at 52.79. So far today, the stock has hit a low of 52.72 and a high of 53.87. GILD is now trading at 53.63, up 1.15 (2.18%). The stock hit its 52 week high of 54.59 earlier this month and set its 52 week low of 35.22 in August. The stock has been rising steadily since last August. Gilead has been moving higher after the company announced this week that the U.S. patents office has upheld one of the four challenged patents regarding the company's AIDS medicine, Viread. Technical indicators for GILD are bullish but deteriorating slightly, while S&P gives the stock a positive 4 STARS (out of 5) buy rating. If you’re looking for a hedged play on this stock, consider a July bull-put credit spread below the $47.50 range.

Time Warner (TWX) Hastens the Demise of DVD Rentals

The death of DVD rentals edged closer to the grave yesterday when Time Warner (TWX: sentiment, chart, options) announced that it will begin releasing movies to digital video-on-demand the same day as their DVD rental release. Silicon Alley Insider provided the skinny on the situation, noting that the announcement was "More bad news for Blockbuster (BBI), Netflix (NFLX), Blu-ray (SNE), and anyone else connected to the DVD rental business." The revelation accompanied TWX's earnings report yesterday, and has helped boost the stock more than 4% higher in today's trading. The stock is now poised to close its first week above its 10-week and 20-week moving averages since June 2007.

Week in Review: Our new gaming blog debuts, we watch Netflix & more

The biggest news of the week was from us, as it turned out. Yesterday we welcomed the newest member of the SCI FI network — our gaming blog, Fidgit! From casual online gaming to the extreme details of Grand Theft Auto IV, Fidgit promises a nonstop

Week in video-game news

_THAT OTHER CAR GAME: "Grand Theft Auto IV" is getting the lion's share of attention this week, and publisher Rockstar Games is expecting that just about everyone with an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3 is going to buy one. But where does that leave Wii owners? Or parents who don't want their kids to be exposed to the lurid shenanigans in Liberty City?

This Week on SundayArts: Il Trittico, Ballet Biarritz and More

This week's edition of SundayArts - the weekly arts showcase on New York's public television station Thirteen (WNET) - features the Metropolitan Opera's production of the beloved triple bill, Il Trittico, directed by Broadway's Jack O'Brien (The Coast of Utopia) and conducted by James Levine.

One week after landing, the NASA Mars Phoenix lander practices digging

One week after landing on far northern Mars, the Phoenix Mars Lander lifted its first scoop of Martian soil as a test of the lander's robotic arm.

Information Week Interviews Microsoft Open Source Leads

Information Week published the results of Q&A sessions with Microsoft’s Sam Ramji (senior director of platform strategy) and Tom Robertson (general manager of standards and interoperability).

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