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Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Segolene Royal jumped into their presidential runoff campaign Monday by wooing voters who deserted them for a farmer's son who championed the political middle. Centrist Francois Bayrou didn't make the runoff, but his strong third-place showing in Sunday's first round of balloting could make him a king-maker if he throws his support behind the law-and-order former interior minister or to the leftist with a chance of being France's first woman president in the May 6 runoff. Final results Monday gave Sarkozy 31 percent of the vote and Royal just under 26 percent. - Associated Press COLOMBO, SRI LANKA Bombing of bus is third in month A bomb ripped through a long-distance bus in northern Sri Lanka late Monday, killing at least three passengers and wounding 35 in the third bombing of a civilian bus this month, the Defense Ministry said.
Steelheads Even Series Wtih 4-1 Victory Over Wranglers In Game Two
Boise, ID - Four unanswered goals, including two tallies by Lance Galbraith, pushed the Steelheads to a 4-1 win over the Las Vegas Wranglers in front of 2,425 fans at Qwest Arena on Monday night to even the best-of-seven conference semi-finals series at one game apiece. The win is the Steelheads (5-3) third on home ice in the 2007 playoffs and it snaps the Wranglers (5-1) ECHL-best, 18-game winning streak in the process. For the second straight game, the Wranglers tallied first, breaking a scoreless tie midway through the first period. After Steelheads' goaltender Steve Silverthorn (23 saves) stopped a shot from the slot by Tyler Mosienko, Aki Seitsonen got to the loose puck and fed it back into the crease where Mosienko knocked it in for his fourth of the playoffs and his first of the series.
Weekend Web Column: Size Matters In GPS
Size matters when it comes to consumer electronics. Too big and you don't want to carry the device around with you all the time. Too small and it becomes too hard to see and too hard to use. The new Pocket Loox N100 from Chicago-based Navigon is GPS device that straddles that increasingly fine line. At first glance, the N100 is a jewel. Weighing in at just under four ounces, it is light enough to forget you have it in your pocket. It's size -- 2.5 by 3.5 inches by a little more than a half-inch thick -- is the smallest of the stand-alone GPS units we've seen. There are only two buttons on the shell of the device: on/off and hold. There are also a mini USB port and a headphone jack. Hidden under a rubber cover on the back is a GPS antenna connector. The hardware is manufactured by Fujitsu-Siemens.
Trust is at the Core of the New Web Marketing
One of this things that struck me (again) while I was at Search Engine Strategies in New York earlier this month was that the world of search marketing, and Web marketing in general, is becoming more and more like old-fashioned marketing. A few years ago, when I thought about Web marketing, I thought about buying links (yes, I used to buy links), swapping links en masse, and building massively optimized Web pages. This, of course, does not sound like conventional marketing at all, and it wasn't. Web marketers all had our own little esoteric roles, as if we were living in a remote cave in Borneo. We were our own animals. Other people could not relate to us, because we were so different, and our work existed in a vacuum. But we were all happy because there were piles of money to be made, and we were living on a Wild West frontier where the rules you lived by were the rules you made yourself.
Miniclip Announces Finalists in Global Search for Lead Character ...
Miniclip.com has announced the top 10 finalists in their global search for the Internet's next ce'web'rity to star in a new game called Moon Shadow. The audition, the first of its kind, received more than 80,000 entries from game players all over the world who wanted to become the star of the new game, as well as earn the $5,000 cash pot that will be awarded to the final game star. All applicants submitted a reason why they should be the next world game star along with a photo which displays their star qualities.
The top ten finalists from the global search are from the USA, United Kingdom, Romania, Spain, Israel, Bulgaria, and Canada. The lucky new game star will be sketched and animated by Miniclip game artists and will have a close-up on the game's main screen. Players will get to control the winner's character throughout the game and compete in a series of undercover missions.
Hands-on with Orb 2.0
Back in 2005, CNET reviewed Orb, a software package that promised to let users access media files located on their home PC and stream them to any other broadband-connected computer and even some mobile devices. Orb scored a 7.0--"very good"--and that was that--except that Orb has offered some pretty compelling upgrades in the meantime. Since our original review, the company has rolled out Orb 2.0 (fall 2006), which is essentially a Web 2.0 version of the product. You still run a small server applet on your home PC that catalogs and streams your media files--video, audio, and photos--but you can now access all of these files via a single Web page (available at mycast.orb.com). It's a user-customizable, AJAX-based page that's similar to the personalized home page that you can make at Google, Yahoo, Live.com, and elsewhere.
Turbine unveils first free update for LotrO
Turbine has revealed that June will see the release of the first free content update for its MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online.Shores of Evendim, as the update is named, invites players to explores the land of Evendim and introduces 60-plus new quests, nine new monsters and collectible armour sets. In addition, players will be able to raid in the Battle for Helegrod, with an upgraded in-game music system also featuring in the update. Providing some background to the update and Evendim, Turbine explains, "About 100 miles north of the Shire, in northern Eriador, lies Evendim, a vast region dominated by the Lake Nenuial; the 'Lake of the Twilight'. .
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