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MOBILE GAMING TO TOP $1 BILLION IN '04
Video game and mobile phone companies are set to make money this year as customers use phones to zap space invaders or sink game-winning golf putts, pushing the mobile gaming market over $1 billion, a study said. According to London-based consultancy Screen Digest, mobile phone gaming also will grow by more than six times to $6.4 billion between 2004 and the end of decade. Currently, Japan and Korea are well ahead of North America and Europe in market size, accounting for nearly 80 percent of all revenues derived from video game play and game downloads, Screen Digest said on Thursday.
Published: 28 Oct 2004
JOLIE DESCRIBES ATTROCITIES IN DARFUR
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie on Wednesday described the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region as 'unbelievably horrible' after a three-day visit to region. Jolie, a good will ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, has visited refugees in many conflict-torn countries but said Darfur struck her as the worst she had seen because the rights abuses and violence continued and nowhere was safe. 'I'd say this is the worst situation I've seen and what's happening to the people here... is unbelievably horrible. The fact is it is just one of the worst things that has happened on the planet to a people,' she said.
Published: 27 Oct 2004
NELL MCANDEW BACKS SPORT CAMPAIGN
Global icon Nelson Mandela today joined forces with leading charity Help the Aged in calling for people from the South West to nominate their sporting heroes as part of the nationwide 2005 Living Legend Award scheme. The initiative is open to individuals, aged 60 or over, who have shown that age need not be a barrier to physical pursuits or have devoted their time and sporting talent to help others.
Published: 27 Oct 2004
COMPUTER GAMES CAN AID DEVELOPMENT
The tomb-raiding exploits of Lara Croft or the adventures of the cuddly ogre Shrek can help children's social and educational development, according to researchers calling for computer games to be part of the school curriculum. Far from being an obesity-inducing, violence-promoting threat to society, as they are often portrayed, the games being played in bedrooms across the country during half term can be used in the classroom to help children learn concepts such as critical appreciation of narrative structure or character development which they might otherwise study in a novel, say academics at London University's Institute of Education.
Published: 26 Oct 2004
ANGELINA JOLIE SCORES PC NOMINATION
Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan will face off in the same category - favourite female singer - at this year's People's Choice Awards. Nominees for the 31st annual awards were announced Tuesday by Jason Alexander and Malcolm-Jamal Warner of TV's Listen Up and Eva Longoria and Nicollette Sheridan of Desperate Housewives. The nomination and awards process, formerly based on a national poll, has been revised.
Published: 26 Oct 2004
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