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Microsoft Unveils New Entertainment Partnerships With Disney-ABC ...
In addition, MGM will bring its library of hit movies.
The company said under the terms of the deal with Disney-ABC Television Group, all U.S. Xbox LIVE members will begin to have access to select TV shows and movies from the ABC Television Network, ABC Family, ABC News, Disney Channel and Toon Disney as part of an agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group. Past and current ABC shows will be available on demand, with new episodes arriving on the service the day after they air on television.
Under the agreement with MGM, Xbox 360 will offer MGM's movie library on demand for Xbox 360 United Artists, an MGM sister company, will also make select films available on demand.
The company said sales of 17.7 million consoles this holiday season surpassed original expectations as U.S.
Gordon Brown brings back jail strike ban
Last summer nearly 30,000 prison officers staged wildcat stoppages in protest at the staging of a 2.5 per cent award. It was their first strike in 68 years - but was only possible because Labour lifted a statutory prohibition on industrial action imposed by the Tories in 1994. In 2005, this was replaced by a voluntary, though legally binding, no-strike agreement which runs out in May. Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, told MPs he would still like to negotiate a new deal with the Prison Officers' Association (POA). But he said he could not risk further disruption in the jails, so the Government was therefore taking reserve powers to activate a ban from May in the absence of a new agreement. Mr Straw said: ''The public's safety has to be my primary consideration.
'Tax Office' email fraud alert
The fraud, similar to three earlier scams, uses the tax office logo. The email contains a link to a bogus website - similar in look to the ATO website - which asks for credit card and personal details. Acting ATO second commissioner Bill Gibson said the email and website were not affiliated with the tax office and anyone who received the email should delete it immediately. "People should be wary of emails claiming to be from the tax office," Mr Gibson said. "The tax office never sends emails asking for personal information." Share this article .
Regional economies need to invest big in infrastructure - IDB - Moreno ...
Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, says regional economies should double investment in infrastructure to boost economic growth. - File Regional economies have under-invested in infrastructure for years, limiting economic growth in the process, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Chief Luis Alberto Moreno has said. Now to catch up with boomers in Asia, Caribbean and Latin American governments have to at least double their spend, from the current 2 per cent of GDP. But countries of the region will also have to sustain that level of investment over a 20-year span to recover from decades of under-investment in infrastructure and perform at the level of South Korea and China, Moreno said in his year-end report to the IDB Board of Executive Directors.
Expwy firm to sell last recreational facility
OSAKA--West Nippon Expressway Co. intends to sell this fiscal year a deficit-ridden employee vacation facility in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, constructed before the privatization of the former Japan Highway Public Corporation, it was learned Tuesday. The central government and JH had decided to sell all six employee recreational facilities and accommodations owned by the corporation. However, JH decided to keep the Yufuin Sanso villa and four other facilities shortly after the corporation was privatized in October 2005. Under pressure to sell the deficit-ridden facilities, the operating expenses of which were covered partly by expressway construction fees, West Nippon Expressway put four of the facilities up for sale in September. According to a document submitted by JH to a central government committee on privatizing the four public highway corporations, the villa was constructed in March 1985 on 2,753 square meters of land, using 277 million yen allocated from expressway construction fees.
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