11:42:00

Nigeria: Nigeria Eyes Grand Master for Chess Glory

Nigeria's quest to maintain her performance at the All-Africa Games has received a big boost following a fruitful attempt by the Nigeria Chess Federation (NCF) President ACP Sani Mohammed to bring top British chess Grand Master, Nigel Short to tutor the country's male and female teams to the African fiesta.

The chess boss, who was in Britain recently, revealed that he was in contact with the highest ranked British champion while in London on his return journey from the Hajj last month and both parties have shown tremendous interest in working together to ensure that Nigeria come tops in the 15 medal chess event of the 9th-All Africa Games.

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10:06:45

BitTorrent to sell movie downloads

BitTorrent, the San Francisco company that created the most popular software for pirating content on the Web, launched a marketplace of legal movies on the Internet Monday.

The site has the blessing of four major studios and about three dozen other publishers of video, games and software.

"BitTorrent has the infrastructure, technology and established user base to significantly move the needle on digital distribution with quick, easy and affordable delivery," Thomas Lesinski, president of Viacom's Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment, said in a statement.

BitTorrent.com's library will contain more than 3,000 movies and TV shows, rivaling the selection found at CinemaNow and Movielink, legal sites that long have had the blessing of the entertainment industry.