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Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later! With the flood of Cell Phone users accessing the Internet, it was not going to take long before someone started hitting us over the heads with ads! Today MS announced that they are going to be placing ads in their MSN Mobile software.

So get ready to be hammered with the annoying ads when you use MSN, and most likely others in the very near future.

Read more from the AP Story after the break.

Source: Engadget

SEATTLE (AP)–Microsoft Corp. has started placing advertisements on the U.S. version of MSN Mobile, a Web portal for cell phone browsers that connects users with Hotmail, instant messaging, search, news and other content.
Microsoft already serves up mobile ads in Japan and some European markets. Competitor Yahoo began selling cell phone ads phones in the U.S. in late 2006 and expanded overseas in February.
Microsoft said the cell phone ad service is a mix of its own efforts and those by two companies it acquired this year – online advertising company aQuantive Inc., to the tune of $6 billion, and mobile ad group ScreenTonic, which it bought for an undisclosed amount.
Viacom’s Paramount Pictures, Ford Motor.’s Jaguar car brand and Bank of America will be among the first to peddle their brands to U.S. mobile customers, starting Monday.
MSN Mobile users will see either small graphics or text ads, depending on the size and quality of their cell phone screens.
Microsoft isn’t yet letting advertisers target ads based on mobile phone users’ location or Web surfing behavior – but the software maker is definitely thinking about it, according to Phil Holden, a director in the company’s Online Services division.
The company also said it is expanding MSN Mobile with services from MovieTickets.com and Thumbplay, which sells ring tones and other cell phone content.

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