Even though TiVo became known as the company offering products that allow people to skip the annoying TV ads, the company has recently announced that it will release a new feature that will allow people to instantly purchase products advertised on TV. TiVo's partner in this attempt is none other than electronic commerce giant Amazon.

The new feature will provide links on the onscreen menus that people will be able to access to buy products that are advertised in TV shows such as the 'The Daily Show,' 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' or 'The Late Show With David Letterman.'

Tuesday, July 22, 2008; 12:00 AM

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors ofHealthDay:

Study Examining High Cancer Incidence in U.S. South

Although last week the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) gave up on its plan to perform the large scale human experimental testing of an AIDS vaccine, the quest for an efficient HIV vaccine is still ongoing.

Even though things were coming along quite well and the project showed great promise, given its similarity to the previously attempted and failed Merck vaccine, PAVE (the Partnership for AIDS Vaccine Evaluation) was temporarily shut down until further research is completed.

By Howard Kurtz
Tuesday, July 22, 2008; A04

The Ad: (Narrator) Gas prices -- $4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America. No to independence from foreign oil. Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?

(Chant) Obama! Obama!

Iran Has Earned Nothing
July 22, 2008; Page A18

In its waning days, the Bush Administration seems to be veering toward a policy of détente with Iran. Recent moves include a face-to-face meeting with Iran over its nuclear program and the likelihood of reopening a diplomatic mission in Tehran for the first time since -- well, you remember. Iran responded to these gestures on the weekend by rebuffing the West's latest set of carrots while refusing once again to give up its uranium enrichment.

What precisely did Iran do to deserve the warm shoulder? Now as ever, Tehran underwrites and arms terrorist proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Gaza, and calls for Israel's destruction. Earlier this month, it tested long-range missiles capable of reaching southern Europe. As for getting that bomb, Iran has made steady progress this decade, enriching uranium in increasingly sophisticated centrifuges in violation of three U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Gen-Nexters Are Feeling Left Out of the Party

By Krissah Williams Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 22, 2008; C01

David All glanced around Top of the Hill bar and saw the future of the Republican Party. It looked dim. A who's who of young conservatives had gathered, but they were few, and they were frustrated.

Here were the executive director of the Young Republicans, and the 20-something who helped steer Fred Thompson's Internet operation, and the young woman who put Mitt Romney's Web site on the map, and the 24-year-old staffer for Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future, who had brought them all together to cry in their free Blue Moon beer. The crowd was mostly white and mostly male, dressed in slacks and starched shirts. For most of them, Ronald Reagan and the good times he personified for conservatives were not even vague memories.

By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 22, 2008; A01

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 21 -- A military judge ruled Monday evening that prosecutors in the military trial of Osama bin Laden's former driver cannot use as evidence some of the statements the defendant gave to interrogators because the information was obtained under "highly coercive" conditions.

As the first U.S. military commission since World War II got underway, Navy Capt. Keith Allred threw out statements made by Salim Ahmed Hamdan after he was captured in Afghanistan in late 2001, including detailed descriptions of the al-Qaeda leader's whereabouts. Hamdan's allegedly incriminating admissions are a key part of the prosecution's case against him on charges of a terrorism conspiracy.

By Mark Maske
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 22, 2008; E04

The New York Giants agreed yesterday to trade Jeremy Shockey, their once-dominant tight end who missed the team's Super Bowl run last season and recently was at odds with club officials, to the New Orleans Saints.

The Saints sent second- and fifth-round draft choices next year to the Giants in the deal, which was contingent on Shockey passing a physical and league approval. . . .

By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 21, 2008; A03

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Nearly seven years after President Bush declared an "extraordinary emergency" that empowered him to bring terrorists before military judges, Osama bin Laden's former driver is scheduled to go on trial Monday in the first test of whether that system can dispense fair and impartial justice.

When Salim Ahmed Hamdan, accused of ferrying weapons for al-Qaeda, enters courtroom 01-A in a former aircraft operations center, he will face court proceedings unlike any the United States has seen in decades. They will unfold before a military commission -- the first since the end of World War II -- with a jury of uniformed officers and rules that give great deference to the prosecution. Evidence obtained from "cruel" and "inhuman" interrogation methods is admissible in certain circumstances, as is hearsay evidence.

The latest sales figures released by NPD for the month of June have shown that it doesn’t always take a multiplatform record breaking game (Grand Theft Auto IV) to boost hardware sales, but an exclusive release (Metal Solid Gear 4: Guns of the Patriots for PS3) might just do the trick.

Furthermore, it seems that the U.S. market is not all about the hardcore gamers, as Nintendo’s Wii managed to steal Microsoft’s number one spot with the Xbox 360, reaching 11,008,200 units sold, compared to the 10,465,900 units for the Xbox.