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US gun debate: Video game industry defends itself

Vice President Joe Biden, left, with Attorney General Eric Holder, second from right, speaks during a meeting with representatives from the video game industry in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Friday. AP

The video game industry, blamed by some for fostering a culture of violence, defended its practices at a White House meeting exploring how to prevent horrific shootings like the recent Connecticut elementary school massacre.

Posted: January 12th, 2013 in Gaming,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Apple supplier halts China factory after violence

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The company that makes Apple’s iPhones suspended production at a factory in China on Monday after a fight involving as many as 2,000 employees.

Posted: September 24th, 2012 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Pakistan blocks YouTube over anti-Islam film

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Pakistan blocked access to YouTube on Monday after the video sharing website failed to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world.

Posted: September 18th, 2012 in Internet,Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Google in crosshairs over gun ban

A man looks at .45 caliber handguns for sale at the 18th Defence and Sporting Arms show at a mall in Manila on July 15, 2010. There are more than 1.2 million unlicensed guns and 1.8 million registered ones in the Philippines, out of a population of 90 million people, according to police estimates. AFP PHOTO/TED ALJIBE

Google has banned gun sales from its new shopping platform, a move drawing fire from hunters and weapons enthusiasts but praised by gun control activists.

Posted: July 4th, 2012 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Photos & Videos | Read More »

US court overturns ban on video game sales to kids

APPROPRIATE ENTERTAINMENT.  The Supreme Court says California cannot ban the rental or sale of violent video games, such as Microsoft’s Bulletstorm, to children (AP Photo).

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let California clamp down on the sale or rental of violent video games to children, saying governments lack authority to “restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed” despite complaints that the popular and fast-changing technology allows the young to simulate acts of brutality.

Posted: June 28th, 2011 in Featured Gallery,Headlines,Photos & Videos | Read More »

Apple removes ‘third Palestinian intifada’ app: Israel

JERUSALEM  - Apple has removed an application from its iTunes App Store that calls for a third Palestinian intifada, or uprising, after Israel lodged a complaint, Israeli officials said on Thursday. Public Diplomacy Minister Yuri Edelstein wrote to Apple to complain about the “Third Intifada” app earlier in the week and Apple then removed it, [...]

Posted: June 24th, 2011 in Headlines,Infotech | Read More »

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