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- Judge overturns CA's violent videogame law
- A federal judge Monday overturned a California law that would make it illegal to sell violent video games to minors, Reuters reports. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would appeal the ruling.The 2005 law required labeling of violent video games and forbade the sale to minors. Judge Ronald Whyte, who had...
- Tags: Game, Video Game, Video, Computer Associates International Inc., ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Banning violent video games - Right or wrong?
- Banning violent video games - Right or wrong?But where do you draw the line?Let's say someone were sick enough to design a game to simulate child trafficking. The object of the game was to abduct as many girls as possible, and you scored points based on how many customers you...
- Tags: Games, game, violent video game, video game, video
- Discussion threads 2007-06-19
- Survey: Violent video games 'exhilarating escapism'
- Survey: Violent video games 'exhilarating escapism'You Needed An Article To Tell Us This??I've been gaming from Pong to Gears of War, any video gamer can tell you that when they are playing a violent game it's just fantasy, not reality...why else do you think we play games like Counterstrike or...
- Tags: Games, Violent Video game, Hummer, game, survey
- Discussion threads 2007-04-18
- Banning violent games unconstitutional
- The makers of violent video games such as Doom, Wolfenstein 3D or Mortal Kombat must be jumping for their joysticks, as a U.S. District Court ruled that states have no right to bar distribution of materials simply because they show violent behavior, reports Associated Press. U.S. District Judge...
- Tags: game, video, video game
- Blog posts 2006-08-28
- Are violent video games really a problem?
- Are violent video games really a problem?You got proof that there is no problem??Typical self-serving B.S.You wrote:"BOSTON--Mature video games are not a problem for today's youth, but that doesn't stop them from being an attractive topic for politicians, according to panelists and audience members at Siggraph 2006 on Wednesday."Tell that...
- Tags: Games, game, video game, B.S., video, violent video game
- Discussion threads 2006-08-02
- Congress bears down on violent video games
- Violent and sexually explicit video games are once again coming under political scrutiny as a House committee on consumer protection says it will hold a hearing on the topic, reports News.com. The focus of the hearing is to inform parents of the purported dangers of these type of games....
- Tags: game
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
- Mich. law can't stop violent video games
- Parents and schools are worried about violent video games, and several states - including Michigan - have passed laws trying to stop them. Last week, reports News.com, another such law hit the skids as a federal judge through Michigan's law out on First Amendment grounds. "Video games are a...
- Tags: video, game, video game, George Caram Steeh
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
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- VIDEO: Is Steve Jobs starting to pass the baton?
- Maybe you didn't notice it - or maybe I'm just reading into this a bit too deep. But there were a couple of hints at this week's Apple announcement that might cause some to believe that Steve Jobs is gearing up for an eventual passing of the reins at the...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- R.I.P. Apple matte screen displays
- The thing that bums me out the most about yesterday's MacBook announcements is Apple's move to all-glossy displays. I'll make no bones about it – I loathe glossy displays – especially on a notebook computer. Apple will spin it that blacks look darker and colors...
- Tags: Glare, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- MacBook (Late-2008) unboxed and disassembled
- That madman of disassembly, a.k.a. Kodwarisan, has already unboxed and completely disassembled the new MacBook (Late-2008) that was announced yesterday. He has posted 20 excellent pictures of everything including the easily removed hard drive above, logic board, centrifugal fan, right down to close...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 360 degree virtual reality training RIA
- SitePoint and TechCrunch both have some information up about something that EffectiveUI is building for Intelligence Gaming. It's a video-based virtual reality training simulation for the army. It's one of the coolest RIAs that I've seen. The application uses a combination of high quality video and hardware to immerse people...
- Tags: 360-degree, Rich Internet Application, Video, Training, Hardware, Corporate Communications, Virtual Reality, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Apple vs. Dell: Battle of the 13-inch notebooks
- Since my last comparison, Apple and Dell have both come out with even smaller notebook computers to tempt you away from your old fashioned desk-bound workstation. How do they stack up? Today I look at the low end MacBook White and Dell Inspirion 13 to find out. ...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Battery, Apple Inc., Centimeter, MacBook White, Engineering, Serial ATA, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- News to know: Gartner, Firefox 3.1, Apple notebook event, Intel
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Gartner: Top 10 technologies to watch over the next three years Larry Dignan: IT's challenges: The end of device charging; ROI; Super programmers ...
- Tags: Richard Koman, Mozilla Firefox, Apple MacBook, Gartner Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Notebook Event, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Vroom! Was that an Obama billboard?
- Vroom! Was that an Obama billboard?Get your filth out of my face.I don't care who the ad is for. Get the politics out of the game. I didn't pay $60 for that stupid game just to have some slimeball of a politician shove his ugly mug in my...
- Tags: Games, VROOM, Obama, game
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- McCain to YouTube: Respect fair use (at least for pols)
- YouTube's speedy response to DMCA take-down notices has been the subject of lawsuits – notably Stephanie Lenz, who with the EFF sued when YouTube deleted her video of her kid rockin' out to a Prince song. Now John McCain has a problem with YouTube take-downs. In a...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., John McCain, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Apple notebook hits and misses
- The Apple product transition mentioned by Apple's CFO has arrived. Like other industry watchers, Storage Bits looked into its crystal ball to predict what it would look like. Overall, Apple did OK, with some surprising omissions and changes. Hits: Product = notebook In the first...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Quad-core, Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook Pro, Steve, Notebooks, Engineering, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Video: Apple unveils new multitouch trackpad
- At a press event in Cupertino, Calif., Apple CEO Steve Jobs demos new trackpad technologies for the company's MacBook line. The new trackpad is made entirely of glass and has a 39% larger tracking area than previous trackpads. More video from the event: Apple's latest MacBook...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Video, CEO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- New Wi-Fi chipsets promise up to 2x throughput of current 802.11n devices
- A couple of weeks ago I did a post on the Home Theater blog about Celeno Communications' wireless chip that the company claims can support four different HD streams simultaneously. Now another company has announced its own Wi-Fi technology that promises significant performance improvement over the 802.11n spec. Quantenna's QHS...
- Tags: Throughput, IEEE 802.11n, Quantenna, Chipsets, Wi-Fi, Semiconductors, Wireless, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Thoughts on Apple's new products
- Thoughts on Apple's new productsExcept the rest of the market didn't hold an event......announcing new products.The reasons to not buy anything always outweighthe reasons to buy.When you switch to a MacBook Air, you can't believe how you just don't care about what connectivity you don't have. With wi-fi everywhere...
- Tags: FireWire, Notebooks, GO PC, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- New notebooks: What Apple didn't announce
- New notebooks: What Apple didn't announceWhile I don't completely disagree...[i]...Now why they couldn't keep the last-gen white MacBook and put an $800 price tag on it...[/i]They did keep the last-gen white MacBook... but only dropped the price $100, not $300.I admit to being confused about the 17" model myself, but...
- Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, NEW Notebook, Apple Inc., white MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
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