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Gameworld: Video games don't create killers, new book says

Reuters - Fri, May 9

By Scott Hillis
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Life!) - Playing video games does not turn children into deranged, blood-thirsty super-killers, according to a new book by a pair of Harvard researchers.

  • Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are seen in New York, in this September 22, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Chip East/Files
    Google founders have grown up, CEO says Reuters - Fri, May 9

    By Adam Tanner
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) - It's official: the guys who founded Google are grown up.

  • An employee poses in front of computer screen at an office in London August 28, 2007. Social networking site Facebook announced an agreement on Thursday with 49 U.S. state attorneys general and the District of Columbia to increase efforts to protect its youngest members from sexual predators. REUTERS/Simon Newman
    Facebook, 49 U.S. states agree on Web safety steps Reuters - Fri, May 9

    By Anupreeta Das
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social networking site Facebook announced an agreement on Thursday with 49 U.S. state attorneys general and the District of Columbia to increase efforts to protect its youngest members from sexual predators.

  • Myspace's fashionable child launches new designers Reuters - Fri, May 9

    By Jane Lee
    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Young designers competing to get noticed by fashion labels can now launch their careers online through the fashion world's answer to the social networking Web site Myspace.com.

  • 'Grand Theft Auto' sales top $500 mln in 1st week Reuters - Thu, May 8

    By Franklin Paul
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive Software Inc scored over $500 million in global sales of its criminal action game "Grand Theft Auto 4" in its first week, making it one of the most lucrative entertainment launches in history.

  • A worker talks on his mobile at the Nokia plant in Jucu village, near Cluj, 450 km northwest of Bucharest, January 23, 2008. REUTERS/Mihai Barbu/Files
    Nokia to offer many new phones in U.S. Reuters - Mon, May 5

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj will introduce many new phone models through U.S. carriers in coming months to grab a bigger share of the lucrative cellphone market, the Finnish phone maker said on Monday.

  • Google optimistic regulators won't bar Yahoo-source Reuters - Sat, Apr 26

    By Anupreeta Das
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo Inc because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with Google's thinking said on Friday.

  • File photo of Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 game consolein Tokyo. Microsoft said on Thursday it sold 262,000 Xbox 360 game consoles in the United States in March, regaining its lead over Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 as supply constraints eased. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao/Files
    Microsoft says Xbox sales beat Sony PS3 in March Reuters - Fri, Apr 18

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it sold 262,000 Xbox 360 game consoles in the United States in March, regaining its lead over Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 as supply constraints eased.

  • Australia plans counter-terrorism email checks Reuters - Mon, Apr 14

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian companies providing critical services to the economy will be allowed to intercept the emails and internet communications of their workers under new security counter-terrorism laws.

  • Microsoft seen as winner as big media circles Yahoo Reuters - Fri, Apr 11

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc may have played its top two cards by pulling out possible deals with AOL and Google, but it does not seem to have changed Wall Street's view that Microsoft will eventually win the takeover battle.

  • Online gamer 888 eyes 30 pct revenue growth Reuters - Tue, Apr 8

    By Marc Jones
    LONDON (Reuters) - Online gaming firm 888 is optimistic of 30 percent revenue growth this year, helped by a better-than-expected start from its new sports betting and bingo sites.

  • A worker tests an interactive kiosk on display at the JC Penney Experience store in New York's Times Square in this March 2, 2006 file photo. Online retail sales growth in the United States is slowing, but sales are still expected to rise 17 percent this year. REUTERS/Keith Bedford/Files
    E-tailing growth slows, sales to rise 17 pct - study Reuters - Tue, Apr 8

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online retail sales growth in the United States is slowing, but sales are still expected to rise 17 percent this year, even as consumers cut back on overall spending in the sluggish economy, according to a study released on Monday.

  • A Google search page is seen through the spectacles of a computer user in Leicester, central England in this July 20, 2007 file photo. Google on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results. REUTERS/Darren Staples
    Google defends user data policy after EU report Reuters - Tue, Apr 8

    By Eric Auchard
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results, responding to an EU report that saw no need for search services to keep personal data beyond six months.

  • HSBC bank logo seen in Dubai January 8, 2006. Banking giant HSBC said on Monday it has lost a computer disc containing details of nearly 400,000 customers. REUTERS/Tamara Abdul Hadi/Files
    HSBC loses disc with data on 370,000 customers Reuters - Mon, Apr 7

    By Avril Ormsby
    LONDON (Reuters) - Banking giant HSBC said on Monday it has lost a computer disc containing details of nearly 400,000 customers.

  • Straight or gay? U.S. court says Web site can't ask Reuters - Fri, Apr 4

    By Adam Tanner
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A roommate-finding site cannot require users to disclose their sexual orientation, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday, in the latest skirmish over whether anti-discrimination rules apply to the Web.

  • Teruo Oba puts his mobile phone to scan a bar-code placed on his family's newly purchased tomb in Kofu, west of Tokyo, April 2, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
    Japan e-crypt offers a tomb with a view Reuters - Thu, Apr 3

    By Dan Sloan
    KOFU, Japan (Reuters) - Call it a tale from the e-crypt or a tomb with a view.

  • Children ignoring safety rules on social networks Reuters - Wed, Apr 2

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Millions of children who use Internet social networking sites are exposing themselves to unnecessary risk by leaving personal details open for all to see, British communications watchdog Ofcom said on Wednesday.

  • Dutch parliament votes against online gambling bill Reuters - Wed, Apr 2

    AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The upper house of the Dutch parliament defeated a bill that would have allowed monopoly casino operator Holland Casino to open a gambling web site on a trial basis.

  • Rumours fly as Zimbabwe bloggers wait impatiently Reuters - Mon, Mar 31

    By Marius Bosch
    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Bloggers mixed wild rumours with gallows humour on Monday as Zimbabweans waited on tenterhooks for the result of the most crucial election since independence.

  • A worker fixes a spotlight at the Microsoft exhibit at the CeBIT fair in Hanover March 3, 2008. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, the world's top software and PC firms, on Thursday announced plans for a new technology centre in Taiwan, the world's computer-manufacturing hub. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
    Microsoft, HP to set up Taiwan technology centre Reuters - Fri, Mar 21

    TAIPEI (Reuters) - Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, the world's top software and PC firms, on Thursday announced plans for a new technology centre in Taiwan, the world's computer-manufacturing hub.

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