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Jack Thompson Sues Facebook Over Video-Game Backlash

A disbarred Florida lawyer who has been vocal in his opposition to violent video games sued Facebook this week over comments on the social networking site that he considers to be a threat to his personal safety. Facebook said it would contest the suit in court.
Jack Thompson said that Facebook groups calling for users to [...]

Obama bans “texting while driving” for 4.5M govt workers

Nothing makes you a supporter of a ban on “texting while driving” like your body coming into contact with a vehicle driven by some moron fiddling with a cell phone. (Several Ars staffers have had that unpleasant experience firsthand.) President Obama doesn’t want any of those morons to be federal employees—as of Thursday, all government [...]

Dell Offers IPod Trade-In Deal

Dell Computer is offering consumers a discounted digital music player for customers that turn in their Apple iPods, the company said Wednesday.
For $99, consumers can exchange any iPod for a 15-Gbyte Dell Digital Jukebox. Customers can also get free shipping, 25 free Musicmatch downloads and a copy of Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition and Windows [...]

Nintendo Wii Is Now Cheaper

Nintendo follows the footsteps of Sony and Microsoft by slashing the price of its Wii system, where you can now pick it up for $199.99. Of course, taking a look around at online deals might help you save more as selected stores do offer some sort of further rebate or throw in a free game [...]

PSA Shows That Texting While Driving Can Kill A Friendship

When I took driver’s education in high school, the teacher showed this one film called Signal 30. This film was a no-holds barred look at car accidents, with all the blood-and-guts details. I’ve never been the type who slows down when passing a car accident, because I don’t want to see real-life gore.
Of course, we didn’t [...]

ImHalal, A Search Engine Made For Muslims

Let’s say you are a Muslim and you are totally not satisfied with the search filters provided by Google and other search engines. Here comes a search engine named ImHalal that will give you the ease to search the Internet without coming across any content that might be considered as ‘Haram’ according to the Islamic [...]

Facebook Lite Is Now Available For Slow Connections

It has long been in news that a new and lite version of Facebook is in the works and after all this wait, Facebook has finally pushed this new version for users to try.

Facebook Lite, which can now be accessed at Lite.Facebook.com, will let users access a lightning-fast edition of the popular social networking website [...]

802.11n Finally Official

At last, the long suffering 802.11n draft standard has been made official, and is released from its draft prison with the IEEE finally ratified the latest longer range, higher speed version of the wireless standard. This move took a good seven years since the process kicked off, and a couple of years after the final [...]