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gyro1000 writes:
Just add this one to Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s company acquisition spree, they have just acquired Bumptop. BumpTop is a popular 3D desktop ‘replacement’ of sorts, complete with just as much functionality as a regular desktop, but with a 3D layer to it. The company has recently been acquired by Google, and it may be added in to future Android or Chrome tablet devices – with dashes of multi-touch goodness added throughout the UI. The implications here are intriguing, to say the least.
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Rheostatik writes:
Apple has rejected iSealHunt, a whack-a-mole type app by a Canadian developer in which you club seals for points. The game features no blood, and like its real-life counterpart, killing a baby seal is not allowed. The apps developer Matthew Smyth, who resides in the province where the majority of the hunt takes place, claims the rejection is unfair, pointing out the plethora of other hunting and fishing games that Apple has approved, as well as games such as GTA. "I can understand not allowing games with the cold blooded murder of police officers.. oh wait. They do.. never mind". Was Apple right in rejecting an app about such a controversial issue? Or are they showing a clear double-standard?
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Dracophile writes:
Contrary to yesterday's article about The Australian newspaper's report that the Australian government had put on the back-burner their plans to introduce the internet filter legislation before the next election, The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the government rejected claims that it had abandoned such plans, and that "a spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the government remained committed to the policy". Unless the Australian Labor Party abandons the plan altogether, will the timing make any difference to voters?
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Jack Action writes:
The University of British Columbia runs a summer camp where kids get to play computer games for three hours a day. The camp organizers say it is "a good social opportunity for some kids who didn't fit into other programs."
However, health professionals declare they are "troubled" by the camp. A professor in UBC's department medicine says kids should be outside, and engaged in "unstructured play"; while the CEO of a NGO that monitors kids' health chimes in that they already spend too much time in front of screens and not exercising.
So what is it? Do the health experts have a point, or are they just criticizing something that they don't understand, or perhaps is not to their taste?
