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The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology in South Korea has announced that it plans to introduce a new set of limitations to the gaming time of minors via new bill.
The underlying concept is called the “Cooling Off System” and will mean that those under the age of 18 would be logged out of any ... |
13 February 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Stephen Toulouse, who is known to gamers as “Stepto” and is the director of policy and enforcement for the Xbox Live service from Microsoft, has announced that he is planning to leave his post in two weeks in order to explore a number of other opportunities.
Toulouse said that his job was to give Xbox Li... |
6 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Though it seems to be doing well against Samsung, Apple has not been as fortunate in the suits that Motorola started against it.
The Apple 3G iPad 2, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 were forced off the German store not long ago.
The injunction was suspended the very next day, though, only for Motorola to win yet another ... |
6 February 2012
14:31 GMT |
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A report from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in South Korea has suggested that the country might move to ban the accounts of all minor players who spend more than two consecutive hours playing online game or more than three hours during any given day. It seems that representatives from the gaming ... |
1 February 2012
04:19 GMT |
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The whole drama starring Apple and Samsung has gone through yet another episode, one that the former was definitely displeased with.
Apple and Samsung used to be almost the best of friends until the latter created a tablet that became a threat to Apple's iPad.
Apple was quick to sue Samsung over alleged pate... |
24 January 2012
08:08 GMT |
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Going to the Maldives on holiday is often described as a once in a lifetime opportunity: first off, because of the distance, and secondly because of the high rates applied at the resorts. If the spa ban takes effect, a stay there will probably be much cheaper.The strongest suit of any resort in the Maldives is the sp... |
4 January 2012
15:01 GMT |
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BioWare has just confirmed a series of temporary bans issued to a variety of Star Wars: The Old Republic players, specifically low level users who used an exploit to get high level items and equipment, thus upsetting the in-game balance and its economy.
Star Wars: The Old Republic was released last month and, since ... |
4 January 2012
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Pamela Anderson and other PETA activists are enjoying a new victory. It seems that Russia has decided to ban all seal fur imports, to make sure that its name won't be associated with cruel practices such as extended baby harp seal hunts.This is definitely bad news for Canada, since Russia has always been conside... |
21 December 2011
10:58 GMT |
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The Classification Board in Australia has announced that the Syndicate remake from developer Starbreeeze and publisher Electronic Arts has been refused classification in the country, which means that no stores will carry it and players will have a very hard time getting a copy.The rating agency does not say exactly w... |
20 December 2011
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Seattle is now the fourth eco-friendly city in the state that has decided to adopt and implement a plastic bag ban and a 5% fee on paper bags.
This initiative has been launched in an attempt to reduce environmental pollution, by determining clients to consider reusable shopping bags a viable, greener option, the Ne... |
20 December 2011
04:44 GMT |
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You'd think that no one would stop people from enjoying their new and awesome DSLR camera, but the London Transport Museum has different things to say on the matter. Because of the high-quality sensors and high resolutions, DSLR cameras figure as professional equipment as far as they are concerned. Thus, wit... |
6 December 2011
10:23 GMT |
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Back when Apple somehow won a now overturned (sort of) injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Germany and Australia, people thought the same would happen in the US and everywhere else, but they have just been proven wrong. Apple itself probably hoped that the rulings in those two regions would ... |
5 December 2011
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More than 90,000 people from the US want trash, in the form of thousands of plastic bottles, to disappear from the Grand Canyon National Park. As a result, they have decided to gather more signatures to make sure a beautiful reserve won't be tainted by the drinking habits of millions of tourists. Therefore, an... |
2 December 2011
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The ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Samsung tablet may have been officially overturned, but Samsung is still not allowed to start shipping the item in Australia, not until December 9, 2011. A few days ago, it was decided that the original injunction against the 10.1-inch Android tablet really was unjust. As such, the ... |
2 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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We passed on the news about Samsung apparently getting the Australian appeal judges to sympathize with its claims, but we didn't specifically say what Apple thought about it.
Then again, it doesn't take a genius to assume the Cupertino company's lawyers defended the original ruling that imposed the b... |
25 November 2011
08:49 GMT |
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A problem linked to how publisher Electronic Arts policies its official forums has reared its ugly had once again, resulting in lock-outs from both Battlefield 3 and the Origin digital distribution service for those who behave badly on the forums.Back in March players noticed that those who were banned for the way th... |
15 November 2011
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Samsung and Apple have been smashing heads together for a while now and, after several victories for the latter, the former is gaining the upper hand.Samsung may, in fact, succeed in proving that Apple's iPhone 4S infringes at least one of its 3G patents.An account of the of the hearing, from Florian Mueller, re... |
12 November 2011
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An ad for Marc Jacobs' Oh! Lola fragrance with Dakota Fanning has been banned in the UK after complaints were filed with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The agency has ruled it is too provocative. The ad shows 17-year-old Dakota sitting with an oversized bottle of the fragrance in her lap. She's ... |
10 November 2011
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Yet another episode has come to pass in the now infamous Apple-Samsung scuffle over the latter's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, one that may bode well for Samsung in fact. Samsung was able to gain a court approval, in Australia, for the acceleration of its appeal against the ban that Apple won against its tablet. T... |
27 October 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Horror movie fans in the UK shouldn’t despair that they’re deprived of seeing in theaters the sequel to the 2009 film that shocked even the most seasoned of them, “Human Centipede.” The ban on “Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)” has just been lifted.
As we also informed you a w... |
8 October 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Samsung may have fought Apple's lawsuit tooth and nail, but its efforts were, ultimately, proven to have been in vain, even if the plans to keep on fighting the ruling haven't changed.
Users interested in tablets probably know of all the legal issues they have caused, most of the lawsuits being started ... |
9 September 2011
07:26 GMT |
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Samsung may have gotten the preliminary ban on the Galaxy Tab partially lifted, but it looks like a new ban has been enforced, this once in the Netherlands, Hague more precisely.The past couple of weeks have not been very pleasant for Samsung, especially not on the tablet market. While the company did bus... |
24 August 2011
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A version of Gears of War 3, the much awaited third person shooter from developer Epic Games, has been leaked on torrent sites for some time and the team working on the game has already voiced its displeasure at the breach.But now they are saying that those players who have downloaded the leak and are now spoiling th... |
16 August 2011
07:15 GMT |
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Google's decision to ban Anonymous-related accounts from its new Google+ service was the last drop for the hacktivists who decided to create their own social network.One account called "Your Anon News" was apparently the most popular one, but others associated with the group were silenced as well."This is the sa... |
18 July 2011
08:29 GMT |
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California Senator Leland Yee, the main sponsor of the law that sought to ban the sale of violent video games to children, has reacted to the decision of the United States Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional, saying that he regrets the ruling and that he plans to reintroduce legislation that would have ... |
29 June 2011
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Not talking on your phone or sending texts during the movie is common sense by now, but many would still beg to differ. One woman went to an Alamo Drafthouse theater in Texas and sent texts during the movie, getting herself kicked out of the screening – and the theater made a hilarious PSA of the whole thing.
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9 June 2011
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The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is so appalled by “The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)” and the images it puts onscreen that it has flat-out refused to rate it, which means it’s been outlawed and will not be released in the UK at all. Horror fans will remember 2009’s “T... |
8 June 2011
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Prince has nothing but love for Whitney Houston and recent reports of his banning her from his live shows because of “erratic behavior” are just rumors. A rep for the singer has issued a statement setting the record straight on the so-called ban.For the past couple of days, rumors have been saying that Wh... |
13 May 2011
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Google is having problems in Turkey again, Blogger has been blocked entirely in the country by a local court. The issue, this time, is with copyrighted content, streams of football matches showing up on various Blogger blogs. The solution, a local media company believed, was to block millions of blogs and millions of... |
5 March 2011
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Reports are saying that custom officials in European Union countries are now seizing shipments of the PlayStation 3 home-gaming console from Sony that are entering the territory, as a direct result of a legal battle that is being waged between Japanese electronics giant Sony and South Korean company LG.
A civil co... |
1 March 2011
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Sony's recent banning spree on the PlayStation Network can easily be undone by hackers, as a new exploit has reportedly appeared, which allows them to unban their consoles and even ban other devices and users.
Sony has begun fighting back against hackers who took advantage of exploits on its platform and ran ... |
18 February 2011
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An ad for Yves Saint Laurent’s Belle d’Opium has just been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK following complaints that it may be interpreted as “simulating drug use.”
The ad, starring YSL muse Mélanie Thierry and directed by Romain Gavras, shows a woman da... |
4 February 2011
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One McDonald’s location in Leyland, England has a new security rule: after 7 p.m, all under-eighteens wearing tracksuits will not be served food and will be asked to leave the premises. Scott Wilson learned that the hard way.The 16-year-old boy is telling the British media that he went to McD’s for some t... |
28 January 2011
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Actress Olivia Munn is on the cover of the February 2011 issue of Maxim, which in itself is not unheard of. However, despite Munn’s history with men’s magazine, this one breaks the mould: and should be banned for how scandalous it is. The cover in question includes a shot of Munn in a low-cut top that she... |
13 January 2011
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Professional ballroom dancer, actress and country singer Julianne Hough has learned on her own that, sometimes, her dancing can be too much for television: Country Music Television has banned her latest video, for “Is That So Wrong,” it has emerged.Though CMT is denying all allegations in this sense, it w... |
18 December 2010
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Jared Leto recently said he was striving to be an artist: the recently released video for 30 Seconds to Mars’ “Hurricane” single is clear proof that he’s on the right path. The 13-minute official video is so confusing and, at times, explicit that most networks have refused to play it at all. M... |
2 December 2010
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A commercial for a Nivea product claiming to make women feel even more attractive than they were 10 years ago has been banned in the UK after complaints were lodged with watchdog ASA. The Daily Mail reports the ad caused quite some fuss with viewers for hinting that women using the anti-wrinkle cream from Nivea would... |
10 November 2010
14:21 GMT |
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The YouTube ban in Turkey has been lifted, according to officials. This came after videos that the country found offensive were removed from the site. While Google has confirmed that it's starting to see some traffic coming from Turkey, it says it has no direct involvement with the removal of the videos and that... |
1 November 2010
10:22 GMT |
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At the beginning of the week, a fuming Kanye West took to his Twitter to rant about how Walmart didn’t know or appreciate real art, banning the cover art for his upcoming album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.”Shortly after, he said he would be coming out with several covers for the same album, i... |
23 October 2010
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Rapper Kanye West is preparing for the release of a brand new album, called “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” but he’s already having some problems with it, since, he says, Walmart has banned his cover. Over the weekend, Kanye took to his Twitter to vent, says E! Online: the US doesn’t want... |
19 October 2010
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Parents thought Katy Perry’s recent appearance on Sesame Street was a bit too much (or too little, depending on how one looks at it) because of the cleavage on her green mini-dress. Elmo would like to disagree.
As we also informed you the other day, footage that Perry shot for an episode that should have ai... |
24 September 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Ice cream may be a wonderful treat at any time of day, especially in the summer, but ads for it depicting pregnant nuns are offensive, the Advertising Standards Authority has decided after receiving complaints about one such ad. According to the Guardian, Catholics in the UK took offense at the printed ad and complai... |
16 September 2010
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Developer Blizzard has launched a tough ultimatum to players who are cheating their way to victory in the multiplayer component of Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, saying that all those who the company judges to be breaking the end user license agreement will be banned from the online component of the game, which is po... |
15 September 2010
05:54 GMT |
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In its long-lasting battle against YouTube, Turkey officials banned a new set of Google-owned IPs in an attempt to stop Turkish Internet users from accessing the dreaded video platform. According to the online edition of the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet, Turkey’s Telecommunications Communication Presidency (... |
5 June 2010
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Pakistan Government officials have announced an Internet ban imposed on more than 450 websites that was set in place today, May 20th, 2010. The main reason cited by Islamabad officials was the deeply sacrilegious and derogatory material present on these sites.Immediately after their filter was put into place, Pakista... |
20 May 2010
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Laura Hall of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, has officially become the first person ever to be banned from drinking in any of the pubs, bars and clubs in England and Wales, The Sun reports. Because of repeated drinking-related offenses in her hometown, the 20-year-old is also prohibited from buying alcohol or carrying a... |
16 April 2010
15:21 GMT |
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Late last week, Lady Gaga dropped the official video for her collaboration with Beyonce, “Telephone.” Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, the clip almost instantly led to the question of whether it would be too hot for TV, with reports saying yesterday that MTV was among the first networks to ban it. Not qu... |
16 March 2010
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has lifted some limitations it imposed on US-based software makers and web service providers regarding three countries: Cuba, Iran and Sudan. The bans applied to North Korea and Syria still remain in place, and apply to any software tr... |
9 March 2010
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The Academy has taken concrete action against Nicolas Chartier, one of the producers on the Oscar-nominated film “The Hurt Locker,” this year’s biggest contender at the awards ceremony, together with James Cameron’s “Avatar.” Chartier has disgraced himself with the panel by breakin... |
3 March 2010
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As James Cameron’s latest film, “Avatar,” is taking huge leaps towards becoming the most successful movie ever made, surpassing current record holder “Titanic” (also a James Cameron film), China has officially ruled that the movie is too successful. “Avatar” in 2D will be yan... |
21 January 2010
03:34 GMT |
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