Tag archive: Arnold

Families from New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina have filed suit against News Corp's enormously popular social networking Web site MySpace, alleging gross negligence, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met via the Web site. Each case alleged that an adult member of MySpace contacted the girls through the site, obtained personal information, and later… Read More

Gamers of…well, gamers of a certain age apparently have dim, dust-covered memories of a genre called the “side-scrolling shooter.” In these games jagged, pixelated backgrounds advanced from right to left across the screen at a fixed pace, and the player's character, vehicle, or abstract collection of pixels doggedly forged its way from left to right, overcoming obstacles, eliminating bad guys, and racking up… Read More

About 10 percent of Visa's 1.2 billion credit and debit cards in use worldwide already have a built-in computer chip, and that proportion is growing rapidly, Arnold says. The chip can store information that could be displayed on a small screen running across the top of a card, in a position similar to the magnetic strip on the back of most cards today. Visa expects to have produced working prototypes of the devices in about a… Read More