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In a somewhat similar issue to that over Wikipedia and pictures of the prophet Muhammad, Sony has delayed the hotly-anticipated PS3 game LittleBigPlanet due to the discovery of background music tracks containing two expressions found in the Quran.

The game had been scheduled for North American release Tuesday. Instead, Sony says it will start shipping LittleBigPlanet to N.A. retailers on October 27. Copies of the game that have already shipped elsewhere in the world will be recalled from retailers and replaced, according to Sony.

It was a ...

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It's not a good sign when the developer of a format doesn't support it, yet with the announcement of its new MacBooks last Tuesday, Apple omitted FireWire ports from the new models. This stirred up a lot of criticism among Apple users, who expressed it on forums.

It's true, Apple developed IEEE 1394 or FireWire in 1995. And it's also true, the MacBook Pro still sports a FireWire 800 port. But many were disappointed, to say the least, with its omission from the more affordable MacBooks. From ...

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I've become enamored with gaming notebooks, and nowadays, despite the extra expense and the relative lack of upgradeability, I've decided to only buy laptops, and have been doing so for a few years. The thing is, the "hotter" a laptop is, the hotter it is temperature-wise. A notebook cooler is nearly required nowadays.

Lately though, the laptops I've purchased (a Dell Inspiron XPS M1710 and then an M1730) are simply too large to fit on most coolers, which are sized for 15" laptops at the ...

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In February, Wayne Forrester, 34, murdered his wife Emma, also 34, over posts she made on the social networking site Facebook.

The Forresters had a troubled marriage of 15 years, and just days after Forrester left the house she wrote on the site that she wanted to meet other men, and changed her online profile to "single."

Forrester told police:

"Emma and I had just split up. She forced me out. She then posted messages on an Internet website telling everyone she had left me and was looking to meet other men....

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