Electronics Arts' Help Center page is part of its effort to improve its customer service.(Credit:EA)An avid player of Electronic Arts' "The Simpsons: Tapped Out" mobile game, David Lamb was disheartened when he logged into his account in October and found that all of the data from him game was gone. The iOS game, which is essentially "Farmville" with Springfield buildings and Simpsons characters,...
John Kerry tapped to be next Secretary of State
Labels: Health President Obama is nominating Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, CBS News has learned. An official announcement is forthcoming later today. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, has widely been seen as the frontrunner for the position since U.N. ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration. Rice came under heavy fire from Republican...
Amid Protest, NRA Calls for Armed Guards in Schools
Labels: Business The National Rifle Association stood its ground today in arguing that the answer to gun violence in schools is an armed security force that can protect students, while blaming the media and violent entertainment and video games for recent deadly shootings."The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre...
Syrian rebels fight for strategic town in Hama province
Labels: WorldBEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels began to push into a strategic town in Syria's central Hama province on Thursday and laid siege to at least one town dominated by President Bashar al-Assad's minority sect, activists said. The operation risks inflaming already raw sectarian tensions as the 21-month-old revolt against four decades of Assad family rule - during which the president's Alawite sect...
Moments of silence, bells mark US school shooting
Labels: Technology NEWTOWN: Mourners in Newtown, Connecticut, stood in silence under heavy rain while church bells rang to honour the 20 young children and six staff massacred in a school shooting a week ago.The sombre scene at 9:30 am local time, the moment a week earlier when a deranged local man armed with semiautomatic weapons burst into the Sandy Hook Elementary School, was echoed around the country...
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T-Mobile grows 4G in 14 new markets, sort of offers 4G iPhone
Labels: LifestyleSoon, you can get a 4G iPhone that runs on T-Mobile's network.(Credit:CBS Interactive)If you're desperate to stay with T-Mobile's service and rock an iPhone, the nation's fourth-largest carrier has good tidings on both fronts.Today, T-Mobile unveiled plans to expand its 1,900MHZ band in 14 new markets, bringing its grand total to 37 cities covered by the faster network.In addition, the carrier announced...
House GOP: We have the votes for "Plan B"
Labels: Health As the House readies for an expected vote on an alternate plan to avoid massive tax hikes on all income earners, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said he is confident he will have enough support to pass their plan. "We're going to have the votes," Cantor told reporters this morning. It seemed talks between House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and President Obama were progressing, as both...
Winter Weather Threatens Christmas Travel
Labels: Business A pre-Christmas blizzard that is battering at least eight states in the middle of the nation could trip up travelers headed home for Christmas in the coming days.Nearly 20 inches of snow have been reported in Colorado just west of Denver. Nebraska has reported 6-to-10 inches so far. Between 3 and 8 inches have accumulated in Iowa already and more is possible. Snow is falling...
Syrian rebels fight for strategic town in Hama province
Labels: WorldBEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels thrust into a strategic town in Syria's central Hama province on Thursday, activists said, pursuing a string of territorial gains to help cut army supply lines and cement a foothold in the capital Damascus to the south. They have made a series of advances across the country, seizing several military installations and more heavy weaponry, hardening the threat...
Russia's Putin denies propping up Assad
Labels: Technology MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday denied propping up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and stressed that Moscow was only seeking to avert a perpetual civil war."We are not concerned about (Bashar Assad's fate. We understand that the family has been in power for 40 years and there is a need for change," Putin told a major Moscow press briefing.But he made no call on Assad...
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