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Facebook considering lower age restrictions

2012-06-12 08:13:00

The folks at Facebook are thinking about lowering the age restrictions on the site to allow tweens. Officially, the site is closed to those under age 13, but many kids lie about their age to get in. My tween tried it and was kicked off the site. I'm not...

Boy, 11, dies after being shot accidentally by his brother in Pylesville

2012-06-05 10:17:18

An 11-year-old boy, who was about to finish fifth grade and get ready for his summer vacation, died Saturday morning after he was accidentally shot in the head by his younger brother. The Harford County Sheriff's Office was notified by the boy's...

Marriottsville/Sykesville/Woodstock: Mt. View Middle School creates inventive fundraiser with Olympic Day

2012-05-27 00:00:00

Good news is never too late to share, and Mt. View Middle School deserves recognition for a unique event that took place earlier in the spring. First, a little background: This year, the Mt. View PTA decided to forego traditional fundraisers, such as...

Mass appeal: what do we want out of our MMOs?

2012-06-18 10:27:00

Electronic Arts is confident that “Star Wars: The Old Republic” is a massively multiplayer online game that people will be playing in a decade. As they told GamesIndustry International, EA is also considering variations on a free-to-play...

Grocery retailers compete with mobile shopping tools

2012-06-16 00:00:00

Plenty of shoppers at a Baltimore Safeway have started checking their cell phones while pushing carts and scanning shelves. They may have been texting or checking Facebook updates, but now grocery customers could use mobile devices to plan meals,...

Modern pentathlon: Perfect sport for Suzanne Stettinius

2012-06-16 11:22:00

Like many Olympic athletes not named Michael Phelps, Suzanne Stettinius is both training and fundraising in these final weeks before the Summer Games. She's made appeals via Facebook and her blog and, next week, will host a party at a Baltimore County...

Finally somebody says it: Graduates, you're not that special

2012-06-14 03:00:00

The English-teacher son of a Pulitzer Prize winner gave a much-ballyhooed commencement speech recently to students graduating from an American high school that one might categorize as privileged. David McCullough Jr., a teacher at Wellesley High School in...

Woofound wants to help personalize the web

2012-06-15 14:00:00

The idea for Woofound came to Joshua Spears while he struggled to plan a blind date. He was looking for things to do and places to eat that matched his and his date's tastes and preferences in a personal way. But there was no app for that. So he and...

Not many 'likes' for Facebook IPO

2012-05-24 09:00:00

Kevin Kallaugher's depiction of new investors in Facebook essentially as being sheep waiting to be sheared ("Standing between Fortune and Chaos," May 20) was right on the mark. Despite a reported 900 million participants in Facebook, but with only $5 in...

Anne Arundel County religion briefs

2012-05-25 00:00:00

Services to honor military Active-duty military and veterans will be recognized in worship services at 8 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Sunday, May 27, at Galilee Lutheran Church, 4652 Mountain Road in Pasadena. Military personnel will be invited to come forward to...

Sharon Love's lawsuit raises questions about coaches' responsibilities

2012-05-24 14:31:00

Although a Charlottesville, Va., jury found one man — athlete George Huguely V — criminally responsible for the beating death of Yeardley Love, his former girlfriend and fellow lacrosse player at the University of Virginia, the young woman's...

Hon trademark dead...or is it?

2012-05-25 13:11:00

After celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay and his show "Kitchen Nightmares"visited Cafe Hon last year, Denise Whiting agreed to kill her trademark of the word "Hon." She did as she said. And yet, mention of the trademark appears in literature for this year's...

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook Inc., speaks at an event last month in Menlo Park, Calif. Legislation passed by the state Senate would require social networking firms to remove personal information about minors at the request of their parents.

2013-04-04 00:00:00

Timberlake gained attention for playing Sean Parker, the Napster kingpin who takes Jesse Eisenberg's Mark Zuckerberg, right, under his wing in this year's film about the early days of social media website Facebook.

2013-03-27 16:01:00

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., arrives at a Barnes & Noble Inc. store to speak about her new book "Lean In" in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, March 12, 2013.

2013-03-11 00:00:00