NEW YORK (AP) — Nintendo has sold more than 400,000 of its new video game console, the Wii U, in its first week on sale in the U.S., the company said Monday.The Wii U launched on Nov. 18 in the U.S. at a starting price of $ 300. Nintendo said the sales figure, based on internal estimates, is through Saturday, or seven days later.The Wii U is the first major game console to launch in six years. It...
Fla. man sues ex-Elmo puppeteer, claims NY abuse
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man has sued the ex-Elmo puppeteer who resigned amid a sex scandal, saying the voice actor met him in New York after trolling gay telephone chat lines seeking underage boys for sex.The lawsuit seeking unspecified damages was filed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday by a man who remains anonymous.The man says he met Kevin Clash on a chat line when he was 16 years old in 2000...
Imaging Shows Progressive Damage by Parkinson’s
Label: HealthFor the first time, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report, brain imaging has been able to show in living patients the progressive damage Parkinson’s disease causes to two small structures deep in the brain. The new technique confirms some ideas about the overall progress of the disease in the brain. But the effects of Parkinson’s vary in patients, the researchers...
SolarCity pegs IPO at $13 to $15 a share, or up to $151 million
Label: Business SolarCity Corp., a Bay Area solar energy company, is looking to raise as much as $151 million in its initial public offering,...
Nov
26
SEC chief Mary Schapiro to step down
Label: World WASHINGTON -- Mary Schapiro said Monday she will step down as chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission next month.Schapiro,...
Yes, the Government Can Still Spy on Your Digital Life (for Now)
Label: TechnologyAhead of a controversial Senate debate on digital privacy this week, the battle over warrantless cell-phone and Internet searches is beginning to take shape — even as law-enforcement agencies continue to carry out the searches anyway. Judges across the country have thrown out cases that used tracked digital American lives without warrants, but others haven’t, reports The New York Times‘s Somini...
Danish theater cancels Amy Winehouse play
Label: LifestyleCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Amy Winehouse's father has stopped the performance in Denmark of a play about the late British singer, declining permission for the use of her music and photos in the production, officials said Monday.The play "Amy," which was to have opened on Jan. 30 in a 220-seat theater in central Copenhagen, was based on interviews, concerts, Winehouse's letters and newspaper articles....
Agency Investigates Deaths and Injuries Associated With Bed Rails
Label: HealthThomas Patterson for The New York TimesGloria Black’s mother died in her bed at a care facility. In November 2006, when Clara Marshall began suffering from the effects of dementia, her family moved her into the Waterford at Fairway Village, an assisted living home in Vancouver, Wash. The facility offered round-the-clock care for Ms. Marshall, who had wandered away from home several times. Her husband...
Fiscal cliff warning sends stock market lower
Label: Business Traders came back to work on Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend to the same old worries about the fiscal cliff and the European...
Nov
25
Attack on Pakistani Shia Muslims kills five, injures 70
Label: World ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A bomb blast in northwest Pakistan killed five people and injured 70 others Sunday, provincial and local...
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