No charges filed in teen suicide

There will be no criminal charges filed in the case of the teenage girl who committed suicide after being bullied on the Internet, reports Dallas News.

St Charles County prosecutor Jack Banas said that based on available evidence, the actions of the people involved in the Internet bullying did not meet the standards required by state laws for harassment, stalking or endangering the welfare of a child.

Banas announced his decision at a news conference called to discuss the Megan Meier case. Megan, aged 13, hanged herself last year. Her parents said her suicide was the result of harassment via her MySpace Web page.

Only four days after releasing version 2.0.0.10 of Firefox 2.0 to fix six known bugs, browser developers at Mozilla had to scramble to push out another update, version 2.0.0.11, to fix a new bug that caused problems when the browser was rendering "canvas" HTML elements, says PC World.

The latest version was released on Friday and marks the first time Mozilla has issued two updates to the open source browser in one week.

Version 2.0.0.10 was released last Monday. The most recent canvas problems were detailed last week by Mozilla, which said at the time it expected to have an updated version out by last Friday.

According to one Wall Street analyst, News Corp`s Twentieth Century Fox is close to striking a deal with Apple to offer digital copies of its major motion pictures through iTunes, reports Apple Insider.

Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield said yesterday the companies are "actively negotiating" terms of the deal, which could be announced sometime in early 2008. Apple and Fox are reportedly prolonging the engagement so as not to tamper with this year`s critical holiday DVD shopping season.

The proposed deal, which would end a considerable standoff between Apple and nearly all Hollywood studios over the digital sale of movies, has reportedly been helped by the iTunes operator`s sudden willingness to increase the wholesale price of new flicks beyond $15.

Video gamers united against Cnet yesterday, accusing the tech-info company of censoring editorials on its popular site, GameSpot, to please advertisers, reports The Street.

A source familiar with the situation confirmed to TheStreet.com that game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann was fired from the company after writing a negative review of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, a violent action game published by Eidos Interactive.

The blogosphere is buzzing with allegations that Eidos threatened to pull a massive ad campaign off GameSpot unless the review was toned down and that Gerstmann was fired for not relenting to the editorial interference.