President Barrack Obama is known to be a bit of a geek at heart, but it looks like he’s got his sights set on video games, and perhaps not in a good way. Whilst addressing the American Medical Association in Chicago yesterday, President Obama called out video games as a factor in children’s unhealthy lifestyles.
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“Risk an early death, just do nothing” reads the caption on the UK Department of Health’s latest push to reduce childhood obesity and promote healthy living. It seems fairly run-of-the-mill at first glance, but not if you’re Sony and it’s one of your iconic PS3 control pads that’s being directly linked to childhood death. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is reportedly considering legal action against the Government’s latest Change4Life ad campaign.
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Apple’s management team faced their first public grilling over Steve Jobs’ health tonight after unveiling the company’s quarterly results. Both Tim Cook, Apple’s COO and stand-in CEO, and Peter Oppenheimer, the company’s CFO, faced down investors and the press, while Jobs himself was not present to comment.
Steve Jobs isn’t just the CEO of Apple, he also holds a place on the board of directors at Disney, after selling Pixar to the animation powerhouse in 2006 and unlike Apple, he’s not stepping down from his role there due to ill health.
UPDATE: Read Jobs’ full e-mail to Apple staff after the jump.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is to step down from the head of the company due to ill health. He will take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.