NEW YORK, NY — It’s official: HD DVD is dead. On Tuesday, consumer electronics company Toshiba announced it no longer will manufacture players for the high-definition video format, effectively ending a running battle with rival technology Blu-ray, developed by Sony.“We...

USA — Hormel Foods hates it. Busy email users hate it. Internet service providers hate it. Legitimate business owners resent its impact. Although it must be profitable to someone, everybody seems to agree that spam sucks. A recent article in Modern Mechanix reminds...

SANTA CLARITA, CA — NETbilling recently added the ability for merchant clients to pass through currency codes in tandem with their transactions. The new currency code field will be supported as part of the postback string for merchants using NETbilling’s direct-mode...

HOLLYWOOD, CA — Maybe the Motion Picture Association of America’s number crunchers should have spent more time in math class. On January 22nd, the organization that represents the U.S. motion picture industry admitted it botched the figures in a 2005 study of illegal file...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Online fetish giant Kink.com has introduced the wired world to a lot of strange and wonderful things during the past 11 years – and it’s about to do it again; this time not just with its content but its format.Starting immediately, visitors to the...

HONG KONG — Baidu.com, China’s most popular search engine, has had its wrist slapped by the government for allegedly including in search results what appear to be sexually explicit images of Hong Kong stars.The scandal started when photos said to be of actor Edison Chen and...

SEATTLE, WA — Leave it to the Pacific Northwest to come up with a more “green” way to do something – including commit a crime. As the Seattle Post-Intelligencer tells it, the six-foot tall man wearing a workman’s jacket and satchel-style shoulder bag had an armload of sex...

WASHINGTON, DC — Consumers enjoy purchasing merchandise and services online because the process is convenient, saves them time, and can save them money. Still, three-quarters of online shoppers say they continue to worry about the safety of their personal financial...

NEW YORK, NY — Comcast is standing by its story that it uses reasonable methods to control traffic on its networks, comparing its methods to those used to manage freeway traffic.On Tuesday, the broadband internet service provider filed an 80-page report with the U.S....

CAMBRIDGE, UK — Even the most ignorant computer user knows that “worms” are bad things to have crawling around in their operating systems, even if they don’t bother to make it difficult for them to get there. A Microsoft research team in the UK is hoping to use the power of...