WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court next year will take up the case of the so-called “S&M Svengali,” whose conviction on forced-labor and sex-trafficking charges was set aside on procedural grounds.On Tuesday the justices agreed to hear the government’s appeal in the case of...

CYBERSPACE – Good news for pay-per-click advertisers on Yahoo.com! If you went out of business while buying pay-per-click ads from Yahoo.com, you might be eligible for twenty bucks. Seriously, twenty stinkin’ measly bucks. That windfall comes courtesy settlement of a class...

CYBERSPACE – After a particularly impressive set of bedroom maneuvers, do you roll over and go to sleep or let the Twitterverse and your Facebook friends know? If the latter, you’re among the 36 percent of social-networkers who post updates immediately after having sex, according...

CYBERSPACE – In just a few weeks, much of America will dress their small children up in costumes of a spooky, heroic or humorous nature and send them off to beg for candy. Then, after candy bags are full and the kids are safely parked in front of the latest “Goosebumps”...

CYBERSPACE – If you pass a guy in the in the street who looks like he was just hit by a truck, he probably sells digital media on the Internet. If you pass a young woman who looks like she just spent four days in Vegas and slept less than four hours each night, she probably...

NEW YORK — A majority of Americans (57 percent) favors allowing gay and lesbian couples to enter into legal agreements that would give them many of the same rights as married couples, a status commonly known as civil unions. Only 37 percent oppose the idea, according to the...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday added sexual identity to the federal government’s definition of hate crimes. The measure, an amendment to H.R. 2647 — the $680-billion, must-pass National Defense Authorization Act — still requires Senate approval before...

SWEDEN – Opponents of online piracy would like nothing more than to get directly at the individuals who are illegally sharing and receiving copyrighted works online. The matter isn’t so simple for the courts, however, who often have to choose between assisting the owners of...

CYBERSPACE – Pepsi found out the hard way recently that the same rules that allow beer companies to exploit sexually suggestive marketing campaigns don’t necessarily apply to soda companies. The company fell under heavy online criticism recently after it released a free app for...

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. – Seymore Butts’ sexual how-to book for men, Rock Her World: The Sex Guide for the Modern Man, is scheduled to hit bookstores Nov. 12. Publisher Gotham Books, a division of Penguin, describes the 240-page hardcover tome with the arousing teaser, “From pick-up...