NEW YORK, NY — Forty million U.S. cellular phone subscribers (or 15.6-percent of the total) actively use the mobile internet, making the U.S. a leader in mobile internet adoption, according to a report from The Nielsen Company. Among the 16 countries tracked, the U.S. leads...

WASHINGTON, DC — The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Justice in an attempt to force the DOJ to explain how and why it tracks cellular phone users. The lawsuit seeks “documents, memos and...

CYBERSPACE – A fundamental flaw in the internet that could have allowed hackers to control all of cyberspace was patched Tuesday, but security experts are warning users to be on guard for cyberattacks on un-patched servers and individual PCs.The vulnerability in the Domain Name...

CALGARY, CANADA — Maybe Ryan Draper figured he’d done his part for the customers searching for InformCycle.ca but keying in InformCycle.com. Maybe he figured that he’d played nice long enough and he needed to do something shocking to get his ex-employer’s attention. Or...

NEW YORK, NY — A federal judge has ordered Google Inc. to turn over data about YouTube users to Viacom Inc., sparking an outcry from privacy advocates.The order came in the midst of legal wrangling surrounding a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit Viacom filed on...

LOS ANGELES, CA — It wasn’t long ago that alleged ex-call girl and arguably underage Girls Gone Wild breast flashing amateur, Ashley Dupre, was adamant about wanting Joe Francis to fork over $10 million and a promise not to pimp her footage or her image. Now she just wants...

ITALY — It difficult enough being a fat man in a thin man’s world – but when clothing malfunctions happen, the repercussions can be more than embarrassing; they can be obscenely litigious. An excessively overweight man defended himself against charges of obscenity recently...

TORONTO, CANADA — The Canadian Parliament is on the cusp of approving a new copyright law that exceeds the provisions of the U.S.’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and not everyone is happy about the proposed crackdown on piracy.As a way of drawing public attention to...

REDMOND, WA — Internet Explorer 8, the next version of Microsoft Corp.’s ubiquitous Web browser, will include safety features designed to detect and defend against malicious scripts embedded in Web pages and email messages. The new features will be bundled with IE’s...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Porn sites may be popular, but Reuters reports that Mozilla kicked a record number of virtual asses last Wednesday, when the Firefox 3.0 release of its open-source Web browser became available for download.So popular is the new browser that its first 24...