BATTLE CREEK, MI — The Michigan Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) has opened an inquiry into activities which took place during a February 17th concert as part of the Girls Gone Wild Rocks America Tour.The concert, which was hosted by a venue called Planet Rock in Battle...

SAN JOSE, CA – US District Court Judge James Ware said Tuesday that he intends to grant federal prosecutors at least a portion of their request for data contained in Google’s enormous database of search records.Ware said he intends to issue his decision “very quickly,”N and that...

TORONTO, CANADA — The way Platinum Mario and PlatinumFeeds Paul see it, it’s nice to have hip and trendy content – but it’s even better to have content of enduring quality.“We’re kind of like 3M,” Mario, an affiliate manager for PlatinumBucks, explains. “They don’t invent...

CHICAGO, IL – New York-based “adware” company Direct Revenue LLC has settled a class action lawsuit brought by Stephen Sotolo of Lemont, Illinois in March of last year.Under the terms of the deal, which has received preliminary approval from a federal judge, Direct Revenue admits...

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday that two more defendants, Clarence Thomas Gartman and former Houston Police Officer Brent Alan McDowell, have been convicted by a federal jury in Dallas for their part in a business that sold simulated rape...

VAN NUYS, CA — When most people think of porcelain, they think of a hard, white, translucent ceramic created from pure clay that has been fired and glazed and shaped into a pleasing configuration. If Digital Playground has anything to say about it, once people have seen the...

MARINA DEL RAY, CA – Leading adult transaction processor Epoch (aka Paycom) has announced that Joel Hall has been named chief executive officer of the company and that Clay Andrews, another of the company’s founders, has stepped down as the president of the company in order to...

CYBERSPACE – For a short period of time last Friday, an error in the McAfee virus definitions file caused the company’s antivirus products to flag Microsoft’s Excel and other innocuous applications as a virus named W95/CTX. The flaw was confirmed by Joe Telafici, director of...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Child porn charges brought against a former meteorologist for KUTV in Salt Lake City and his business partner may hinge on the definition of “lascivious exhibition,” a term which is not defined in federal law.Matthew John Duhamel, who once worked as...

DEERFIELD BEACH, FL – A huge cache of stolen customer data recently uncovered by a pair of security firms did not come from a breach of iBill’s security, the president of the beleaguered company told Wired.After cross-referencing the 17 million allegedly stolen records against...