JAPAN — With both players and discs already available for both competing ‘nextgen’ DVD formats, corporate backers of each format are set to market burners capable of writing to the two new high-definition media types.Toshiba, a partisan of the HD-DVD camp, announced last...

SAN JOSE, CA – U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel dropped hints at a hearing last Friday that parenting advice website KinderStart.com may be permitted to proceed in its lawsuit against Google, if the company can provide more support for its claims in a revised...

NEW YORK, NY — Most people think of youth as the time for uninhibited, devil-may-care behavior, but when it comes to television, the older it gets, the wilder it gets – much to the dismay of social conservatives who wish it would just grow up and act its age.On Saturday,...

PITTSBURGH, PA — Hell hath no fury like a lover scorned, as Tasha C. Joseph, the owner of DontDateHimGirl.com recently discovered. Or perhaps the fury increases when the lover in question finds their name dragged through the virtual cyber mud.Todd J. Hollis is an attorney...

DENTON, TX — It’s been said that honesty is the best policy, and two Texan beauties have plenty to think about on that score after having been handed a legal defeat that hinged, in part, upon the fact that the girls had lied about their age.The case in question featured...

WASHINGTON, DC – A final version of the “Communications, Consumer’s Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006” has made its way out of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and now is due to be debated by the full Senate. The legislation may yet face a...

JAKARTA — Almost as if on cue, the first issue of Playboy Magazine to be published in predominantly Muslim Indonesia has resulted in charges of indecency being leveled against that country’s editor-in-chief and first centerfold.Kartika Gunawan may have run afoul of her...

JACKSONVILLE, FL – You’ve heard the term “master thief;”last weekend in Florida, an adult business in Jacksonville may have fallen victim to a “mastur thief.”John Carter, who owns the Diet Alert Center in Jacksonville, told Jacksonville Sheriff’s officers that someone broke into...

SEATTLE, WA — Los Angeles resident Brian Johnson filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft this week, charging that the company violated spyware laws with its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy system.Filed June 26th in U.S. District Court in Seattle,...

WASHINGTON, DC — As if Joseph Francis doesn’t have enough legal battles on his hands, Mantra Films, his Girls Gone Wild built production company, is still not in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mandated guidelines.That’s what ConsumerAffairs.com,...