YNOT – Just when you stop thinking about security, another virus or security flaw makes the rounds and reminds you that security concerns should never stray too far from your thoughts. Yesterday it was reported that a new virus is making the rounds disguised as a “password reset”...

LOS ANGELES – Adult studio Pink Visual and online porn tabloid Fleshbot have launched a contest offering prizes to the Fleshbot readers who develop kinky concepts for a mobile games application.The contest arose from a discussion between the two companies about promoting...

YNOT – If news out of two tech giants this month is any indication, the battle over who will provide tools for searching content on social networks is just now heating up. No surprises on the frontrunners, as Bing and Google appear poised for combat over a meaningful place in the...

BEIJING – Chinese authorities continue to crack down on Web content they consider offensive or inappropriate, in apparent hope sanitizing the internet will prevent corruption of Chinese society.On Tuesday, the General Administration of Press and Publication announced censors had...

WILTON, Calif. — “This town ain’t big enough for the both of us.” So said a California father who was scandalized by a gay rodeo association’s charity event in his rural neighborhood near Sacramento.Monty Stanley indicated he wants the Capitol Crossroads Gay Rodeo Association...

CYBERSPACE – So long, GeoCities, and thanks for all the fish. After 14 years of hosting everything from family travelogues to fan sites to recipes for homemade bombs — and, yes, a smattering of porn — Yahoo closed the venerable free website service Monday.“We have enjoyed hosting...

CHICAGO – Internet use may help older adults think and reason more clearly, according to new research from the University of California, Los Angeles. Scientists say experimentation indicates after just one week of Web use, middle-age and older adults with little to no experience...

YNOT – Are you tired of moving from Twitter to email to Facebook and then back to Twitter just to keep in contact with friends or colleagues? If so, you might be interested in the latest project from the same team at Mozilla that created the Thunderbird email client.The new...

YNOT – The picture for online ad sales seems to be growing brighter, and the NY Times is reporting that display ad revenue for a variety of online advertising sources is once again on the rise. That doesn’t mean good times are here for signature news sites like NYTimes.com,...

YNOT – Jonathan Miller is a chief digital officer at News Corp., and when he took the stage at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, he had a simple message for why MySpace.com lost its position as the dominant social networking destination on the Internet.“I think that what...