REDMOND, WA — Microsoft Corp. is having an inordinate amount of trouble keeping the lid on its plans for Windows 7, the successor to the notoriously unpopular Windows Vista operating system.On Saturday, Microsoft “accidentally” revealed plans to make available a release...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — The owners of notorious BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay have filed an appeal to their conviction last week on charges of contributory copyright infringement.In a blog posting at ThePirateBay.org, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij...

CYBERSPACE — If Bree Olson becomes the 2009 Twisty’s Pet of the Year, she promises to donate a portion of her winnings to her local Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty, in Ft. Wayne, IN. What other contestant hopefuls intend to do with the money if they walk away...

SUITLAND, MD — There was probably no sexy music playing when U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis removed what some like to imagine are layers of protection against the insidious evil they believe is adult entertainment, but they came off nonetheless. Hitting the metaphorical...

ORANGEVALE, CA — A high school cheerleading coach who appeared nude in the pages of Playboy magazine has been fired.Carlie Christine lost her Casa Robles High School job because parents complained about the example Christine’s centerfold status set for their daughters....

AKRON, OH — The economy is making life rough all over.According to an Akron, OH, report, the current financial crunch has even exotic dancers fighting over what little disposable income remains in the pockets of red-blooded American males. On Friday night, the competition...

SAN DIEGO, CA — “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. I have no idea what our cruising speed or distance from the earth is. But I do know that Puma Swede’s ass is much more fun to look at than the flight controls.” That’s not what a disgruntled...

LOS ANGELES, CA — To overly simplify a complex concept, the chaos theory proposes that the universe is connected via a nearly infinite number of nexus points that can be highly responsive to changes within the chain of associations. Much to its likely embarrassment, the ABC...

TEHRAN, IRAN — Iranian officials last week performed the biggest roundup to date of publishers whose websites violate Islamic law.The country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards took into custody 26 men and women on charges ranging from producing and distributing pornography to...

NEW YORK, NY — Public outcry and threatened legislation have convinced Time Warner Cable to back away from plans to test metered broadband internet access in four new markets this summer.For now, the company will confine its market testing to the Beaumont, TX, area, TWC...