CYBERSPACE — Under normal circumstances, a 50-something machinist and self-described “blue-collar guy” wouldn’t seem like much of a threat to a tech-heavy industry that generates an estimated $40 billion annually. Nevertheless, online advertisers and publishers are...

REDMOND, WA — A Microsoft vice president confirmed this week that Windows 7, the successor to Vista, will ship “sometime in or near January 2010.”In a letter to vendors and major customers, Bill Veghte noted the company is standing firm on the proposed ship date. He also...

ST. LOUIS, MO — The fourth-largest cable company in the U.S. has ditched a plan to monitor its customers’ internet use in order to determine their interests and sell the data to advertisers who want to target online pitches.Charter Communications said its data-collection...

NORFOLK, VA — Performers getting onstage during any of the Town Point Park Festevents concerts had better leave their bad language at the stage door if they want to get paid and avoid trouble with the law. Rap, country, rock, folk; it doesn’t matter. Saying a bad word will...

REDMOND, WA — Wonders never cease: Microsoft this week rescinded Windows XP’s death sentence after taking a public beating from users who find the operating system much preferable to its successor, Windows Vista.Instead of falling off the tech-support rails in 2011 as...

SPRINGFIELD, MO – The moral minority frequently attends city council meetings demanding protection from the alleged secondary effects of adult entertainment establishments – but it never offers any protections to the businesses from the secondary effects of living in a modern...

CLEARWATER, FL — A respected anthropologist says dancing in topless clubs helps women become poised, self-confident, and creative individuals who often go on to higher education and successful business careers.Academy Award winner Diablo Cody (Juno) “is one of many...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — With airlines charging for everything from a single piece of stored luggage to a can of soda to “extra” leg room, it was only a matter of time until one proposed weight-based fees for the privilege of flying. Readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and...

PENSACOLA, FL — First Amendment attorney Lawrence Walters is trying a new approach to convince a jury the material at issue in Ray Guhn’s obscenity trial meets one prong of the Miller Test: It does not fall outside the bounds of the local community’s standards of decency....

KNOXVILLE, TN — Nice Guys have long watched in horror as the girls they fancied fell into the arms and beds of heartless Lotharios that provided them with endless hours of Dear Abby letter-writing fodder and relationship baggage. Why, oh why, didn’t those girls spend their...