CANOGA PARK, CA — Dressing and talking like a pirate may still be hip and cool, but those attempting to protect their content — pornographic or otherwise — from real world piracy on the internet high seas will have a chance during this weekend’s Phoenix Forum to...

TAMPA, FL — Virtual-world crimes can have real-life consequences, as men in Texas and New York now know. Eros LLC owner Kevin Alderman’s dispute with Robert Leatherwood and Thomas Simon spilled over into the real world when Alderman sued the men over cyber-theft. The two...

LONDON — According to a recent survey by The Sun columnist Deidre Sanders, “huge numbers of people are using the net to cheat on partners, and internet porn is destroying their sex lives.”In a survey of 4,000 “Dear Deidre” readers, Sanders discovered one in three people...

LONDON — An Argentinean actor has taken exception to the Royal Opera House’s use of a naked photograph of him to promote its production of the Verdi opera Rigoletto.It’s not that Juan Pablo di Pace, 28, minded appearing nude in public. The image, after all, had been...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — March is not a particularly auspicious month for ICM Registry LLC. In March 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers rejected — for the second time — the company’s proposal to manage the much-reviled dot-xxx sponsored Top Level...

LONDON — Smartphones will grow from around 10-percent of the total global handset market in 2007 to 31-percent of the market in 2013, according to a new study from ABI Research. The study’s authors predicated their prediction on a number of factors, including carriers’...

ROME — Breaking up may invariable be hard to do, but some people seem especially determined to make it as unpleasant an experience as possible. That certainly was the case when one jilted Italian lover decided to dedicate a website to his heartbreak – or at least to...

CYBERSPACE – In order to infect the most computers with Trojans that link them to worldwide spamming networks, hackers have turned to a new lure: herbal impotence cures. According to Threat Research and Content Engineering, a division of email and content-security firm Marshal,...

NEW YORK CITY, NY — Today’s mobile-phone owners use a mix of mobile content obtained from the Web, from their personal collections, and from their wireless carriers, according to a recent consumer survey by ABI Research. That behavior indicates consumers are intent upon...

NEW YORK CITY, NY — If only Stephen Chang had listened to anti-strip club forces, he might have been better prepared for the dangers that awaited him inside of the Hot Lap Dance Club near Madison Square Garden. But, instead, the hapless businessmen entered in ignorance –...