LANSING, MI – Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced Thursday that he has filed criminal charges against two companies for sending unsolicited email to addresses registered with the State of Michigan in the Protect MI Child Registry, in violation of the Michigan’s Child...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Encouraged by her previous placement in the 2003 gubernatorial recall election, porn star Mary Carey has decided to give it a second go in the upcoming race for the mansion.Legally known (and appearing on ballots) as Mary Cook, the 26-year-old Independent...

TOPEKA, KS — Authorities in Shawnee County have a unique definition of what’s “obscene” — and they’re attempting to apply it to six businesses, which currently face criminal charges due to their product inventory.After the area sheriff’s...

SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Jay Grdina has a lot on his mind these days, what with a high profile porn divorce and the personal and professional drama that comes with it. But thanks to the decision of a Babe’s Cabaret stripper, he has one less thing to worry about now.Amanda...

LAS VEGAS, NV – During Saturday’s session of the Defcon convention, IT security researcher Jesse D’Aguanno announced that he has developed a program called “BBProxy” that, when executed on a Blackberry device, could give an attacker access to the victim’s network. D’Aguanno also...

CYBERSPACE – Microsoft Corp. released a report Tuesday identifying 12 security flaws, nine considered “critical,” and provided software updates on its website to patch the holes. Yesterday, the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an unusual alert of its own, urging PC...

LOS ANGELES, CA — This summer has been rife with big screen and recording industry divorces and break-ups, and the known body count increased today, with Hollywood gossip site PerezHilton.com posting a compromising photo of recently separated rocker Dave Navarro with...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Some say that Mattel’s Barbie doll has everything. She may have a pink convertible, a gay ex-boyfriend, an astronaut’s suit, and more spiked heels than Imelda Marcos, but she’s never been a Playboy Bunny. Only real girls can grow up to do...

CYBERSPACE – Google Inc. and News Corp. have arrived at an agreement under which Google will pay $900 million across three and half years to provide text-based advertising and keyword targeted ads across the Fox Interactive Media network, as well as News Corp’s popular...

REDMOND, WA – Research papers presented by Microsoft Corp. at the 2006 Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) conference show that the software giant has been working hard behind the scenes to tackle the issue of internet...