WASHINGTON, DC — The congressional Office of Management and Budget is soliciting public input as the agency reconsiders a longstanding policy banning the use of cookies to track visitors’ interests and habits on federal government websites.Once controversial because they...

NICOSIA, CYPRUS — The ubiquitous “they” say that we always hurt the ones we love – and if the toll being taken on the tomb of Saint Agapitikos is any example, the hurting doesn’t stop even centuries after death.Agapitikos, whose name means “lover” has become the last refuge...

CYBERSPACE — One of the newest and most innovative examples of Web2.0 social networking technology has become the target of what may be one of the newest and most innovative examples of the Koobface malware. Or not.According to Paul Henry, security analyst for Lumension,...

PATNA, INDIA — Farmers in an eastern portion of India are desperate for rain. With fields drying and crops dying, their only hope is to embarrass the weather gods into bringing relief via a much-needed monsoon. In order to accomplish that, they’ve asked their unmarried...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ — Liberation from one oppressive regime may have done little more than give rise to another for Iraqi citizens, at least where the free flow of ideas across electronic boundaries is concerned. The government of Iraq is poised to ban websites that incite...

KEELE, ENGLAND — Security solutions provider iCritical has launched an anti-porn tool as part of its core email security offering. The iCritical Image Analyser can identify, monitor and block pornographic images that are distributed by email over client IT...

PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Island doesn’t really have a problem with under age strippers, but given how many editorial inches the topic has earned lately one would expect to find every club in the state crawling with teeny boppers. At least until recently, when the state’s...

ROCHESTER, NY — Men spend an average of 43 minutes daily eyeing as many as 10 members of the opposite sex while women average less than half that ogling six men, according to a new study by the Kodak Lens Vision Centers.Employ a little basic multiplication and division, and...

CUPERTINO, CA — The Greeks may have had a word for it, but if it’s English, was listed in Ninjawords, and had anything to do with sex, iPhone users won’t be finding it any time soon.Named after ninjas because they are “smart, accurate, and really fast,” Ninjawords is a...

TOKYO, JAPAN — The Land of the Rising Sun is liable to get a more personal rise out of news DMM.tv is readying a new service to stream high-definition pornographic movies to Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles.According to DMM’s website (via Kotaku.com, which is in English),...