WILMINGTON, DE – Holy Acacia, Batman! Channel Intelligence, which owns U.S. patent No. 6,917,941, has begun suing almost everyone it can find for infringing on the company’s rights to license the ubiquitous concept of creating “wish lists.”The interesting thing about wish lists...

WASHINGTON, DC – Add Kansas-based internet service provider Embarq to the list of companies from which Congress wants answers about Web-surfer-tracking practices. The company has been accused of using “deep packet inspection” to monitor the habits of its 1.3 million customers in...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — Note to drivers who play porn vids in their cars: Neither tender age nor arguments about lack of intellectual intervention will liberate you from obscenity charges if you broadcast porn from the back window of a moving vehicle.A 16-year-old Indianapolis...

NEW YORK, NY — Ahead of its annual shareholder meeting schedule for August 1st, Yahoo Inc. is fighting back in a war of words with billionaire financier Carl Icahn. Icahn, who owns about 5-percent of Yahoo’s stock, has submitted a slate of officers for the board of...

NEW YORK, NY – Comcast Corp. appears ready to knuckle under to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s demand that the communications giant’s internet service provider division cease offering access to newsgroups or face a lawsuit. On Tuesday, Comcast said it expects to sign an...

PHILADELPHIA, PA – A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday upheld repeated previous rulings that the Child Online Protection Act constitutes unconstitutional censorship of speech on the internet. Consequently, the law remains permanently...

WASHINGTON, DC – Offshore investing, banking, credit-card processing and content production have become topics of widespread debate among adult industry denizens in recent years, attracting throngs to “how-to” seminars at various industry trade shows.But be advised: With the...

WASHINGTON, DC — The Transportation Security Administration — part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — probably didn’t intend to horn in on the adult entertainment industry’s territory when it installed new equipment that allows agents to perform virtual strip...

LOS ANGELES, CA — Joe Francis, founder of the infamous “Girls Gone Wild” empire, was arraigned Monday on federal tax-fraud charges. The case, which arose last year in Reno, NV, was transferred to Los Angeles, CA, in May.In addition to charges he claimed more than $20...

WASHINGTON, DC — The Federal Communications Commission acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in fining CBS Corp. $550,000 for airing the “wardrobe malfunction” that briefly bared one of singer Janet Jackson’s breasts during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, a panel of three...