CALGARY, CANADA — Maybe Ryan Draper figured he’d done his part for the customers searching for InformCycle.ca but keying in InformCycle.com. Maybe he figured that he’d played nice long enough and he needed to do something shocking to get his ex-employer’s attention. Or...

NEW YORK, NY — A federal judge has ordered Google Inc. to turn over data about YouTube users to Viacom Inc., sparking an outcry from privacy advocates.The order came in the midst of legal wrangling surrounding a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit Viacom filed on...

LOS ANGELES, CA — It wasn’t long ago that alleged ex-call girl and arguably underage Girls Gone Wild breast flashing amateur, Ashley Dupre, was adamant about wanting Joe Francis to fork over $10 million and a promise not to pimp her footage or her image. Now she just wants...

ITALY — It difficult enough being a fat man in a thin man’s world – but when clothing malfunctions happen, the repercussions can be more than embarrassing; they can be obscenely litigious. An excessively overweight man defended himself against charges of obscenity recently...

TORONTO, CANADA — The Canadian Parliament is on the cusp of approving a new copyright law that exceeds the provisions of the U.S.’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and not everyone is happy about the proposed crackdown on piracy.As a way of drawing public attention to...

REDMOND, WA — Internet Explorer 8, the next version of Microsoft Corp.’s ubiquitous Web browser, will include safety features designed to detect and defend against malicious scripts embedded in Web pages and email messages. The new features will be bundled with IE’s...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Porn sites may be popular, but Reuters reports that Mozilla kicked a record number of virtual asses last Wednesday, when the Firefox 3.0 release of its open-source Web browser became available for download.So popular is the new browser that its first 24...

NEW ZEALAND — Alas for New Zealand’s youthful and television watching rugby fans, it took less than four minutes on a Sunday afternoon to entirely destroy their innocence. At least, that’s the claim of some adults who were horrified when pay-per-view programming managed to...

SAN JOSE, CA — Adobe Systems Incorporated on is teaming up with search industry leaders to ensure Flash files can be indexed by search engines. Previously, rich-media files created with Adobe’s Flash technology were invisible to search-engine spiders, which meant Web pages...

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal probe into the proposed deal that would allow Yahoo to run Google’s ads for a share of the revenue generated.According to sources familiar with the inquiry, investigators plan to review documents not only from...