WASHINGTON, DC — Consumers enjoy purchasing merchandise and services online because the process is convenient, saves them time, and can save them money. Still, three-quarters of online shoppers say they continue to worry about the safety of their personal financial...

NEW YORK, NY — Comcast is standing by its story that it uses reasonable methods to control traffic on its networks, comparing its methods to those used to manage freeway traffic.On Tuesday, the broadband internet service provider filed an 80-page report with the U.S....

CAMBRIDGE, UK — Even the most ignorant computer user knows that “worms” are bad things to have crawling around in their operating systems, even if they don’t bother to make it difficult for them to get there. A Microsoft research team in the UK is hoping to use the power of...

NEW YORK, NY — According to Nielsen Online’s new audience measurement service, men and women relate to online video very differently. Although the service does not track adult video, understanding behavioral patterns can help video purveyors maximize their revenues.December...

CHINA — Does she or doesn’t she? Only her gynecologist knows for sure, which is a vexation to Chinese moralists wondering whether the cute female character they’ve taken such a fancy to in King of the World MMORPG is really being controlled by a female character. In order...

WASHINGTON, DC — The House of Representatives refused to capitulate to the administration’s veiled threats about terrorism by declining on Thursday to incorporate telecom immunity into a replacement for an expiring surveillance law.The growing rift between the House and...

WASHINGTON, DC — Sixty-two percent of Generation Y — tech-loving adults aged 18 – 30 — visited a public library during 2007, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.Unlike previous generations, however, they weren’t there to...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — San Francisco is a city filled with many sensory delights ranging from incredible eateries to feminist peep shows to historic buildings with sometimes sensational histories. During the June Cybernet Expo, the city’s famed Armory building, purchased in...

WILLIAMSBURG, VA —General Assembly Delegate Brenda Pogge (R-York) may not have gotten her way when she demanded that the February 4th College of William & Mary performance of the traveling Sex Workers Art Show be cancelled on obscenity grounds – but she’s surely...

AUSTIN, TX — Alabama is the lone remaining bastion of the sex-toy morality police now that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned Texas’ “obscene devices” law.The Texas law criminalized selling, advertising, giving, or lending any devices designed or...