CYBERSPACE — Love it or hate it, high-definition viewing is becoming an increasing reality. Content publisher and affiliate network program owner Storm Media plans to embrace the new standard – and has launched six new sites and a Hi-Def affiliate program to prove it.“With...

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS — Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has begun manufacturing another kind of home entertainment product: “relationship care” gadgets, better known as sex toys.The Intimate Massager line initially will be marketed in Britain. The...

SANTA CLARA, CA — Brad Pitt has overtaken Paris Hilton as the most dangerous celebrity to search for in cyberspace according to internet security company McAfee Inc.’s second annual roundup of the riskiest celebrities in cyberspace.Checking in on the famous can be dangerous...

PAKISTAN — Former beauty princess and GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s sudden introduction to the world of international politics has made this year’s campaign season much sexier – and much more dangerous, as Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari discovered...

FOUNTAIN, CO — Some women will go to unexpected lengths to get what they want, including cosmetic surgery. But the idea that someone would plan a murder in order to fund a boob job is more than a little extreme. Nonetheless, an enamored Nikita Lee Weis was so smitten by his...

CYBERSPACE — Another core internet protocol is vulnerable to attack, researchers said, and this flaw is a doozy.A bug in the transmission control protocol (TCP) puts broadband servers and routers at risk of suffering crippling denial-of-service attacks, researchers...

HOLLYWOOD, CA — Luke Wilson, James Caan, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht, Peter Stormare and Rachael Taylor have signed on to star in an independent film that plays comic homage to the birth of the online porn industry.George Gallo (Bad Boys, Midnight Run) will direct Middle...

TAMPA, FL — While Wall Street burns and waits for American tax payers to put out the fire, 50-year-old director/performer Paul Little was sentenced to four years in minimum security prison for distributing videos deemed to be “obscene” via the US postal service and...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The number of cellular phone subscribers worldwide is likely to reach the 4 billion mark before the end of this year, International Telecommunication Union Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré told a Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) conference in New...

CYBERSPACE — Beware the porn on YouTube. The video-sharing site is policed to ensure hardcore content doesn’t wind up on its pages, so any anonymous spammer who promises sexual goodies for free via YouTube should be suspicious from the get-go.More importantly, however, is a...