AUSTRALIA — There are no romance tunes about working in a coal mine, although there are certainly songs about brave men dying there. Perhaps it is that sad reality that prompted the Xstrata mining firm to decide their miners needing something to lift their weary spirits;...

NEW CLAYTON, GA — With the presidential hopeful feeding frenzy working its way from coast to coast, it’s sometimes easy to forget that smaller political races are not only still going on – but also affecting their immediate areas of operation. The owner of a Forest Park...

MOROCCO — Here’s a new twist on the ol’ phishin’ hole: A group of Moroccans calling itself Mr-Brain has established a website to phish phishers.The website purports to offer “phishing kits” containing easy-to-use code, email templates and other hacking tools preformatted...

HELSINKI — “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go astray.”Finish police got an object lesson in the meaning of the old adage this week when it was revealed that of the estimated 1,700 websites on a list of destinations blocked for suspected involvement in...

NEW MILFORD, NJ — Some may wonder about its target reader demographic, given that the video line has never been one to promote serious higher learning or studious academic excellence – but the staggeringly popular and financially lucrative Girls Gone Wildempire is about to...

NEW YORK, NY — It’s official: HD DVD is dead. On Tuesday, consumer electronics company Toshiba announced it no longer will manufacture players for the high-definition video format, effectively ending a running battle with rival technology Blu-ray, developed by Sony.“We...

USA — Hormel Foods hates it. Busy email users hate it. Internet service providers hate it. Legitimate business owners resent its impact. Although it must be profitable to someone, everybody seems to agree that spam sucks. A recent article in Modern Mechanix reminds...

SANTA CLARITA, CA — NETbilling recently added the ability for merchant clients to pass through currency codes in tandem with their transactions. The new currency code field will be supported as part of the postback string for merchants using NETbilling’s direct-mode...

HOLLYWOOD, CA — Maybe the Motion Picture Association of America’s number crunchers should have spent more time in math class. On January 22nd, the organization that represents the U.S. motion picture industry admitted it botched the figures in a 2005 study of illegal file...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Online fetish giant Kink.com has introduced the wired world to a lot of strange and wonderful things during the past 11 years – and it’s about to do it again; this time not just with its content but its format.Starting immediately, visitors to the...