WASHINGTON, DC – Addressing a Washington-based First Amendment “think tank” called the Media Institute, executive chairman of Viacom and CBS Sumner Redstone strongly criticized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for allowing a relatively small number of...

SOUTH KOREA — While its northern neighbor makes international headlines for testing a nuclear bomb, South Korea has quietly rounded up, arrested, and imprisoned 28-year-old Kim Bonj-wa for dropping a bomb of his own on the internet.The bomb in question? 15,000 pornographic...

REDMOND, WA — Within 24-hours of the release of Microsoft’s much anticipated and long awaited internet browser update to Internet Explorer 7, some were celebrating and others were claiming to have found its first vulnerability — a vulnerability left unpatched...

CANOGA PARK, CA – The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has opened nominations for its 2007 Board of Directors election, the FSC announced in a press release issued today.“The FSC Board of Directors serves an important leadership role in the organization, providing oversight of key...

NEW YORK, NY — Sometimes it’s not funny when the rabbit — or one of its friends — dies. Such is certainly the case in the recent passing of Playboy magazine cartoon editor, Michelle Urry.Bucking the stereotypes about women involved with adult and Playboy...

LONDON, UK – According to a press release issued yesterday by anti-spyware developer Webroot Software, Inc., males aged 18 – 29 are at the highest risk of being infected with spyware, due in large part to unsafe surfing habits.In conjunction with the market research firm...

CYBERSPACE – Home firewalls are easily bypassed by attackers, says a German professor from the Polytechnic University of Lippe and Hoexter, adding that such firewalls are not comparable to the robust systems used by companies and government organizations and are not sufficient to...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — It’s frustrating enough reporting a crime to the police, but the crime against Shelly Pasternak could be described as frustrating for at least 41 people. That’s how many sex toys were stolen when thieves broke into Pasternak’s...

MCLEOD GANGE, INDIA – American feminists have long held beauty contests in contempt, criticizing them for promoting an unrealistic and ultimately disempowering standard of beauty impossible for the majority of women to achieve. While there may well be truth in that assertion, the...

CHATSWORTH, CA – Internext has released what it calls its “Business Building Blocks” schedule of educational seminars for Internext Las Vegas, 2007, a schedule which includes “two-hour-long seminar series, intensive workshops, and classroom sessions,” according to an Internext...