Microsoft escaped with a rap on the knuckles from their anti-trust woes with the United States Justice Department. They are not faring nearly so well with European authorities. Microsoft recently lost a long and hard-fought battle with European antitrust authorities over their mandatory inclusion of...

In one certain category, depending upon who you talk to, Craigslist is either the best thing since sliced bread or the worst thing since Al Capone. What is it about Craigslist and sex? That category is called the “Erotic� and is filed under “Services.� Yes, it is [...]...

A Vermont judge has ruled that a man detained at the border for possible child pornography possession should be required to type in his PGP encryption key so that his computer can be examined. Sebastien Boucher, who a border guard claims had child porn on his Alienware [...]...

Rumors have been floating around the blogosphere for a few weeks about something called the Google GDrive. Further reports are making the Google device in the sky hard to ignore. The rumors have been giving the alleged device a shadowy shape. It has been said to be [...]...

There are few struggles more difficult than censorship vs. personal freedom. That battle is playing itself out in Australia, where a new Internet site filter has been proposed and is being tested. The Australian government is honing a plan to implement an Internet filter (already being called [...]...

Following the lead of automakers and freight companies, this holiday season churches and synagogues are beginning to protect their valuables via Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The Christmas valuables include members of nativity scenes, and the new high-tech protection is also being used by govern...

Amazon.com has announced that its Kindle electronic book is sold out until February 2009. The Kindle seems to have always been in short supply, and this holiday season it will be in the shortest supply possible. It is hard to understand why a pure marketing organization [...]...

Joost seemed to have a chance to joust with marketplace leaders as recently as a year ago, but fell on hard times. The video start-up, the brain child of Niklas Zennström (founder of Skype) and Janus Friis (founder of Kazaa) seemed to [...]...