The popular online classified ad service, Craigslist, has been subpoenaed by Connecticut’s attorney general over sex ads that appear in it’s listings. The attorney general says that Craigslist is not doing enough to stop prostitution online, and that the company is even profiting from the sex ads. Currently, there are 39 states looking into the [...]

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Israel confiscated iPads brought into the country within the initial weeks of the product’s launch. Now, after intense technical scrutiny, the iPad is no longer banned from Israel. The initial concern regarding the iPad centered around the whether or not the wireless signal could disrupt other devices. The new Apple product can now be imported [...]

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A recent settlement over the Google Books program will limit the scope of out-of-print works to English-speaking countries. The settlement will also limit the way Google can make money from digitizing out-of-print works. This forces the registry to actively seek out copyright holders who do not initially come forward to gain permission. This settlement only [...]

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More objections to Google’s street view are forming in the European Union. The Swiss Government is suing Google because its Street View online service is too revealing they claim. The Swiss data protection authority filed a claim with the Federal Administrative Court over the way Google handles personal information–specifically for additional constraints to obscure the [...]

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A New York City robbery suspect was cleared of all charges because the defense showed that the suspect made a Facebook update from his father’s house, which was 13 miles away from the crime scene. The Facebook update (he wrote: “WHERE MY IHOP?”) took place one minute before the robbery. The suspect had been held [...]

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AT&T is now changing it’s mind about VOIP applications. It will now allow applications such as Skype and Vonage to run on it’s 3G wireless network. Consumers will rejoice at this decision, which will tax AT&T’s system resources. Recently the Federal Communications Commission has been investigating both Apple and AT&T on how it treats VoIP [...]

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Lawmakers in Venezuela are planning on creating a ban on the sale of violent video games. This effort is an attempt to fight the pervasive violent crime in the region–where dozens of people are murdered every week in the capital Caracas. Allegedly 100,000 people have been murdered since Hugo Chavez took office in February 1999.

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