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After a brief showdown last week with a group of attorneys general, MySpace announced Monday that it will give the group the information it requested about registered sex offenders with profiles on the site. The attorneys general delivered a subpoena to the social networking site on the same day ...

When online advertisers use pay-per-click advertising, as much as 15 percent of the clicks they pay for could be fraudulent, according to the results of a new study announced Friday ...

After three weeks of coordinated cyberattacks on Estonian Web sites, NATO has reportedly sent an official to the country to help investigate ...

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday lifted a preliminary injunction against Google preventing it from displaying thumbnail versions of sexually explicit images owned by adult site Perfect 10 ...

When billionaire Charles Simonyi blasted off into space for a visit to the International Space Station last month, he not only made history as the fifth private citizen to fly into orbit. He also fulfilled what for many is a lifelong dream: To explore the final frontier ...

MySpace won't comply with a request by eight state attorneys general for it to supply information about sex offenders registered on the site, the company announced Tuesday. ...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales unveiled on Monday a comprehensive legislative proposal entitled the "Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007" that would toughen copyright protections, including penalties for the attempt to infringe on a copyright ...

Attorneys general in eight states announced Monday that they have sent a letter to MySpace requesting information about sex offenders using the site ...

There may still be another 18 months or so before the next presidential election, but it's already become very clear that Web 2.0 technologies have changed the terrain of the political campaign process ...

Global warming may hit the eastern United States harder than scientists thought, resulting in extremely hot summers. Average summer high temperatures could reach almost 10 degrees higher in 2080 than they do today ...

Apple, Microsoft, Adobe Systems and Real Networks are the targets of a Santa Cruz, Calif., maker of copyright protection technologies that has sent letters demanding that the tech heavyweights cease and desist "actively avoiding" the use of its products ...

IBM will begin investing US$1 billion per year across its businesses to dramatically increase the energy efficiency of information technology, the company announced Thursday ...

In an unprecedented cooperative effort to combat climate change, 31 states have joined forces to create The Climate Registry, a national initiative to track greenhouse gas emissions ...

A team of astronomers working with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has witnessed the brightest supernova ever seen, leading them to suggest that a similar explosion may be imminent in a star in our own galaxy ...

Wal-Mart Stores has launched a 10-year pilot project to use solar power at 22 Wal-Mart sites in California and Hawaii, the company announced Monday ...

More than half of "Second Life" users are from Europe, according to a study announced Friday that analyzed active users of Linden Lab's virtual online world ...

LucasArts and Day 1 Studios on Wednesday unveiled "Fracture," a new shooter game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in which environmental devastation has split the United States into two warring halves ...

Ask any journalist today how the Internet has changed journalism, and the most likely reply will be, "how hasn't it?" ...

Just days before a May 9 congressional oversight hearing into the Bush administration's violations of the Endangered Species Act and censorship of science, a top-ranking Interior Department official resigned Monday ...

The 2008 presidential campaign season may be gearing up, but there's also another race afoot that has nothing to do with politics. It's the race for consumers' hearts and wallets that's being run by cable companies and telcos, and triple play bundles are the most recent heat ...