What do Democratic Senator from Vermont Patrick Leahy and Republican Representative from Texas Lamar Smith have in common (besides being politicians)? Both are championing bills expanding the U.S. government and copyright holder’s powers to fight online trafficking of copyrighted material and to curb access to websites which infringe on copyrighted material or counterfeit good, especially those outside the U.S.

Both bills have wide bi-partisan support. The main supporter of both bills is the ...

Google announced today that they have made a significant improvement to their ranking system which will impact roughly 35 percent of searches and will better determine when to give more up-to-date results based on various degrees of freshness.  Depending on which search terms you use, this new “freshness” algorithm will figure out if the most relevant recent results are from an hour, day or week ago. Information today may be irrelevant tomorrow.
 
This update to Google’s search algor ...

In court rulings by an Indiana Superior Court , the operators of the websites for The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis Business Journal and WRTV were ordered to turn over information that could be used to identify people who posted as anonymous commentators involved in a local defamation case.

This case is not dissimilar to a growing number of similar situations throughout the country where the courts are demanding that media outlets provide internet protocol addresses for commenters that post ...

Even though the internet seems to become safer every day,there are still threats and problems that persist even through the bestantivirus software and email spam folders. That’s because as long as people arethe ones operating computers, there will always be human error that can lead tocatastrophe.

Armed with a bit of foreknowledge you can help secure yourself online and off. This list of ten things web users should fear in 2011 should help give you some idea on the things to look out for in th ...

Proctor & Gamble has extended their recent pet food recall to include Iams and Eukanuba brands sold at veterinary clinics and specialty pet retailers throughout the United States and Canada.  On July 25, 2010, Proctor & Gamble recalled their Feline Renal Diet Formula because of possible salmonella contamination.  The extended recall is being done as a precautionary measure since the additional brands were made at the same facility.
 
The recall includes dry food, dated 01 ...

The Lower Marion School District of Ardmore, PA faces another lawsuit over the installation of software meant to locate lost or stolen school supplied laptops.  
 
The first case came to light when the student's high school accused him of "improper behavior at home" and used the photographs from the spy cam as evidence.  At that time it was discovered most of the students had been spied on in their homes by the district's web cams.  The district had taken over 30,000 photogr ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger just vetoed legislation proposed by Senate Majority Lead Dean Florez , D-Shafter, that would change the overtime law as it pertains to farm workers.

Currently, farm workers receive overtime after working 10 hours in a day or 60 hours in a week. Most other Californians are eligible for overtime after an 8 hour day or a 40 hour work week.

The reasons Gov. Schwarzenegge r vetoed the bill because it is mostly a seasonal occupation and would hurt businesses, increase unemplo ...

The Sanchez kids are learning about the business world and how to be successful in both business and life. The three kids, two still in high school, run an up-and-coming bicycle messenger service in San Diego, CA know as Sanchez Delivery . They will deliver just about anything for a flat fee of $10 except for the delivery of legal documents to court which costs $15.

The family became homeless when their father’s company went out of business. He is now serving time in jail. Additionally, there a ...

Auto maker Toyota, Inc. was served with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena regarding faulty steering relay rods in their vehicles.  In 2004 Toyota issued a recall for defective steering relay rods in Japan stating then that the recall was isolated to vehicles sold only in Japan. Later they extended the recall to the United States. Recall notices were sent to 977,000 trucks from model years 1990 to 1995.
 
Toyota is currently being investigated to determine whether they breached the rules r ...