Sex.com, considered to be one of the most bankable domain names on the Internet right now, will be placed in auction next week. In 2006, the domain name was reportedly sold for $14 million. A lending firm in New Jersey backed that purchase. However, according to legal notices, DOM Partners LLC will foreclose...

An Egyptian military court decided to release a blogger who posted an article that was deemed false. The trial ended happily for the man when he apologized and promised to remove his posting, his lawyer said Sunday. Ahmed Moustafa, a 20-year-old engineering student was charged with “tarnishing the...

Bing, Microsoft’s own search engine, has been found to be more prudish than national governments in censoring sensitive materials with sexual contents. The Open Net Initiative said Friday that it ran a test of Bing with a version customized for Arab countries. In the test, ONI found that Bing filtered...

It can be remembered that Twitter has recently made pacts with Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. Now the social networking site is striking similar partnerships with smaller players in the online community. The new deals would bring more income to Twitter and it is also poised to get its technology more polished...

Google quickly responded to needs of people trying to find loved ones in Chile after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake shook the South American nation early Saturday. The new online tool called simply as “person finder” has been activated by Google so that people from other countries can located any relative...

A judge in Italy incriminated three top executives of Google after they were held accountable for the release of a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. In the United States, reactions to the verdict were strong and almost unanimous calling the ruling as a threat to freedom on the Internet. Prosecutor...

Yahoo Inc. has announced Tuesday that it will partner with Twitter so that it will be able to parallel its online features with the current online fad which is social networking. Once the partnership takes place on the Twitter users will be able to see tweets directly from Yahoo websites and even publish...

A report from The New York Times on Thursday stated that security investigators were led to two prominent schools in China in trying to find out who were behind the Google hacking attacks on Chinese activists. However, the schools mentioned, Lanxiang Vocational School and Shanghai Jiaotong University,...

A page in social networking website Facebook causes anger among government leaders and online activists in Italy. The page advocates the use of children with Down syndrome as targets for practice shooting. Authorities are now on a mission to trace the person or group who helped set up the Facebook page...

Facebook users around the world have been complaining about the site’s performance since Saturday morning. Users from the United States have been trying to use Facebook but it ws unusually slow and some could not even log in. Others experienced too much glitches. The same problems were felt by...