Economy, Internet help drive success of lower-end knockoffs
LOS ANGELES Mirabelle Vargas, 29, winds her way through the open-air stalls in downtown Los Angeles' bustling Santee Alley, hunting for Victoria's Secret underwear. Or at least undies with a tag that says Victoria's Secret.

Facebooks for Doctors, Lawyers and Robots
Connecting people and things, whether by job function, personal interest, or a particular kind of computer equipment, is an immense growth business. Companies are finding all kinds of ways to extract value ...

Group seeks to save data on Megaupload servers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material. The group, which advocates for Internet privacy and digital rights, sent a letter on behalf of one user asking "that all concerned work together to ...

What online privacy?
How well protected are Americans' online privacy rights? Everything you do online can be used against you. All day everyday companies are mining the internet culling tiny pieces of information about you to be used for advertising…or something much much worse.

Corona camp decries ‘trial by publicity’
THE House prosecution panel is bent on trying impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona before "the bar of public opinion" and not the Senate, the constitutionally-mandated impeachment court. Corona's lawyers stressed this yesterday as they deplored the apparent motive of the prosecutors in launching a...