Though superhero fantasies tend to manifest themselves in poor, super power-less knockoffs that sell for much too high a price on eBay, there is one superhero that might become a reality: an italian researcher has made claims that materials similar to that which geckos use to cling to walls and ceilings can be recreated and implemented for climbing the Empire State Building…just like Spiderman.

Sony’s Micro Vault USB memory sticks could make your PC vulnerable to hackers, according to Finnish security company F-Secure.

Its just like Night Rider! Ok, not really. 

We told our readers about the theft of 1.6 million records from Monster.com two days before they saw fit to notify their own users. Even then, affected users have not yet gotten an email, they are just greeted with a “Security Notice” on Monster.com’s homepage…if they happen to visit it.

…but Sony’s not sure exactly which Christmas. Sony Ericsson’s, Peter Ahnegard, shares his company’s thoughts about a possible Playstation branded phone.

It’s not a good day in the land of BitTorrent admins as an anti-piracy group hunts down fleeing admins.

Who ever said police states need to be all secret-y and dark? Not Beijing! Starting Saturday, cute anime cops will pop up on the user’s screen every half hour and walk, bike or drive around giving friendly authoritarian reminders to stay away from illegal Internet content.

Just over a month after it looked to crumble under lawsuits and pressure, AllOfMP3’s website is back up today and promising a return of cheap music to its customers.

A police officer, who had been placed on administrative leave with pay pending the conclusion of an investigation into alleged questionable content on his personal MySpace Web site, has resigned.

The web never forgets. An archived copy remains online for the web page of the notorious “D.C. Madam.”

Remember the old days of computing when hackers got sent to jail?  Now they’re given cars!

Just a week after rival Lenovo announced it is buying Packard Bell to expand its presence in the European market, Acer has outsmarted Lenovo by acquiring Gateway, which has first right of refusal to buy Packard Bell.

TorrentSpy is no longer available to the US following action by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which is demanding that the site hands over user information.

If you recently bought an iPhone, chances are you’re disappointed that Apple’s coders didn’t include a simple application for IMing. It was only inevitable, but some hackers decided to fix Apple’s blunder with their very own iPhone IM application.

Yahoo has expanded its free Web mail services by introducing new features and enhancements, including software that lets its users send text messages to mobile phones directly from their email.

A year ago, his bike was stolen. Then he spotted it on Craig’s List…

July NPD numbers are in, and it looks like it was a good month for everybody with industry sales totaling $925.5 million, up 37% year over year.