Mike Fossum

Eight suspected drugs dealers have been arrested around the world, for operated a site called ‘The Farmer’s Market,’ which allowed clients to buy illegal drugs via the internet. The site, ran by Marc Willems of the Netherlands, sold LSD, ecstasy, …

In the latest incident of a felon incriminating himself on Facebook, Travis A. Nicolaysen, small-time fugitive, has been amassing evidence prosecutors can likely use against him via his Facebook wall. The Port Angeles, Washington area man, who lists his career …

The Huffington Post senior military correspondent David Wood’s ten-part series “Beyond the Battlefield,” which documents the lives of severely wounded combat veterans, has won the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. Wood’s win is the first Pulitzer for the AOL-owned Huffington …

MOG, the subscription-based music blog, has just announced its exclusive partnership with Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company. The deal marks MOG’s first international expansion, and will offer Australian listeners access to ad-free, on-demand music content. MOG, which Time Magazine has …

A Russian SWAT team recently stormed the house where a 17-year-old student who was living with his mom, to grab his laptop, after linking the computer to repeated murder-for-hire related extortion attempts. The teen had allegedly attempted to blackmail Russian …

According to a segment of the Pew Internet and American LIfe Project called Digital Differences, roughly one in five adults in the U.S. don’t go online much, if at all. The chart below describes what the study refers to as …

Mobile internet usage doubled in the last year, and it has been recently reported that mobile news content has now surpassed desktop content. A recent study by Limelight networks has shown that up to 80% of customers that visit a …

With the recent reports of Google and Oracle possibly settling out of court over a Java/Android patent-infringement case coming to and end, the trial begins today, 18 months after Oracle’s initial complaint. To recap, Oracle is suing Google over using …

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has just announced that it will nominate Google vice president Marissa Mayer for election to it’s board, at its Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on June 1st. Mayer had this to say on the nomination – “I am very …

Up until very recently, Google has been unable to register its ‘@gmail’ extension in Germany, and users were forced to type @googlemail.com when sending a message, all because the ‘G-mail’ name had been copyrighted in that country, long before Google …

According to TBG Digital’s Global Facebook Advertising Report, Facebook’s average CPM, (cost per thousand impressions), is up by 41% since Q1, 2011. The study, which was validated by the University of Cambridge, also shows that Facebook saw a 192% increase …

When the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and other major publishers for allegedly banding together to drive up book prices, Amazon was named several times in the 36-page complaint. The company was named so repeatedly, roughly 90 …

Canon just announced the EOS-1D C DSLR, which shares most of the specifications of its flagship cousin the EOS-1D X, except for an enhancement to capture 4K (4096 x 2160-pixel) video. The 1D C is Canon’s first DSLR to offer …

Apple is set to submit is Q1 2012 sales report in a week, and analysts have predicted that the company will post 33 million iPhone sales and 12 million iPad sales. These predictions come from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, …

Regardless of Spotify’s strained negotiation with the artists whose content it streams, the company reported a turnover of $887 million so far this year, according to CEO Daniel Ek, during an interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri today. In 2011, …

It was recently reported that scientists were able to overcome some of the problems with data degradation caused by computing in a quantum environment, and now Nature reports that physicists were able to build the first-ever working quantum network. Though, …

A Setagaya-ku, Tokyo couple won roughly 600,000 yen (about $7,400) in damages from Apple Japan, after an iPod Nano caught fire and burned the woman. There have been complaints of Apple devices getting hot, and lately the new iPad has …

Google is now hiring a new Google Doodler, and posted a job description on its Mountain View job site. For those not up to speed on the Doodles, they are variations of the Google logo used to celebrate holidays, significant …

It was recently reported that a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has just revived a long-standing trademark infringement case against Google Inc., filed by the language learning firm Rosetta Stone, and initially directed a district court to …

While it was recently reported that AT&T and other providers are building a database to help track and de-activate stolen cellphones, a group has still brought a class-action lawsuit against the company for helping thieves re-activate stolen devices, mainly the …

Sony has introduced its full-featured handheld PMW-100, that captures broadcast standard 50Mbps video. The compact size of the new camera makes it ideal to work in tandem with Sony’s larger PMW-500 XDCAM HD422 shoulder camcorder, for applications including news gathering, …

A new study by Pingdom has revealed that WordPress is by far the world’s most popular blogging platform, and is used by 48% of the top 100 blogs on the internet, up from 32% 3 years ago. The chart below …

A new website called Charity Bribes take donations for various charities while at the same time goading celebrities into doing “wacky” things, like joining Twitter. The site takes “bribes” from users, which are in turn tied to various charities. Said …

Google Mobile’s blog just