Spirit Airlines tags its website with "cheap tickets, cheap flights, discount airfare, cheap hotels, cheap car rentals, cheap travel." It doesn't add, as it perhaps should, cheap tricks. For now it costs more to fly your hand luggage than it costs to fly you. And either they sting you at the gate or rely on breakage to increase their "take."

About a month ago, a New York Times columnist called Nicholas D Kristof penned an Op-Ed that said that Backpage.com, a website owned by New York's Village Voice Media. The article was one of several that accused Backpage.com of profiting from child prostitution and trafficking. Even though there is little evidence of that, and much of the supposed evidence turns out to be fiction, Village Voice Media is under pressure.

New international guidelines will bring all financial and trading companies with any international dimension within the scope of expanded laws to combat money laundering and terrorist financing - and other activities, a Seminar to be held in Hong Kong will hear.

Swedish company Plingm (currently named Freephoo on Apple's App Store) says that its free mobile VoIP app with SuperHD sound is now available fo the Japanese market. With the app, , the company says, users can make quality voice calls to friends all over the world and cut phone bills substantially.

A committee of UK MPs has found that Rupert Murdoch "turned a blind eye and exhibited wilful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications,” says the report into telephone hacking which goes on to say that there was a culture emanating from the top and permeating down the organisation which resulted in a "lack of effective corporate governance at News Corporation and News International."

As a commercial airliner approached Liverpool's John Lennon Airport last year, a laser light was shone into the cockpit, temporarily blinding one of the crew during landing. It is far from an isolated incident.

A report on a leading website has raised a disturbing question about intellectual property rights with the new Google Drive service for users who have their heads in the cloud.

With four winners in four races and more teams in the running for points than (it feels like) ever before, exactly what is going on in F1?

The New York Times was a leader in mass-market paywall concept. Now it's revising its plan. It marks a fundamental shift in the way that customers see news more than a shift in the way the NYT sees customers. Nigel Morris-Cotterill, publisher ChiefOfficers.Net and other media, says that there are serious questions as to the future of how newspapers present news.