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News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:56am EST A deluge of spam is forcing new rules and controls on the once wide-open Web. Paul Prentice was under siege. All through last winter and spring, the manager of security and directory services at Steelcase Inc. was frantically fighting the rising tide of spam pouring into the Grand Rapids (Mich.) office-furniture company. At the same time, he was fielding a flood of angry e-mail from executives and workers. They all begged him to get spam under control. Like many of his colleagues throughout the corporate world, Prentice hired a spam-filtering company, in his case, Postini Inc., to stem the flow. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:55am EST Students oppose store's display of pornography. Passersby were bundled up in parkas and scarves, hats and boots, hurrying to get in out of the cold. But the clutch of teenage girls gathered on the corner of Providence and Southwick roads one freezing morning last week hardly seemed to notice the plunging temperatures. "We're doing this to make sure people hear our message." That message is a straightforward one: Royal Farms store management should move hard-core pornographic magazines - publications with titles such as Barely Legal - behind the counter, where small children cannot see them. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:53am EST Guardians of your inbox: Cyberspace and the courts. Hyped on Marlboros and the supercaffeinated drink AMP, Louis Rush begins the day prowling EarthLink's network for signs of the Alabama Gang, a furtive throng of spammers who spin millions of junk messages on accounts paid with stolen credit card numbers. Rush is one of 13 investigators that Atlanta-based EarthLink employs to ferret out spammers and send their messages to the "bit bucket in the sky." "We are the original terminators," says the 30-year-old. "We do not eat. We do not sleep." News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:52am EST Wave the Card for Instant Credit. The familiar process of buying something with a credit card -- handing the plastic to the clerk or swiping it yourself, then waiting for approval and signing the receipt -- could be headed the way of the mechanical brass cash register. For more than a year, MasterCard and American Express have been testing "contactless" versions of their credit cards. The cards need only be held near a special reader for a sale to go through -- though the consumer can still get a receipt. The card companies say the system is much faster and safer because the card never leaves a customer's hand. "In some instances it's faster than cash," said Betsy Foran-Owens, a MasterCard vice president. "You're eliminating the fumble factor." News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:51am EST A British start-up is to offer up to free PCs to the public. The catch? The PC fills the screens with ads for 60 seconds every 20 minutes. Each month, the company, Metronomy, mails a CD containing targeted advertising. Your PC will work only if the CD is installed. You must also agree to use the PC at least 30 hours a month and you must sign up to use the Internet. It is unclear from weekend newspaper reports if the punters must pay for Internet access, but if this service is free, Metronomy will have pulled off a extraordinary feat of economic engineering. News Article Monday, December 15th 2003, 10:50am EST Spooks seek right to snoop on Internet phone calls. If a rapid-fire series of announcements from cable and telecom bigwigs last week confirms that Voice over IP (VoIP) has a future as a mainstream consumer technology, it's worth noting that the electronic surveillance mavens in the FBI and Justice Department saw it coming. News Bytes Saturday, December 13th 2003, 1:24pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Unrest persists across Haiti. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 1:04pm EST It’s the silly season of slime and sleaze. America 's problem is not corruption but concupiscence. A country that takes pride in personal freedom suddenly seems tickled by an uprush of prurience. Liquor is quicker, said Ogden Nash, but he did not live to see that lickerish is quickerish. Kama is running over karma. Sex isn't just in the city, but in the suburbia and on the Internet. It's the silly season of slime and sleaze. Or is it? Some commentators feel the sickness is not seasonal but here to stay. The Post-Embarrassment Age has arrived in America . Where else will you find a billionaire heiress being celebrated after a bootleg porn tape showing her in flagrante delicto with her delinquent boyfriend achieved the widest currency on the Internet with its mantra of spam-bam-thank you-ma-am? News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 1:02pm EST JS.Exception. The little virus that isn't. JS.Exception, a.ka. HTML.VmExploit, a.k.a. JS/Exploit, is not a virus, but rather an exploit that takes advantage of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. This vulnerability can also carry over to Outlook and Outlook Express, and any other mail client that uses Internet Explorer to render html email messages. There are many known exploits involving this vulnerability. The most common variety changes the user's default home or search page. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 1:01pm EST Novell was a dying company with its networking products in sharp decline for nearly a decade. But six months ago it pulled itself together and made a successful play for Ximian, the top Linux company. Last week, it upped the ante and went after SuSE, a top enterprise-Linux vendor.  News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 1:00pm EST Child-Porn Haul 'UK's Biggest'. An accountant was caught with 500,000 child porn images the biggest haul ever in Britain.Yesterday, 34-year-old Andrew Tatam admitted making thousands of indecent photographs, possessing 495,524 images of child abuse and attempting to commit a sex act with a dog. Sentence was deferred until next month for reports at Lincoln Crown Court. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 1:00pm EST America Online has launched a preview version of its upcoming Netscape discount Internet service, revealing a slimmed-down, no-frills service aimed at people who just want access. The Netscape Internet service will be available on a trial basis for $1 a month until March 2004, and then the price will change to an established rate of $9.95 a month. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 12:59pm EST Alleged Nigerian scammer in court. Nick cuts a forlorn figure at Sydney's Silverwater Correctional Centre, looking, according to friends, nothing like the millionaire fraud mastermind he is accused of being.The softly spoken pensioner allegedly headed a global Nigerian spam scam out of Sydney that tricked victims into handing over thousands of dollars with the promise of untold wealth in return. Police have accused Marinellis of using the internet to steal up to $5 million from people in more than 10 countries, including $571,302 from a Saudi sheik. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 12:58pm EST CAN-SPAM Act Heads to President for Signature. U.S. Senators Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on December 8 announced final Congressional approval of the "CAN-SPAM Act," their legislation to help Americans combat the growing problem of unsolicited e-mail or "spam." The CAN-SPAM Act will now go to the White House for the president's signature. The Burns-Wyden legislation includes tough civil and criminal penalties against the senders of unlawful marketing e-mail, special warnings for pornographic messages, and addresses the feasibility of a "do not spam" list. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 12:57pm EST Overstock.com: the next Amazon? The best performing online retailer this holiday shopping season might not be the stock you'd expect: it's not Amazon.com, and it's not eBay, either. A relatively small company called Overstock.com (its market value is about $325 million) has become a bit of a Wall Street darling in the past week and a half. The stock's up more than 35 percent since the day before Thanksgiving. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 12:56pm EST U.N. Summit Calls for Wired World. The first World Summit on the Information Society wraps up with a plan for extending the Internet and other modern wonders to the planet's poorest countries. No word yet on who will pay. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 12:56pm EST A Whodunit for the Digital Age. Suppressing a desire to read other people's e-mail? Play private eye, or voyeur, with a new e-book format that bases its plot on a string of e-mail missives, website visits and instant messages. News Article Saturday, December 13th 2003, 12:55pm EST Canada OKs P2P music downloads. Canada's copyright agency has OK'd the downloading of copyrighted music from Peer to Peer networks - for now, at least - slapping a small tax onto MP3 music players. The Copyright Board of Canada declined to extend existing levies on blank audio and CD recordable media to DVD recordables, or to removable memory, such as Compact Flash or MMC cards. News Bytes Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:22pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Mortars Pound U.S. Headquarters in Baghdad. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:21pm EST Porn lucky. Adult film industry takes its place in mainstream culture. When Jenna Jameson is wearing more than the Swatch girl in their respective Times Square billboards, it's a pretty sure sign that porn has landed squarely in the middle of the cultural mainstream. Just ask Savanna Samson and Sunrise Adams, the two Vivid Video adult film stars appearing at tonight's Porn Star Ball at the west-end Cowboys nightclub, where they'll meet and greet fans and judge a dress-as-your-favourite-porn-star contest for cash prizes.  News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:19pm EST Acacia Technologies Signs 100th License for Digital Media Transmission Technology. Acacia Research Corporation announced today that its Acacia Technologies group has entered into its 100th License Agreement for its Digital Media Transmission ("DMT") technology. Acacia has entered into 59 DMT License Agreements thus far in the fourth quarter, and now has agreements for its DMT technology with companies in the hotel in-room entertainment, and online movie, music, and adult entertainment areas covering in excess of 4,000 websites. "We are encouraged with the early success of our DMT licensing program and are in discussions with companies in the cable television, e-learning, and online sports, news and entertainment industries, as well as additional companies in those industries where we have already signed licensing agreements," commented Paul Ryan, Chairman and CEO of Acacia. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:18pm EST Microsoft to remove swastikas from fonts. Microsoft said Friday that the latest version of its Office software inadvertently contained a font featuring two swastikas, and said it would offer tools to remove and replace the offending characters from the program. The swastika, which was made infamous by Nazi Germany, was included in Microsoft's "Bookshelf Symbol 7" font. That font was derived from a Japanese font set, said Microsoft Office product manager Simon Marks. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:17pm EST New Worms Spread Through Porn. This week we saw two more incarnations of the mass mailing worm, Mimail. W/32.Mimail.L, and W32/Mimail.M are similar in structure, infection and removal. They have a low to medium damage potential, and are spreading fairly rapidly. The viruses attack through rather explicit pornographic messages, and attachments that purport to offer photos but actually include the virus. We will leave out the explicit parts in our description below, but you can see the full text at Sophos or Trend Micro's site . Sophos reports that Mimail.L has an alternate message that is sent without an attachment by an infected machine where the mass-mailing has failed. The alternate message attempts to scare victims with a claim that it is charging their credit card for child pornography. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:16pm EST PC Shipments Higher Than Expected. Worldwide shipments of personal computers are expected to increase by 15.3 percent in the fourth quarter, driven by lower prices and strong demand among consumers, a market research firm said Thursday. Because of the higher-than-expected growth in the fourth quarter, International Data Corp. raised its estimates for PC shipments for the year to more than 152 million, an increase of 11.4 percent over last year. Earlier growth projections were 8.4 percent. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:15pm EST Windows 98 Presents Security Problems As It Ends Lifespan. Companies still running Windows 98 risk facing unpatched Internet threats as Microsoft puts the operating system out to pasture early next year, said a research firm Thursday. The research paper and an accompanying survey, both released by AssetMetrix Research Labs, an arm of IT asset management vendor AssetMetrix, points out that although there are large numbers of machines in enterprises still running Windows 98, the Redmond, Wash.-based developer is set to retire the operating system and will stop posting security fixes for the OS in mid-January 2004. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:14pm EST Dump Lindows name or we'll take all your money, says MS. Lindows.com CEO Michael Robertson steps into the hotel lobby, shakes hands and then picks up the latest Microsoft death threat from his pigeonhole. Microsoft legal affairs has pursued him across Europe this week, setting off explosions in the Netherlands, Sweden, France and Finland, but this one's fairly minor - a response to his letter to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's pitch boiling down to more or less, 'dump the Lindows name now and we'll let you off, persist and we'll bust you, all your distributors and take all your money.' News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:13pm EST Study: Religion trumps porn in teens' Web use. Overall, three times more U.S. adolescents with access to the Internet use it for religious purposes rather than for accessing pornography, a UNC study shows. Analysts with the UNC-based National Study of Youth and Religion say that the percentage of teens ages 13 to 17 who identify themselves as religious and who use the Internet for visiting religious Web sites is sizable. The first findings from their new survey of 2,600 teens indicates that the Web has become a key place of religious connection for a significant proportion of U.S. adolescents, a fact never documented before. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:12pm EST Virginia Hits Spammers With Felony Charges. Virginia authorities arrested and charged a North Carolina man Thursday morning with four felony counts of using deceptive routing information in sending bulk commercial e-mail. The indictments are the first felonies in the country to be levied against a spammer under Virginia's tough new anti-spam law. Jeremy Jaynes, 29, was arrested in Raleigh and is awaiting extradition to Virginia. A second person connected with Jaynes, Richard Rutowski of Cary, N.C., is expected to surrender to authorities in the next few days. Both are listed on Spamhaus.org's database of top ten spammers in the world. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:11pm EST Robin Reid lives the dream. Professional boxer, part-time model, occasional porn star, the Reaper's life is anything but grim. Boxing comes first, you understand, but as the saying goes, it would be rude to turn down work if you can get it. And there is plenty of demand for what this Lancastrian Lothario has to offer. Such is the demand for his services in the glamourous business of erotic modelling, to give it its professional name, that Reid would almost certainly be otherwise engaged were he not squaring up to Sven Ottke this weekend. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:10pm EST Web phone service means end of wire system. Cable and phone companies are hustling to offer new services that route calls over the Internet, a technology that eventually will make the 125-year-old telephone system seem little more advanced than sending smoke signals.  News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:09pm EST Offensive Pornographic Spam Tests Limits, Resources. Since spammers operate on a flood-as-many-inboxes-as-possible business model, children get the same smut adults do. Eight of 10 children online receive inappropriate messages daily, a recent survey by an Internet security company found. "Viagra, farm animals, nude people -- I just delete them all," said 14-year-old Charlie Herrig of Decatur. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:08pm EST Ghosts of E-Business Past, Present & Future. With the prospect of an economic recovery ahead, it may finally be time for e-businesses to glance in the rearview mirror and ponder the wreckage left behind and the changing road ahead. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:07pm EST Keep the Web Worldly and Wide Browsing. If governments pose one set of challenges for a free-flowing Web, unbridled commercialization presents another. A host of dubious patents concerning Web technology now threaten to stifle online innovation and interoperability. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:06pm EST Escorts 'just a commodity' to these guys. The broker says her escort company, The Garden of Eden, provides local ladies who offer sweet nothings. "Most of these men (that the women) see just want to talk," she insists after the recent crackdown on her company. The cop isn't biting. "Sure, these guys could be spending $250 just to have pizza with a gal in a motel room," says John Urquhart of the King County Sheriff's office. Urquhart pauses: "Yeah, right!" "Escorts can make a damn good living," the one-time vice cop tells me. "But it's not 'Pretty Woman' -- not necessarily glamorous." This is where our call girl enters the story. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:05pm EST County eases restrictions on porn shops. The Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted Tuesday to change its new adult business licensing ordinance, which had been adopted in July. In a unanimous vote, the board decided to delete several items from the county code governing adult business licensing and add others in an attempt to "clarify and facilitate more efficient administration" of the ordinance, according to the county attorney's office. However, another reason for the changes, according to Board Chairman Sean Connaughton stems from recent legal actions taken against the county by the owner of a Manassas adult video store who had challenged the licensing requirements. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:04pm EST Microsoft readies Windows XP Service Pack 2 beta. Microsoft Corp. is gearing up for the first beta test of a set of updates for Windows XP designed to bolster the operating system's security and add features such as support for version 1.1 of Bluetooth and a new wireless LAN client. The beta of Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, will be made available via Microsoft's Developer Network to several hundred thousand testers before the end of the year, Matt Pilla, senior product manager for Windows at Microsoft said Thursday. Targeted testers are software developers and IT professionals, he said. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:03pm EST UK firms drowning beneath tide of e-crime. UK businesses are drowning beneath a rising tide of computer crime, says Microsoft which is coming to the rescue with new chums the National High Tech Crime Unit, Business Watch and the British Chambers of Commerce. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:02pm EST Merchant agrees to dismantle erotic product display. Jeffrey Namer says he's now willing to remove objectionable items from his display window at Montclair Video. The window display of such items as "The Erogenous Zone" game and "LoveJam" lotion was the catalyst for the Montclair council's unanimous adoption Tuesday of an ordinance prohibiting the display of "obscene" material in store windows. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:01pm EST Anti-spam law will tie up UK firms up in red tape. The Government's legal attempt to crack down on email spam and unwanted phone calls has been condemned as a recipe for disaster that will hit law abiding UK businesses much harder than the spammers it is trying to stop. According to hi-tech industries' trade association Intellect, the increased costs of managing and storing data in accordance with the legislation will shift resources away from core business activities and make it mharder for new companies to get started. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 12:00pm EST Pornography fuels Kenya's Internet bang. Florence was momentarily flustered when she was interrupted while downloading blue movies in one of Nairobi's ubiquitous Internet cafes, but she quickly regained her composure, and even admitted what she was up to. "Mmm... I am downloading something - pornography," she admitted. "This is not what I usually do on the Internet, but sometimes I enjoy viewing the pictures and movies," she added.  News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 11:59am EST US e-commerce sites under pressure to secure data. Providers of e-commerce services in the US who do not secure customer data and prevent it being stolen may find themselves open to enforcement actions by the US Federal Trade Commission, the latest Netcraft news reports. The FTC has stepped up its scrutiny of online retailers. The most recent case is that of pet supply retailer PetCo which has disclosed that it is being investigated the FTC after a security hole exposed 500,000 credit card numbers to the internet. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 11:58am EST Norwegian DVD piracy retrial ends. The landmark retrial of a Norwegian who achieved fame when he was cleared of DVD piracy charges lodged by top Hollywood studios ended Thursday with prosecutors demanding a suspended 90-day jail term. News Article Friday, December 12th 2003, 11:56am EST Renovating E-Mail With Identity in Mind. That e-mail message may appear to be from PayPal or EarthLink, but is it really? To know for sure, e-mail needs an identity verification system, and there's a growing consensus among e-mail senders and recipients that one should be developed. The latest two proposals, which were released over the past few days, come from portal giant Yahoo! and e-mail infrastructure company IronPort Systems and are chiefly aimed at establishing a technical specification to allow e-mail recipients to verify sender identity. News Bytes Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:47pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Coalition: Nearly half of new Iraqi army has quit. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:29pm EST Patenting Air or Protecting Property? Information Age Invents a New Problem. Universities, corporations and tens of thousands of Web site providers across the country probably never imagined they would be rooting for the pornography industry. But millions of their dollars could be riding on a court fight between a coalition of Internet video-porn providers and a small California research firm, which early this year began enforcing the eye-opening claim that it owns the patents on how most audio and video is sent over the Internet. Acacia Research Corp. started by targeting dozens of adult entertainment companies, demanding royalties of as much as 4 percent of their revenue from audio and video streaming. Now the firm is seeking fees from universities that use Web video for remote learning, from companies that serve up movies to hotel rooms, from cable and satellite providers, and from major streaming-media companies such as RealNetworks Inc. and America Online Inc. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:28pm EST Man admits misspelt domains exposed children to porn. A US man has admitted registering misspellings of names like Disneyland and Britney Spears as Internet domains so that children would view pornographic sites. A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 49 federal charges that he used misspellings of Internet domain names like Disneyland, Teletubbies, and Britney Spears to lure children to pornographic Web sites. John Zuccarini, 56, broke down in tears before admitting that he intentionally deceived minors into logging on to adult sites containing graphic sexual scenes. Zuccarini also pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:27pm EST Banning software patents: a call to action. For the past nine months, much of the attention of the IT world has been drawn to the SCO v. IBM case. Having started out as a case about breach of contract, it is now about all three key areas of intellectual property law: copyright law (was code illegally copied from Unix into Linux?), patent law (did SCO violate IBM's patents?), and trademark law (who owns 'UNIX'?). Most press coverage centers on the copyright law issues, but this is where the playing field is level and the free and open source community is strong. It is the area of patent law where the odds are stacked heavily in favor of large, proprietary software firms and against all other parts of society. Forgoing all nuance, the heart of the matter is that software patents are currently illegal in EU and legal in U.S. In the U.S., ill-conceived case law of the lower courts needs to be replaced by well-thought-out statute. Experience in the EU has shown that this can be achieved through focused, sustained community action. It is now time for the U.S. community to act. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:26pm EST Web school teaches porn site how-to. There's money to be made in the online porn business, and Michael Hayes of AdultWebmasterSchool.com says he can help you cash in. Launched by laid-off dot-com workers in July 2000, the school's $140 course has graduated about 2,200 students, Hayes says. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:24pm EST AT&T to offer Internet calling. AT&T plans to let customers place telephone calls using Internet technology, an increasingly popular option for businesses and individuals that's cheaper than routing calls over the century-old telephone system. The long-distance giant announced Thursday that it expects to have a service delivering voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) available to consumers in the top 100 markets by the first quarter of 2004. Worm Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:23pm EST Another Windows worm begins to spread. Another Windows worm has begun to spread, posing as a security patch from Microsoft, a fix for the Blaster worm or a crack for a porn website. Anti-virus company Sophos said the worm, which it had christened W32/Yaha-Y, spread via network shares and email. Emails sent by the worm were randomly selected from a list contained inside the worm. Computer Associates' analysis of the worm showed that its payload modified the lmhosts file on an infected computer to block access to symantec.com, microsoft.com, sophos.com, avp.ch, mcafee.com trendmicro.com, pandasoftware.com, www3.ca.com and ca.com - all anti-virus companies' sites, apart from Microsoft. It also showed that the worm would attempt to delete the following files: WinServices.exe, nav32_loader.exe, tcpsvs32.exe, syshelp.exe and WinGate.exe.  News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:22pm EST Search Guru Danny Sullivan Talks Google. Are You Addicted to Google? Go ahead, admit it. You're an addict, too. This morning at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago, Danny Sullivan gave a Keynote speech titled "Google Anonymous" -- the joke is many people seem to be addicted to Google. Danny is considered one of the most prominent search engine marketing experts in the world. He offered a step-by-step process to help people overcome this "addiction." News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:21pm EST The Future of Computer Graphics. After recently building a new system with one of the latest Nvidia cards powering the graphics, I poked around Nvidia's demo area to see if I could push the new card to its limits. After installing a few of the demos designed to showcase Nvidia power, I was blown away. I've seen prerendered graphics look as good as the Dusk and Vulcan demos before, but never have I seen anything quite like these demos in real-time 3D. They clearly demonstrate the power of Nvidia's GPUs to handle all kinds of cutting-edge effects. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:20pm EST Police charge 12-year-old with making death threats in online chat room. A 12-year-old boy is accused of making death threats against his teachers and fellow students in an online chat room for fans of horror movies, police said. The boy, who was not identified, was charged Tuesday with making terroristic threats and criminal attempt to possess instruments of crime. The private school also was not identified. He was evaluated at a hospital and was to be turned over to juvenile authorities, police said. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:19pm EST Windows 98 Remains Widespread. Microsoft is planning to end support for Windows 98 next month, but many businesses still have computers running on the operating system, a new study shows. AssetMetrix, an Ottawa-based IT asset analysis tool vendor, collected data on over 370,000 PCs from 670 businesses in the U.S. and Canada. It found that 80 percent of those companies have at least one PC running either Windows 95 or Windows 98. The older operating systems accounted for about 27 percent of operating systems found. Convention Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:18pm EST Playboy teams up for XBiz Awards show. XBiz is pleased to announce that Playboy.com has signed on to become the Entertainment Sponsor for the 2nd Annual XBiz Awards Show & Celebration being held on January 6th, 2004 inside The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Playboy.com will be sponsoring the headlining act from Ball'r Records artists; Suga Free, Too Short and X-One. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:15pm EST AOL UK looks to cross borders after spammers. AOL UK is gearing up to take legal action against spammers who are based overseas but are sending their wares to its UK e-mail users. The Internet service provider has decided that there are few judicial steps it can take in Britain to prevent its customers being bombarded by unsolicited commercial email, so its legal team is concentrating on bringing a case against a major spammer in another country. Read the full story for ZDNetUK. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:14pm EST IE bug lets fake sites look real. Microsoft on Tuesday said it was looking into reports of a potential bug in its Web browser that could help malicious hackers design convincing Web site spoofs. The bug, according to security alerts by a bug hunter and a Danish security company, Secunia, could let hackers use a technique to display a false Web address on a fake site. Secunia credited the bug to "Zap the Dingbat," who posted an alert to the Bugtraq security mailing list. That alert links to a demonstration of the exploit, and says Microsoft was informed of the bug Tuesday. News Article Thursday, December 11th 2003, 12:13pm EST Microsoft running on Microsoft again. After spending a few months relying on Linux for protection, Microsoft appears to have made its way back to homegrown code. Since August, requests to microsoft.com had the look and feel of being served up by open source code. Microsoft enlisted hosting provider Akamai's Linux server army to fend off a disheartening number of DDoS attacks, worms and the like. According to Netcraft, however, Microsoft returned to itself on Nov. 26. News Bytes Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:26pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Three Missing After Ship Capsizes in N.Y. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:23pm EST Web challenges traditional obscenity standard. The Supreme Court has not taken up the question of what is considered obscene since 1973, before the VCR and the Internet revolutionized how people view porn. In the landmark case Miller v. California, the nation's top court ruled that communities around the country had the right to apply local standards in deciding what is considered obscene. That was back in the day when most pornography was bought at sex stores or viewed in adult theaters, and when community was defined largely by geography. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:22pm EST Sex sells, especially to Web surfers. Gone are the furtive visits to seedy theaters and the fear of being outed as some perverted purchaser of porn. Now, all you need to indulge anonymously in the "XXX" world is your trusty personal computer and a good connection to the Internet. It's difficult to derive reliable figures from an industry that, despite flirtations with the mainstream, is made up of many small shops that prefer to keep a low profile. But the figures that exist paint a picture of a booming online field, fueled by the relatively low costs of setting up shop, fickle consumers in constant search of new thrills and the promise of quick profits. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:21pm EST Obscenity conviction sends porn peddler packing. On December 4 USA Today published an in-depth article about pornography. The main thrust of the article was that small communities can do little to stem the tide of what the author terms “freeway porn.” Freeway pornography, as defined by the USA Today article, is stores, usually part of much larger chains, that suddenly spring up in small communities, effectively overwhelming small-town district attorneys with a paper blizzard of constitutional issues. “We’ve never had a store shut down by legal issues or challenges,” bragged Sandi Summers, an executive in the Lion’s Den Corporation, a large porn outfit which owns a chain of adult stores. “We’re just as legal as any other business.” News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:20pm EST Porn star eyes Brussels election. Porn queen Dolly Buster wants to branch out into politics and become a Euro MP. The Czech-born star, whose real name is Katja-Nora Bochnickova, says she wants to stand as a candidate for the European Parliament. She told Czech TV Nova: "I want to represent the Czech Republic's interests in Brussels." News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:19pm EST Porn pays off for Paris Hilton. Who said porn was a career killer? The suddenly everywhere Paris Hilton is about to become even more omnipresent, reports The New York Post. Fox is so happy with the runaway success of Hilton's riches-to-rags reality TV show "The Simple Life," it's now in talks with her to star in another reality show. Word is Hilton - who became the talk of the town after a sex tape with her ex-boyfriend surfaced - could get up to $US3 million for her next TV foray, but that her comedic costar Nicole Richie is not included. Sponsor Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:18pm EST ARS gets rid of free trials, adds teen site. Advertising Revenue Service (ARS) today announced that effective Dec. 15 three-day free trials will cost $1. In support of the change from free trials to paid, ARS is offering webmasters a 10 percent bonus from Dec. 15th to Dec. 21st on all three-day, $1 trial referrals. Additionally, ARS and Global InterMedia, have just released XXXTeenTV.com, a site dedicated to hardcore barely-legal teen sex. Publishers can earn up to $25 per trial and up to $50 per active. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:17pm EST Feds get a 'D' in computer security. U.S. federal departments and agencies are showing some improvement in protecting their computer networks, but many--including the Department of Homeland Security--are failing, according to a government report released Tuesday. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:16pm EST Flaw could unleash another Slammer. A research company warned Tuesday that an attacker could use a recently patched Microsoft flaw to create a fast-moving worm similar to SQL Slammer, which spread rapidly across the Internet a year ago. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:15pm EST Cup Linked to Aristocratic Masturbatory Club on Auction Today. An 18th century wooden drinking cup associated with a masturbatory club of that era is up for auction today. The three-handled wooden cup appears to be a wedding gift, inscribed with a phrase associated with members of the Beggar’s Benizon, a sex club that is reputed to have King George IV and several aristocrats as members. Sponsor Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:14pm EST GigaCash releases 17 low-cost paysites. GigaCash announces the addition of 17 new sites to their stable. These new sites use a discounted pricing model where members can gain unlimited access for only $9.95 per month. Webmasters receive $25 commision paid on each referred sale. "The new sites are sure to be a hit with surfers, and an easy way to convert even the most savvy of prospects conditioned to expect 'free porn.'" News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:13pm EST Abercrombie kills its racy catalog. Abercrombie & Fitch, under fire from some consumer groups for its racy catalogs, said it would stop issuing them and halt publication of its holiday issue. "While it has enjoyed success with the Quarterly over the years, the company believes it is time for new thinking and looks forward to unveiling an innovative and exciting campaign in the spring," Abercrombie said in a statement Tuesday. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:12pm EST Sobig-F blamed for massive increase in spam. Two thirds of spam originates from computers infected by viruses such as Sobig-F, according to MessageLabs. The email filtering firm blames Sobig-F, the world’s fastest spreading virus for a rise in both spam and viruses in 2003. At its peak, one in every 17 emails stopped by MessageLabs contained a copy of Sobig-F. By December 1, more than 32 million emails containing the virus had been stopped by MessageLabs, making Sobig-F the biggest viral nuisance this year. Content Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:12pm EST Xxxcontentdirect releases 1970's classic movie series. Newly released movies for webmasters: 1970's classic movie series "Talk Dirty To Me #1-10" starring pornstar legends such as Ginger Lynn, Tracey Adams, Kylie Ireland, Ashlyn Gere, John Leslie and many more. Available for license in MPG or DVD format. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:09pm EST Porn Store To Sue City Leaders. A legal challenge could change the way adult book and video stores do business in Nashville. Attorneys for Silver Video on Gallatin Road are expected to file a lawsuit Wednesday. They'll argue that a state law forcing adult businesses to close at midnight and on Sundays is unconstitutional. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:08pm EST Virus hunter: It's a 'horrible world'. For Symantec CEO John Thompson, there's always something new to worry about. "More than 100 new viruses are identified every week--and 60 new software (problems) every week," he said in a recent keynote speech. "We saw a 19 percent increase in attack activity in the first half" of 2003. Spam, of course, is also on the rise, along with arguably ill-advised attempts to curb it. On top of that, Microsoft, Computer Associates International and other software companies are beginning to encroach on the security market. Still, it's not Thompson's style to come across as perturbed. Awareness about security problems is growing, and so is Symantec. Upsells Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:07pm EST AEBN adds 200 VOD Hustler movies. AEBN, Adult Entertainment Broadcasting Network Inc., has contracted for over 200 Hustler Videos to add to their selection of Video On Demand movies. Webmaster already in possession of an AEBN PPV Theater will soon have the opportunity to add 'Hustler' videos to their categories. |
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