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News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:04pm EST Voyeur Web site JenniCam to go dark. One of the darlings of the Web and a pioneer of electronic exhibitionism, Jenni of JenniCam fame, is turning off the lights after seven years. Jennifer Ringley, 27, became a quasi-celebrity when she installed video cameras in her room at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania in April 1996 and launched JenniCam.org. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:03pm EST $50,000 settlement ends lawsuit over porn career. A trial over porn profits ended yesterday with both sides grudgingly accepting a settlement. Victoria Zdrok, 30, of Pompton Lakes, N.J., agreed to make a onetime - and final - payment of $50,000 to her ex-husband, Alexander Zdrok, 52, of Wayne. Chester County Judge Jacqueline C. Cody said the check must be handed over within two weeks. Otherwise, the trial will resume in January - an outcome no one seemed eager to pursue. Content Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:02pm EST Eight sets of red head teen am at UltraXGirls. Eight sets of perky and leggy redhead team amateur Rebekka have been upgraded to broadband size, 1200x900. Images are a buck a pop with sets usually containing about 40 images per. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:01pm EST New UK anti-spam laws coming into effect tomorrow will have limited effect in turning the tide in the fight against junk mail, according to lawyers and security experts. Revised UK regulations will mean online marketers can send e-mail pitches and SMS messages only to consumers who have agreed beforehand to recieve them, except where users are existing customers of a particular company. So, for consumers at least, the UK government is applying the 'opt-in' approach to regulating spam. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:01pm EST Chuck Norris Backs Campaign Against Web Porn. Hollywood action veteran Chuck Norris is launching a campaign against paedophiles and internet pornographers. The former Walker, Texas Ranger star, who has two-year-old twins with his wife Gena, is horrified by the millions of porn sites accessible to youngsters at the click of a button, and is now working with an internet firm to make a change. He says, "We have to do something about our kids being exposed to the pornography and child predators on the internet. "Within a few years my kids will be on the internet. I want them protected. "More than a million sexual predators use the internet worldwide. There are 60 million pornographic spam emails every day. It's scary. When I saw the statistics, I was horrified." News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 1:00pm EST Broadband newbies pick price over speed. A growing number of broadband subscribers are choosing price, not speed, when it comes to picking a provider. That's good news for digital subscriber line (DSL) providers, namely the Baby Bell phone companies that have introduced access services that are cheaper, but slower, than cable providers. Most of the Bells' gains have come from customers subscribing to broadband for the first time, according to a Forrester Research study released publicly on Tuesday. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 12:59pm EST Firm starts paying US programmers Indian salaries. A report said that a US CEO has had the bright idea of offering US programmers the kind of money Indian software developers get paid. And he has been flooded with people applying for jobs. According to Business Week, Jon Carson of cMarket didn't want to outsource work to India, despite the massive cost savings it might entail. But one day a light bulb lit up in his noddle and he decided to offer Americans jobs but at Indian salaries. Convention Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 12:58pm EST 2004 XBiz Awards judges, presenters revealed. With the closing of the judging process for the 2nd Annual XBiz Adult Web Awards. The winners of this prestigious award which recognizes industry excellence will be announced on January 6th, 2004, at a gala awards ceremony held inside The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Presenters at the Awards Show include Brittany Andrews, Victoria Givens, and many more. Judges are: Chris-Paycom, Ron-Boardtracker, Holly Moss- HMoss Consulting, Tina-Video Secrets.Rainey-XXXCash, Norman-Matrix, Quentin -Top Bucks, Mike-Twin Dreams, MikeB-CECash, BigB-CECash. Aly-Python, Mandy-TabooRevenue, Tanja-Goodthinxx, Blue Design Studios, Gary Kremen-Sex.com, Rocki-TrafficCashGold, Oystein-Mansion Productions, Raven-Sin-Text, Laurel-HustlerContent, Adrian-Auction Points, Steve-Deviant Cash, Nikko-Eurodialer, Dave-Platinum Bucks, Dokk, Dravyk-allofem.com, Dave-Pimproll, Dave-Cyberage, Christian-Atlas Multimedia, Cynthia-AEBN, and Michael-Sex Entertain. The Industry Achievement Award winner has also been selected and will be announced at the XBiz Awards Show. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 12:57pm EST Rare challenge to FTC over pop-up ads. Those flashy pop-up ads that annoy millions of Internet users each day are getting a legal test, thanks to a pair of 20-year-old college students who are challenging the government's effort to regulate the advertisements. The Federal Trade Commission accuses the students' small California company of committing "high-tech extortion" by using a feature inside popular Windows software to generate pop-up ads as frequently as every 10 minutes. Ironically -- and a key factor in the government's case -- the students' pop-ups tout software designed to block such ads. The company, D-Squared Solutions LLC of San Diego, has countered that the government's allegations go too far and that its ads are "no more harmful than roadway speedbumps or television commercials." News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 12:56pm EST Microsoft: No patches this month. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that no security patches would be forthcoming this month. While several new flaws have been announced by researchers, Microsoft said that it is still investigating the issues and doesn't have a patch prepared for December.  Content Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 12:55pm EST Year-end discount, megabundle at One Lick. Two specials at One Lick. First, any order over $100 through the end of the year get 40% off your order (if you put BYEBYE2003 in the coupon box). Second, two dozen complete collections left over from their summer blowout. 108 sets, over 10k images, $1,400 (which is 60% off the already discounted prices). News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 12:54pm EST Mafia recruiting spammers, crackers, AV chief warns. Spammers, beware - organised criminals are positioning themselves to take a slice of your business. Virus writing - once the sole province of hooligans - has edged itself into the arena of organised crime with viruses like Sobig-F that are capable of setting up a spam-sending proxy network. News Article Wednesday, December 10th 2003, 12:53pm EST Microsoft FAT patents 'could be re-opened'. If Microsoft decides to mine its patent portfolio for cash, it's likely to face a few unexpected consequences. A new patent body that's vowing to defend the free software community against Microsoft's new patents-for-cash revenue strategy says it will ask the US Patent Office to go back to square one, and systematically examine the validity of the patents in question. This is an unusual tactic that promises to bring the overworked USPTO's approval of questionable patents right into the spotlight. News Bytes Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:47pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously Earthquake rumbles across region. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:42pm EST Ashcroft has to protect us from smut. Suppose a sleazy porn pusher broke into your house and showed dirty XXX-rated pictures to your children. You'd break a finger dialing the cops - and they might not do a thing about it. "Virtual" porn break-ins happen every day wherever a computer shakes hands with the Internet. Instead of lock picks, broken glass and pry-bars, the porn pushers use spam, pop-up ads, viruses, cookies and Trojan horses that hijack your PC and cram it with raw, graphic pornography. That's a federal crime. But the U.S. Department of Justice is doing next to nothing. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:41pm EST Conservatives Spank Naughty Abercrombie. A conservative group took another swipe at teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch yesterday, with a full-page advertisement in USA Today that chastised the company's board for allowing the use of pornography and sexual content to sell clothes. The attack is the latest in a string of protests aimed at Abercrombie, which has drawn fire from family-values groups since it began publishing its racy catalog. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:39pm EST ValueClick Completes Acquisition of Commission Junction. ValueClick, Inc. , a provider of digital marketing media, technology and services reported the successful completion of its acquisition of Commission Junction, Inc. which was initially announced on October 10, 2003. As previously announced, ValueClick will combine Commission Junction with its Be Free affiliate marketing subsidiary. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:34pm EST A new service offering to send pornography to video mobile phones was launched today. Operator 3 is promising customers a video download service along with music and news. It believes that adult services will increase sales of video-capable handsets over Christmas and next year. The company is providing adult entertainment from Playboy at a typical cost of £2.50 for a "full video" clip. The images will not be stored in the memory of a customer's phone. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:30pm EST Why Dutch street walkers are getting their marching orders. Once the undisputed masters of vice for tolerating paid sex and soft drugs, the Dutch title has been severly tarnished by Amsterdam's decision to close its official street prostitution zone. Subsequent vocal protests by the sex industry have failed to stop the street walkers from getting their marching orders. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:29pm EST Ad-Blocking Firm Trains Sights on Paid Search. First there were banner blockers and pop-ups blockers. Then EarthLink began offering software to block rich media. Now, paid search listings and contextual ads have become the latest prey for ad blocking software, with the latest release of InterMute's AdSubtract Pro. Dubbed "Search Sanity," the new feature recognizes and strips off paid listings on Google, Yahoo!, MSN, America Online, AltaVista, LookSmart and AlltheWeb. All of those search sites get their listings from Overture, Google, or LookSmart.  News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:28pm EST Congress approves first national anti-spam legislation. Congress on Monday approved the first national effort to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail pitches offering prescription drugs, cheap loans and other come-ons. President Bush has indicated he intends to sign the measure into law. Indeed the White House revamped its own e-mail system this summer over a flood of so-called spam. Clogged inboxes have become a leading irritation among Internet users, an increasing business expense for companies and a popular target for Washington interest before an election year. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:27pm EST Microsoft-Lindows battle expands in Europe. Microsoft has expanded its legal battle with Lindows to Europe, putting pressure on PC makers there and on the company to stop distributing Lindows software. The dispute opens another front in Lindows' trademark spat with Microsoft, which has claimed that the company's name violates its Windows trademark in the United States. Microsoft's lawsuit over that issue is scheduled for trial next March. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:26pm EST What You Need To Know About Incorporating Your Business. Most US-based small businesses are getting eaten alive in taxes! That statement has proven itself true over and over again. However, while small business owners want to save money, many are literally afraid of incorporating their companies. The paperwork, the additional reports, having a set payroll amount each month, and other visions swirl around their heads. Those visions could be costing you a ton! News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:25pm EST U.S. Congress: P2P E-Smut 'Not Necessarily' More Dangerous than Other Forms. "Although some users of peer-to-peer networks might believe that they are sharing files anonymously, it is possible for law enforcement officials to discover identities of individuals sharing child pornography and other illegal material on peer-to-peer networks," the GAO wrote in its letter, a copy of which was obtained by TechNewsWorld. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:24pm EST Porn model, in lawsuit, says she makes little pay. To hear Victoria Zdrok tell it, porn doesn't pay - at least not what it used to. Not only is that bad news for Zdrok, a 30-year-old adult model, but it also dims the earning potential of her ex-husband, Alexander Zdrok. But he says he doesn't believe her. In fact, his disbelief forms the basis for the bench trial that resumed yesterday in Chester County Court over the terms of the couple's 1996 property settlement. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:22pm EST PayPal sets new fee for online music. Online payment provider PayPal, a unit of online auctioneer eBay, on Monday announced new payment processing fees for high-volume online digital music companies. The new fee that online music stores pay to PayPal to process song sales is 2.5 percent plus 9 cents for each transaction, compared with typical credit card fees of 20 cents to 30 cents. PayPal's standard rate for clients that process more than $1,000 a month through PayPal is 2.2 percent plus 30 cents per transaction. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:21pm EST How High-Speed Internet Providers Stack Up. Although dial-up is still the dominant method by which most U.S. residents access the Internet, DSL and cable are making inroads toward winning the hearts and dollars of broadband-hungry consumers. However, not all high-speed Internet providers are created equal. Customers must choose a provider on the basis of availability, rates, customer service and reputation, and that decision is not always easy, given the crowded provider marketplace and conflicting reports on review sites. Some facts are clear, however, such as who the real contenders are and why they tower over other competitors. In the Internet access stack-up, which firms top the list? News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:20pm EST Seven out of ten vulnerable software products are Microsoft's. Symantec has announced its top 10 vulnerabilities for November and Microsoft products account for seven of them. Of those seven, four are problems with Internet Explorer, one with Front Page, one with a Workstation Service and yet another with Excel Macros. Despite Microsoft's supposed emphasis on security and its "bounty" on virus writers, it seems that little ever changes. Yet, this is the company that wants to put software into every car and is part of the winning consortium for the UK's new project for the NHS News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:19pm EST Automated teller machines at two banks running Microsoft's popular Windows software were infected by a computer virus in August, the maker of the machines said Monday. The ATM infections, first reported by SecurityFocus.com, are believed to be the first of a computer virus wiggling directly onto cash machines. Content Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:18pm EST The following new CD's are released this week;  News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:16pm EST FTC Settles with Two Florida Spammers. Two Florida men have agreed to post $1 million bonds before sending out Internet "spam" in the future as part of a settlement on deceptive-business charges, federal regulators said on Tuesday. The Federal Trade Commission had charged Gregory Roth and Peter Stolz with violating banking and consumer-protection laws in a U.S. court in Miami. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:16pm EST UK police moot paedo hard disk amnesty. UK police are mulling over launching an interesting initiative in which paedophiles can avoid a court appearence if they offer themselves and their hard drives up for counselling and erasure/destruction, respectively. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:15pm EST Microsoft to drop older products. Microsoft will retire several of its products next week, including Windows 98 and SQL Server 7, to comply with a court order related to its dispute with Sun Microsystems over Java. In a posting to Microsoft's developer Web site, the company lists several older products that are being phased out and that will no longer be available to customers as of Dec. 15. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:13pm EST U.N.: Internet use stats flawed. The extent of the technology gap between richer and poorer nations may be smaller than believed because of flawed statistics on Internet use, the U.N. communications agency has said. The annual study by the International Telecommunication Union came a week before the start of the agency-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, a gathering of world leaders in Geneva. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:13pm EST Spam growth rate alarms providers. At the risk of stating the obvious, the spam scourge is multiplying. But it's the rate of growth that's alarming internet providers, which are finding the more they filter out junk mail, the more the spammers send. TelstraClear has been filtering email for its clear.net and paradise.net customers since October when spam accounted for 46 per cent of the mail received. A month later spam was 52 per cent of email. In the first week of December it's 62 per cent. News Article Tuesday, December 9th 2003, 12:12pm EST Yahoo to Launch Bargain-Priced Broadband Package. Yahoo Inc. will offer its long-awaited bundle of premium services for people who already have high-speed Internet connections (search) this month at a price below its major competitors, the company said Monday. Priced starting at $5.95 per month -- with a free trial for the first three months -- the Yahoo Plus service marks an extension of Yahoo's subscription offerings to users outside its successful partnership with local telephone carrier SBC Communications Inc. (SBC). News Bytes Monday, December 8th 2003, 1:08pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Gingrich Saying The U.S. Went 'Off a Cliff' in Iraq. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 1:04pm EST Sex tape scandal sparks interest in reality show. She is a party-loving socialite heiress whose amateur sex video fuelled an Internet frenzy and sparked a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the world's most famous hotel-owning family. But as Paris Hilton pleads her embarrassment and regret at the damage done to the family name, suspicions are growing that the entire episode might have been one giant and well-timed publicity stunt designed to further the career of America's newest celebrity obsession. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 1:03pm EST Internet showdown side-stepped in Geneva. The international showdown over who should run the Internet has been side-stepped at the very last minute following 12 hours of intensive talks in Geneva. More than 200 negotiators met at an extraordinary meeting on the weekend before the World Summit on the Information Society in order to thrash things about and hopefully prevent the entire meeting from being disrupted by three controversial issues. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 1:01pm EST A trendy teen clothing firm has withdrawn its Christmas catalogue after furious parents claimed it was hardcore porn. Naked teenagers simulate sex in the brochure for Abercrombie and Fitch, loved by celebs such as Britney Spears.  News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 1:00pm EST Older set is beginning to gain ground on Web. Retired Americans are fast gaining ground on their kids when it comes to Internet use, but companies have far to go to make their Web sites suited to the needs of older people. The online presence of Americans 65 and older jumped 25 percent this year, to a total of nearly 10 million surfers, while 55- to 64-year-olds raised their numbers by 15 percent, to nearly 16 million, according to a new study by Nielsen//NetRatings, a market research firm. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 1:00pm EST Tasmanian Senator Brian Harradine has called for tougher filtering of internet content, warning the current opt-in filtering regime is not working. Senator Harradine — who was the driving force behind the Federal Government's internet content regulation regime — said he was "having discussions" on how filtering technology could be made more effective. His comments came as the Government finalised a report into its internet content regulation regime. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:59pm EST Hackers Steal From Pirates, to No Good End. The people who design rogue programs that take over computers from afar are now applying the tactic that made music pirating programs so effective - and the Internet may never be the same. The rogue programs, known generically as "Trojan horses," have enabled pornographers and others to mask their identities by using unwitting people's computers as relay stations. It had been assumed that diligent investigators could ultimately shut down a system by identifying the server computer used as the initial launching pad. But now a researcher has determined that a new kind of Trojan horse could make the systems virtually unstoppable. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:58pm EST EU presses for laws against spam. The European Union has asked nine member nations that have failed to adopt a privacy law intended to help the fight against unwanted e-mail to describe how they intend to comply with the law. Belgium, Germany, Greece, Finland, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Sweden must provide the explanation within two months of face possible court action. The law went into effect Oct. 31. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:57pm EST Cybercops bust 30 child porn rings. In the biggest sting operation of its kind in the history of the Internet, a German-led sweep this autumn smashed more than 30 child pornography rings and netted some 26,500 suspects in 61 countries. The secretly co-ordinated raids marked one of the most impressive victories against Internet crime to date, and heralded the gradual emergence of long-overdue international co-operation in cyberspace law enforcement. When the World Summit on the Information Society convenes in Geneva Dec 10-12, leaders will seek to build on their success in developing better cross-border guidelines to fight online crime. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:56pm EST Nations Chafe at U.S. Influence Over the Internet. Paul Twomey, the president of the Internet's semi-official governing body, Icann, learned Friday night what it feels like to be an outsider. Mr. Twomey, who had flown 20 hours from Vietnam to Geneva to observe a preparatory meeting for this week's United Nations' conference on Internet issues, ended up being escorted from the meeting room by guards. The officials running the meeting had suddenly decided to exclude outside observers. Mr. Twomey's ejection may underscore the resentment of many members of the international community over the way the Internet is run and over United States ownership of many important Internet resources. Although Mr. Twomey is Australian, Icann - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - is a powerful nonprofit group established by the United States government in 1998 to oversee various technical coordination issues for the global network. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:55pm EST NatWest has warned people to ignore an email calling for punters to disclose private information about their bank accounts. The email - the latest in a series supposedly from UK banks seeking to con people into disclosing personal information - has apparently been sent randomly to both customers and non customers of NatWest. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:54pm EST This weekend users of Kazaa Lite K++ learned that almost every download site of the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing application had disappeared, including the links on its own home page. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:53pm EST China will hit 78 million surfers this month. The number of Internet surfers in China is expected to hit 78 million by the end of 2003, the China Daily newspaper said on Monday, citing a report by the Internet Society of China. It did not give comparative figures, but said the number of Web sites in China, with a population of about 1.3 billion, would reach 500,000 and online computers would hit 30 million by the end of the year. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:52pm EST Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? While attention has been focused on The SCO Group's IP suit against free software, Microsoft itself has prepared the ground for a full scale patent licensing program in which smaller vendors will be the most vulnerable. In June, Microsoft hired Marshall Phelps from IBM, the executive who began IBM's patent-based revenue program in 1985. Seeing growth from its traditional businesses taper away IBM turned to patents (and financial instruments such as mainframe leasing) as a way of increasing revenues. Microsoft has been granted 3,000 patents and applied for over 5,000 more.  News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:51pm EST Show lesbian visibility - hang out your shoes. An international lesbian network is calling for gay women all over the world to hang out their shoes, in a bid to raise visibility and comradeship. And the group behind the idea hopes the international day, set for March 4th next year, will become an annual event where lesbians can get together. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:50pm EST New computer virus attacks anti-spam activists. A new computer virus targets activists who are dedicated to fighting junk e-mail. At least three variants of the Mimail virus, the latest of which began circulating last week, are programmed to flood the Web sites of anti-spam organizations with junk traffic in hopes of making them inaccessible to legitimate visitors.The latest variant also tricks recipients into flooding the organizations with additional e-mail traffic by pretending to be an order for child pornography and requiring a reply for cancellation. Groups targeted by the so-called distributed denial-of-service attacks are the Spamhaus Project, SpamCop, and Spam Prevention Early Warning System. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:49pm EST Toshiba could sell off its computer business. A report on Barron's suggested the writing is on the wall for Toshiba's computer business, with the firm considering either spinning it off as a separate unit or even selling it. According to the report, Toshiba is faced with being the victim of increasingly bloody price wars from its rivals including Dell and Hewlett Packard. Press Release Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:48pm EST L&M Enterprises Transfers All Adult Interests To Gecko Productions, LLC It's time to step back and restructure! L&M enterprises has transfered it's online adult related interests to the good folks over at Gecko Productions, LLC. including CD Babes, Cybersin Media, Nymphopix and Plugin Porn. Over the past few years, the task of maintaining the sites and producing new content was becomming evermore difficult. The staff at Gecko has some exciting new plans which will bring the websites up to date and create a user friendly, cost effective portal for webmasters searching for content. I will remain 2257 keeper of records for our materials as required by law along with a full set of records which will be maintained at Gecko's offices!! I would like to take a moment to thank all of the webmasters who we have had the pleasure of working with over our 10 year span in the adult industry and to those of you who went above and beyond when we were raided in 2000, you will remain very special to us. As for me :-) I will continue to work closely with the new owners, producing quality new niche materials for them along with continuing to produce custom exclusive materials for our select clients and expand our presence in the magazines, print marketplace, art galleries and portfolio work for feature entertainers, models and artists. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:34pm EST Telstra backflips on broadband. Telstra has done an about face on the controversial download caps it used on its broadband services, announcing new plans without extra charges for over-cap use. As reported by The Weekend Australian, the new "unlimited" plans will be accompanied by a new a casual use broadband plan and price cut on 5GB and 10GB capped plans. Telstra spokeswoman Kerrina Lawrence said the changes were designed to increase uptake of broadband and bring more subscribers on to the Telstra service. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:33pm EST Yahoo announces plan to identify source of spam. Yahoo has pre-announced that it intends to do something serious about spam next year. Its new initiative, named "Domain Keys" will involve automatic cryptographic signatures on mail. The signature will identify which Internet domain the mail is from. This line of attack on spam seems rather more promising than the law-based line, which doesn't seem to be going the right way, even assuming you could identify who the lawbreakers were. And though many of us may feel like kneecapping the spammers, that approach suffers from the same problem, plus the problem of legality. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:32pm EST Flash-drive makers form booster group. Several companies are creating an industry group to promote a kind of portable data storage device that's small enough to fit on a keychain. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:30pm EST Playboy makeover aims to lure younger readers. Playboy makeover aims to lure younger readers. New Playboy editor faces challenge of gradual, decisive makeover. News Article Monday, December 8th 2003, 12:29pm EST China's online game makers reportedly bring in $250 million. China's Internet game makers are expected to make $250 million this year, earning respectability for an industry once "despised and scorned," the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday. The companies are riding the surging popularity of online games among an estimated 40 million of China's 78 million Internet users. Its games produce another $1.4 billion in business for telecoms and other industries, Xinhua said. Online games are now part of China's national science and technology program and the government offers makers tax breaks and other support, the report said. News Bytes Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:17pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. A U.S. soldier, 2 Iraqis killed by market bomb. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:15pm EST Obscenity laws must be upheld, speaker tells citizens. The State of Kansas has obscenity laws on its books and there are legal actions that concerned citizens can take to regulate, control or even close down sexually-oriented businesses, or SOBs, Randy Sharp told area residents Thursday night in a meeting at Sterl Hall that was sponsored by the Citizens for Strengthening Community Virtues committee. "And when I say SOB I'm talking about that store by the highway over there," Sharp said. "Not the guy who owns the place." Sharp is a national speaker with the American Family Association and tours the United States to inform communities of what actions they can take to stand up against the pornography industry. He said the Abilene group is the most energized, highly organized and dedicated group of individuals he has seen in his four years of working with the AFA. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:14pm EST Virginia Moving Towards Laws Recognizing Legal Right to Sodomy; Grudgingly. Virginia is having some problems coping with this year's Supreme Court decision that declared that sodomy is legal, and laws that suggest otherwise are unconstitutional. Today a legislative subcommittee issued their proposed amendments to the Virginia code of law in light of that ruling. While working to create a functional new code of law that complies with Lawrence vs. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down anti-sodomy laws, the Virginia State Crime Commission decided to keep the commonwealth's existing ban on sodomy on their books. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:13pm EST If you're an adult magazine publisher, you may not be able to figure out which way is up these days. As Playboy magazine celebrates its 50th anniversary this month, Penthouse magazine's publisher has filed for bankruptcy. Playboy has seen its magazine sales dip, but its online sales and subscriptions have risen. Most would probably blame the Internet for porn magazines' declining success. But tonight on "Tech Live," see why not everyone's blaming the Web. In fact, the answer may lie in the surprising success of a lesbian porn magazine called On Our Backs. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:12pm EST ASA slaps .eu domain name seller. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered a Cambridge-based company to stop sending emails implying that it is accredited to offer .eu domain names. .EU Registry Services claimed it was the operator of the .eu suffix, which is actually the responsibility of a non-profit organisation, the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (Eurid). News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:11pm EST Yahoo Patches IM Security Hole. Yahoo Inc. this week issued a security update for Yahoo Messenger after the report earlier this week of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the instant messaging client. Yahoo said it learned of the security issue late Tuesday and issued the patch by Wednesday afternoon. Security researcher Tri Huynh discovered a vulnerability that, if exploited, could allow a malicious Web site to run code on a user's computer, according to an advisory issued Wednesday by Danish security company Secunia. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:10pm EST Internet auctioneers e Bay are cracking down on the trade of child pornography on their site. They have suspended one dealer who was openly buying and selling hundreds of pictures of naked children and babies. Hundreds of images were offered to the highest bidder by a man identifying himself only as ''boymentor''. EBay shut down his operation following complaints from outraged users. Sponsor Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:06pm EST WEGCash - EZMags has merged into EZPass. We have merged EZMags into EZPass. You can find your linking codes in EZPass Free Trials and EZPass Paid Trials. Looking for something different? These all exclusive sites, updated every month, are what you are looking for. They are converting overall under 1:100, so grab your link codes now and get those links up and start promoting these sites today. Look for Hardcore DVD Review, Nugget Online and Plumpers Mag. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:05pm EST Pre-Paid Web Surfing Could Double In '04. If you thought pre-paid telephone calling cards were a big hit, just wait until you see pre-paid Internet cards take off in earnest, as a published report says it's likely to start doing in 2004. USA Today reported December 5 that pre-paid Net surfing was "just" a $30 million business in 2002 but is likely to double by or during 2004 and continue climbing, especially since some of the Net's biggest players – America Online, AT&T, and Sprint – are joining smaller companies like Budget Dialup to get in on it. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:04pm EST Yahoo's New Plan to Fight Spam. Internet services company Yahoo Inc. on Friday said it is working on technology to combat e-mail spam by changing the way the Internet works to require authentication of a message's sender. Yahoo said its "Domain Keys" software, which it hopes to launch in 2004, will be made available freely to the developers of the Web's major open-source e-mail software and systems. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:03pm EST Playboy at 50: Cutting-edge becomes almost quaint. Happy 50th birthday, Playboy. You don’t look a day over, uh, 50. Except for Playmate Colleen Shannon, who’s 25. In the magazine’s just released 50th anniversary issue, photos of Shannon are joined by tributes to founder Hugh Hefner (77) and articles by Norman Mailer (80) and George Plimpton (dead). Obviously there are some interesting age issues at play in Playboy these days, along with the usual self-promotion and grotto-frolicking. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:02pm EST Spam-Virus Marriage Seen As Leading 2004 Internet Threat. The use of viruses to commandeer personal computers on the Internet for relaying spam is a trend that started this year and is expected to escalate in 2004, an e-mail security company said Friday. In the last six months, MessageLabs Inc. has seen a steady rise in the use of spam and virus techniques in sending out junk e-mail hawking drugs, pornography and sexual enhancements. Resource Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:01pm EST YNOT Network, LP is proud to announce the return of Khan. One of the original staff members of the YNOT Network during its early years, adult Internet pioneer Robert "Khan" Jenkins is back on board after a three-year hiatus. Khan will take the helm in handling all traffic-related issues involving YNOT's popular surfer-oriented Web properties, including www.myporn.com and www.ynotnetwork.com. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 12:00pm EST Judge orders SCO to show Linux infringement. IBM won a tactical victory Friday in a legal battle with SCO Group when a judge ordered SCO to show within 30 days the Linux software to which it believes it has rights and to point out where it believes IBM is infringing. But SCO also said it will open a new copyright infringement claim in its legal attack. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 11:59am EST Bigger monitor display isn't necessarily better. My dad, my uncle Mike and my wife's uncle Downs are all in various stages of thinking about their next Mac. Their current computers are all three to six years old — a 450 MHz Power Mac G4, an indigo G3 iMac and a Power Mac G3. They're eager for more performance and bigger displays, and I've tried to guide them into finding the right combination of price, monitor size and performance for their varied needs. News Article Saturday, December 6th 2003, 11:58am EST Europe 'broadband revolution' leads the world. The future iss burning bright for the ICT manufacturing and services across the European Union as the continent enjoys a "broadband revolution" and takes up global leadership in the mobile sector. This upbeat assessment came from the European Network of Training Organisations Conference 2003 in Brussels this week. At the event, Erkki Liikanen, member of the European Commission responsible for enterprise and the information society, said: "Growth in the broadband market certainly entitles us to talk about a broadband revolution. I expect growth to continue along the S curve, and I look at broadband as a key enabling technology for the delivery of those services that will help increasing the performance of companies and public administrations." |
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