ST. LOUIS, MO – A federal grand jury in Missouri has returned a 22-count indictment against eleven individuals and four corporations on charges of conspiracy, fraud, and racketeering, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday.The indictment was returned by the grand...

CYBERSPACE – According to a report issued by San Antonio-based web analytics firm Click Forensics on Monday, the rate of fraudulent clicks increased to 14.1-percent during the second quarter of 2006, up from 13.7-percent in the first three months of the year.Click Forensics...

CYBERSPACE — Websites touting their “social networking” powers may find things less than friendly now that the once-debt-ridden Friendster has won a patent for the technology.The impact on sites including Tribe.net, LinkedIn, Tagged, Bebo, MySpace, and LiveJournal are...

COLUMBUS, OH — Women throughout the world have long hoped… or worried… that intercourse late in their pregnancy might cause them to go into labor. A recent study has dashed those hopes… or reassured those fears… depending upon the situation.In fact, according to D. Jonathan...

CLEARFIELD, UT – Dan Phelps, former Mayor of Clearfield, UT, has some strong feelings about pornography.“It’s terrible, it’s a plague, it’s worse than a drug habit, worse than an alcohol habit,” Phelps told The Standard Examiner, an Ogden-based newspaper. “No one is immune to...

SARASOTA, FL – Clinton McCowen, AKA “Ray Guhn”, has entered a plea of Not Guilty to charges of racketeering, obscenity and prostitution, the charges on which he was arrested by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office in late June.The charges are related to McCowen’s alleged...

CYBERSPACE — ”They” say that crime doesn’t pay. Some days it seems like “they” lie.According to CipherTrust, manufacturer of spam and viral protection devices for networks, spam related to pornography is 280 times more effective than the second most successful product...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Wednesday’s schedule at the Xbiz Summer Forum included a seminar covering a topic about which members of the adult internet industry alternately express optimism or skepticism: mobile porn.The message of the Potential of Mobile Porn seminar can be summed up...

CHINA — Chairman Mao Zedong must be spinning in his worker created tomb. Not only is Capitalism taking root throughout his beloved country’s biggest cities, not only are men and women wearing colorful and sometimes provocative clothing, not only are once tradition-bound...

CYBERSPACE – The Mozilla Foundation has released the initial beta version of Firefox 2.0, which includes a couple of handy new features in addition to addressing a number of minor bugs and flaws in previous versions of the browser.The new iteration of Firefox includes a built-in...