BRITAIN — Many an adult can remember their childhood friendships and how moody all involved could become. Best friends who spent “too much” time – or perhaps too much rowdy time – together often found themselves temporarily banned from contact while the adults around them...

REDWOOD CITY, CA — NebuAd, under scrutiny by Congress and the Federal Trade Commission as part of those entities’ larger investigation into consumer privacy issues online, has decided to delay its plans to deploy on a widespread basis behavioral tracking technology that...

NEW YORK, NY — There’s no shortage of negative blowback about marketing messages delivered to mobile phones. After all, the cellular medium is one of the few that requires consumers to pay for receiving advertising messages they may not have wanted in the first place....

CYBERSPACE — Bill Tancer has spent years analyzing how Americans use the internet. He recently published his conclusions in Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters (Hyperion, September 2008). Among his findings: Men and women use the internet...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Is the end of the “celebrity sex tape” era approaching? Perhaps, according to Australian researcher Dr. Kath Albury.Albury is the co-author of The Porn Report, a recently published book based on data she collected with support from the Australian...

REDMOND, WA — The good people at Microsoft don’t just want to protect children. They also want to protect business professionals and their confidential information. That’s why the company wants to create “digital playgrounds” where, instead of a secret society knocks to...

ROMANIA — Now that Eastern Europe is producing and contributing to an increasing amount of intentionally erotic material, it’s no secret that its women are hot, hot, hot. According to Romanian authorities, however, some of them are a bit too sexy for their own...

TAMPA, FL — Sex sells vacations, too.A Miami-based company that plans to provide exotic shipboard vacations for liberated adults who embrace non-monogamous relationships has chartered its first ship from a major cruise line. YOLO — short for “you only live once” — is...

RICHMOND, KY — Kymberly Clem learned the hard way that just because a person buys a garment at a mall doesn’t mean they’ll be allowed to wear it there – and that the insecurities of some can trump the peaceful actions of attractive others.Clem had purchased a mini-dress at...

REDMOND, WA — Microsoft’s beta version of Internet Explorer 8, released only last week, already has the advertising and publishing communities in a minor tizzy. The new browser’s InPrivate features may threaten the $21.2 billion online-advertising industry’s ability to...