WASHINGTON, DC — No wonder search engines are battling for dominance on the World Wide Web. Forty nine-percent of internet surfers use a search feature daily — up from one third in 2002 — according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.“With...

CANADA — It wouldn’t be a lie to say that PimpRoll is on… well… a roll – and the launch and successful system integration of affiliate program MakeBank.com’s Express Signup is the proof in the PimpRoll pudding. The freshly launched affiliate program requires merely the...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Now that governments on both sides of the Atlantic have signed off on Google’s acquisition of advertising network DoubleClick, the search engine giant is wasting no time in integrating the technology it paid billions to obtain.In addition to adding...

LONGMONT, CO — File this one under “Stupid, But Not So Stupid Somebody Didn’t Try It.”Not once, not twice, but three times within a single month a Colorado man attempted to dupe the same exact adult novelty store into handing him porn DVDs. His impressively bald faced...

BROCKTON, MA — You know there’s a problem when even small-town America notices your bottom line is shrinking.While adult entertainment hasn’t yet tipped the needle into the red zone of commercial viability, few would deny an industry that once seemed recession-proof no...

STAUNTON, VA — Tomorrow morning, seven jurors will be selected for what is likely to be an important community standards trial – and part of Staunton, OH prosecutor Raymond C. Robertson’s promise to keep pornography out of the city’s retail shops. Last October, Rick Krial’s...

TAMPA, FL — Should local governments regulate private clubs that cater to sexually active adults? That’s the question Hillsboro County officials will attempt to answer in September when code enforcement officials take up the case of a seven-year-old swingers club that may...

GERMANY — American poet Robert Frost once wrote that “Good fences make good neighbors.” While the United States is busily erecting and maintaining a fence designed to keep illegal immigrants keen to work at high-demand/low wage jobs at bay, Germany and Poland have been...

IRAQ — One man’s pleasure is another man’s torture. In the case of devout Muslim detainees forced to endure pornography during the so-called “war on terror,” that’s not an exaggeration. A 20-page witness statement from Ahmed Jawad al-Fartoosi, viewed by the Guardian,...

MARINA DEL REY, CA — A fatal flaw in the internet’s addressing system was patched in early July, but the International Corporation for Domain Names and Numbers remains sufficiently concerned about the potential for hackers and phishers to launch attacks through un-patched...