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Business Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:38am EST Video Raised the Internet Bar. The other day a few friends and I stopped back at the office after a long day of golf. By age, the foursome spanned three unique musical eras. Pete the chef is a child of the '70's. Business partner Andy and I are products of the '80's and our fourth, young Derek the hotel manager had his halcyon days in the '90's. Finding music that suits all our tastes is a challenging with one liking the guitar-god rock of Led Zeppelin, two digging the melodic meanderings of the post-punk '80's and the other intently listening to the contemporary sounds of today. Though the several thousand MP3s from our collective systems have been merged into one meta-MP3 music file providing what should be at least a week of continuous, entertainment. The problem is, my main computer appears to be dropping its drivers and those thousands of MP3s are sounding sort of fuzzy. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:36am EST Adware may be lurking in video on MySpace. Several MySpace pages offer what appear to be YouTube videos that trigger installation of adware when played, a security company has warned. The sexually explicit videos can be found on a number of user pages on the MySpace social networking website, Websense said in an alert Monday. They look like You Tube video, but are in fact hosted on a copycat "Yootube.info" website, Websense said. That website was still online as of Tuesday evening. "When users click on the video, they are directed to a copy of the video," Websense said. People are then redirected to the Windows Media Player, which will pop up a license agreement with installation of an adware program called Zango Cash, it said. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:35am EST Go on, admit it. You've wondered what it would be like to just throw caution to the wind, go down to your local electrical shop, buy a camcorder and become a porn star. Of course, something usually stops most of us from living out this particular dream, whether it be common sense, a lack of money or the fact that you're too damn scared of uploading it on to the net in case your parents see it. Could a mobile porn game be an outlet for your, erm, frustrations? You start Porn Manager with just a fistfull of bucks, a couple of rooms and plenty of ambition, and set off on the long and not so lonely road to becoming the next Hugh Hefner. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:34am EST Playboy posts profit on Club Jenna Web, DVD sales. Playboy Enterprises Inc., publisher of the most widely read men's magazine, posted an unexpected profit, buoyed by online sales from porn star Jenna Jameson's Club Jenna. The shares rose the most in two years. Net income dropped 66 percent to $1.1 million, or 3 cents a share, from $3.2 million, or 10 cents, a year earlier, Chicago- based Playboy said in a statement today. Playboy beat the average estimate of a loss of 3.4 cents a share from seven analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial. Sales rose to $82.3 million. Online sales rose 40 percent, helped by the June purchase of Club Jenna and sales of Playboy DVDs, the company said. Licensing revenue rose 41 percent to $4.6 million. The results show Chief Executive Officer Christie Hefner, daughter of founder Hugh Hefner, may be succeeding in her efforts to revive sales after three years of revenue growth below 10 percent. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:33am EST If an Oregon couple decide to continue their adult business after moving into a north Scottsdale home, there’s not much city officials could do about it. Kevin and Sandra Otterson, proprietors of an adult Web site called Wifey’s World, bought a lot in the upscale Ancala neighborhood in March. The couple, both in their 40s, go by the screen names of “Hubby” and “Wifey.” City Attorney Deborah Robberson said that if the city’s laws regarding home occupations and zoning aren’t being violated, and there’s no discernible criminal activity, officials would be hardpressed to take any action. City law does not address the production of adult material in private homes, she said. Business Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:30am EST There has never been a better time to start an online business! According to Jupiter Research, a market research firm, online retail spending in the United States will increase to a whopping $95 billion in 2006. In Europe things are getting even better! In next five years the number of online shoppers will increase by 75 percent and per person average spending will increase by 50 percent. This will push European eCommerce to $335 billion by 2011. If you are planning to start a new online business or upgrade your existing eCommerce site, you should consider using some of the innovative ideas related to Web 2.0 concept. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:29am EST Top 6 phones for business users. If the BlackBerry debacle taught us anything, it's how much we depend on devices to stay in touch with the office, get work done on the road, obtain news and more. Smart phones have changed the way we work, so no longer are we slaves to our desks. So which models make the best business associates? A number of qualified candidates are out there, but these are our six favorites. These smart phones are stocked with productivity tools such as QWERTY keyboards, e-mail and software, as well as connectivity features such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HSPDA and EV-DO, and they've proven themselves in the performance department. Read on to see if one is right for you. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:28am EST Change Your Sex with Doctor's Note. It used to be that you had to have a sex change to change your sex. In New York City, at least, that may be about to, um, change. Here's a report from the NYT: Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent. News Article Wednesday, November 8th 2006, 11:28am EST Attackers end-run around IE security. The dependence of Internet Explorer on other Windows components has allowed online attackers to work around the shored-up security of Microsoft's latest browser. Last weekend, security researchers discovered a website using an previously unknown, or zero-day, vulnerability in a relatively unused ActiveX component of Windows to infect visitors' systems. ActiveX components act as a common way to exchange data between various components of Windows. While the flawed ActiveX component - a part of Microsoft's XML Core Services 4.0 - is not shipped with Internet Explorer, attackers can use the browser to trigger the flaw and compromise any system on which the ActiveX control is installed. The vulnerability underscores that the improvements in security in the latest version of Microsoft's browser, Internet Explorer 7, do not eliminate the threats of older components of Windows, said Gunter Ollmann, director of IBM Internet Security Systems' X-Force vulnerability research team. News Bytes Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 10:05am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Saddam will be hanged 'by end-January'.  Traffic Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 10:04am EST The 10 Commandments of Link Building. Links today are what keywords were several years ago -- the hottest topic in SEO. Search engines, particularly Google, use link popularity to help evaluate and rank your website. Link popularity refers to the number, quality and relevance of inbound links from other websites to yours. Some people waste a lot of time seeking links in the wrong way and from the wrong places. The "10 Commandments of Link Building" will help you avoid such time-wasters and achieve true linking success. News Article Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 10:03am EST Doubt cast on anti-porn group. The mysterious group that launched Scottsdale's latest porn controversy has no known members and likely does not exist, those following the story said. The Northeast Valley Coalition Against Pornography raised eyebrows in north Scottsdale last week by distributing a flier warning of an Oregon couple's plans to move their hardcore Web site to a Scottsdale neighborhood. The flier listed no contact information, and several community leaders said they had never heard of the group. Kevin Otterson, who runs the Wifey's World site with his wife, Sandra, declined to speculate who may have targeted him. But he said he thought it was not someone who lived in Scottsdale. "I don't believe this coalition exists," said Otterson, who bought property this year on 119th Street in the upscale Ancala subdivision. News Article Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 10:02am EST Australian Firm Forced To Rehire Employee It Fired For Viewing Porn On Work Computers. Last year, NCR Australia fired a long-term (31 years) employee after it discovered 175 pornographic pictures stored on his work computer. That kind of story isn't all that uncommon these days -- but what is strange is that the Industrial Relations Commission has apparently told the company it needs to hire the guy back, saying that his dismissal was unfair, as well as "harsh, unreasonable and unjust." The man in question claimed that such content was routinely passed around at work, including from his supervisor. The review found that, even though having porn on the computer may have violated the signed policies of the company, since the signing of that form was done in a "mechanical, unthinking routine," it probably was meaningless. I would imagine this does not mean that Australians are free to surf porn at work whenever they feel like it, but they might at least make a reasonable defense as to why they shouldn't be fired for it. News Article Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 10:00am EST Joe Lakey ( Lensman) Announced as Keynote Speaker for Internext. AVN Media Network today announced that Joe Lakey, executive vice president of Playboy Enterprises Inc. and founder of Adult.com and GFY.com, will be the keynote speaker at Internext Las Vegas 2007. Lakey’s presentation, Beyond Web 2.0: How it will affect our business, will take place on the first day of the conference, Monday, Jan. 15, from noon to 1:00 p.m. The presentation will explore what’s next for the adult entertainment industry, including hot issues such as how video-sharing sites will affect the content-site business model; how social networking will affect the dating- and interactive-site business model; and if 2257 will kill TGPs. Lakey will examine these potential changes along with analyzing the next big revenue opportunities for online adult entertainment. News Article Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 9:58am EST New ASACP Website Label Goes Live at RTAlabel.org The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection has launched a free, voluntary website label for use by adult sites. Complete information about the “Restricted to Adults” label is available at a new website, RTAlabel.org. The RTA label was developed by ASACP with input from adult companies, free speech attorneys, and technical consultants. RTA is designed to enable better parental filtering and to demonstrate the online adult industry’s commitment to helping parents prevent children from viewing age-inappropriate content. News Article Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 9:57am EST Microsoft Launches 3-D Maps For Web Search. Microsoft Corp. said Monday it introduced three-dimensional maps of 15 U.S. cities in an effort to beef up its Web search offering to better compete with market leader Google Inc. Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D compiles photo images to generate photo-realistic 3-D models of buildings and landscape in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle and Dallas. Trailing Google in the market for Internet search, Microsoft aims to drive traffic to its search services with a slew of features like local search, or maps. "Local search is one of the fastest-growing categories online today, and adding features like 3-D will only help move the category further ahead and help Windows Live attract more customers and advertisers," said Steve Berkowitz, Microsoft's senior vice president in a statement. Search Engines Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 9:56am EST 3 Important Elements of SEO, 4 That are Absolutely Essential. Not everybody is able to implement a full-scale SEO strategy. The reasons for this may vary; time, budget, technological barriers, etc. For those that find yourself limited by what you can do now, here are the essentials of SEO. News Article Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 9:55am EST Really Cheesy Porn Music Named Top Killer Of Online Masturbation Fantasies. A recent survey conducted among regular online porn browsers named "really cheesy background music" as the number one sexual fantasy killer, according to Adultweb pundit, Planet Suzy. "Bad background music, namely blaring factory and machine technocrap and Mexican Mariachi, can kill a good bean-flicking or helmet-scrubbing session as sure as your mom sneaking up behind you. It's amazing to me that porn producers would go through all the trouble of hiring beautiful models, filming, and then overlay the vids with such unnerving, detracting music." News Article Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 9:54am EST The 'F-word' gets its own movie. An independent filmmaker has produced a movie titled, and all about the history of the English language's most vulgar "F-word," the New York Post reported. "I've always been intrigued with this one specific word that can be used in so many ways -- as a noun, a verb or an exclamation," filmmaker Steve Anderson told the newspaper. The film traces the linguistic history of the word and offers thoughts on the word from such diverse people as Miss Manners to porn star Ron Jeremy. The movie also attained the dubious honor of containing the biggest number of uses of the F-word at more than 800, bumping out the previous record holder, Gary Oldman's "Nil by Mouth," which included it 428 times. News Article Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 9:53am EST Is your software free, open or litigated? By agreeing to license Microsoft's intellectual property, SuSE distributor Novell has created a potentially fatal division in what's called F/OSS, the Free/Open Source Software movement. What has Novell done, and why is it so potentially damaging? Free Software advocates have always insisted that "free" and "open" were two movements loosely aligned, and that the Johnny Come Lately "open source" term was just a media-friendly marketing moniker. The "open source" lobby replied with some annoyance that this was an unimportant semantic issue. Now, however, that distinction is painfully apparent, and Microsoft is exploiting it to the full.  News Bytes Monday, November 6th 2006, 12:05pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Hussein Is Sentenced to Death by Hanging. Commentary Monday, November 6th 2006, 12:04pm EST 'Voter Guides' Show Bias Against Adult. As this is written, it's three days before the election, and the numbers in the polls on single issues still aren't adding up to 100, which means that there are still apparently some "undecideds" out there. So we have to ask: How ignorant or abysmally stupid do you have to be to be "undecided" at this late date? Aren't the issues clear? If you're in the adult industry, can there be any question in your mind that Republicans want to put you out of a job (and possibly out of your life? That the Libertarians, who can't possibly win a national election, are the only ones likely to keep their grubby, greedy hands off the industry – and who therefore are a choice only for local positions? And that the Democrats are the best chance we have, among those who could win, to possibly-just-maybe find more important things to do with their time than worry about what people can watch in their bedrooms? News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 12:03pm EST Clean money, dirty money: It all spends the same. Republican National Committee runs TV ad accusing a Democratic candidate of accepting money from "porn movie producers." Investigation finds that the Republican National Committee has accepted multiple donations from a pornographic movie distributor. Where is John Kerry when they need him? News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 12:01pm EST Moniker’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Auction Nets Millions. Domain registrar Moniker.com’s live domain auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference moved $4.7 million worth of domains when all was said and done, the company reported. In addition to a live auction at the show, Moniker also conducted a silent auction that ran beyond the show and closed on Oct. 30. The silent auction added another $607,000—bringing the total to $5.3 million. News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 12:00pm EST Google Just Now Owns AdSense.com Three years after Google launched its AdSense service, the company finally owns the AdSense.com domain. Previously, the domain was owned by AdSense Consulting, who bought the domain in 1996. And they're still kind of bitter about it. Go to AdSense2.com and you'll find a sharp-tongued message: If you think you can get rich quick placing other people's ads on your site or blog, please contact Google who has taken and used our business name without permission or compensation. At least they're clear about their feelings on the matter. News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 11:58am EST 'Girls Gone Wild' attorneys want charges in Bay County dropped. Attorneys for the producer of the ``Girls Gone Wild'' videos asked a judge Friday to drop charges against Joseph Francis, claiming police misconduct has tainted the case. The Bay County Sheriff's Office targeted ``Girls Gone Wild'' in retaliation for a federal lawsuit Francis filed against local officials before his April 2003 arrest, defense attorney Larry Simpson wrote in the motion filed in state circuit court.``The BCSO's plan was a simple one follow GGW everywhere they went, monitor their activities, locate where they were staying and generally harass GGW until law enforcement could come up with some arguable violation of law that would justify the arrest of Joe Francis and the seizure of everything in the possession of GGW,'' Simpson wrote. ``Thus, the ultimate goal was to put GGW out of business.'' Also, no evidence supports the charges after Circuit Judge Dedee Costello in July suppressed hundreds of hours of videotape seized in 2003 from Francis' condominiums and private jet, Simpson wrote. Francis, 33, was charged with more than 40 criminal offenses. His arrest came after two 17-year-old girls said a ``Girls Gone Wild'' photographer videotaped them in sexual situations in a Panama City Beach motel room on March 31, 2003. News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 11:57am EST Zango fined $3m for noxious adware downloads. Zango, better known as 180solutions, has agreed to pay $3m to settle a lawsuit over its alleged distribution of adware. In settling the suit, Zango also agreed to be bound by an injunction preventing it from using unfair or deceptive marketing tactics to promote its wares or to make it difficult for consumers to removing its software from their PCs. The lawsuit against the firm and two of its directors, Keith Smith and Daniel Todd, was brought by the Federal Trade Commission, the US consumer rights organisation. According to the FTC's complaint, Zango regularly used third party affiliates to install adware on consumers’ computers. The adware, including programs named Zango Search Assistant, 180Search Assistant, Seekmo, and n-CASE, monitored consumers’ surfing habits in order to display intrusive pop-up ads. The FTC reckons up to 70 million PCs have been infected with the adware resulting in the delivery of an estimated 6.9 bn pop-up ads. Applications developed by the firm have been blacklisted by anti-spyware vendors. News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 11:56am EST Security researchers have identified an unpatched vulnerability in Windows. The flaw - which affecst all supported versions of Windows bar Windows 2003 - resides in a security bug in Microsoft XML Core Services, specifically an unspecified security bug in the XMLHTTP 4.0 ActiveX Control. The flaw creates a means for hackers to inject malware onto the PCs of surfers running IE who visit a website hosting malicious code that attempts to harness the security bug. Security notification firm Secunia says that the vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers. Microsoft has posted an advisory conceding the problem and suggesting possible workarounds, which basically involve disabling the affected ActiveX control, ahead of the arrival of a patch. News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 11:55am EST Looking at porn through a gender gap. Last month researchers at McGill University in Canada reconfirmed what we'll call the porn paradox: When hooked up to instruments measuring sexual arousal, men and women reacted with equal speed when watching pornographic films.This raises several questions, including why women are so much less likely than men to consider viewing porn a valuable use of our time. But the type of material used in the study also raises broader questions about the effects of porn on both sexes.Irv Binik, who led the research, said he used special sex films borrowed from the Kinsey Institute in Illinois. One was predetermined to be arousing to men, another to women, though Binik says they both looked the same to him. Both showed heterosexual couplings. Why do any of us find it arousing to watch films of other people having sex? These people are obviously busy. They're not inviting you in to join them. News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 11:54am EST Malicious code planted in Wikipedia. Malware writers have used a Wikipedia article and special storage features to attempt to plant malicious code on unsuspecting users' systems, the online encyclopedia's organizers have confirmed. The incident took advantage of Wikipedia's policy of openness, which allows anyone to create and modify articles. The attackers created a Wikipedia page that promised a Windows security update for a supposedly new version of the Lovesan/W32.Blaster worm and pointed to an external site with the seemingly authentic domain wikipedia-download.org. Wikipedia editors quickly identified and deleted the article, according to a report from German news organization Heise. However, the attackers had used a Wikipedia feature that archives all previous versions of articles when changes have been made.  News Article Monday, November 6th 2006, 11:53am EST The reason that social bookmarking has exploded in the last year is obvious -- storing your bookmarks online instead of in the browser just makes sense. Social bookmarking services let you keep links to your favorite web destinations in one location that's accessible from any computer on the net. Add the ability to share your favorite web destinations and search through other users' bookmarks to discover new sites, and you've got a highly addictive and truly remarkable phenomenon. There's a score of services out there, and no single service has it all. Some social bookmarking sites focus more closely on sharing and discovery, while others offer more options for sorting and organizing. News Bytes Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:48am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear. News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:47am EST Religious leader flip flops on gay sex and drugs scandal. So now we know: Ted Haggard, evangelical overlord and leader of upwards of 30 million happy homophobes and nervous Bush supporters, a man who says he calls Dubya once a week to, presumably, talk about God and gays and sin and cattle and sex and milkshakes and who knows what the hell else, we now know Pastor Ted most definitely did not probably well OK maybe I mean obviously we all know he did but he's denying it anyway even though it couldn't be more obvious, Ted did not have lots and lots of gay sex with a big handsome burly gay prostitute for three years, and oh yes also got massages and snorted lots of meth and by the way he had quite a deliciously good time of it, too. This is what absolutely did not happen, OK? Even though you know it did. Shhh. Ah, Pastor Ted. He is a piece of work. He is a bit loud and crass and a little disorienting and very odd looking and just blindingly car-salesmany in his beautifully bloated Christian shtick. And oh yes, he is totally not secretly, wildly gay. News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:45am EST Online Obscenity..India More Permissive than USA? USA is a modern society compared to India. It is therefore natural to expect that Indian laws of online obscenity should be stricter than USA. But some of the recent developments appear to suggest that while USA is moving towards greater restrictions of the web media, India is moving towards more permissive ness. Have the two countries crossed each other already?.. It appears to be so.. at least with regard to the fixing of responsibilities of intermediaries in respect of controlling depravation of our coming generation. US is getting ready to pass a law titled “Deleting Online Predators Act” (DOPA) the effect of which is to bar certain websites from being accessed from Schools and Public Libraries receiving Government funding. The objective of this is mainly to protect Children. On the other hand, India so far has considered obscenity on the Internet punishable whether the victim is an adult or a child. However things are set to change in India. Under the proposed amendments to Information Technology Act 2000, that is being put up in the Parliament shortly for consideration, a distinction is being made between child pornography and adult pornography and reducing the punishments in case of “Obscenity” (with higher financial penalty in case of Child Pornography). News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:44am EST Residents unhappy with couple's porn-site plan. An Oregon couple who run a pornographic Web site called Wifey's World has riled some Scottsdale residents over plans to move their operation to north Scottsdale. Residents who live in the high-priced 85259 ZIP code received a mailing this week warning of the impending move of Kevin and Sandra Otterson, a married couple known to their Internet fans as Hubby and Wifey. Together, the Ottersons run a hardcore porn site that boasts of "the Web's most well-endowed, orally talented housewife." The 8-year-old site features pictures and videos of the couple being intimate. Kevin Otterson said he and his wife had not yet decided whether to return to Scottsdale from Oregon, where they moved about two years ago. But a handful of residents worry about what the move could mean for their neighborhood. News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:43am EST FTC fines notorious adware firm $3m. The company formerly known as 180Solutions has been fined $3m for using drive-by downloads to smuggle adware on the PCs of unwary Americans and for offering no way to remove the software. Now called Zango, the adware firm has promised the Federal Trade Commission that it will ask consumers first before injecting software into their PCs. And it will provide the means for people to remove the hateful software from their computers.That could be a lot of people. According to the FTC, Zango/180Solutions software has been downloaded on American computers more than 70 million times and has pumped out more than 6.9 billion pop-up ads. Much of Zango's 'success' was down to rogue affiliates, who tempted consumers with offers of free software and then downloaded Zango software without their knowledge onto their computers. Search Engines Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:42am EST Don't Sabotage Your Search Engine Optimization Company. The average search engine optimization company is in high demand, and with rising pay-per-click costs and growing exposure of SEO in the mainstream media, this is unlikely to soon subside. Unfortunately, many organizations that willingly embrace SEO as a marketing tool also unknowingly sabotage the efforts of the search engine optimization company they have chosen. What follows is a list, by no means complete, of some of the most common errors made by companies that can harm their SEO efforts. News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:41am EST Consumer Groups Demand FTC Investigation. If you’ve ever worried that you’re being watched while you’re online, rest assured: You are. At least that’s what two consumer advocacy groups that on Wednesday filed a complaint against online advertisers are claiming. In their 50-page complaint, the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG)—both public-interest advocacy groups working toward a more diverse and competitive online environment—claim the data-collection and interactive-marketing system currently shaping the U.S. electronic marketplace has invaded surfer privacy by relentlessly tracking Internet users. News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:40am EST Sex trade is no longer a man's world. Toys like the Silver Bullet or feather snappers or pleasure pearls demand a sales professional who knows her market, knows her product and knows that one of the best ways to sell such delights for the bedroom is to start . . . in the living room. The roomful of women at a weekly training session for the company Passion Parties -- a top-seller of sexual enhancement products that has seen its Tupperware-style approach to sales explode in South Florida in the past few years -- know this all too well. News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:39am EST XXXchurch.com introduces the Jesus Loves Porn Star clothing line. The Jesus Loves Porn Stars line has been featured on hundreds of television programs and newspapers including ABC World News Tonight, Time magazine and the L.A. Times. The Jesus Loves Porn Stars line is set to become a cultural icon among young demographic sets. XXXchurch.com and Ripple will release product in the general market in early 2007. Additionally, other licensing and publishing deals will be announced shortly for XXXchurch.com’s Jesus Loves Porn Stars Bibles. In June of 2006 the JLP Bibles created international attention when XXXchurch.com handed out 3,500 of them at the largest porn convention in the country, Erotica L.A. X3church has been attending porn shows since early 2002.  News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:38am EST Ask.com becoming the search engine that could. The butler is dead, the name has been tweaked, but executives at Ask.com would like to remind the world that they are still very much in business. In fact, they're actually doing pretty well these days. "We certainly are the underdog. We're certainly living in a Google world," Ask.com Chief Executive Jim Lanzone said. "But Ask is anything but small compared to the rest of the Web. We're the fourth-ranked search engine and one of the top 10 Web properties." Just this week, the portal Lycos announced that it had chosen Ask.com to replace Microsoft for its natural search listings and Google for sponsored listings. News Article Saturday, November 4th 2006, 10:37am EST 'Sexist' Austrian urinals dumped on eBay. Four "sexist and misogynist" urinals have been removed from a public toilet in Vienna and offered for sale on eBay, Reuters reports.The offending pissoirs - lovingly sculpted by local artist Rudolf Scheffel and installed in "toilet-bar Vienna", next to the National Opera - caused a bit of a rumpus during the run-up to the 1 October parliamentary elections when they were "used by political party supporters attending rallies nearby". Although the urinals had been in service for three years, this political exposure provoked women's groups to slam the offensive porcelain, which resulted in its removal. News Bytes Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:33am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Judgment day looms for Saddam. News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:31am EST Key Evangelical Quits Amid Gay Sex Claim. The president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an outspoken opponent of gay marriage, has given up his post while a church panel investigates allegations he paid a man for sex. The Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member association Thursday after being accused of paying the man for monthly trysts over the past three years. Haggard, a married father of five, denied the allegations, but also stepped aside as head of his 14,000-member New Life Church pending an investigation."I am voluntarily stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity," he said in a statement. "I hope to be able to discuss this matter in more detail at a later date. In the interim, I will seek both spiritual advice and guidance." News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:29am EST There has been a lot of speculation about whether the global porn industry will have a big influence on which of Sony Blu-Ray or Toshiba HD-DVD win the next-generation DVD format war. This speculation is based on the fact that the pornographic industry played a key role in determining the winner of the video tape format war between Betamax and VHS in the 80's. VHS allowed multiple, competing, licensed manufacturers and this was the biggest factor why it won the format war in the 80's. The porn industry supported the VHS format since the Betamax was proprietary right of Sony Corporation. Those speculating that the porn industry will have an impact on the next format have forgotten one little detail that has changed the world in the last ten years: the internet. News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:29am EST Three sailors thrown out of Spanish Navy over porn footage. Three Spanish sailors have been relieved of military duty because they appeared in porn film shot on board a Navy ship, which was posted on the Internet, local daily El Mundo said. The paper says Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso has decided to expel the three sailors from the Navy. The Minister made his decision on the recommendation of the Navy High Council, which consists of all Admirals on active service. They shot the film on board a Navy ship Video footage was shot at a military ship Marques de la Ensenada in November 2005 and starred the three sailors. News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:28am EST Canadian Nabbed After Live Web Sex Assault. A man who was sexually abusing a young girl in his home was arrested after he transmitted images of the assault via the Internet to an undercover detective, police said Thursday. The girl, a preschooler, was rescued two hours later in what Toronto police's child exploitation unit said was its first case of observing a live assault. "My first reaction was that I wanted to reach through the monitor and grab the child," said Detective Paul Krawczyk, the undercover officer who witnessed the alleged assault Sunday. He alerted police in St. Thomas, a city in southwestern Ontario where police believed the man lived, and they were able to track him down in two hours. News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:27am EST Viewing child porn not a crime, panel rules. Just looking at child pornography on the Internet is not a crime under Pennsylvania law, a state Superior Court panel ruled yesterday. For prosecutors to charge someone with illegally possessing child porn, they must show the person knowingly saved the images, according to the three-judge panel. If the state Legislature wants to criminalize the mere viewing of child porn on Web sites, then it needs to change the law, the panel ruled. The case, which marked the first time the court addressed the issue, involved a Delaware County man who admitted knowingly viewing 370 child-porn images online. But the judges ruled he could not be convicted of possessing child porn because he did not know his computer was storing the photos. "We note that it is well within the power of the Legislature to criminalize the act of viewing child pornography on a Web site without saving the image," Judge Richard B. Klein wrote for the court. "The language used in [the statute], however, is simply 'possession.' Because this is a penal statute with an ambiguous term when it comes to computer technology, it must be construed strictly and in favor of the defendant." News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:26am EST UK touts itself as online gambling haven: But will extradite to US if asked. The UK will set itself up as an online gambling haven but will extradite executives to the US if asked, according to Sports Minister Richard Caborn. The US effectively banned online gambling with a new law earlier this year, and Caborn and Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell outlined plans to welcome internet gambling companies to the UK and regulate them. Jowell criticised the US's stance, saying the UK will not follow suit. "We do not support the approach the United States has taken," she said. "The enormous risk of prohibition is that it forces the industry underground." News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:25am EST Cherry Hill renewal zone might stymie porn shop. Most don't dispute that parts of a three-block stretch of Route 70 the township is now eyeing for its latest redevelopment project have seen better days. Lou Napolitano is the first to admit Lou & Ann's Deli, the business his parents founded in 1959, is "the oldest, beat-up building on the strip." Elizabeth Zanghi says Blossoms of Cherry Hill, her florist shop, is due a new coat of paint. And Jacqueline Clark, an agent at Granite Insurance, laments the vacant storefronts and overall lack of change. But make no mistake, say people in the proposed redevelopment area about the township's motivation. It's all about the porn. "Some of my customers are council people and they tell me things," Napolitano said. "They're running out of ideas on how to block this thing. This is their latest idea. But are we going to have to suffer because of it?"  News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:24am EST EFF Sues Sex Shamer, Says He Shut Down Critic With Fake Copyright Notices. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit today against a guy who copycatted the infamous Jason Fortuny Craigslist sex prank, asking for damages for his alleged abuse of copyright takedown notices to punish one of his critics. Michael Crook, who is known for his controversial websites including one that denies the Holocaust, followed the same M.O. as Fortuny, posting fake Craigslist personal ads in order to catch and shame men looking for sex online. Taking the con a step further Crook would write his targets and solicit photos, and then posted them on the now defunct craigslist-perverts.org and emailing them to his prey's co-workers, family and bosses. News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:23am EST Dell pulls rug from under resellers. Although famous for its direct sales model Dell has always sold a fair amount of kit through the channel - dealers and systems integrators. But not anymore. Dell will no longer discount bulk orders of Inspiron or Dimension machines. In fact it won't support any reseller who is selling to consumers. This just over a year since Dell was actively wooing resellers. The Reg was contacted by an irate Dell reseller. He's been buying discounted Dell machines for three years and selling them to tech-savvy, and margin-savvy, punters. He reckons he does between twenty and thirty thousand pounds worth of business at a time - or about £90, 0000 a year. The first he heard of the change was when he rang his account manager and was told he was no longer getting any discounts. He told us: "Less than a year ago Dell were running events to encourage resellers and now they're pulling the rug out from under us. I'm considering my options now but I'm already talking to HP - who seem willing to work with resellers, I've already got an HP account manager." News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:22am EST Go Retro: Disconnect to Connect. I occasionally receive e-mail asking me whether I've noticed that technology increases the distance between us, even though we think we use it to bring us closer together. It's a broader version of "will cybersex replace physical sex?" which is a variant of "will sex toys replace me?" The answer to both those questions is "no." But the bigger picture, whether we're allowing technology to weaken our relationships -- not just with lovers, but with potential lovers -- is not quite as easy to answer. News Article Friday, November 3rd 2006, 11:22am EST MS climbs-down over Vista licensing. Microsoft has backed down to fierce criticism over proposed licensing terms for Windows Vista to allow users to uninstall the forthcoming operating system and install it on another PC. Previously the software giant was only going to permit one re-install before obliging users to re-purchase the operating system, if they wanted it to function properly. Terms regarding the license-to-device assignment of the retail versions of the OS (including Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate) have been revised to state: "You may uninstall the software and install it on another device for your use. You may not do so to share this license between devices." News of the rethink came in a posting on the Windows Vista blog by product manager Nick White who explains that the software giant has come to realise that the original terms, geared to fighting piracy, were restrictive to the point that they might alienate hardware enthusiasts. News Bytes Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:25am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Iran fires missiles 'that could reach Israel'. News Article Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:24am EST People have been making amateur porn and uploading it to YouTube since its inception; after all, it's human nature to sexualize any new technology. Smart online sites like Second Life, while not a sex site, take this need to sexualize as a grown-up given. In their architecture and business model, they just sort of budget in that adult users will use a certain percentage of their world for sex, and set up all the necessary precautions to make this a safe and sane (and even fun) experience for everyone, and easily avoided if you prefer real estate to RealDolls. According to Linden Labs/Second Life's Catherine Smith, "All 'adult content' is confined to Mature sims in Second Life and takes place behind closed doors." But in the aftermath of Google's acquisition of YouTube, YouTube's methods of trying to control questionable content and Terms of Use (TOU) enforcement are emerging as clumsy at best, and highly exploitable at worst. Even so, YouTube's policies on porn and adult content have opened up a whole new market for an ever-growing roster of upload-it-yourself smut sites, while raising some interesting questions about businesses whose TOU and operational models turn a blind eye to the inevitable intersection of sex and technology. Security Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:23am EST Even You Can Password Protect a Directory (and a File). Sometimes the easiest thing seems nearly impossible – especially when it's something we've already decided beforehand is too difficult to even attempt. With me, that turned out to be the .htpasswd file and all the accompanying "mystical, technical whatevers" that also went into making one. But, much like the Seuss's tale of Green Eggs and Ham, once I finally actually looked into it – and found the right tools and a couple of good examples – it turned out to be relatively simple. Yes, even you can do it! So, here then is how to protect your directories. In fact, we'll go through the normal method plus a very sweet way of doing it in PHP as well. (No, don't be intimidated by that!) Again, trust me, this is easy as pie. If I can do it, you can too. News Article Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:22am EST ICANN warns mistake on non-English Web addresses could 'permanently break Internet'. The organization that oversees global Internet functions warned Wednesday that a mistake in a creating more Web addresses using non-Latin letters could "permanently break the Internet." The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, made the warning at a U.N.-organized conference on the future of the Internet. A more multilingual Internet is a key issue at the forum, with future Web growth predicted in developing countries where the Latin alphabet is often unfamiliar. "ICANN expects that these final tests and discussions will reach a resolution by the end of 2007," CEO Paul Twomey said in a statement. "But this is no simple task. If we get this wrong, we could very easily and permanently break the Internet." Websites have long been available in non-Latin alphabets, and more recently Internet addresses can also contain non-Latin portions — but the technology for full addresses is still being developed. Patrik Falstrom, a consulting engineer with Cisco Systems who is working on the project, said the venture is riddled with difficulties. "We have 6,000 languages in the world. So should we register the name of countries — like Greece — in all 6,000?" Falstrom said. News Article Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:20am EST Man gets 60 days for lewd photos on cars. A Hartford man has been ordered to serve 60 days in jail and placed on two years' probation for putting photographs of his genitalia on cars driven by women in Menomonee Falls. Jeffrey J. Hein, 41, was sentenced Monday by Waukesha County Circuit Judge Kathryn Foster on three counts of misdemeanor disorderly conduct. He pleaded no contest to the charges, which accuse him of putting photos on cars parked outside department stores. News Article Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:19am EST Free Speech Coalition Names Diane Duke Executive Director. The Free Speech Coalition has announced its selection of Diane C. Duke as its new executive director. Duke will replace outgoing Executive Director Michelle Freridge, who is leaving to pursue other goals. Freridge, who officially resigned on Oct. 31, has agreed to stay on to help Duke through the transition into the executive director position, which duties she will officially assume on Nov. 27. News Article Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:18am EST A dealer of used tube and pipe equipment filed a lawsuit this week hoping to strip YouTube Inc. of its domain name. Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corp., based in Perrysburg, Ohio, says that confusion between its Web site, utube.com, and youtube.com is damaging its reputation and costing the company thousands of dollars. The firm filed its suit against YouTube Monday in the U.S. District Court for Northern Ohio. Since Google Inc. announced in early October that it plans to purchase YouTube, visitors to utube.com have skyrocketed, from a few thousand per month to more than 70,000 per day, Universal Tube said in its suit. That extra traffic has crashed Universal Tube's servers several times forcing the company to switch Internet service providers, at an additional monthly cost, in order to handle the increased traffic. Hardware Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:17am EST Make a Linux Home Data Server of an Old PC. So, you've got an old computer, and you don't know what to do with it. Sure, it can't play new video games, maybe can't run the latest and greatest software, don't fret, it's not totally worthless. Converting your old computer in to a home data server opens a range of possibilities, and a range of new things you can do with your computer(s) and the network. So, how do you do it? Well, if it's already set up for Windows Networking, you've got the basics set up for a Windows file server, and can simply use your local area network for transfering/working with files, however, this article is gonig to show you the more effective, and more powerful way: setting up a Linux file server. News Article Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:16am EST Broadband Access: A Hotel Must-Have for Biz Travelers. A struggle is taking place between frequent business travelers and hotels over high-speed Internet access, with guests demanding free access and hotels trying to recoup their costs. Hotels generally do not employ full-time IT staff, choosing instead to outsource the task of connecting and supporting hundreds of guest rooms with around-the-clock, high-speed Internet access that's robust enough to service conferences, meetings and crunch times. Hotels generally charge between US$10 to $20 a night for speeds that are usually equivalent to a T1 line. The charges don't sit well with guests, said David Lee, CEO of XoomCRM, a vendor of customer relationship management software. Lee, who travels about two weeks out of every month for business, feels that at this point high-speed Internet access is an amenity, similar to free coffee in the room. While hotel stays are expensible, Lee feels so strongly about it he said it would influence where he stays. News Article Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:15am EST Cuba: We're forced to 'finance' the Internet. A Cuba government official told a United Nations summit here that the U.S. government was to blame for the poor Internet access that its citizens endure. Juan Fernandez, a government official in the Cuba's Commission of Electronic Commerce, on Wednesday assailed the U.S. government's economic embargo and argued that, as a result, poorer countries are "financing" the Internet. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Fernandez to a high-level working group two years ago. Fernandez's only problem was that a longtime Internet engineer and researcher was present and challenged those claims. Bill Woodcock, research director of the nonprofit Packet Clearing House who has set up Internet exchange points in Latin America and other developing nations, replied by saying that the Cuban government's problems stem from its own telecommunications monopoly and its official censorship policies. News Article Thursday, November 2nd 2006, 11:14am EST An explosive device blew out a thick, plate-glass window Tuesday evening at the Silicon Valley headquarters of PayPal, the online payments unit of eBay. No injuries resulted when what local fire officials said was an explosive device shattered a 6-foot-square window on the ground floor of the four-story building in San Jose. The explosion occurred outside a building exit. Investigators were still trying to determine the nature of the device. "Whatever it was, it disintegrated," San Jose Fire Department Capt. Jose Guerrero said. "Whatever caused this was pretty strong." About 45 employees were working in the PayPal offices when the explosion occurred at 7:24 p.m., eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said. Most employees had left the building early ahead of the Halloween holiday celebrations, he said. "We have no reports concerning threats," Durzy said. "We are still investigating and we are working with local and federal authorities." News Bytes Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:19am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Australia determined to negotiate amid fears of Fiji coup. News Article Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:18am EST 'Porn king' faces court on drugs, weapons charges. Brisbane's self-proclaimed "porn king" was yesterday refused bail when he fronted court charged with supplying and possessing a range of illicit drugs and carrying weapons including a loaded semi-automatic pistol on Tuesday night. Lawyers for Jan De Smet, 42, told the Brisbane Magistrate's Court their client was repeatedly targeted by police - having been previously arrested on more than 25 charges and acquitted on all counts. De Smet, a sex shop owner who operates businesses in Brisbane, Logan and northern New South Wales, was arrested and charged with 13 offences after police stopped him and searched his car on Tuesday night. He was not required to enter a plea to five counts of possessing and one of supplying a dangerous drug, three of carrying a firearm or weapon and one each of possessing a pipe and utensils used in connection with drugs and possession of money suspected of being proceeds of a crime. Lawyer Stuart Bale, for De Smet, said his client was a successful businessman who employed 22 staff at his various businesses. Search Engines Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:18am EST Much has been written on the topic of keyword research by other SEOs. I, myself have written extensively on the topic of research and selecting the best keywords for an optimization campaign. Without trying to restate anything that has already been written, (at least by me) let me present a few ideas that can help you identify all of the possible keyword phrases that you could benefit from. Over the years, our keyword selection process has become quite refined. Looking over the research we've done in years past, most is good, but doesn’t live up to the 5-phase keyword research and selection process we use today. The first and most important step in our research process is to identify the site's major core terms. If you've read through the previous series of articles linked above you'll note that our process has evolved slightly since then. Identifying core terms (what we called “keyword themes”) used to come later in our research process but we've found that by knowing all the main and/or relevant core terms, you’re better able to find all the most important phrases. News Article Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:17am EST News Windows Attack can Kill Firewall. Hackers have published code that could let an attacker disable the Windows firewall. The code which was posted on the internet early Sunday morning, could be used to disable the Windows firewall on a fully patched XP PC that was running Windows Internet Connection Service (ICS). This service allows Windows users to essentially turn their PC into a router and share their internet connection with other computers on a local area network (LAN). It is typically used by home and small business users. News Article Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:16am EST Dates Set for Erotica LA 2007. Erotica LA has announced the dates and location for its next three-day extravaganza – June 22-24, 2007 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. “This year, we have expanded our marketing efforts to reach more women and couples,” Bonnie Shapiro, account executive for Erotica LA, told AVN.com. “Erotica LA is being positioned as the ultimate adult entertainment event and shopping mecca for all that is erotic and sexy.” News Article Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:15am EST Domain resale market a 'haven' for phishers. Domain names likely to appeal to fraudsters are up for grabs on domain resale sites.Firms such as Sedo and Moniker specialise in the sale of domain names that have already been registered and are now being resold in the secondary (or aftermarket) for domain names. Most domain names are sold for a few hundred or thousand dollars (as opposed to an original registration price of $10 or so) while particularly attractive domains - such as hell.com - can fetch six figure sums.However, Finish security firm F-Secure has discovered that alongside the sale of such innocuous domains as filmlist.com comes the resale of domains that obviously belong to banks or other financial institutions. Sedo.com, for example, is reselling domains like chasebank-online.com, citi-bank.com and bankofameriuca.com. "Why would anybody want to buy these domains unless they are the bank themselves - or a phishing scammer?", F-Secure asks. News Article Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:14am EST Hilton sisters get raunchy at Playboy party! While Hugh Hefner's annual Halloween bash was attended by several Hollywood hunks and hotties, the party's main attraction were - the Hilton sisters who writhed to various numbers in their own dramatic style. Paris - donning her own version of the classic Playboy Bunny outfit - did her usual routine, dancing on a table and lip-syncing as her single - "Stars Are Blind " - played. "The reaction is now always the same - her posse of sycophants surrounds her, cheering her, as most people groan," The New York Post quoted a witness, as saying. "This is really getting old," the witness added. Sponsor Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:12am EST Cherry Pimps launches with new exclusive sites. Affiliate program Cherry Pimps is ready to launch with three brand new sites, Cherry Sport, Swallow My Nut and Jizz Jugglers. All three sites offer exclusive content and are a perfect start to a company that has plans for progressively more hardcore sites, ultimately with at least twenty News Article Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:11am EST Suzhou busy pulling down porn star posters. Suzhou City has been busy pulling down posters of the international healthcare forum from its streets because it unknowingly used a Japanese porn star's picture on it, Kuaibao, a Nanjing-based newspaper reported today. The city put up numerous posters for the second General Assembly and Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities, which was held from Saturday to Monday, Kuaibao said. More than 400 mayors, health experts and scholars from cities of 21 member countries and regions attended the conference. On one-third of the poster is a picture of a "nurse" in a pink uniform, holding a large syringe in her hands. It has attracted many people's attention. Some passers-by even said they might have seen the "nurse" before. Soon after, a netizen pointed out that the woman was Japanese porn star Aoi Minori. In the original full-sized picture of Minori, it shows her legs with her panties half taken-off. The lower part of the picture was cut in the poster. Traffic Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 11:08am EST Read This Before You Submit to Web Directories. As the number of websites grow everyday, it is becoming increasingly difficult for a new site to attain good rankings on search engines. Since major search engines factor link popularity heavily into their ranking algorithms, building relevant links to your site is perhaps the single most important component of search engine optimization. For a new site with no or few inbound links, buying text links on more established related sites could provide a boost to your link popularity. But this strategy could prove prohibitively expensive, especially in a highly competitive market where you'd have to buy lots of links to catch up with the competition. Web directory listing represents a viable alternative to link buying. Apart from driving traffic to your site through direct referrals, web directories provide one-way inbound links to your site, boosting your link popularity and ultimately improving your search rankings. |
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