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News Article Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 12:11pm EST Flash will kill Blu-ray and HD DVD. In a run up to the next generation console war between Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Bill Gates said that HD-DVD and Blu-ray are not important, since they represent the last generation of optical media anyway. While many people overlooked the statement, that's pretty much right on target. With all DRM tech integrated inside Windows Vista, HD-DVD and Blu-ray, companies are forgetting one small thing. Not all consumers are idiots, although many of the companies would like that. While Joe Sixpack may be the ideal guy to ditch around and tell him to spend his money on something he'll rarely use, that may be the case with $10, not with something that costs $1,000 or more. So, what technology is going to win the optical standards war? The answer is flash memory. If you're asking yourself why, the answer is fairly simple and that's ease of use, plus a continuously falling price and sky high capacity. News Article Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 12:10pm EST PayPal to Offer Members Increased Security Option. PayPal users will soon gain increased security when paying for online purchases, eBay announced Monday. A hardware key fob will require PayPal members to complete a two-step authentication process before their can access their accounts, in an attempt to deter cyber criminals who target PayPal as "easy pickings" for phishing and other online scams. News Article Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 12:09pm EST Net Neutrality Bill: Saving or Strangling the Internet? Network neutrality -- an issue that created a firestorm of controversy on Capitol Hill last year -- will be on the congressional agenda again in 2007 thanks to Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND). Those legislators filed this week what they're calling "The Internet Freedom Preservation Act," which they say will ensure all content, applications and services are treated equally and fairly on the Internet by prohibiting broadband network operators from blocking, degrading or prioritizing service on their networks. Rules to that effect were in place when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reclassified broadband services. However, the FCC neglected to adopt meaningful and enforceable safeguards, the pair said in a statement. Network neutrality has always existed in the dial-up world, where it was mandated by federal law, maintained Mark Cooper, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America in Washington, D.C. "When cable modem service came along, the FCC decided they were not going to apply those obligations of nondiscrimination to the broadband world," Cooper told TechNewsWorld. Traffic Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 12:08pm EST With MSN adCenter accepting new publisher applications and trying to catch up with the strides that Google and Yahoo have made in their contextual ad programs, you really should consider giving them a try and compare the results to your regular PPC ad program. It is hard to ignore any offering of this scale from the Redmond giant and they’ve done their homework before coming to the table. They were plagued by previous reviews of the backend that didn’t look promising as beta testers reported in that controls were confusing, overly complex and buggy. This compounded by the fact that the early versions of adCenter were incompatible with Firefox and thus unable to track the ad performance of the estimated 20% market share of the open source browser, created some doubt in advertiser’s minds as to the viability of MSN’s service. Their other points come up strong though and make adCenter a possible Adsense contender. News Article Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 12:06pm EST Over at the O'Reilly Radar blog, there's an interesting post on spam and economics which makes a point I hadn't known about before: And the spam messages that aren't advertisements, scams, or virus attacks, but just random strings of text? Ken Simpson comments, "Those messages are sent by spammers to poison the spam filters. When someone receives a message full of gibberish and reports it as spam, the spam filters tune themselves to recognize gibberish as spam—which reduces their overall accuracy."It also ranks the success rates of different kinds of spam - porn is highest, followed by pharmaceuticals and penny stocks. News Article Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 12:05pm EST Pornography -- The Real Perversion. On a recent trip to Istanbul I encountered a group of Muslim students who insisted that American culture was morally perverse. They called it “pornographic.” And they charged that this culture is now being imposed on the rest of the world. I protested that pornography is a universal vice. “Yes,” one of the students replied, “but nowhere else is pornography in the mainstream of the culture. Nowhere else is porn considered so cool and fashionable. Pornography in America represents an inversion of values.” As I returned home to the United States, I wondered: are these students right? I don’t think American culture as a whole is guilty of the charge of moral depravity. But there is a segment of our culture that is perverse and pornographic, and perhaps this part of American culture is the one that foreigners see. Wrongly, they identify one face of America with the whole of America. When they protest what they see as the glamorization of pornography and vice, however, it’s hard to deny that they have a point. News Article Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 12:04pm EST The kind of surveillance activities carried out on behalf of computing giant Hewlett-Packard which caused controversy last year have been made illegal in the US thanks to a new law. President George W Bush has signed an Act which outlaws pretexting, the practice of gaining information about a third party's phone use without their permission. The federal legislation signed by Bush was the Federal Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act. It creates criminal penalties for "the fraudulent or unauthorised acquisition or disclosure of confidential phone records information", according to a statement from the White House. News Bytes Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:29pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Saddam Half Brother, Ex-Official Hanged. News Article Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:16pm EST A blue movie maker has upset a cul-de-sac by using his home as a porn set. Neighbours say James Edwards films sex romps all over his £400,000 house and garden. Many are in a hot tub, which is overlooked by other homes. One “actress” has had an £80 police fine after acting indecently outside. Now 30 families in The Coppice, at Bradley Stoke, Bristol, have signed a protest petition. One neighbour said: “He’s flaunting it. Once he filmed a girl exposing and touching herself in the garden. “Children can’t go into bedrooms because they might see.” Edwards, 40, has vowed to use special effects so neighbors’ homes appear to be backdrops for explicit scenes. He said: “It’ll make The Coppice famous.” Cops say no law has been broken. Search Engines Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:16pm EST The Weakest Links in Link Popularity Building. As one of the most important ranking factors on today’s modern search engines, link popularity starting to gain public exposure, the misinformation about what link popularity is and what it isn’t also starting to grow. Everyday thousand of new webmasters jump head first into their first search engine optimization project after reading a few SEO forum posts or news articles. Unfortunately these new webmasters have only a partial view of the search engine optimization process and link building that will actually produce lasting results on the top three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. The key I would like to emphasize here is achieving and maintaining “lasting results”. If your want your website to do well on the search engines even 5 years from now, it’s imperative you play by the rules and gain as much understanding about safe and effective link popularity building as possible.  News Article Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:15pm EST A porn suffix would keep office PCs clean. The internet practically groans under the weight of suspect sites. Search for anything (within reason) in a Google image search and, more than likely, you will find someone sitting naked on top of it, within a few pages of results. Why then, if filth is so easy to find, would anyone seek to make it easier? Don’t know? Let’s ask Icann, the internet body for assigned names and numbers, it must know. Nope, actually, it doesn’t. That’s why it is asking you what you think. Do you think that pornography should have its own domain? Like, say, a .xxx suffix? Well, do you? It’s no use blushing, we need to work this out. Icann has picked up and put down the triple-X domain with the same kind of frequency that some men do certain kinds of magazines in newsagents near to where their parents live. Now it seems it has decided that it can resist no longer and it has given the green light to the, er, red light domain. Well, nearly. News Article Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:14pm EST EU goes mad for Bulgarian breast-boosting beer. Bulgaria looks set to become a mecca for EU citizens looking to pump up their airbags without surgery following the lifting of customs duty on Boza beer - reputed to have magical breast-boosting properties. According to Ananova, men are "flocking" over the Bulgarian border to pick up a few cases of the fermented wheat flour wonder brew. Romanian Constantin Barbu, who crossed the Danube in search of Boza in the Bulgarian town of Ruse, said: "I've bought a case for my wife to try out. I really hope I see an improvement." News Article Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:13pm EST Like a piss-soaked girl at the end of a Max Hardcore movie, over 350 AEE exhibitors drew a collective sigh of relief as a week’s worth of business transactions, meet-and-greets, and signings came to a close. But despite the loss of voice and sleep, exhibitors expressed tremendous satisfaction with the event’s organization and turnout. “The show has been fantastic,” said Bang Productions CEO Pen Davis. “We’ve been able to showcase our entire line and a couple of our new releases, Milf Soup and Big Ass Adventures. They’re long tiring days, but it's well worth it to see the fans interaction with our models and to talk to our customers. That interaction keeps you going.” News Article Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:12pm EST FBI warns of twist in extortion phishing scam. FBI officials are warning users of a new phishing scam that plays off a recent round of bogus extortion threats. The initial e-mails phishing for personal information were sent around last month, purportedly from a would-be hit man demanding users pay an extortion fee of thousands of dollars, or face death, according to an FBI advisory. The e-mail recipients were informed the so-called hit man had been hired by their friend to knock them off, but the hit man would forgo the job as long as a payment of several thousand dollars was made, according to the FBI advisory. Users were asked to quickly respond to the bogus e-mail and provide their telephone number. Search Engines Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:11pm EST Over-Optimization and the Google Sandbox. So you put a lot of work into creating a really great website only to find that noone can find it and Google doesnt rank your site very highly. You hear about a thing called "search engine optimization" and decide to give it a try. Before you go adding your keywords to every element of your pages and building links any way you can, take a step back and remind yourself of the old saying, "sometimes less is more". Search engine optimization, or SEO, has really taken off over the last five years as more and more fledgling webmasters have created websites, only to find that noone comes to visit. As they search around for ways to get more visitors, most of them quickly find resources on how to optimize a web page for the search engines and go right to work sprinkling keywords everywhere and building links from any place they can get them. News Article Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:10pm EST Plan targets access to porn at schools. Lawmakers want to make accessing pornographic material, on school property, grounds for suspension from school, along with a class B misdemeanor. Under HB100, viewing porn on school computers would be a crime. Plus schools could suspend or expel students who are caught in the act. Bill sponsor Bud Bowman, R-Cedar City, said currently there is no law against it, although most schools have created policies addressing consequences if students or employees are caught. "Right now, they have school policies but no law — it needs a little teeth," Bowman said. "The bill would give authorities a way to back it up." A class B misdemeanor can include penalties of up to six months in jail, and fines. Students would be turned over to juvenile authorities. Jason Olsen, spokesman for the Salt Lake City School District, said the district has filters that block out pornography sites, along with blogging sites and chat rooms sites that could be questionable for students. News Article Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:09pm EST Public outrage in Suriname over GSM porn videos. Citizens in Suriname of all walks of life have expressed their anger over a recent wave of short pornographic videos being distributed via GSM mobile phones especially among teens and youths. Police meanwhile have launched a massive hunt for the individuals who might have initiated this. In Suriname distribution of pornographic material is prohibited by law and regarded as a criminal offence. Members of Parliament have called upon the government to ban cell phones from schools in order to control what is being sent to school children via cell phones. News Article Monday, January 15th 2007, 12:08pm EST UN's new ITU boss says Internet should still be run by key. The Internet should continue to be overseen by major agencies including ICANN and the ITU, rather than any new "superstructure", the new head of the International Telecommunications Union said on Friday. Hamadoun Toure, who took up the reins of the United Nations agency this month, said the ITU would focus on tackling cybersecurity and in narrowing the "digital divide" between rich and poor countries. "We all must work together, each agency has its role to play. We must come to a better cooperation...and avoid setting up a superstructure which would be very controversial and very difficult to put into effect," Toure told a news conference. News Bytes Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:27am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continously. Quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan; thousands flee. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:27am EST Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor, buys historic S.F. building to film its bondage movies. A friendly band of San Francisco pornographers can't wait to get inside the old armory on Mission Street and start tying people up, artistically. Not only tying them up, but also spanking them, swatting them, cuffing them and whipping them, with sensitivity. "This is going to be very exciting,'' said porn director James Mogul. "What an opportunity.'' The other day, Mogul paid a visit to the cavernous old armory, just to look around. The Moorish-style brick building was recently purchased for $14.5 million by Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor that outgrew its South of Market dungeon.  News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:26am EST AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, Day 2. DCypher told me yesterday that the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo is not just about parties, drugs, and sex like people think, and that it's really a big sales convention. But once the fans arrived Thursday at 2 p.m., everything got seriously amped up: the volume of music blaring from booths, the number of stars signing slick promotional photos and the frenetic energy of the crowd flooding the aisles. It's truly sensory overload. Everywhere I looked there were pigtails, ruffled panties, patent leather stilettos, tiny butts in tinier hot pants. It became a blur pretty quickly, and I wondered just how much business could get done. Away from the looped soundtrack of sex sounds, in a suite at the Venetian Hotel, I caught up with Debi Yoskey, a buyer for GVA-TWN, one of the biggest companies in the adult-entertainment industry. Based in Cleveland, GVA-TWN distributes videos, magazines, and sex toys to retailers, publishes swinger magazines, and owns 54 adult stores in Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Rochester, and cities throughout Ohio. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:25am EST State ban urged for 'obscene' TV ads. A Dickson lawmaker wants smut-peddling commercials off Tennessee televisions, but his new proposal may run afoul of free-speech protections, experts say. TV stations and cable companies could be fined $50,000 if they air ads for obscene products under a bill Sen. Doug Jackson filed, he announced Friday. Anything obscene is already illegal, but the definition of "obscene" is a murky area that every community decides for itself. The possibility of a fine may prevent broadcasters from airing commercials for products that are distasteful to some people but are protected by the First Amendment, says Doug Pierce, a lawyer with King and Ballow. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:24am EST Huge crowds at US porn convention. Thirty thousand people have gathered in the US city of Las Vegas for the annual convention of the pornography industry. The scale of the Adult Entertainment Expo reflects the huge growth in a business which is said to be bigger than Hollywood and worth $57bn (£29bn). Estimates of its annual contribution to the US economy range from $12bn-$20bn. One of the reasons for its recent success is the pioneering use of new technology - video on the internet and use of moving images on mobile phones. The BBC's Guto Harri in Las Vegas says it is easy to be embarrassed at such a show, with explicit films, intimidating toys and hundreds of half-naked actors on display. But the scale and seriousness of the convention is not that different to a more mainstream gathering because pornography is big business, our correspondent says. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:23am EST FBI Steps Up Porn Raids In Southern Calif. The FBI raided a series of reputed San Fernando Valley pornography studios in California in the federal agents' investigation into child sexual exploitation. The FBI said it has been stepping up the raids to ensure that children are not being sexually exploited in the porn business, The Los Angeles Times reported. Federal agents visited about a dozen porn production facilities in the last three months. The raids are part of regulations that were put in place in 2005 that require producers to take two forms of government-issued identification from performers and keep them on file. Violations of the regulations can result in federal felony charges and carry a prison sentence. There has only been one prosecution related to the regulations, the Times said. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:23am EST Sheriffs want their sex video with porn star off Web. Two sheriff's officers are threatening to seek a court injunction that would order a local porn star to remove a naughty homemade sex tape of their menage a trois with her from her Web site. But a lawyer representing the porn star, who goes only by the name Oshean, promised to fight any attempts to censor the content of the Web site. David Guttman said Thursday his client had written consent from the couple to film and post the video of their tryst. advertisement "They are going to have to make a case for unauthorized use or invalid consent," he said. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:22am EST Cache Date - New Google PageRank. Given Google's reliance on core domain authority and displaying outdated PageRank scores, cache date is a much better measure of the authority of a particular page or site than PageRank is. What Google frequently visits (and spends significant resources to keep updated) is what they consider important. If a site can throw up a bunch of new pages and see them in the index right away that is a much better indication of trust than just the raw PageRank score. Plus the site can recoup its costs much faster than a site stuck in the crawling sandbox. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:21am EST The Porn Stars and the Geeks - A CES Hangover. Scheduling geniuses brought together two worlds in Las Vegas this past week that aren’t as far apart as they may seem: tech geeks and pornographers. The former (seemingly 95% male), and the latter (at least 95% female), mingled beautifully at post-show bars and clubs all over Vegas and it wasn’t difficult to tell the two apart. The CES crowd looked overly practiced at ogling gadgets and more than welcomed the opportunity to direct their digital cameras to the spectacular AEE (Adult Entertainment Expo) crowd, which in turn were all too ready to offer photo ops (Pop-Quiz - See if you can tell who in this picture is porn legend Ron Jeremy and who is Digital Media Wire’s columnist Scott Goldberg.) CES, like Bonnaroo, the popular summer music festival, requires a lot of stamina and a lot of planning. It’s easy to go too hard too early, trying to see everything in one day. It might have seemed by the press coverage that Apple totally overshadowed the event with the iPhone announcement, but don’t be fooled - CES had plenty of offerings, and one thing in particular that Apple cannot claim - porn stars. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:20am EST Did Gmail's Spam Filtering Freak Out Recently? While I've been a big fan of Gmail for a long time now (especially the spam filtering), earlier this week things really got bad. Until Monday or Tuesday, I'd normally see 1-2 false positives in my spam folder each month. So I only looked at it once a week or so and did so very quickly. But I wasn't seeing some mail I expected and it finally occurred to me that I ought to check the spam folder. I was shocked to see a non-trivial chunk of my mail ending up there! If I had to guess, I'd say I was suddenly dealing with a 5% false positive rate compared to what was far less than 0.1% previously. So I've been checking much more frequently during the last few days and marking items as "not spam" when necessary. News Article Saturday, January 13th 2007, 9:19am EST Dell accused of selling defective notebooks - again. A lawsuit filed in Ontario Superior Court alleges that Dell notebooks suffer from design defects that cause premature failure of the motherboard due to overheating. The suit, which seeks class-action status, was filed on behalf of an Ontario owner of an Inspiron PC, according to articles by the Canadian Press and the Associated Press. It claims that Dell knew or should have known of the defects but sold the notebooks anyway. The suit applies to the 1100, 1150, 5100, 5150 or 5160 models of the Inspiron. Dell settled a similar US lawsuit over one of the models and is defending itself against lawsuits over the other four, according to the Associated Press. News Bytes Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:11pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. US Embassy in Athens Is Attacked.  News Article Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:09pm EST Top Industry Attorneys Gather for 2257 Seminar. Likely the most pressing issue of the day for adult producers, the changing guidelines being litigated for the Federal government’s 18 U.S.C. §2257 record-keeping and labeling statute were the subject of an AEE seminar this afternoon led by two of the case’s primary attorneys, Paul Cambria (of Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria LLP) and Michael W. Gross (of Schwartz & Goldberg, PC). Also in attendance were leading industry attorneys Clyde DeWitt, Larry Walters, Al Gelbart, Reed Lee, Jeffrey Douglas and Roger Wilcox. Prior to the seminar, two FBI agents spearheading the government’s 2257 investigations approached Cambria with a request to sit in, he said. The FBI request was denied, on the grounds that it was too short notice, but Cambria passed on the message that they would be available during the convention to answer any questions about their investigations. Search Engines Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:08pm EST Questions to Ask Your Potential SEO Company - Part 3. The first part of this series was about questions to ask a potential search engine optimization company regarding the tactics that it will use to optimize your site. These questions are crucial because there are search engine optimization companies out there that will use techniques that can put your site at risk of penalization by the major engines. The second part of the series covered questions that could determine the competence of a particular search engine optimization company and help you decide if you will be able to trust them with your business. Now we come to the final part of this series, in which we will look at business assurances made by search engine optimization companies. If your prospective search engine optimization company has satisfactorily answered all of your questions as outlined in the first two articles, it may indeed be a perfect fit for your business. However, there are still some important areas that need to be covered - primarily related to business assurances and expectations. News Article Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:07pm EST Fandemonium! AEE Day 2 Wrap-Up. The day breaks early on the floor of AEE 2007. Yesterday, things were strictly business-to-business, but today the floodgates opened wide as fans from around the world (well, some of them had foreign-sounding accents, at least) and around the nation showed up in force to strut their stuff in all manner of outlandish dress (and, in some cases, undress) -- and to mingle, press flesh and capture the souls of porn chicks through the technological magic of cell phone cameras. Best line heard during the first wave of fans, from a muscle-bound, pec-flexing pornoholic: “I blasted these guns for three weeks solid, dude. Damn right I’m wearing a tank top!” News Article Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:06pm EST Buying Traffic: Picks and Pitfalls: Experts say some methods just work better than others. Purchasing traffic can benefit new websites and make established websites flourish. There are many vehicles through which to purchase traffic. “Regardless of what business model you are doing, one thing always stays the same: The more traffic, the better,” notes Mike Gall, director of operations for CE Cash. Given this, let’s explore the various vehicles through which to increase traffic. News Article Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:06pm EST Amsterdam's red-light district facing crime clean-up. Amsterdam has launched a crackdown on "crime" kingpins in the city's Red Light District that threatens to leave hundreds of sex workers out of a job, and has solicited help from a slightly bemused sector -- Dutch banks. The city authorities have no quarrel with prostitution, which was legalized in 2001 in this country that has historically prided itself on tolerance. And they have no desire to shut down what is also a thriving tourist district and a "must" on the itinerary of one-third of all visitors to this city of canals, Van Gogh and Rembrandt. "This is a frontal attack" aimed at cutting ties between prostitution and the underworld that uses the sex industry for laundering money, Mayor Job Cohen said in comments to the Het Parool newspaper. "One third of the businesses have been scrutinized, the other two-thirds will follow," Hendrik Wooldirk, a spokesman for Cohen, told AFP. News Article Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:05pm EST Porn industry standardises on HD-DVD. The adult movie industry seems set to standardise on the HD-DVD format, and it appears that Sony has banned pornographers from using its Blu-ray discs. Reports from the adult industry exhibition in Las Vegas suggest that all the major adult movie studios are standardising on HD-DVD, citing the lower costs of production as the primary driver. But there are reports that Sony may be encouraging this by banning Blu-ray disc manufacturers from accepting adult content at all. 'Joone', the founder of Digital Playground, one of the biggest adult studios, told German magazine Heisse that he was originally planning to switch from DVD to Blu-Ray because the capacity of the discs was larger. But Joone found that no manufacturer would take his content, citing fears that Sony would cancel production licences with any facility printing pornography. If true, this seems a bizarre decision by Sony. Search Engines Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:04pm EST Search Market Predictions for 2007. Another New Years has come and gone and over the past few weeks search industry professionals have been releasing their search market predictions for 2007. I have steered clear of reading them because it is time for me to write down our predictions and the last thing I want to worry about is duplication. Without further adieu, here are the predictions my staff and I put together for 2007. News Article Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:03pm EST A video report on the top stories coming out of CES 2007. Save yourself the airfare, its all here. News Article Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:02pm EST VeriSign offer bounty on Vista and IE7 bugs. VeriSign's iDefense unit is offering an $8,000 bounty to researchers who discover previously undocumented vulnerabilities in either Windows Vista or IE7. The flaws need to be serious enough to allow the remote execution of malware on up-to-date installations of the targeted platforms. Bugs that only crash systems, require social engineering tricks, have been previously disclosed or rely on interactions between Microsoft's software and third-party products won't qualify for payment. But for researchers who submit their zero-day vulnerabilities alongside working exploit code additional payments of up to $4,000 are on offer via iDefense's controversial Vulnerability Contributor Program. Submissions need to be made before the end of March to qualify. Only the first six correct entries will qualify for the loot. News Article Friday, January 12th 2007, 12:01pm EST Contract killer spam scam hits the net. Scammers are posing as professional hit men in a bid to frighten punters into handing over large sums of money. Spam emails promoting the scheme claim that the recipient has been stalked by a hired assassin for ten days, but that the killer is prepared to drop the contract if he is paid a total of $80,000. Recipients are told that an up-front payment of $20,000 will produce taped evidence of the contract to kill the email recipient. The emails, which feature subject lines such "Read this to be safe and a new life in this new year", include the following warning: "Do not contact the police or FBI or try to send a copy of this to them, because if you do i will know, and might be pushed to do what i have being paid to do, beside, this is the first time I turned out to be a betrayer in my job."  News Bytes Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:21pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. President Outlines Changes In Iraq Strategy. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:17pm EST AEE Day 1: Business First, Upstairs and Down. Before the partying comes the product. It’s commerce not coochie that attracts the adult trade from around the world to AVN’s Adult Entertainment Expo. And on the first day of the 2007 show, the focus was all on business—meeting buyers, writing orders, networking—before the fans took over and made it all a bit more difficult to do. For the first time, the B2B area downstairs in Hall G of the SandsExpositionCenter had an adjoining section, the Business Suites. It’s an office-like warren of sizeable rooms for which some higher profile companies opted this year instead of booths on the main floor. Admittance to the Business Suites is by appointment only, and that rule is enforced to a fault. Unlike the main floor or the nearby B2B section, dominated by novelty companies, silence prevails. Inside each suite seller and buyer are locked in intense, concentrated commerce. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:16pm EST Senator drafting 'broadcast flag' ban. The "broadcast flag," an infamous copy-protection scheme aimed at halting redistribution of over-the-air television content via the Internet, could face new setbacks if a Republican senator from New Hampshire gets his way. U.S. Sen. John Sununu said this week that he's drafting legislation that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from "requiring or imposing a specific technology, technological standard, solution, or product on industry," with an eye toward the anticopying regime. "These misguided requirements distort the marketplace by forcing industry to adopt agency-blessed solutions rather than allow innovative and competitive approaches to develop," the free-market-leaning politician said in a press release. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:15pm EST New Online Fraud Tool Kit Discovered. Fraud detectors at RSA Security have found a demo of a new online fraud toolkit that automates the process of setting up fake websites that sit between a user and a real site, such as a bank, she is trying to access with passwords or other authentication. Users must first click on a fake link, usually embedded in a "phishing" email for the fake website to load and steal the username and passwords. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:14pm EST Credit card checks for child porn welcomed. Credit card companies could be obliged to cooperate with the Swiss authorities in the fight against online child pornography, according to data protection experts. Earlier this week German police used customer details provided by credit card companies to track down suspected subscribers to an illegal child porn website. Switzerland's Federal Data Protection Commissioner, Hanspeter Thür, came out in favour of a system based on the German model. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:14pm EST Something nasty lurks on my PC and It's laughing at me. In terms of malware, what’s the worst thing imaginable? Normally, I’d say it was an undetectable program that just did its nasty job on a user’s PC without drawing attention to itself. This is the “silent insurgent” scenario because it might never be noticed, or only picked up on by an AV scanner when it was too late. Now I realise there is something worse than that. Imagine a program that could not be detected by any of the best anti-malware programs but which *did* draw attention to itself. Is that really worse? Yes, because you know it’s there but can’t stop it. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:13pm EST Porn makers tap into Internet social networking trend. Porn makers at the world's largest sex trade show in Las Vegas on Wednesday were taking a page from Internet superstars such as YouTube by tapping into the power of social networking. Fresh young start-ups at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo weren't just saucy women in scanty outfits; they were fledgling Internet companies putting erotic spins on YouTube, MySpace and reality television show websites. A pornographic version of MySpace called xpeeps.com went online in a beta test format eight months ago, said spokesman Daniel Fairchild. It has proven a success and the finished version will go live this week, he said. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:12pm EST Brazilian court reverses ban on YouTube. A Brazilian court said Tuesday that Internet service providers could allow Web surfers access to the popular video-sharing site YouTube, a day after they started blocking it because of a celebrity sex video. Daniela Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of soccer great Ronaldo, sued YouTube after a video of her apparently having sex with her boyfriend in shallow water on a beach in Spain was posted to the site. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:11pm EST Dustin Diamond Shines At AVN Expo. Former child actor and current adult star Dustin Diamond was greeting fans on the AEE floor today while promoting his celebrity sex video, Screeched. The title, released by Redlight District, features the former Saved by the Bell star performing the notorious, yet seldom seen, maneuver known as the Dirty Sanchez in an amateur production originally made for friends. Unbeknownst to the well-endowed Diamond, the release of Screech would expose him as the Tommy Lee of former child actors and bring him the same popularity he once found with his nerdy character, Screech. News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:10pm EST New restrictions on opposing trade mark applications. The UK Trade Marks Registry will no longer object to applications because a third party has existing rights in a mark, it has said. The only person who can object on those grounds is the person who actually owns those rights. The change follows consultation into the grounds for trade mark refusal in the Trade Marks Act of 1994 and will apply to all pending applications as well as to all future ones. Until now the Registry has been able to object to trade mark applications if it found previous mark registrations or applications which seemed to conflict with the trade mark applied for by a person or company. Any other person could also object on those grounds.  News Article Thursday, January 11th 2007, 12:09pm EST PHP apps: security's low-hanging fruit. PHP has become the most popular application language on the web, but common security mistakes by developers are giving PHP a bad name. Here's how PHP coding errors have become the new low-hanging fruit for attackers, contributing to the phishing problems on the web. PHP became one of my favorite languages because of how quickly one can write a highly functional, standards-based web application with a database back-end. Unfortunately, attackers are taking these applications down even faster than they appear. I'm sure I'll receive my share of flames under this column - but this is unfortunate, as I would hate to see such a nice language start to languish - however, for many folks there's no easier way to compromise a web server than to find a vulnerable application written in PHP. News Bytes Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 12:06pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Top al-Qaida suspect killed as US strikes continue. News Article Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 12:05pm EST Democrats push 'Net neutrality: Internet Freedom Preservation Act introduced. Democrats, who all but sank major communications reform legislation in the previous congressional session over the issue of so-called 'Net neutrality, marked the first day of the new Congress by introducing a bill that will mandate 'Net neutrality, which is intended to guarantee the equal accessibility and flow of content over the Internet. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act, sponsored by Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), "would ensure that broadband service providers do not discriminate against Internet content, applications or services by offering preferential treatment," according to a statement by Dorgan. Without a federal mandate for 'Net neutrality, Dorgan said, broadband providers could be "gatekeepers capable of deciding which content can get through to consumers, and which content providers could get special deals, faster speeds and better access to the consumer." The bill "marks another step toward ensuring the fate of the Internet lies in the hands of its users and not the hands of a few gatekeepers," Snowe said in a statement. "The tide has turned in the debate between those who seek to maintain equality and those who would benefit from the creation of a toll road on the Internet superhighway." Search Engines Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 12:04pm 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, January 10th 2007, 12:03pm EST IMLive Hosts Video Chat With Sunny Leone in Vegas. IMLive on Jan. 16 will debut 2003 Penthouse Pet of the Year Sunny Leone in its live video chat from Internext. The video chat will last one-and-a-half hours and is scheduled to take place at 2:30 p.m. EST. Attendees at Internext can view the action at the PussyCash booth on the expo floor, with adult model Aria Giovanni looking on. Leone will broadcast live from a hotel room. News Article Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 12:03pm EST German paedophile swoop nets hundreds. German police have revealed they enlisted the help of the nation's 14 credit card companies to trace hundreds of people suspected of subscribing to an illegal child pornography website. The transactions of all 22 million credit card holders across the country's 16 states were screened to track down the 322 suspects. They had all paid 60 euros for 20 days access to the illegal, foreign-based website last summer. A police spokeswoman said the suspects will be charged and could face up to two years in jail, depending on any previous convictions. Around ten percent have been found to be repeat offenders. The screening was the biggest in German history. The authorities say all the companies co-operated voluntarily with the investigation, which was codenamed "Mikado". Search Engines Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 12:02pm EST Three Final Checks for Your Optimized Pages. If you are always optimizing pages then you probably know how easy it is to overlook small, but important things. The big stuff like keyword research, good copy and links, are all the easy stuff to remember because that's what SEO is all about. But it's the small things that, when over looked, can often throw the biggest wrenches in the works for an otherwise well-optimized site. Here are the three most commonly overlooked tasks when uploaded new or changed content to your website. News Article Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 12:01pm EST Madonna, Brad Pitt Appearance in Porn Composer's Biopic Delayed. Shooting of a biopic of the life of porn movie composer Klaus Harmony, said to be starring Madonna, Brad Pitt, John Cusack, and Anthony Hopkins, has been postponed. The movie, A Touch of Klaus, was scheduled to begin shooting in Utrecht in the spring with veteran British director Ken Russell behind the lens. According to a source close to the production, the delay was occasioned by death threats sent to the film's producers, but Universal Studios executive Randy Katz denied that claim. News Article Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 12:00pm EST International gear watchers, from heavyweights to hobbyists, are converging on Sin City for the massive annual Consumer Electronics Show. Here's all the news you need to know from the show floor, speeches, soirees and much more. News Article Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 11:59am EST Industry Parties Set for Vegas. Everybody loves a good party, and this week's AVN Adult Entertainment Expo comes complete with plenty of them. Here is a partial list of some of the festivities that are happening during the Expo. AVN.com will add to the list, as more information becomes available. News Article Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 11:57am EST From the peter meter to the napkin-ring myograph, sex researchers have devoted decades to inventing gadgets that figure out how humans get turned on. Here's a look a some of the more notable devices. News Article Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 11:57am EST MS January patch update omits critical Word fix. Microsoft released four patches on Tuesday - half the number initially expected - that address a number of critical flaws in its Windows OS, Outlook and Office software. None of the three is critical and one important security fix published by Microsoft addresses a trio of Word flaws, which have been left flapping since early December. One of the patches Microsoft did release addresses a slew of vulnerabilities in Excel that create a means for hackers to load malware onto vulnerable systems (MS07-002). News Bytes Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:22pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. US Airstrikes on Al-Qaeda -- in Africa. News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:21pm EST Infringement Case Nets Millions for Sweet Entertainment. Canada-based Sweet Entertainment Group of Companies, owner of adult affiliate program SweetMoney and content provider site SweetErotica, has been awarded statutory damages in excess of $1.5 million, plus $12,717 in attorneys’ fees, as the result of an infringement suit filed against adult content site SickPuppy. The judgment was handed down on Dec. 19 by the U.S. District, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division against defendants The Marin Group Inc., DateApp Inc., Kenneth G. Farrar, and John-Michael Cataldi. News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:20pm EST Patent holder eyes profits from Internet ad format. If you hate pop-up ads, you might blame Brian Shuster. A long-time figure in the Internet pornography world, Shuster recently received a patent for the ad format and is now looking to make some money off the sites that use it. And that’s just the beginning — Shuster has a long list of pending patents, including one for pop-up audio ads that cannot be turned off. “I apologize FOR being a pioneer,” Shuster said, adding he’s had to apologize many times to Internet users. Two years ago, Shuster’s XPics.com settled a lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission that stemmed from accusations that several porn Web sites he operated were deceptively charging customers. He still runs some porn sites, but Shuster has now turned his attention to Ideaflood Inc., an intellectual property holding firm he set up to license revenue from sites that use pop-ups and, assuming his patents go through, other advertising technology. Shuster’s pop-up patent, known officially as the “Traffic Management Utility” patent, claims that pop-up ads account for “20 percent of the revenue of the two most profitable Internet segments,” online casinos and “adult entertainment.” In 2002, the patent claims, these two segments had revenues $9.25 billion. News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:18pm EST Contracts, Copyrights & Web-Related Services. You'd think the answer to this question would be simple-always sign a contract, period- but it isn't. While this question applies over a broad spectrum of fields, it is especially ambiguous in the freelance world. This series of articles is geared towards individuals or companies looking to hire service providers like web designers, copywriters and internet marketers on a contract or freelance basis. News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:17pm EST Iran: Death penalty for porn movie authors. Thirty one people arrested by Iranian police risk the death penalty for making and distributing a porn movie they made with a cell phone, the president of Tehran's criminal court, Saiid Mortazavi, has announced. The 31 arrested in the past few days have also been charged with sexual violence on the actresses in the movie. Mortzavi has announced he will sentence to death all those involved in making amateur porn movies. He has in the past few years has sentenced to jail dozens of journalists and shut down around one hundred publications. A parliamentary commission has also accused Mortzavi of being behind the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who died in Iranian custody on 11 July 2003, almost three weeks after she was arrested for taking pictures outside a prison during a student protest in Tehran. Amateur porn films made with the video cameras of mobile phones have a proseprous market in Iran and can fetch up to 30 euros each. Email Marketing Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:17pm EST Building a Strong Relationship with Your Bulk Email List. By means of the Internet we have the possibility to connect to millions of people from around the world. And this number is growing as far as people discovering the convenience and necessity of the Internet in today's world, where the success in business largely depends on information technology. Companies and organizations have found the Internet an opportune place to promote their products and services. They use the strategy known as bulk email marketing, or bulk email sending, or sending advertisements and promotional letters to email users. News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:15pm EST Porn star banned from sponsoring team. Italian women's volleyball team Palermo were banned from using Hungarian hardcore porn actress Eva Henger as a sponsor for the game against Edison Modena. The Italian Volleyball League refused Palermo permission to use Henger as a sponsor, although she was present at the game. "Although understanding the economic need of the club, the League feels that it needs to put an ethical and moral limit on the marketing activity of the clubs because it is not legitimate to distort the image of the sport that was and is a model of sporting practice and passion," Italian Female Volleyball League president Francesco Franchi said on the volleyball.it website. "These are values that should not vanish for inopportune reasons. Our players could be charming and attractive but mere beauty is not the only value that female volleyball should portray. News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:15pm EST Firefox or Internet Explorer? Why Not Both? I'm an unlikely Solomon, but I do know what I would order if I were in charge: Use both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. There's an awful lot to be gained by going through the refreshingly simple download and installation of Firefox 2 and running it alongside IE, which comes installed as part of Windows. News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:14pm EST Screech In On Sex Video, Dustin Diamond Says No. That sex tape starring former "Saved by the Bell" star Dustin "Screech" Diamond is front and center once again. Dustin Diamond, the former squeaky clean teen TV star who played the geek Screech Powers in "Saved By The Bell," reportedly holds the video camera and narrates kinky sexual acts with women in a 40-minute sex tape. Diamond has claimed he was shocked that the tape had found its way to the Internet. Diamond maintains that the video was of private stock that he made four years ago on a dare from some poker buddies. "We tried to stop it," Diamond said recently on "The Dr. Keith Ablow Show." News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:13pm EST International gear watchers, from heavyweights to hobbyists, are converging on Sin City for the massive annual Consumer Electronics Show. Here's all the news you need to know from the show floor, speeches, soirees and much more. News Article Tuesday, January 9th 2007, 12:12pm EST Mystery drop in fraud and spam. Spam levels suddenly dropped 30 per cent last week, according to managed security firm SoftScan, which attributes the let-up to a "broken" botnet. SoftScan is still investigating the possible cause of the significant drop in junk mail volumes it's recording but reckons the most likely explanation is that hackers have temporarily lost control of a significant network of compromised machines. It seems unlikely that new computers at Christmas had much to do with affecting the number of compromised machines out there. Alternatively the drop in spam might be a result of the recent earthquake in Asia disrupting spamming activity from that region, but this theory fails to explain a gradual (rather than more sudden) drop off in spam levels this month. News Bytes Monday, January 8th 2007, 11:21am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Gas Smelled Over Large Area Of Manhattan. News Article Monday, January 8th 2007, 11:20am EST Plan would create '.xxx' Web porn domain. The Internet's key oversight agency has revived a proposal it earlier rejected to create an online red-light district, after adding stronger provisions to prohibit child pornography and require labeling of Web sites with sexually explicit materials. The use of the proposed ".xxx" domain name would remain voluntary, but any porn sites that choose to use it instead of the more popular ".com" would be subject to the new terms issued late Friday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The idea of a separate ".xxx" domain has generated significant opposition from conservative groups and even some pornography Web sites. But ICANN officials said they initially rejected the proposal in May not because of the opposition but because of concerns that the agency might be put in a difficult position of having to enforce all of the world's laws governing pornography. They noted that various nations' speech-related laws sometimes conflict with one another. The new proposal does not directly address any potential conflicts in laws, but it calls for the company backing it, ICM Registry Inc. of Jupiter, Fla., to hire independent organizations to monitor porn sites' compliance with the new rules. |
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