SAN FRANCISCO – For 12 years, Kink.com has pushed the pleasure-pain principle in ways that challenge the imaginations of all but the most extreme BDSM enthusiasts. After beginning in 1997 with male-dominant/female-submissive scenarios at Hogtied.com, the company expanded into...

YNOT – After blocking a Microsoft browser add-on and associated plug-in last Friday due to a documented security vulnerability, Mozilla today unblocked the add-ons for Firefox and said the plug-in will be restored in a matter of days.Microsoft reported last week that two of its...

CYBERSPACE – MaxCash.com is expanding, and the company has announced its first move through a press release it issued this week. The expansion of MaxCash.com will involve the release of new adult paysites that each target a specific niche previously unavailable to MaxCash.com...

TAMPA, Fla. – The most recent Business Confidence Index, released last week by the Mobile Entertainment Forum, predicts an average revenue growth rate of 33 percent for the coming year, an increase of 6 percent over what was predicted for 2009. Currently, revenues stand at about...

DEERBORN, Mich. – The results of a two-year study by Arbor Networks, the University of Michigan and Merit Network Inc. has determined 6 percent of all internet traffic originates with Google.Five years ago, internet traffic was distributed proportionally across tens of thousands...

SAN FRANCISCO — BDSM and fetish erotica studio Kink.com calls the idea behind its revamped gay adult website ButtMachineBoys.com “the classic formula of machine-versus-manhole.” Now that gay adult performer-director Van Darkholme has taken the helm, the content has become edgier,...

ALPENA, Mich. – Heads up, adult cartoon lovers, artists and publishers: ToonWebmasters.com, a new online community designed just for you, has launched.Following the general “niche-ing” trend in the adult entertainment industry, ToonWebmasters has staked out its territory on a...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court next year will take up the case of the so-called “S&M Svengali,” whose conviction on forced-labor and sex-trafficking charges was set aside on procedural grounds.On Tuesday the justices agreed to hear the government’s appeal in the case of...

CYBERSPACE – Good news for pay-per-click advertisers on Yahoo.com! If you went out of business while buying pay-per-click ads from Yahoo.com, you might be eligible for twenty bucks. Seriously, twenty stinkin’ measly bucks. That windfall comes courtesy settlement of a class...

CYBERSPACE – After a particularly impressive set of bedroom maneuvers, do you roll over and go to sleep or let the Twitterverse and your Facebook friends know? If the latter, you’re among the 36 percent of social-networkers who post updates immediately after having sex, according...