REDMOND, WA — Claiming the asking price Yahoo! demanded is too high and any hostile takeover battle would devalue the acquisition, Microsoft over the weekend abandoned its bid to buy the search engine.“Clearly a deal is not to be,” Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve...

ALBAQUERQUE, NM — Here’s another for the porno-romantic “Where Did We Go Wrong: Let Me Count the Ways” file. It was a snuggly morning in front of the DVD player for 20-year-old Amanda Moya and her then-boyfriend. A morning to relax and unwind together, watch a little porn,...

HANOVER, NH — The computer language known as Basic — short for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — turned 44 years old May 1st.A child of necessity, Basic was conceived by two Dartmouth College professors who in 1956 began seeking code that would be easier...

BURBANK, CA — All work and no play doesn’t just make Jack a dull boy – it doesn’t resemble an adult industry conference or trade show! Since the business of learning how to run a successful adult company means long hours of working and playing hard, and the end of the day...

SEATTLE, WA — A federal judge has denied the government’s request for a permanent injunction that would have imposed recordkeeping and affiliate oversight requirements on Impulse Media Group Inc. despite a jury verdict declaring the adult-entertainment company did not...

KINOKAWA CITY , JAPAN — A Japanese civil servant was suspended from his job for three months and demoted after officials discovered he spent nearly as much time surfing pornographic websites as working, his supervisor said.The unnamed 57-year-old man, an official in the...

JAMAICA PLAINS, MA — Porn gets blamed for a litany of real and imagined sins. On April 23rd, it was blamed for the unprovoked stabbings of an innocent man by his enraged and disapproving girlfriend. Instead of blaming 21-year-old Claribel Peralta’s violent outburst on poor...

ATHENS — There will be no U-Haul trucks pulling up in front of apartments on the Mediterranean island of Lesbos helping lesbians and Lesbians live together in pussy licking harmony. Instead, they’ll be meeting in a court of law, because the Lesbian inhabitants of the Aegean...

WASHINGTON, DC — Since its birth, people worldwide have viewed the internet as a convenient, democratizing, infinitely useful mode of communication and entertainment.Not so the FBI, evidently. J. Edgar Hoover’s children see threats everywhere, and in the internet they...

WASHINGTON, DC — Despite criticism from the Department of Justice, a House of Representatives committee yesterday approved a bill that would stiffen penalties for copyright violations and create a Cabinet-level “intellectual property czar.”The Justice Department objects to...