TAMPA, FL — Adult filmmaker Max Hardcore’s defense team on Tuesday filed a motion for a new trial after discovering one of the jurors was under mental stress during deliberation because she was fired from her job the night before the verdict was rendered.Hardcore, whose...

WASHINGTON, DC — The proposed deal between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. to share advertising revenues could run afoul of U.S. antitrust laws for a variety of reasons, attorneys are saying.Under the proposed cooperative measure, Yahoo’s search engine would run ads sold by...

WASHINGTON, DC — Fully 46-percent of all Americans have used the internet, email, or cell-phone text messaging to get news about the presidential campaign, share their views, and mobilize others, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Firefox 3, which launched just before noon PDT on Tuesday, cleared more than 8.3 million downloads in the first 24 hours it was available online, according to Mozilla.org, the developer. That makes it a candidate for the Guinness Book of World...

SAN DIEGO, CA — While the modern world of work and hurry makes it increasingly difficult to meet one’s romantic match, the virtual world is absolutely overwhelmed with love and sex. Thanks to JAST USA and ZyX, a little bit more of that virtual relationship reality will soon...

LOS ANGELES, CA – The wife of the federal judge who declared a mistrial in the Ira Isaacs obscenity case said Monday the allegations that her husband kept sexually explicit materials in his personal Web directory are distortions and “outright lies” perpetrated by the Los Angeles...

DETROIT, MI — With the world or sex and romance turning all topsy turvy, it’s comforting to be reminded that traditional marriage has always been under siege, mostly from itself. With that in mind, PIMPROLL® has launched yet another website dedicated to celebrating and...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — If you’re an online video lover with a party in your virtual – or not so virtual — pants, chances are good that HotMovies.com had something to do with it. During its August 2nd “Hundred Grand Gala,” the celebration won’t stop at the belt loop,...

WASHINGTON, DC — An agreement between three of the largest U.S. internet service providers and the New York Attorney General is being hailed by child-advocacy groups as a major step toward curbing child pornography. First Amendment advocates and financial processors, on the...

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — Australian internet service providers are speaking out against the government’s new mandatory Web-filtering initiative, saying the measure will “cripple the internet.”Broadband ISPs Internode and iiNet called Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plan to remove...