SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Zivity plans to create a new category of subscription-based social networking for the 18-and-over market with the $7 million in private funding it secured last week, a company spokesman said Monday. Together with the $1 million raised in August 2007, the...

SANTA CLARA, CA — Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to release a Java Virtual Machine for the iPhone sometime during the second half of 2008 — whether or not it has the blessing of Apple Inc.Apple never has shown interest in incorporating the Java environment — which runs games...

ORLANDO, FL — Faced with charges of racketeering and aiding prostitutes that could have scuttled the newspaper and sent at least three employees to jail, the Orlando Weekly did what any sensible Florida publisher would do.It plea-bargained its way into a dismissal of the...

MILFORD, MA — Pastor Peter Lopez is one of a projected 100 people who don’t simply think Doc’s Sports Bar shouldn’t be allowed to offer adult entertainment, but plans to stand outside of the club this Saturday and wave a sign saying as much. If an article in the local press...

TORONTO — Everybody’s Irish on March 17th – but DVDTube doesn’t see why its affiliate webmasters can’t wear the green throughout the entire month of March – or at least line their pockets with it.Starting last Friday, every Friday in March is “$100 Friday” as part of...

CUPERTINO, CA – Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash media player — arguably the most ubiquitous browser plug-in in the world — won’t be making an appearances on Apple’s iPhone anytime soon, chief executive officer Steve Jobs told shareholders Tuesday.Why? The technology doesn’t meet...

STAUNTON, VA — A prosecutor in this Washington D.C. suburb known for its Colonial charm may be getting more than he bargained for in a series of obscenity trials scheduled to begin June 17th. Paul Cambria and Louis Sirkin — both high-powered, high-profile First Amendment...

LOS ANGELES, CA — There are times when there appears to be no force on earth more determined to expose the unwilling and unwitting to hardcore pornography than anti-pornography groups – and no group less willing to make sure that it has its facts straight before making...

SWEDEN — Say what you will about the Swedish model of Socialism, it’s not launching a campaign against obscenity or trying to ban sex toys. In fact, recent changes in what can be purchased at state-run pharmacies indicates that the Swedish government considers a hearty...

BEIJING — As China prepares to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in August, the country’s conservative communist administration is clamping down on sexual and other expression online in an effort to “clean up” society before the world comes calling.According to a recent...