Washington, D.C. – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday that it has charged seven adult affiliate program companies with violation of the CAN-SPAM Act by failing to prevent their affiliates from sending explicit email advertisements that did not contain...

ATLANTA, GA – Credit card processor CardSystems Solutions suffered yet another blow this week when American Express announced that it would cut ties with the company over a security breech that placed roughly 40 million credit card numbers at risk. The announcement from...

MONTREAL, CANADA – Livebucks, operators of Privatefeeds.com, has announced that the launch of their new video technology earlier this month has resulted in record sales.”This technology is better because it gives Livebucks flexibility to make any kind of live...

DAYTONA BEACH, FL – GA Media Corporation announced the addition of a new Mainstream Marketing Forum to their flagship resource site, Gay Wide Webmasters (www.gaywidewebmasters.com). The Mainstream Marketing Forum is dedicated to webmasters working the non-adult space.“We...

WASHINGTON, DC – A new bill that targets online adult entertainment is making its way into Congress, YNOT has learned. The Internet Safety and Child Protection Act of 2005, expected to be introduced by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) sometime in the coming days, would tax...

LOS ANGELES, CA – Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told a live audience on Sunday that his upcoming reality television show, The Girls Next Door, will offer a real and unscripted look at life in the Playboy Mansion.Hefner was speaking on a panel for the Television Critics...

FLORIDA – Add Maxim magazine, provocative posters, sexy calendars, copies of the Kama Sutra, and other variations of “sexually stimulating” fare to the list of items forbidden to released sex offenders still under probation.A 23-year-old Miami man on probation, after...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Microsoft browser and email client users long ago became accustomed to frequent bug fixes due to the popularity of their products. This month the open-source Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client have had their share of problems, with a second...

CYBERSPACE – As identity theft and “cyber stalking” become ever more common, access to the information which facilitates such crimes appears to be getting more and more convenient. Over recent months, the proliferation of websites and services offering access to personal...

NEW YORK – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has vendors that sell or rent Mature (M) and Adult Only (AO) rated video games to minors in her sights. The fact that violent or graphic gaming material often winds up in the hands of children has motivated Clinton, whose name...