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ICANN has deferred a decision for at least 70 days on whether to create the “.xxx” domain name as an online red-light district.

The board of ICANN – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – has given its chief executive and chief lawyer two weeks to recommend options for the agency to handle the controversial issue. ICANN, which was meeting in Kenya, oversees the allocation of Internet addresses globally.

The .xxx domain campaign has seen three strikes already from ICANN. If denied again after the 70 day layover, this would be the fourth. “.xxx” is a proposed top-level domain (TLD) intended as a voluntary option for sexually explicit sites on the Internet. The name is inspired by the former MPAA and BBFC “X” rating, now commonly applied to pornographic movies as “XXX”. ICANN announced in June 1, 2005 that .xxx would become a sponsored top-level domain similar to .aero, .travel, etc. but it was never implemented. On May 10, 2006, ICANN reversed its decision, and on March 30, 2007, ICANN rejected the .xxx proposal a third time.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Some of the biggest names in the adult industry strutted their stuff and sizzled on the red carpet at the eighth annual XBIZ Awards, held at the legendary Avalon Hollywood.

Honors were handed out to the most influential companies and performers who play a vital role in the growth and popularity of adult entertainment.

The complete list of awards are as follows:

Article courtesy of XBIZ.com

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Adobe is apparently humping mad at Apple for not supporting Flash content on it’s new iPad. Their official Flash blog has posted a few poignant examples of how surfing popular sites on the internet via the iPad will look.

“Millions of websites use Flash,” the blog post says. “Get used to the blue Legos.”

The iPad Flash controversy started when Apple blog AppleInsider.com noticed that promotional images and even a video posted on Apple’s Web site appeared to show Flash-based content being displayed on the iPad. The content included a photo gallery and other Flash-based material from The New York Times’ Web site.

The controversy came to a head when a user submitted a formal complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on Friday. Paul Threatt, a graphic designer from Atlanta, said he felt the marketing materials were “willful false advertising.”

As you can see, the Adobe employee and blogger for TheFlashBlog.com chose to use a porn example, BangBros.com to be specific, in his post. The image was taken down and replaced with a small apology for any offense. Although meant to be a joke, the image brings up many concerns for Adult Industry sites looking to utilize the latest and greatest of Apple products. BangBros.com has offered an MP4 version of it’s site that can be viewed via the iPad. It will be interesting to see how this battle plays out.

Gartner, global technology researcher, has released a new report indicating that consumers will spend $6.2 billion on mobile applications in 2010.

Analysts expect that 4.5 billion app downloads will occur in 2010, with eighty percent of these apps being free to consumers. Mobile advertising revenue is expected to generate $0.6 billion worldwide as a result. Gartner is also expecting downloads to rise to more than 21.6B by 2013; with the percentage of free downloads increasing to 87 percent in the same time.

Mobile applications can be offered as free due to internal charges or pure advertising revenue. Some applications are free to download the program itself, but all program extensions are locked until paid for. Advertising revenue has been created through mobile apps by placing ads between game levels or on loading screens.

“As smartphones grow in popularity and application stores become the focus for several players in the value chain, more consumers will experiment with application downloads,” Gartner research director Stephanie Baghdassarian, said. “Games remain the No. 1 application, and mobile shopping, social networking, utilities and productivity tools continue to grow and attract increasing amounts of money.”

The study alludes to the future trends smart phones will be experiencing within the market. As smart phones drop in price, the average tech savvy of their users is going to also drop. As users of smart phones become less technologically inclined, they will also be more reluctant to pay for applications.

“Growth in smartphone sales will not necessarily mean that consumers will spend more money, but it will widen the addressable market for an offering that will be advertising-funded,” Baghdassarian added. “The value chain of the application stores will evolve as rules are set and broken in an attempt to find the most profitable business model for all parties involved.”

“Application stores will be a core focus throughout 2010 for the mobile industry and the applications themselves will help determine the winner among mobile device platforms,” said Gartner research director Carolina Milanesi. “Consumers will have a wide choice of stores and will seek the ones that make it easy for them to discover applications they are interested in and make it easy to pay for them when they have to. Developers will have to consider carefully not only which platform to support but also which store to promote their applications in.”

Adult entertainment is about to push boundaries with the immediate availability of new technology

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) January 7, 2010 – For the first time ever, a company is offering consumers a turnkey digital 3D viewing system and a 3D content subscription service for in-home digital HD 3D entertainment. Southern California’s Bad Girls in 3D will be unveiling its complete in-home digital 3D system at Booth 7032 at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo January 7-10, 2010 at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, NV.

As Hollywood celebrates its latest digital theatrical event, it is at home that most people will really experience the 3D revolution … and its happening now.

“For several decades, the adult entertainment industry has driven adoption of every significant new entertainment delivery system — the VHS home-video craze in the 1980s, the satellite television mania in the 1990s and the present day internet,” said Lance Johnson of Bad Girls in 3D. “2010 and beyond will be all about 3D. Society’s enthusiasm for 3D films is largely responsible for the record $10 billion in box office revenues in 2009.”

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A Guardian Special Investigation has uncovered evidence of both Yahoo and Bing complying with a new law passed in India.

It isn’t news that the Indian government enforces strict laws concerning pornography, but it turns heads when two out of the major three search engines on the web today begin censoring material based on a government decision. The law, based on a 150 year old article within the Indian Penal Code, specifically targets any “lascivious” content. Lascivious content, meaning anything lustful in nature, is an interestingly ambiguous choice of wording for a law with such steep consequences.

The Guardian investigation suggests Microsoft and Yahoo have already taken steps to avoid the rather stiff punishments. If a search engine (or, indeed, Internet cafe) isn’t careful about what sites it makes available, its officers might face three years in jail and a fine of up to 500,000 rupees (just over $10,000). – Cnet

India, although the newest region, is not alone in their push to censor public information materials due to enforced moral values. Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong can also read their names on this list. Both Yahoo and Bing have rendered their “safe-search” options permanent for these areas of the world, in order to avoid any transgressions with their respective governments.

It will be interesting to see how many more countries adopt this pristine mentality over time, and how it will affect the Adult Industry in eastern countries.

Hotmovies.com Unleashes the Power of the Dirty 30

Philadelphia, PA – The world’s largest pay-per minute porn site, Hotmovies.com along with affiliate arm Moviedollars.com, are launching the next big thing in affiliate marking; The Dirty Thirty Clip Creator. Featuring a staggering 125,000-plus movies to choose from, MovieDollars affiliates can create clips up to 30-seconds in length from any movie offered at “Ultra” stream-speed. The Dirty Thirty Clip Creator enables affiliates to embed any video he or she has “clipped” by simply copying the code from the HTML box provided and pasting it in desired locations on the web.

Targeting specific niche surfers has never been so easy! For instance, a MovieDollars.com affiliate running a blog site that caters to “big boobs” can create a 30-second clip of any “Big Boob” Video at Hotmovies.com (currently there are over 5000 “big boobs” movies offered). The affiliate would then copy the html from the box, post it, and start sending traffic to a custom theater or any Hotmovies.com site.

You won’t find this tool being offered by any other affiliate program, and with 125,000-plus movies to choose from, MovieDollars.com affiliates are in a league of their own. Hotmovies.com has a niche selection listed by category that is unrivaled in the online porn world.

“We believe our Affiliate Webmasters know their traffic better than anyone. A few months ago I had an idea; ‘It would awesome if we could give affiliates the option of creating their own clips from our movie database and using these custom clips as marketing tools.’ Here we are 3 months later and the idea has become a reality.” Says James Cybert, President of Hotmovies Marketing Division.

Hotmovies.com has had no shortage of successful marketing options for affiliates, recently adding the well-received “Boxometer” to their plethora of Webmaster Tools. The “Boxometer” is an iframe movie box-cover rotator that can be created in seconds and posted anywhere on the web. Webmasters can specify categories and/or studios to be featured in his or her own rotating box-cover banner. This webmaster tool also allows affiliates to set color and style preferences to fit their specific needs.

MovieDollars.com has provided a video trailer as well as a tutorial video for using the Dirty Thirty Clip Creator.

For The Dirty Thirty Clip Creator – “How To” Tutorial Video please visit HERE!

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Rupert Murdoch just might be adult’s best friend.

The publishing titan has sounded an alarm for newspapers everywhere, suggesting that search engine giant Google is poised to take over the news industry by making its search engine a one-stop shop for all news.

To that end, Murdoch has threatened to remove his news sites from Google’s search index, including the Wall Street Journal. In addition, Murdoch’s News Corporation owns scores of huge properties, including MySpace.com, Hulu.com, Fox.com and AskMen.com.

The prospect of those sites disappearing from Google sounds at once terrifying and hilarious to the Internet giant, according to leading tech analyst Erik Schonfeld.

“In fact, Murdoch is such a sly fox, it is hard to say who he is really going after here,” he said. “By playing on his rival’s fears of Google becoming the new homepage for news, he might convince some of them to deny Google the ability to index their sites.”

Schonfeld noted that Google is responsible for about a quarter of the Wall Street Journal’s traffic, so at first glance, de-indexing the site from Google might be suicide.

Or would it? Apparently Microsoft’s Bing may be a part of this fight. Microsoft recently invested more than $100,000 in a technology called Automated Content Access Protocol, or ACAP. ACAP would give content providers the power to index their sites, but still prevent users from getting full access to their sites through digital backdoors.

That means that if Murdoch and his assets jumped ship on Google, Bing might be waiting with a powerful search engine of its own that’s equipped to deliver content on a tiered platform that’s also adult-friendly.

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A story recently surfaced saying malware could plant child porn on innocent people’s computers without their knowledge. Just how real is this threat? And how can you keep it from happening to you?

Being accused of possessing child pornography can ruin people’s reputations, confront them with overwhelming legal bills and, if convicted, deprive them of their freedom for years if sentenced to prison time, and perhaps for life, if they’re required to register as sex offenders.

That is why, at least in part, a recent case outlined by the Associated Press raised concerns over computer viruses being used to plant child pornography on people’s computers. But the innocent have little to fear, according to experts.

The AP story reported about the case of Michael Fiola, a former Massachusetts state employee whose state-owned work computer was found to contain illegal child pornography images. He was fired and charged with possession of child pornography which, had he been convicted, could have landed him in prison for up to five years, according to the AP.

Sexually explicit images of children – who are often being exploited – are not protected by the First Amendment because they may memorialize, celebrate, or encourage sexual crimes against children deemed defenseless victims. Although Fiola avoided a child porn conviction, he reportedly has suffered related indignities, including death threats and friend abandonment. The AP said he and his wife liquidated their savings and spent $250,000 on legal fees. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone owners have become familiar with being bracketed in some commonly referred-to groupings along the lines of early-adopter, intelligentsia and tech-savvy. But a new study by Retrevo sheds light on some less desirable traits common in owners of Apple’s famous touchscreen phone.
iPhone users use the iPhone for more than just maps and apps.

The study found that compared with other mobile owners, iPhone owners are more likely to see themselves as media buffs, extrovert and intellectual.

However, one in five iPhone users feel they have to turn to the handheld device to get their kicks: 20 per cent of iPhone users watch porn on their handset on a regular basis, found Retrevo.

An interesting approach to relationships also seems to be a common trait among iPhone users. One in three iPhone owners has texted or emailed their significant other to break up while one in three say that if their partner had out of date gadgets it would be a turn off.

But at least some get their cummupence: one in four iPhone users has been dumped by their partner because they spend too much time on their mobile device.

The study involved 445 iPhone users in the US.