THE WORLD — From Budweiser beer to Wheaties cereal, all manner of products that have nothing at all to do with athletic endeavors have cashed in on the branding opportunities presented by major sporting events.From the controversial, like alcoholic beverage companies...

CHICAGO, IL — What once was an empire built on softcore sex appeal now embraces a wide array of content types under a variety of brand names. As of today, that empire has now grown to include the current queen of the video sex scene, Jenna Jameson’s world renowned Club...

DULUTH, MN — Friday wasn’t Jim Grandishar’s day. Early in the morning he learned that his adult book store had been targeted by domestic terrorists – and later in the day he learned that his adult book store had been targeted by the Duluth police.Grandishar contacted police...

SANDY SPRINGS, GA – At a meeting Tuesday, the Sandy Springs City Council tabled a vote on a proposed obscenity ordinance, delaying the vote until the Council’s July session in order to hold further discussions and refine the ordinance’s language.“There was a sense among some of...

WALDO, FL — Apparently someone in the small town of Waldo, FL feels that violence is an appropriate method for expressing opposition to an adult bookstore that has set up shop in area.A bottle of unidentified but caustic and corrosive liquid was anchored to the Café Risque...

WASHINGTON, DC — A dozen major companies, including some of the tech sector’s largest firms, issued a joint statement yesterday calling for “comprehensive harmonized federal privacy legislation” that will “provide protection for consumers from inappropriate collection and...

CYBERSPACE — The fox is not on the run, but its competitors certainly seem to be. The fox in question, of course, is Mozilla’s Firefox, which shook up the web browser status quo when it appeared on the scene in 2004. Suddenly, a browser could do so much more than it had...

CHATSWORTH, CA – Internext Expo has announced that early registration for Internext Summer has been extended to Friday, June 30th. All-access passes to the Westin Diplomat Hotel and Spa are $250 through June 30th; after the deadline, the price increases to $300.“If you’re a...

UNITED STATES — Patrons of restaurants, bars, movie theaters, libraries, and other places where both cell phone and non-cell phone users often find themselves forced into close quarters may have a solution to the problem of disruptive and yakky cell phone users: phone...

NEW YORK, NY – If there’s a cheat code for magically pumping up stock value, the video game industry may want to enter it now.The New York Times reports that since May 1st, four major publicly-traded game publishers have lost a collective $6 billion in market capitalization, a...