AUSTIN, TX — Alabama is the lone remaining bastion of the sex-toy morality police now that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned Texas’ “obscene devices” law.The Texas law criminalized selling, advertising, giving, or lending any devices designed or...

AUSTRALIA — Although known for its rough and tumble outback as much as its innovative opera house, Australia has been working hard to earn a porn-unfriendly reputation. In addition to bans against certain kinds of content and the release of a porn filter that was...

BRITAIN — While many a luddite wonders what the words “operating system” and “sexy” have to do with one another, British sex toy retailer Lovehoney has been finding out – with potentially surprising results. After publishing its Google Analytics log, the sex toy shoppe...

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the FISA Amendments Act, a bill that would engender sweeping changes in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and could negatively affect U.S. citizens.Chief among the items in the bill is one that provides...

PALM SPRINGS, CA — To bareback or not to bareback, that is the question that every gay adult studio must answer before it can begin producing erotic content. Until recently, most responses took a clear stand on latex or no latex – but few had much to say on the topic of STD...

DENMARK — One of Denmark’s largest internet service providers on Wednesday said it will challenge a Danish court’s injunction ordering it to block traffic to The Pirate Bay, possibly the most infamous file-sharing site on the Web.After meeting with representatives of other...

CUPERTINO, CA — It’s not just bloggers that have noticed something funny going on with numbers related to the Apples insanely popular iPhone. Customers and investors had noticed during 2007 that although 1.7 million of the quarter-tablet personal computers with cell phone...

SUNNYVALE, CA — Who knows why relationships don’t work out? Someone at both Microsoft and Yahoo! probably has the inside story on exactly why Yahoo! spurned the Redmond, WA-based giant’s high-dollar advances, but no one is talking. The only words from Yahoo! so far came in...

HAMPSHIRE, UK — Cherrysauce has been selected as this year’s top award winner in the mobile adult category at the Future Mobile Awards, presented by Juniper Research.The silver award went to Phonebox Entertainment. The Future Mobile Awards are given to companies that have...

CYBERSPACE — And then there were nine.At last count, the number of cuts in undersea communications cables serving the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia jumped from five to as many as nine or more. The damage to the massive fiber-optic lines that carry telephone and...