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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.01.09
Round-Up You can't imagine the marketing and media studies students needing a course on how to chat up members of the opposite, or indeed same, sex. These include blocks to stop prisoners browsing outside the list of approved... [16 Jan 2009]
Icann waves in relaxed website naming rules
News While trademarked names will only be available to those trademark holders, there are loads of common words that people could want to register, such as .sex. So, for example, instead of being restricted to... [27 Jun 2008]
Social networks to stamp out sex offenders
News Registered child sex offenders could soon be legally obliged to supply local police with their email address to be passed on to social networking websites to stop them using the sites. In a statement,... [03 Apr 2008]
Google sticks ads on YouTube
News Then, there's the problem of guaranteeing advertisers that their brands won't appear alongside copyrighted content, violence, sex or other dodgy material. The experiment, if successful, could mean billions of dollars in... [22 Aug 2007]
Facebook to fuel spear-phishing boom?
News This is a goldmine of data for the bad guy community - the bad guys now have the name, age, sex, geography, likes, family member's names. AusCERT's general manager Graham Ingram said social networking... [05 Jul 2007]
Google bans essay writing services
News A Google spokeswoman said: "Google AdWords' policy will soon disallow ad texts and sites that promote academic paper-writing services and the sale of pre-written essays, theses and dissertations. Drugs. [23 May 2007]
UK leads fight against online child abuse
News Coaker added: "Nowhere else in the world have the public, private and professional sectors come together to tackle sex offenders in this way. Web 2.0 and the growth in social networking sites such as... [24 Oct 2006]
Sex spammers squashed by FTC
News In another case, the FTC alleged Zachary Kinion sent spam that advertised adult sites, mortgage rates and privacy software. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down four illegal internet spam operations,... [15 Sep 2006]
Sex sites facing law to clean up their act
News Sites such as Kontraband.com, which show Barbie and Ken dolls having simulated sex, could be in trouble, depending on how prosecutors and juries interpret the language. House speaker J Dennis Hastert, in... [26 Jul 2006]
Has US online gambling had its chips?
News Last month, House Republican leaders announced that the bill would be part of a 10-part "American Values Agenda", along with a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage and further restrictions on stem cell... [12 Jul 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.06.06
Round-Up The Telindus research was conducted around Oxford Circus - less than a mile from the heart of London's sex trade where naked flesh and obscenity spill out onto the public streets of Soho, morning, noon and night. [02 Jun 2006]
Icann vetoes sex suffix
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' board on Wednesday voted nine to five against the proposal, which would have led to the creation of a dot-xxx domain suffix for pornography sites. [11 May 2006]
Google 'profits from child porn', lawsuit claims
News Other recent lawsuits filed by the firm have sought at least $10m for alleged sex discrimination against casino cocktail waitresses, and $600m from the maker of an ephedra-based dietary supplement claimed to cause the... [08 May 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.03.06
Round-Up Returning to the subject of sex, violence and wanton gore. Thankfully, the Round-Up is here to help and is happy to reveal that this week's column is so full of sex, violence, gore, bad language, digs at... [31 Mar 2006]
3GSM Diary: Homeward bound, creative types and killer apps
Comment And in one of the liveliest 10 minutes of the entire show, another chief creative type - Peter Bazalgette from Endemol - related everything to sex. A last shot past the Fira in Barcelona, which has housed the show across... [17 Feb 2006]