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Adult Industry Appeals To Many Techies
News ZDNet UK readers have a pragmatic approach to an IT career in the adult entertainment industry, according to a site poll this week. After publishing a guide to working within the adult industry, we decided to turn the discussion to our readers by...
[November 23, 2005, 16:50]
Naked Innovation Online
News Although few at the top of the IT industry would like to publicly admit it, adult entertainment companies have been first to market with many of the technologies which are now seen as cutting edge by mainstream businesses.
[November 18, 2005, 14:10]
Playboy Increases Mobile Exposure
News Playboy Enterprises' plan to introduce adult entertainment for mobile phones next year may leave some people wondering. Under an agreement with Seattle-based Dwango Wireless, Playboy plans to sell adult mobile-phone content in the United States and...
[December 3, 2004, 10:50]
A Year Ago: Erotic E-commerce Vendors Warn Against Backlash
News The charge-back rate in the adult entertainment industry is about 15 percent, compared with an average of 5 percent in other industries. The top adult Web sites rake in more than Yahoo! But the $1bn (£0.6bn) industry is still looking for legitimacy...
[October 12, 1999, 7:00]
US Report: Erotic E-commerce Vendors Warn Against Backlash
News The charge-back rate in the adult entertainment industry is about 15 percent, compared with an average of 5 percent in other industries. The top adult Web sites rake in more than Yahoo! But the $1bn (£0.6bn) industry is still looking for legitimacy...
[October 12, 1998, 9:54]
AOL Sues Over Sex-related Spam
News Interested Webmasters often set up promotional sites through free Web services and then try to lure new customers to their sites -- and ultimately onto Cyber Entertainment's adult sites -- by sending sexually explicit email.
[January 4, 2001, 11:48]
Microsoft IE Patch Leaves Users Locked Out
News Richard Excoffier, founder of adult entertainment Web site Toteme, told ZDNet UK that the IE update has left many of his customers complaining that they cannot access the site: "We distribute our software via shareware and the registration process...
[February 4, 2004, 13:05]
Adult Industry Welcomes .XXX Domain Rejection
News The idea in the adult entertainment industry is to mainstream adult content to the point where it is not different from selling any other commodity, such as groceries," Alexander said. The more publicly mainstream porn becomes the more money the...
[May 12, 2006, 17:25]
Pay-to-play Search Ignites Trademark Battle
News But the adult entertainment publisher and other companies have also won metatag disputes, especially when rival sites used their trademarks in an attempt to leapfrog to the top of search results. For example, Playboy Enterprises lost a case it...
[February 11, 2002, 12:02]
Adult Industry Welcomes .XXX Domain Rejection
Talkback "The idea in the adult entertainment industry is to mainstream adult content to the point where it is not different from selling any other commodity, such as groceries," Do these idiots think porn isn't mainstream already?
[May 12, 2006, 19:40]
X-rated: Getting A Tech Job In The Adult Industry
News Outside the US, it is less clear how adult entertainment companies find their staff. Private Media Group, an adult entertainment company based in Spain, advertises vacancies for technology staff locally, according to Robyn Harte-Bunting, senior...
[November 22, 2005, 11:30]
Comments From A CEO Of One Of The Worlds Largest Adult Companies.
Talkback I am founder and CEO of one of the largest adult orientated companies in the world. If you are only offering normal conventional adult material it is much harder to make $$$’s nowadays unless you are an exceptional individual.
[March 9, 2007, 14:53]
Web Of Porn: The Business Of Porn - Part 1
News Playboy -- possibly the most famous adult entertainment brand in the world -- has built up an expansive cyber enterprise with online magazines, Playboy TV, home video distribution, chat rooms, email, music and a cyber shopping mall all stamped...
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
Web Of Porn: The Business Of Porn - Part 2
News According to Mark Tiarra, president of United Adult Sites, a trade association representing over 500 adult entertainment Web sites, pornography sites are one of the biggest attractions on the Web.to 60 percent of traffic from search engines goes...
[March 9, 1999, 15:50]
.XXX: New Home For Porn Approved
News It's intended to have a seven-person board of directors, including a child advocacy advocate, a free-expression aficionado and someone from the adult entertainment industry. Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, complained to a federal...
[June 2, 2005, 10:15]
What Has Broadband Done For Us?
News Ovum argues that software downloads, music downloads, video on demand, online learning, live concert broadcasts, online gaming, gambling, and adult entertainment could not have survived without broadband.
[March 31, 2004, 12:15]
Do Video Games Make Children Violent?
News The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) assigns each game submitted to it a suitability rating -- ranging from "E" for "everyone" to "A" for "adult -- with additional details on why the game received its rating.
[February 24, 2005, 11:10]
US Report: Net Music Will Change
News This will put adult supervision in to what has been the Wild, Wild West of music distribution," said Richard Doherty, director of marketing at new media watcher Envisioneering Group in Seaford N.Y. The top five music production companies -- Sony...
[December 16, 1998, 10:04]
A Year Ago: Net Music Will Change
News This will put adult supervision in to what has been the Wild, Wild West of music distribution," said Richard Doherty, director of marketing at new media watcher Envisioneering Group in Seaford N.Y. The top five music production companies -- Sony...
[December 16, 1999, 6:01]
Hutchison Confronts 3G Porn Issue
News The company has confirmed that a staff member within its entertainment team was examining at the issue of adult content, but denied that it was only interested in making money out of soft pornography.
[October 22, 2001, 11:46]
