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Free porn is putting a dent in Time Warner’s wallet

Porn is something you wouldn’t think a cable company CEO would talk about. Even though porn brings in a lot of extra dollars, it’s one of those things that is too taboo for a lot of people. Interestingly enough, Time Warner’s CEO Glen Britt mentioned the demand (or lack thereof) for porn when discussing his company’s video on demand service during the companies Q2 2011 earnings conference call.

Windows Phone 7 marketplace will be a porn free zone

Microsoft has officially announced new polices for their Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Their newly published application certification requirements state that there will be no pornographic, or “sexually suggestive” content allowed in the marketplace. Microsoft is being smart about things in order to avoid making the same mistakes as Apple did earlier this year. Here’s the more »

You might not want your kids using Bing

Well…maybe that’s where Microsoft came up with the name for their new search engine. Badda Bing is right indeed. Because, with this search engine, it seems nothing is off limits. Even though Bing wasn’t supposed to be out for another couple of days, they apparently decided to launch a bit early. To one-up Google perhaps? more »

Naked photos, teen porn on the rise

The internet pornography industry is massive, of that there is no doubt, and the USA hosts 89% (244,661,900) of them. This is a staggering figure, and one that first points towards a degrading society, and then to what impact this is having on the children of today. Statistics show that the average age that a child first sees pornography on the internet is 11, and that within the 8-16 age bracket 90% of children have viewed porn online. So is it really surprising that children are putting naked photos of them selves online? Not really.

Indonesia bans porn, gets Information Ministry website hacked in return

There has been some great debates among the Muslim-majority Asian nation about whether or not to ban the access of pornographic materials. The government of Indonesia took the first step to restrict the access of pornographic materials from the web and went as far as making the “transmission of pornographic material on the Web” a criminal offense. Well it goes to show that when people want their porn they will stand up for what they believe is right, in respond with the government’s action, a couple of “web criminals” hacked into the website of the Information Ministry, and added their personal message and thoughts.