Google Targeting Android Smartphone Payments

Webmaster News – Google is moving closer to allowing mobile payment for Android smartphones. According to reports, the search giant is partnering with MasterCard and Citigroup to provide users with an embedded app that will allow them to simply wave their phones in front of Verifone readers to make purchases.

In its early stages, the “electronic wallet’ service would allow Citigroup debit and credit card holders to use their Android phones to make purchases. Google is expected to launch the service later this year in hopes of bolstering its advertising business by providing retailers with targeted data about their customers. Google would take a portion of the transaction fees.
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Cummings’ Latest Venture Uses MyPhoneSite

Adult Web Hosting News – SAN DIEGO — Male porn star Dave Cummings, one of the adult industry’s few senior citizen performers, is starting to use a new VoIP phone chat platform with his latest business venture, DaveCummingsInfo.com. Cummings’ new site employs technology developed by MyPhoneSite.com, a new service offered by Marc Jarrett, who started in the adult biz by running a phone sex company in 1994.

“When the Internet came along, I focused on phone billing for web content,” Jarrett told XBIZ. “But now I am going back to my roots … premium phone chat reloaded, if you will.” MyPhoneSite allows anyone to create their own pay-per-minute phone website, Jarrett said. Read more

WordPress Adds iPad-Optimized View With Plugin

Adult Hosting News – NEW YORK — After four months of development, WordPress owner Auttomatic has launched a new plugin that enables an HTML5-rich browsing experience on Apple’s iPad. The “HTML5 goodness on the backend” is now available to more than 18 million blogs on the company’s service using an iPad-friendly plugin, says Nick Momrik on WordPress.org’s blog.

“Our iPad-optimized view is app-like in its functionality,” he said. “It supports touch interactions, swiping, rotation, and many other features of the iPad.” With the plugin, called Onswipe, blog owners can use their recent images as the cover for their blog for iPad visitors, upload an image to be used as a loading graphic when visitors add sites to  home screens and switch fonts and screen colors. They also can enable or disable the whole thing.
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FSC Launches Anti .XXX Campaign

Adult Hosting – CANOGA PARK, CA — The Free Speech Coalition announced Friday that it is launching an anti-.XXX campaign and urging adult online businesses not to buy into the newly-approved .XXX sTLD.

“Collectively, adult businesses understand that .ICM’s .XXX is bad for the adult entertainment industry. FSC is launching this campaign thus continuing its effort to rid the industry of this hazard. We are encouraging adult businesses to Just Say ‘NO’ to .XXX,” FSC Executive Director Diane Duke said.
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CommerceGate Heats Up the Phoenix Forum

Adult Web Hosting – Barcelona, Spain - CommerceGate will be making their mark on The Phoenix Forum this year, with a Gold Sponsorship, panel discussion participation, and a co-sponsorship of the Late Night Poker suite parties. CommerceGate would like to invite all Phoenix Forum attendees to come and mingle with their Brand Ambassadors and draw your lucky hand with a company that bets on YOU!

Late Night Poker is taking place Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights March 31- April 2 inside Suite 2038 of the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, each night will start at 9PM and run until 4AM. Co-hosting alongside CommerceGate is CECash, Smashbucks and Adultcentro. The legendary event will feature high stakes tables as well as low stakes tables for beginners and an open bar and lounge for those coming to watch the action.
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CyberStampede Becomes ASACP Corporate Sponsor

Adult Hosting News – LOS ANGELES — The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection has announced that online marketing specialists CyberStampede has become its newest corporate sponsor. CyberStampede is a boutique provider of SEO, SEM and social media services.

“Our team has respected the work of ASACP and its efforts to protect kids online for many years,” CyberStampede founder Rodney Thompson said. “CyberStampede specializes in search engine marketing which reaches a broad global audience. As parents ourselves, it was evident from the start that working with ASACP as a sponsor and active partner was just plain good business and consistent with our company philosophy.” Read more

U.K. Study: Social Media More Popular Than Porn

Adult News – LONDON — U.K. web surfers prefer social networking over sex sites. According to statistics from web analytics firm Experian Hitwise, sites like Facebook surpass entertainment outlets that include porn websites in British Internet usage charts. The Experian study — Carpe diem – Seizing the Moment in Social Media — revealed that social networking sites received more than 2.4 billion hits from U.K. users accounting for 12.46 percent, or almost one eighth of all U.K. web visits.

Brits also spend more time on each visit to a social network logging in an average of 22 minutes in January with Facebook attracting 56 percent of the traffic. “While social networks of course compete amongst themselves for users, many of those users have a presence on multiple networks,” said Robin Goad, Experian Hitwise’s research director. Read more

ICANN Approves .XXX

Adult Hosting – SAN FRANCISCO — The ICANN board voted today to proceed with ICM’s .XXX sTLD despite the advocacy of the Free Speech Coalition and a wide range of adult industry leaders. This decision represents the first time the ICANN Board has disregarded advice from its Government Advisory Committee (GAC).

The board voted 9-3, with four board members abstaining, to approve the .XXX sTLD.

Ira Magaziner, one of the founders responsible for creating ICANN under the Clinton administration, Vint Cerf, the past Chair of the ICANN Board, Larry Strickling, the Under Secretary for the U.S. Department of Commerce and former US President Bill Clinton all spoke of the absolute necessity of the ICANN Board listening to its Government Advisory Committee. Read more

Protestors Stage Rally Against .XXX

Adult Web Hosting – SAN FRANCISCO — Adult industry protestors took to the streets today to voice their opposition to the proposed .XXX sponsored top level domain. The protestors, carrying various anti-.XXX posters, marched outside the Westin Hotel where ICANN is set to vote on the sTLD tomorrow.

Various adult industry members were on hand including FSC Executive Director Diane Duke, membership director Joanne Cachapero, Evil Angel founder John Stagliano, performers Jizz Lee, Kara Price, Brooke Ashley and others. Those who oppose .XXX say the adult industry has no need for an additional TLD, which would be used to either host or redirect content back to their existing .com pages. Read more

White House Seeks to Make Illegal Streaming a Federal Offense

Webmaster News – WASHINGTON — The White House wants to change U.S. copyright law by making illegal streaming of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers. In a 20-page proposal, the Obama administration said it wants Congress to fix “deficiencies that could hinder enforcement” of intellectual property laws.

The White House said it’s concerned that “illegal streaming of content” may not be covered by criminal law and said, “questions have arisen about whether streaming constitutes the distribution of copyrighted works.” Therefore, it wants a new law to “clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances.”

The administration also said it wants to expand on wiretaps to include copyright and trademark infringement saying the move “would assist U.S. law enforcement agencies to effectively investigate those offenses.”

Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it’s generally illegal to distribute hardware or software that can circumvent copy protection technology. The administration is proposing that if officials seize such devices, they would be permitted to inform rights holders, provide samples of such devices and assist them in bringing civil actions.

Opponents of the proposal say it gives the government too much power.

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