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MONTCLAIR, CA -- “Converting” a building to a new use is a common enough occurrence, but when the building in question is being “converted” from a porn shop into a Pentecostal church, the word and process take on entirely new meanings. (More)

GERMANY -- Comcast Corp. isn’t the only U.S. internet service provider throttling the bandwidth of high-volume users, according to the results of a German study obtained by The Associated Press this week. (More)

TORONTO, CANADA -- The ubiquitous “they” say that good things come in threes. That’s certainly the case for visitors to AdultRental.com, because the site has just added three new content lines sure the please the erotic palate of porn hungry fans. (More)

KUWAIT -- A Kuwaiti official has confirmed the country’s Ministry of Communications is blocking access to adult sites on the Net. (More)

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- No matter how self-actualized or empowered a woman is, there come times in her life when she realizes that as good as she is, she could still be a bit better. Such is the case for websites, as well – and HotMoviesForHer.com is no exception. (More)

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Minor roles, sensational coverage, and Jenna Jameson’s zombie stripper aside, adult performers have not had the best luck moving through the semipermiable membrane separating mainstream film from its more honestly sexual industry counterpart. Meanwhile, the mainstream has cast its starlets and stars as strippers, porn stars, and other representatives of the industry that dare not apply for SAG status – and now, popular Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher is thinking he might like to become an actual porn stud. (More)

CYBERSPACE -- Despite steady growth in the number of homes with internet access worldwide, one in five U.S. households remains unconnected and one-fifth of U.S. heads-of-household never have used email, according to two new reports from Nielsen Online and Parks Associates. (More)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Shakespeare famously wrote “All the world’s a stage.” On Tuesday, Google did what it could to update the thought for the 21st Century: “All the Web’s a social network.” (More)

RUSSIA -- Merrill Lynch may get bullish on America, but the Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service has plans to become exceptionally bearish about domestic Wi-Fi. (More)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- You don’t have to be Tony Stark or Ozzy Osborne to be an XXXIronMan – but you do have to be a web professional who takes his or her drinking seriously. Those who think they have the stomach for success will have an opportunity to compete on both June 11th and 12th during the San Francisco Cybernet Expo. (More)

SAN JOSE, CA -- A new eBay rule set to take effect first in Australia has drawn criticism from users of the online auction site and antitrust scrutiny from the Australian government. (More)

PHILADELPHIA, PA – As part of an effort to convince the Federal Communications Commission and the public it’s not a monster that arbitrarily cuts off users who consume “too much” bandwidth, Comcast is considering offering tiered internet-access pricing based on bandwidth usage. (More)

PALM BEACH, FL -- Adult online merchants searching for an alternative to their current or non-existent payment processing solution will be relieved to know that a their prayers have literally been answered. Alternative Merchant Processing has entered the industry market with its “AMP Adult” service. (More)

Houston has suffered hurricanes and, like other parts of America, has had to endure some hypocrite politicians who too often initiate intrusive legislation to curtail citizen freedoms and their right to free speech and access to Adult Entertainment. Admittedly, not every citizen frequents gentlemen’s clubs or other adult entertainment venues, but many of them secretly fantasize about it. Since some of these folks vote, I’m hopeful that those All-American voters will join those who enjoy adult entertainment and vote out the politicians who seem to rape the citizenry with their subjective religious affronts to the Constitution. (More)

ENGLAND -- When the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill received Royal Assent on Thursday, two things happened: Possession of sexually violent images became a crime in the U.K., and Liz Longhurst ended her three-year campaign to make violent internet porn unavailable in England. (More)

ATLANTA, GA, and MILAN, ITALY -- TranslationsXXX has opened a new division to deal with what the company sees as an increasing need for multiple-language support in the mobile-wireless content space. (More)

WESTPORT, CT – Residents of Westport, CT, on Wednesday got an object lesson in civic responsibility when an adult entertainment district was approved by a margin of two votes during a town meeting. (More)

CYBERSPACE -- Everyone receives them at least occasionally: those pesky email messages that land in the inbox with a subject line saying you’ve sent spam when you unquestionably haven’t. (More)

BURBANK, CA -- In love and business, success often rests on the ability to identify and make use an advantage. The view from top gay adult VOD provider and Cybernet Expo Corporate Sponsor, NakedSword.com, indicates that it’s a company that has achieved a number of advantages – and the fact that this year’s June 10th – 12th Expo is being held in its home base of San Francisco is one of them. (More)

ENGLAND -- Hell may hath no fury like a woman scorned, but thanks to a jealous ex-boyfriend, Claire Bainbridge recently discovered that male fury can be hellish, as well. At the very least, it can be legally actionable. (More)

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Adult retailers in Indiana have a new teammate in their battle to have a new state law declared unconstitutional: the Indianapolis Museum of Art. (More)

ALBERTA, CANADA -- A Canadian university professor has completed a brief academic study about language translation and sexuality. Entitled “Translating Sexuality: the Translation Industry and Adult Websites,” the study focused on the employees and activities at adult-industry translation service TranslationsXXX. (More)

CANADA -- Where would the adult entertainment industry be without puns? That’s not a question that needs an answer any time soon, and with a $5,000 FLASHCA$H poker tournament “pot,” helping keep puns alive, as well as profitable, there’s no real motivation for change. (More)

CANADA -- More than 10,000 webmasters already know that being a member of BrainCash.com is a no-brainer – and during the month of May, they’ll have four special reminders as part of this month’s “No Brainer Wednesdays.” (More)

PHOENIX, AZ -- They say that an angel gets its wings every time a bell is rung, but the latest angel in the Lightspeed pantheon of heavenly bodies is Colorado’s 19-year-old Angel Woods – and since she doesn’t like flying, she removes her clothing when people join her website, instead. (More)

MADRID -- Subscribers to Catholic World News online are livid – and at no shortage for condemning words of their own – concerning the behavior of 27-year-old Magdalena Rouco Hernández. While the thought of a woman going topless to protest the Catholic Church’s notoriously non-progressive social agenda would infuriate many of them regardless, the fact that Hernández is the daughter of the ultra conservative head of Spain’s Church only offends and enrages them more. (More)

CORAL GABLES, FL -- Despite receiving numerous smackdowns from authorities and the courts over his provocative approach to keeping porn and violent video games away from children, activist-attorney Jack Thompson continues to stir controversy. (More)

ENGLAND -- Up to 12-percent of global DSL broadband subscribers will switch to fixed WiMAX internet connections within five years, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by Juniper Research. (More)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The laundry list of perks for attending the 2008 Cybernet Expo at San Francisco’s Golden Gateway Hotel just got longer and more personal – thanks to the erotic fetish innovators at Kink.com. (More)

MEMPHIS, TN and LANSING, MI -- It’s tough to run an adult business in some cities these days. (More)

SEOUL -- The Web’s second decade will be vastly different from its first, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during a Tuesday meeting. (More)

GERMANY -- A rose by any other name not only smells as sweet in Germany – but will be merely one of approximately 100 scents available to cell phone users who want a more evocative way to stay in touch. (More)

TALLAHASSEE, FL --The otherwise innocent women, children, and delicate of sensibility living in Florida must once again face the possibility of catching sight of fake testicles, thanks to a last minute highway safety bill change slated for review by Republican Governor Charlie Crist. (More)

REDMOND, WA -- Claiming the asking price Yahoo! demanded is too high and any hostile takeover battle would devalue the acquisition, Microsoft over the weekend abandoned its bid to buy the search engine. (More)

ALBAQUERQUE, NM -- Here’s another for the porno-romantic “Where Did We Go Wrong: Let Me Count the Ways” file. (More)

HANOVER, NH -- The computer language known as Basic — short for Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — turned 44 years old May 1st. (More)

BURBANK, CA -- All work and no play doesn’t just make Jack a dull boy – it doesn’t resemble an adult industry conference or trade show! Since the business of learning how to run a successful adult company means long hours of working and playing hard, and the end of the day it’s important to have an idea what lies behind the door of success. Thanks to FTVCash, Cybernet Expos will have the key to that door – assuming that the words “success” and “hotel room” are synonymous. (More)

SEATTLE, WA -- A federal judge has denied the government’s request for a permanent injunction that would have imposed recordkeeping and affiliate oversight requirements on Impulse Media Group Inc. despite a jury verdict declaring the adult-entertainment company did not violate the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act. (More)

KINOKAWA CITY , JAPAN -- A Japanese civil servant was suspended from his job for three months and demoted after officials discovered he spent nearly as much time surfing pornographic websites as working, his supervisor said. (More)

Let's cut to the chase, shall we? You are not where you want to be financially. You see other businesses pass you by and make money while you fight to make ends meet and appear strong and steady to your peers. (More)