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According to Comscore, Yahoo was the most visited site in the US for March. Alexa lists Yahoo as trailing behind Google and Facebook in the US.

Given that Comscore has also had issues with spyware in the past, I'm not sure I'd trust them. If you can find another source for that iOS vs Android data though, please share it. It would be earthshaking, if it were true.

For those of you who'd like to see how the Industry's media reported on this mess, checkout this link. http://www.xbiz.com/news/88230 XBiz whitewashed the story bigtime. And that flat out lied about billing information not being at risk. The hackers had administrative passwords. They had the equivalent of root. It was all there for the taking. No one knows if they were taken because TMM has not been forthcoming or helpful with that end of things. Of course, they say the billing DBs were safe at all times, but they don't exactly have a track record of honesty or trust in other matters. John Albright at TMM once owned a site that installed trojans on people's computers. He claims to have sold the company and it was the new owners. Who knows what the deal is.

Yes, the FBI can partyvan you for text files. It's happened before. If I recall correctly, that was part of a sting that also caught Max Hardcore. Max Hardcore, of course, has a bajillion bucks to spend on legal defense, and is now doing just fine.

I would like to send you some links to publications about my criminal case. I was forced to confess to the possession of internet digital pictures of porn in deleted clusters of my computer hard drive. My browser was hijacked while I was browsing the web. I was redirected to illegal sites against my will. Some illegal pictures were found on my hard drive, recovering in unallocated clusters, without dates of file creation/download. I do not know how courts can widely press these charges on people to convict them, while the whole Internet is a mess. This is my story in inquisition21.com. There is all information about case written by Irish writer Brian Rothery. You can see a lot of violations of law by police http://www.inquisition21.com/article~view~7~page_n um~3.html This is publication in Wired news http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,633 91,00.html This is publication in Theregester http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/browser_hi jacking_risks/ Article in Globe and Mail newspaper http://ctv.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20040617.gttwhijac17/tech/Technology/techBN/ctv-t echnology Article in ZDnet http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5344831.html This is article in Washington Times, May 22, 2004 There is information about my case. http://www.cato.org/cgi-bin/scripts/printtech.cgi/ dailys/05-30-04.html Article in Crime research center: http://www.crime-research.org/news/07.22.2004/506/ Article in Dallas, TX Newspaper http://www.crime-research.org/news/24.12.2004/862/ Child porn law was declared unconstitutional in Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA' http://xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=11750 "I came here to the US as political refugee from the former Soviet Union, and, now like many other people in the US, I feel shame that all of this can happen in the US - supposed to be the greatest democracy in the world."

Internet Billing Company, LLC (iBill) announced that the relocation of their corporate headquarters to more cost-efficient facilities has been completed.

http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=12735

The 120+ million PS3s that are going to be sold over the next five years + near 100% movie content + porn support means that any talk of a 'format war' ARE OVER.

Thank you for playing HD-DVD and Microsoft - but YOU LOSE. Stop wasting your time with an expensive add-on to a failed console to play content for a losing format.

BluRay + Java - it's always nice when the superior technology wins.

That $300 million will go to finance the Bush administration's War on Pornography, which is now one of the top priorities in the Justice Department. I'm sure that money will be used to hire staff and lawyers to draw up vague "obscenity" charges against anyone distributing any form of pornography in the U.S.

As a fiscal conservative, I'm ashamed to say that I voted for Bush and did not see this coming. Laugh if you will, but I honestly thought politicians had given up policing the bedroom. Apparently not. (And don't give me any partisan crap, many Democrats would love to kill off porn as well...)

This xbiz article (ads on that page are NSFW) has more information about the lawsuit:

In a letter to Google in June, Perfect 10 attorneys wrote that Internet users can find certain infringed-upon images by "doing advanced Google searches using the model name on the second line and 'nude' on the first line. So, for example, the first URL below was found by doing an advanced Google search using 'nude' and 'Monika Zsibrit.'"

The suit alleges Google committed 12 counts of intellectual property violations against Perfect 10 magazine and the website, including trademark dilution, wrongful use of a registered trademark and unfair competition.

I wonder why Perfect 10 didn't just use the DMCA to make Google remove/hide the links to the infringing pages. Google has complied with such DMCA requests in the past and has even published a DMCA Policy. It is interesting that the suit mentions trademark dilution, wrongful use of a registered trademark, and unfair competition rather than (or maybe in addition to) copyright/DMCA violation.

This positive press is well-timed, since Britain is currently orchestrating a witch hunt against extreme adult web sites since some guy murdered his girlfriend:

"Coutts reportedly began searching the web for the same violent content that had driven him to murder in the first place."

"A complaint waged by the victim's mother was reportedly the catalyst behind the British government's clampdown on violent porn."

Awwww, mom!