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Archive for the ‘In the News’ Category

July 7th, 2008

BarOptic - Virtual Bar Hopping

The idea was born from a long wait to get into a trendy nightclub only to eventually arrive to find the place near empty.
BarOptic.com streams live video feeds from nightclubs and bars. The feeds are accessible via the internet and cell phones. Potential patrons can access the feed in order to help them […]

By Gayla McCord -- 0 comments

June 30th, 2008

Sex, Lies and Online Dating

Experts say, more than 90 percent of people lie in their online dating profiles.
GASP - Can you even imagine?
Women in their twenties and thirties are known to deduct anywhere from five to twenty pounds from their weight, while men tend to lie most often about income, education level and, yes, relationship status. […]

By Gayla McCord -- 1 comment

June 30th, 2008

Even the most beautiful suffer depression and fail relationships

I was stunned to hear of The Russian Vogue cover girl who leapt to her death from her ninth-floor Manhattan apartment over the weekend.  Reports say she felt confused about the direction of her life and struggled with a stomach ailment in the days before her death, friends told the New York Post.  While other […]

By Gayla McCord -- 0 comments

June 29th, 2008

Dating for People with a Learning Disability

Dating is, after all, for everyone.
A DATING agency is being set up in the Island to assist people with a learning disability to find romance.
The agency, which will be called Kindred Spirits and will be open to anyone aged 18 upwards with a learning disability, has been made possible by a £20,000, three-year donation […]

By Sasha Manuel -- 0 comments

June 16th, 2008

Microsoft and Harrah’s unveil high-tech interactive bar table

Microsoft and Harrah’s Entertainment introduced a high-tech interactive bar table Wednesday that lets patrons order drinks, watch YouTube videos, play touch-screen games and even flirt with each other.
The tables offer Harrah’s a new way to track its customers’ habits and behaviors, adding to its sophisticated costumer rewards program that tracks users’ gambling habits.
Can […]

By Gayla McCord -- 0 comments

May 4th, 2008

Campus Romance on Break

Kevin Milne of The DePauw (Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper) offers advice to those couples maintaining relationships over the summer. Of course, this is pertaining to couples who are still in school and probably goes to the same school.
The article states 5 simple tips — from corresponding to respecting each other’s privacy —- on how […]

By Sasha Manuel -- 0 comments

April 5th, 2008

Losses Rise in Online Scams

Money lost in Internet-related crimes hit a new high last year, topping about $240 million, according to a government report showing increases in scams involving pets, check-cashing schemes and online dating.  The total lost jumped $40 million, according to the report released Thursday by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.  The report […]

By Gayla McCord -- 0 comments

April 3rd, 2008

Notorious Playboy Finds Love and Marries

Founder and CEO of OnlineBootyCall.com has married one of his own customers. In a private Vegas wedding, Moses (Mo) Brown married Heather Rivers (Username: WantNLovN), a 24-year-old fashion designer from New York. Online Booty Call is a unit of Mobeze, Inc.
On a traditional dating site like eHarmony, such an event would be championed as a […]

By Gayla McCord -- 0 comments

March 28th, 2008

Adult Friend Finder founder engaged to Church Lady

After selling Various Inc., the parent company of X-rated singles site Adult FriendFinder, to Penthouse for $500 million in December, Andrew Conru is getting his personal life in order and is reportedly settling down with a woman he met on another site he created and also sold, BigChurch.com.
Does that mean Penthouse now owns BigChurch?
Seems […]

By Gayla McCord -- 1 comment

March 28th, 2008

State panel OK’s Internet dating-service bill

The ”Internet predator awareness and online safety act” has been approved at the state Senate’s Commerce Committee despite the objections of companies such as Yahoo! and Match.com.
The bill would require any Internet dating service to disclose online and by e-mail whether or not it conducts a criminal background check. The site would have to […]

By Gayla McCord -- 0 comments

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