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'Porn Napping' Catches Napping Domain Registrants

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Expiring domain names are an easy target for porn and gambling sites. If you miss your Web registration renewal deadline, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise the next time you look at what you thought was your site. Great Snatch

Going Way Down in History

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


It's been a year for huge lawsuits (Enron) and huge losses (AOL). AOL Time Warner, the world's largest Internet and media company, posted first quarter net losses of $54.2 billion -- among the largest in corporate history. Better Ways To Make History

Those Bastards Want to be Paid

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Yahoo users are biting the hand that fed them for free for years. It seems the move from free to fee has been a toothy, two-week ride. The email giant's new "revenue diversification plan" (short for fee for service) isn't generating any yahs or oohs, but moving from free to fee falls into the same business category as a hostile takeover when it comes to warm fuzzies. Pay The Piper

Survival of the Prettiest?

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


The Wall Street Journal got its first makeover since 1942. And, Wired magazine will hit the stands with a new look this June. Such rebranding acts demonstrate both a conservative and radical publication pulling out all the stops to boost sagging subscriptions and tit-dragging ad sales. Pick It Up

Property Owners Bugged; Want to Stomp Spider-Man

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


When is your property not your own? When it's in a movie run by a competitor, apparently. Columbia Pictures has digitally re-worked ads on a New York building for the upcoming Spider-Man movie; the building owners have proven to be arachnophobes. Got A Bug Up Your A**?

Making an End Run with a Taxing Promotion

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


A AA baseball team in Altoona, Pa., figured out how to turn lemons into lemonade. At least they took their fans' minds off tax day with a good-natured promotion featuring those two fan favorites, Enron and Arthur Anderson. We have no idea who won the game. Battered Companies

New PRSA Look a Site for Sore Eyes

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


PRSA introduces a much-needed, long-overdue complete redesign of the Society's Web site. Excellent graphics, vastly improved navigation, extensive cross-referencing, a member locator, and a CornerBarPR.comSM ad. What more could you ask for? Out Of Site!

Penchant for Personal Publicity

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


President Bush may be a mass murderer, according to Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney. The Congresswoman's outrageous statements may have been directly intended for a finely targeted audience, or she may be in need of serious communications counsel, not to mention a moral transfusion. Killer Comments

Sparking Tours of Prison Museums

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


San Francisco has the most famous prison museum, Alcatraz, but New York might be second on the list. Sing Sing, one of the most notoriously violent prisons in U.S. history, might open up as a tourist attraction. Move Over, Mickey

Dangerous Mix: Women, Power Tools, Happy Hour

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Marketing to women: There's an obvious idea. Home Depot and Loew's are now offering women "happy hour" classes and Ladies' Nights. Single women make up the second-largest group of home buyers after couples, according to the National Association of Realtors. Get Buzzed

Witch Doctors Asked for Spirited Problem-Solving

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


It's not just PR sorcery that's helped by booze. Ivory Coast officials have given $200 and a bottle of alcohol to witch doctors, in an attempt to get them to lift a sports curse from the national soccer team. Lifting Evil Spirits

Something Borrowed, Now She's Blue

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Big-deal political historian Doris Kearns Goodwin committed one of academe's biggest no-nos when she "borrowed" the writings of other historians and was caught.  Her apology tour means she isn't history ... yet. Meet The Plagiarizer

Easy, Forward, Choosy: Web Savvy Web Sites

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Your business may require that you have the biggest and baddest of robust, cutting-edge customer service tools, but if you've got it, you definitely need to know how to use it. Biggest Tool

A Sow's Ear is Still a Sow's Ear

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Korean car manufacturer Hyundai Motors wants to change the image of its super-cheap car to that of a more middle class vehicle to compete with the likes of Toyota and Honda. It doesn't seem to matter to executives at Hyundai that only 3.7 percent of the new car buying public will even consider purchasing the poor quality car. This Little Piggy Went To Market

Battle of the Buck

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


It takes balls for women to make a manly salary. Penis Envy

Right to Bare More than Arms

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


A mayor who chose to bare her breasts may not be mayor much longer. Residents of a tiny mining town 45 miles west of Denver want to strip away a former stripper's elected office. Cover Up

Tees to Please

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


Pro women golfers received some flirtatiously direct marching orders at a recent LPGA summit meeting: Walk softly and carry an attitude projecting the big tease. Ty Votaw, LPGA commissioner wants his tour twinkies to play well, look good, and not forget who's paying the bills. Fore Play

Where Provocative Poses and Near Porn are Par

By CornerBarPR.com® Staff


T&A rules the day at Fox Sports. Where else can you check out nice clubs swung by better jugs than those sported by new reporters such as Lisa Dergan (Playboy's Miss July 1988). Then there's an eye-popping photo gallery featuring some provocative poses by reporter Lisa Guerrero of the new Fox site, FoxSports.com. Porn As A Sport