Of course, and the news would come from Amsterdam

The Toronto Star ran a Reuter's item from Amsterdam, the headline for which says it all: Porn expected to fuel growth of wireless Web, survey says. The piece notes that it was porn that largely drove the development of the Web in the first place. A snip:

AMSTERDAM -- Mobile phone users worldwide will spend the equivalent of $1.2 billion (Canadian) a year on pornography sent to their cellphones by 2008, which may boost the wireless services sector much as it fuelled growth in the fixed-line Internet, a market research firm said.

In the United States, consumers will be dishing out some $90 million (U.S.) for adult entertainment in four years' time, the Yankee group said in a survey released yesterday.

Gambling and porn: the embarassing grandparent scions of the Internet family.

Posted by Grayson at October 26, 2004 07:30 AM