A row over intellectual property claims from Microsoft Corp. has dealt a fatal blow to an ambitious effort by Internet engineers to create a technical standard for curbing junk e-mail.

Television junkies of the world, get ready for Friends, Big Brother and The Simpsons to phone home. A new breed of TV -- featuring on-demand programs and choose-your-own music video channels -- is delivered over phones lines that are equipped with a high-speed internet connection.

Well, at CNET we've just completed a major remodeling, which you can see by joining me on an interactive tour. You may wonder why we did what we did.

The compact disc has at least another five years as the most popular music format before online downloads chip away at its dominance, a new study said on Tuesday.

An ambitious plan to turn millions of desktop computers into hubs of wireless Internet access has been shelved after PC manufacturers balked at the price of the feature, Intel Corp. said Monday.

As many as 18 million Hotmail subscribers will be weaned from a free service that lets them export email to another mail client, under Microsoft MSN's new spam-fighting plan.

FindWhat.com, Inc. announced a new local search solution for its distribution partner network. The new solution offers Web site publishers the ability to use a two-box search for their users; one box is for relevant keywords while the other search field is to indicate a geographic territory.

Online direct messaging company Dotomi secured a $10.5 million round of venture financing to expand its personalized Internet marketing platform.

A new report has revealed that nine out of ten financial and commercial websites may have loop holes in their systems, that make their clients vulnerable to being cheated of their money.

Google's recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from websites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."