Kelly Ripa's new stint as co-host with Regis Philbin on "Live With Regis & Kelly" got off to an auspicious start as the strip became the only talk show to increase ratings year-to-year during the week ending Feb 18.

Cable television's Fox Family Channel, seeking to repair a ratings system that many say is broken, Thursday began broadcasting new, family-friendly ratings messages before its prime time shows.

NameZero.com Inc., which provides free domain-name registration to more than 1.5 million Internet users, has a few choice words for some 44,000 of them: “They're blatant cheaters, and we're going after them.”

Beauty (and branding) may be in the eye of the beholder, but Sean argues that ad efficacy is in the eye of the advertiser: Ads work, or don't, depending on how you've defined their purpose.