- Women actually spent more on technology last year than men, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. It says women accounted for $55 billion of the $96 billion spent on electronics gear.
- Political candidates looking to attract Net-savvy young voters should avoid burying them in a blizzard of e-mail and instead concentrate on chatrooms and "Web logs," according to a survey released on Thursday.
- The typical Internet user -- far from being a geek -- shuns television and actively socializes with friends, a study on surfing habits said Wednesday.
- Search giant Google on Monday added five new ways to find information on the Web, providing paid listings customers with huge potential new opportunities for marketing themselves.
- Maddening airport check-in delays triggered by security concerns could soon hit online travel reservations as analysts predict a crackdown on Internet air bookings.
- E-mail is getting out of control, despite antispam legislation that went into effect January 1 and the growing use of antispam software. Yet e-mail is not something that we can afford to sacrifice. We've come to rely on it for too much. A startup called Return Path is trying to help both consumers and marketers avoid in-box frustration.
- Consumer electronics maker Sony Corp. said on Wednesday it would launch an online music service in the United States this year, offering some 500,000 songs for downloading at about $1 per tune.
- Internet media company RealNetworks Inc. unveiled on Wednesday a new version of its software for playing music and video over the Web with a new feature -- a digital music store.
- A Washington nonprofit group was scheduled on Tuesday to argue against a Pennsylvania child-pornography law that has unintentionally cordoned off wide swaths of the Internet for users in and out of the state.
- As wonderful as Internet search engines are, they have a pretty big flaw. They often deliver too much information, and a lot of it isn't quite what we're looking for. Who really bothers to read the dozens of pages of results that Google generates?
