WhenU's suit against the state of Utah over the state's new anti-spyware statute has forced a delay in the law's taking effect.

TheStreet.com reported a 40% increase in net revenue as subscription sales surged in the first quarter. But the company, which reported its first-ever profit in last year's fourth-quarter, posted a narrow loss in the latest quarter as it invested in long-term business opportunities.

With little fanfare, Amazon.com subsidiary A9 launched its long-rumored Google powered search engine last week. But A9 goes beyond Google, offering a number of unique options, including some very cool personalization features.

The number of complaints concerning online advertisements has rocketed over the last 12 months as more and more companies use the Net, email and SMS to flog their products and services. What's more, the UK's advertising watchdog sees no sign of a change to this trend as new technologies come online, according to the Advertising Standards Authority's (ASA) annual report.

At first, the game looks like so many other first-person shooters: cross hairs aiming missiles at a raft of enemy targets. But September 12th isn't like other games. Because when a missile shot at Arab terrorists kills an innocent bystander in the game's fictional Afghani village -- and it's nearly impossible not to -- other villagers run over, cry at their loss and then, in a rage, morph into terrorists themselves.

A marketing firm that offers people cash in exchange for letting their computers be commandeered to distribute bulk e-mails has come under fire from antispam activists, who say the program is just a cover for a high-tech spamming operation.

Researchers uncovered a serious flaw in the underlying technology for nearly all Internet traffic, a discovery that led to an urgent and secretive international effort to prevent global disruptions of Web surfing, e-mails and instant messages.

America Online Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is seen likely to detail a plan to resucitate the ailing firm Thursday. The CEO will meet that day with parent Time Warner, where sources say he's expected to tell board members that the Internet provider needs cost cuts of $400 million to $500 million this year, to help preserve the bottom line.

Search engine Ask Jeeves hit a homer in the first quarter of 2004, with net income of $13.4 million, or 23 cents a share. Revenue was $39.2 million, a 73 percent jump over revenue for the same quarter last year.

A new IBM service is geared to help small and medium-size businesses reduce the productivity-draining effects of spam and viruses.