You probably don't think much about your e-mail, except maybe when it doesn't work. But Raymie Stata thinks about it a lot. He has developed a product called Bloomba that some are calling the Google of e-mail. It's e-mail software like Microsoft's Outlook. But it features a powerful search function that indexes all your messages and lets you search through them in seconds.

Internet search company Google Inc. is considering changes to its Gmail e-mail service amid criticism over privacy concerns, the company's president said, the Wall Street Journal said in its online edition.

For close to half a decade, entertainment executives and copyright-averse college students have debated the future of technology side by side on the "Pho" e-mail list. Now that forum is under siege.

Camgirls, make way for the camchicken. For years, pornographers have used the Web to stage interactive peepshows that let visitors type requests to models in front of the camera. More recently, amateur "camgirls" have used cheap webcams and broadband connections to broadcast performances from their own bedrooms. Now comes subservientchicken.com, a website that mimics the look of an Internet sexcam show to promote a new chicken sandwich from Burger King.

When a New Hampshire judge threw out chat-log evidence against an accused pedophile, he illustrated just how jumbled and confused Internet privacy law can be.

In settling with InterTrust Technologies Corp., Microsoft Corp. could be gaining a big advantage in the growing market for distributing music and videos online - to the detriment of competitors who now risk getting caught in InterTrust patent squabbles of their own.

On April 12, 1994, a pair of attorneys in Arizona launched a homemade marketing software program that forever changed the Internet.

A California state senator said Monday she was drafting legislation to block Google's free e-mail service "Gmail" because it would place advertising in personal messages after searching them for key words.

The number of print catalogs replicated online rose more than 60 percent from 2002 to 2003, according to Oxbridge Communications Inc.'s 2004 edition of the National Directory of Catalogs.

Google Inc., the leading Internet search engine, said Monday that it had no plans to alter its search results despite complaints that the first listing on a search for the word "Jew" directs people to an anti-Semitic Web site.