It was good to read of junk e-mailers in handcuffs last week. But the federal government's just getting started in its campaign to clean up the Internet. The Federal Trade Commission has already chosen its next target: adware. Or spyware.

These days, life at Time Warner (note the name change) is getting back to normal. The media giant surprised Wall Street last week, when it reported earnings that far surpassed expectations. Its debt no longer flirts near junk bond levels, and most of its businesses are growing at a healthy rate. And then there's America Online. Despite showing solid gains last quarter, the division still struggles from losses in its premium dial-up service and is still losing online advertising dollars.

If we've learned one thing from the boom and bust years, it's that an IPO event doesn't make a company. But based on the media attention the Google IPO is receiving and the valuations of $35 billion being bandied about, one would think the five-year-old start-up was all grown up, or that a future of hyper growth was set in stone.

Later this month the BBC will launch a pilot project that will be the first step in a process that could lead to all television programmes being made available on the internet.

Web searchers find non-paid listings to be more relevant than paid listings on commercial searches, according to a new study.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered that a suit between software maker Gator.com and cataloger L.L. Bean be reheard in en banc court, a decision that requires greater scrutiny of the case. The lawsuit centers on a dispute that the advertising software of Gator, now known as Claria, infringes the trademarks of L.L. Bean when pop-up ads of the retailer's rivals appear over its Web site.

Google's initial stock offering isn't the only piece of the search engine company that's up for bid.

As far as John Doerr is concerned, the Internet frenzy of the late 1990's was not a bubble. No, to Mr. Doerr, a prominent venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, it was the "Great American Boom." In 1999, Mr. Doerr, on behalf of his firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, invested $12.5 million for a stake in Google that will probably be worth at least $3 billion - perhaps more - after Google sells stock to public investors this year. That is a gain of 240 times the original investment in five years and provides plenty of spare profit to offset …

News aggregators may be the best new tools to appear on the Web since the browser, but as the programs and the underlying RSS standard grow more popular, some question whether the Internet will be able to handle the traffic.

Later this month, the BBC will launch a pilot project that could lead to all television programmes being made available on the internet. Viewers will be able to scan an online guide and download any show. Programmes would be viewed on a computer screen or could be burned to a DVD and watched on a television set. Alternatively, programmes could be downloaded to a Personal Digital Assistant.