WeatherBug has unveiled a new feature for online marketers called "Borderless Advertising," a format that is part of WeatherBug's newly launched 6.0.

The Federal Trade Commission declared yesterday that a "do not e-mail list" modeled after the immensely popular "do not call list" would not be effective, suggesting such a list might help spammers find legitimate e-mail addresses.

A domain name outage Tuesday morning that left many popular Web sites, including those of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Apple, temporarily inaccessible was the result of an Internet attack, according to Web infrastructure company Akamai.

The online personals business is getting to be about as much of a jungle as the dating market itself -- at least from the looks of a battle between Barry Diller's Match.com and an upstart competitor.

The kids are out of school, more people have high-speed Internet connections at home, and the Motion Picture Association of America is concerned many might try to kill time this summer by downloading unauthorized online copies of movies. Tuesday, the MPAA began an education campaign to urge kids to respect copyrights.

The soon-to-IPO search giant is hearing more advertisers gripe about its pricing and service. That could hurt down the road.

Sitcoms are running out of laughs, cop dramas are a dime a dozen and reality shows are all starting to look alike. Now U.S. television networks are turning to a higher power in their quest for loftier ratings.

Yahoo will substantially increase the amount of free storage it gives its e-mail customers, in an effort to respond to Google's incursion into e-mail services.

Apple Computer brought its market-leading iTunes online music store to Britain, France and Germany on Tuesday, where it joins a crowded field of competitors trying to popularise legal music downloads.

Search company Google Inc. has purchased a minority stake in Baidu.com Inc., a leading Chinese-language Internet search engine, in its latest move outside of the U.S.