A new genre of Web sites that offer an eclectic mix of free music downloads may not be strictly legit, but the sites' creators say they're doing the beleaguered record industry a favor.

Prosecutors have asked a judge to freeze a free speech lawsuit brought by a suburban Philadelphia Internet firm while a grand jury investigates whether the company distributed child pornography.

Yahoo Inc.'s second-quarter results disappointed investors and demonstrated that, after a period of rapid growth, search-related advertising on the Internet is subject to seasonal ups and downs like the rest of the ad industry.

Communist Vietnam, widening a crackdown on dissent, sentenced a literature professor on Friday to 19 months in prison for using the Internet to criticize its policies.

Two eBay Inc. users who say they've been repeatedly overcharged by a faulty computer billing system have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company.

Half of Americans object to the online availability of graphic war images, though millions have actively sought them out, a new study finds.

Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that online Web shopping site Amazon.com Inc. will begin taking orders for Portable Media Centers, a new line of portable devices for listening to music and viewing video content.

A crack software development team backed by the former chief of Compaq Computer and China's official English language Web site plans to unveil on Thursday a Web search system covering 30 million businesses worldwide.

Online travel research firm PhoCusWright on Wednesday forecast that more than one-third of U.S. travel would be booked on the Web by 2006, up from 20 percent in 2003.

An unspectacular quarter and disappointing guidance from Yahoo! took a heavy toll on both Internet search-engine stocks and the larger universe of speculative technology names after the bell Wednesday.