Amazon.com has officially taken the wraps off its Internet search engine, joining the contest to unseat No. 1 provider Google.

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. unveiled XM Radio Online, an Internet music service to debut in early October.

How do you know when the best part is over? Restoration Hardware opens in the neighborhood. Bj"rk gets profiled in The New Yorker. Zhang Yimou starts putting Zhang Ziyi in all his movies. And Vanity Fair essayist James Wolcott arrives on the Web, via jameswolcott.com: " ... I was having brunch with Elvis Mitchell, formerly screening-room maverick at the Times .... "

The current controversy over the validity of documents pushed in large part by bloggers and purporting to prove that President Bush received special treatment in the National Guard shows that partisan Internet pundits are having a growing impact on mainstream press, for better or worse, according to several newspaper editors.

The American "outback" is still about 92,000 miles away from broadband internet service, but September's launch of the first true consumer/SOHO satellite service to achieve DSL-level speeds has made the trek a little faster.

America Online has begun quietly testing a swanky redesign of its home page, taking another stab at becoming a Web portal again, CNET News.com has learned.

iMedia Brand Summit opens with what works, what is broken and what needs to happen to bring it all together.

E-mail service providers boast of improved e-mail delivery rates for marketers, though some say the metric is too often fudged to make campaigns appear more successful.

Times must be getting tough for computer virus writers. Technicians at British anti-virus firm Sophos Plc said on Friday they had discovered a plea for work inserted deep in the lines of code for two new computer worm outbreaks, "MyDoom-U" and "MyDoom-V."

The John Caples International Awards is in the midst of a direct and interactive marketing effort to win the attention of junior-level creative executives at U.S. and international direct marketing agencies.