One of the oldest debates on the Internet -- whether subscription or advertising business models best support media sites -- is getting fresh attention these days.

After years of bitter battles between copyright holders and file-swapping services, the outlines of a partial truce are emerging that may soon see major record labels partner with peer-to-peer networks to create legal online music stores.

Until two weeks ago, Ellen Simonetti worked as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, doing her best to project the image of a stewardess from a bygone era. But it is Simonetti's very 21st-century activities that she says prompted Delta management to ground her, suspending her from flying in September and then firing her a month later.

Google has come to cellphones -- the cheap ones, not just the fancy color-screen models with Web access. Over the last month, the popular search engine company has quietly turned on a new service that lets people use most newer cellphone models to get snippets of information by sending short text messages to a special five-digit number, 46645, which spells GOOGL on a phone keypad.

Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has agreed to buy MarketWatch, the parent company of the financial news Web site CBS MarketWatch, for approximately $519 million, the companies said today. The deal, reached on Sunday, is intended to give Dow Jones a way to reach a broad audience of consumers interested in financial news and a new source of revenue from online advertising.

Yahoo on Monday said it has begun attaching antispam technology to all of its outgoing e-mails, hoping that other providers will follow suit.

The woman who writes Wonkette needed no introduction and offered no apologies Saturday, telling her peers in online journalism that Web logs like hers have spurred a quicker response to breaking news by major media outlets. Ana Marie Cox and others who maintain "blogs" were criticized after the Nov. 2 presidential election for posting exit polls throughout the day, a practice frowned upon in the mainstream media because the data could sway the outcome.

Its use as a marketing tool in the Nov. 11 episode of NBC's "The Apprentice" reality TV show is paying off for TheKnot.com. The weddings site not only gained 3,600 new registrations from brides-to-be right after the show's broadcast, it also generated interest from vendors in the $30 billion-a-year weddings industry.

At the height of the dot-com boom, DoubleClick made itself the object of scorn among privacy advocates by trying to track Internet users individually and show them ads related to their surfing habits. Now advertisers are circling back to the idea, but in a way that, they argue, will spare them the privacy-related outcry.

Aiming to put itself in the vanguard of the Internet travel business, America Online will invest an undisclosed amount in an upstart that threatens to lure customers away from the industry's most dominant players, such as Orbitz, Expedia and Travelocity.