Looking for a great place to eat in an unfamiliar neighborhood? Your cell phone could know just the spot, thanks to a new trend in Web search. Using a mobile device and SMS, or Smart Message Service, wireless customers can now get directions to nearby restaurants and other information from the curb. Analysts say that's a potent combination, not only for consumers, but for the fast-growing Web search business.

As spammers devise new ways to fill your in-box with porn, pills, and prime mortgages, antispam companies scramble to keep up. Here we evaluate three current weapons in the fight to keep spam from overwhelming your work day: InBoxer 2.0, OnlyMyEmail Personal, and SpamCatcher 4.

With infinite capacity and far-flung communication links, the Internet has opened a universe of options to music enthusiasts.

With a full-time job and two kids, Michael Shanafelt doesn't have much time to watch movies. Seeing his Netflix or Blockbuster rentals collect dust on top of his TV -- and paying a monthly fee for them -- makes him cringe.Then Shanafelt discovered Peerflix, a DVD trading service that could do for movies what Napster did for digital music -- only legally. No monthly fees. Just 99 cents a transaction. And Shanafelt can keep them as long as he wants.

E-commerce player eBay has taken the Craigslist concept -- free classifieds and community -- and launched Web sites in 50 cities around the world that embody that idea under a new project called Kijiji.

The Voice Over the Net conference in Silicon Valley this week puts the spotlight on the fast-growing trend of Internet phone calling. On Tuesday, Google, AOL and the outgoing FCC chairman took their turns on stage.

US consumers with broadband used the internet rather than newspapers during the last presidential elections as their primary news source, a survey has revealed.

No, it's not April Fool's Day. Google has indeed cloaked pages on its own search engine and now banned those pages from its index.

A new mobile phone software virus started spreading this week via messages containing photos and sounds, the first of its kind and a threat to cellphones globally, data security firms said Tuesday.

Bloggers of America, chill. Reports of a Federal Election Commission plot to "crack down" on blogging and e-mail are wildly exaggerated. First of all, we're not the speech police. We don't tell private citizens what they can or cannot say, on the Internet or anywhere else. The FEC regulates campaign finance. There's got to be some money involved, or it's out of our jurisdiction.