First it was GoTo.com, then Overture. Now, it will be Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions. A little less than two years after Yahoo! acquired paid search player Overture, the portal is bestowing it with a new Yahoo! brand identity. Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang is expected to announce the abandonment of the Overture brand in his keynote address at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York Tuesday.

For internet users seeking to avoid exposure to spyware and intrusive ads, the prevailing wisdom among net security experts has long been that a good first step is to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to an alternate browser. But now that millions have taken the advice and changed to browsers like Mozilla Firefox, more spyware and adware writers are also making the switch.

Sony has built the ability to order pizza into its latest online multiplayer game. Type the command "/pizza" while playing Everquest II, a fantasy game with 330,000 active players, and get the Pizza Hut Web site, where you can place orders for delivery.

Almost half of all mobile phone text messages received in the US are now spam, compared to just 18 per cent a year ago, research has claimed.

Air travelers generally are finding it easier to check e-mail wirelessly, but big airports are adding Wi-Fi hot spots at a slower pace than are other public places.