As the online ad industry workaholics are making plans to get away for a few days next week and catch the last of what's left of this summer (yours truly included,) we can all breathe a little easier knowing that unlike years past, this coming September actually holds something to look forward to.

Arial Software today released a new email study, and despite all this talk about spam destroying the email industry at its root, it looks like the future actually holds some encouraging growth figures.

Now that we've safely weathered the Blackout of 2003, it's time to get back to summer fun (although if you were in downtown Manhattan last Thursday, fun was all there was to be had, but that's a story for a different publication.)

Earlier this week, as just about every news outlet in the world reported, AOL chief Jon Miller suggested in an internal email that AOLTW drop AOL from the company name, and it looks like the board will vote to do exactly that when it meets next month.

All you demographics watchers out there, add a new term to your vocabulary: "hiving." Sounds odd, doesn't it? Read on. Yankelovich, a marketing consultancy that tracks consumer attitudes, has identified a new trend in American living.

I hate to harp on the spam issue again, but while I only instinctively knew that the proposed spam legislation wouldn't work few months back, today I'm living proof that it's not going to.

Seventeen percent of permission-based email messages get incorrectly blocked or filtered by the top 12 Internet Service Providers.

According to a recent report from the Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG), high speed internet growth may be slowing down.

AOL just can't seem to stop losing members, eh, adjusting its subscriber counts, that is. This week, the company said that it is no longer counting as subscribers 21%, or 170,000 nonpaying customers in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina.

Motif or no Motif, Eyeblaster is sticking to its familiar schedule of releasing a new version of its rich media platform once every quarter. Today brought the launch of the ninth version - Eyeblaster 5.3 - which boasts a number of significant enhancements.