In case you missed it, the four biggest providers of e-mail - America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo! - this week sued junk e-mail senders via the federal Can-Spam law.

With the presidential election just five days away, voters are gearing up to cast their ballots - some, for the very first time. While there have been more than a few voter registration drives over the past year, there is one that stands out for its extensive use of the Web, as well as tons of offline promotion, including college campus events, to get young people, primarily 18 to 29-year-olds, registered and pumped up to vote.

In yesterday's "Minute," I stated that Google's market cap, for the moment at least, "exceeds that of Yahoo!" and that "shares of Google translate to $51 billion in market value, or about four times more than Yahoo! and, for that matter, Amazon."

Google, which last week cleared its first earnings session as a public company, wakes up today to find that for the moment at least, its market cap exceeds Yahoo!'s.

There are results out today of a study pertaining to online safety.

Yahoo! held its annual Creative Works Summit in New York yesterday, awarding its iconic purple Big Idea Chair to Audi of America and its agency McKinney + Silver.

Okay online people, listen up. Here's an entertaining morsel for some of The Minute's critics.

The business of advertising in videogames - console, PC, and especially online games - is heating up. Niche ad networks Massive and InGamePartners are racing to serve this fledgling market. So is it any wonder that rich media providers are bringing specialized ad formats into the picture?

First the television screen, then the computer screen, and now the cell phone screen? With worldwide revenue from mobile information and entertainment expected to grow to $39 billion in 2007 per the research firm Ovum, mobile phones look like the next big platform for advertisers to do their thing.

Oh my, it seems that several readers, or at least the ones who were outraged enough to write, were offended by The Minute's ruminations on events surrounding the upcoming presidential election.