So here's a shocker: Yahoo, Microsoft's Hotmail, and AOL are the predominant delivery channels for opt-in commercial e-mail, according to a survey by Lyris Technologies.

This morning the Recording Industry Association of America boasted that federal authorities had secured indictments against two men for what it termed "pre-release piracy."

There's a new online music service on the scene from a startup called La la Media Inc. The idea is to offer music fans full-length CDs for $1 by letting them trade discs, something that will help avoid the legal issues surrounding trading online tracks.

With the increased competition for consumers' eyeballs, it's no secret that TV networks today have a harder time than, say, 20 years ago in generating interest in new programs.

The price of broadband Internet service is going down, thanks to price wars between telco and cable TV providers.

The Associated Press has a new video service powered by Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Video. The AP's Online Video Network allows member Web sites of the world's oldest news-gathering service to offer free video clips and share ad revenue generated from the service

It's no secret that Madison Avenue's been fretting about the changing media landscape, with search giant Google bearing the brunt of the anxiety.

The digital divide is beginning to narrow--the divide between rural and urban dwellers in terms of high-speed Internet use, that is.

A bit of new jargon, "vertical creep," is beginning to, well, creep into the lexicon of online marketers.

So 16-year-old Alex Ostrovsky got lucky the other day. Nope, not that way, but maybe he thinks this is even better: the Michigan kid's download of Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" from Apple's iTunes Music Store represented the Store's one billionth download.