Apple Computer this week miscalculated the degree of suspicion that consumers now harbor towards anything remotely resembling spyware online.

In a scenario that seems more likely to have surfaced on "Ally McBeal" than Court TV, an Ohio man, George Gillespie, has filed suit against two AOL chat room participants as well as AOL itself.

Did you know that Internet downloads and MP3 players are creating a generation of people who don't seriously appreciate music and musical performances?

Yes, believe it or not, non-carbon life forms came up during an Advertising Club lunch in New York today. So did the phrases "social schizophrenia" and "supercharged brains."

Yahoo! on Friday launched Yahoo! Go, a new service that allows consumers to connect to all of their Yahoo! Internet-based services through multiple devices. Think about it: connecting anywhere, anytime. Internet-based services. Internet-based applications and software.

Amid a raft of announcements by media and tech companies at the international Consumer Electronics Show this week, it may be easy to forget that the Super Bowl is set for Feb. 5 in the Motor City.

It's no secret that Google plans to monetize video search by charging users to view content. Last month Google Video head Jennifer Feikin publicly said that Google intended to sell viewing rights at some point in the future. That point, apparently, is now.

The headline on the press release screamed: "Faith Popcorn's BrainReserve Issues 2006 Predictions: Consumers Creating Control." Gee, did we really need Faith to tell us that?

This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Yahoo! chief Terry Semel is expected to talk about the company's plans for video programming.