Fresh from his victory over Merrill Lynch, state attorney general Elliot Spitzer sues MonsterHut.com for sending millions of 'spam' e-mail adverts.

Article detailing MySpace's $234m damages win from spammers under the US CAN Spam law, but explaining how they have little chance of getting much, if any, of the cash.

Article covering the appeals lodged by four developing nations against the ratification of OOXML as an ISO standard.

Microsoft offers to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn in cash and shares.

Software giant Microsoft drops its bid to buy internet firm Yahoo after the two sides fail to agree a price.

Supporters of open source software are claiming victory after a US court ruled copyright protection applies to their work.

Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen by malicious hackers, BBC's Click discovers.

Microsoft is taking action to cut down on the amount of spam reaching anyone with a Hotmail e-mail address.

"Seek and ye will find ... two entrepreneurial students with a $100k cheque in their pockets did just that, and founded the internet search engine Google. Peter Day, of BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, checks out a dot.com business that's far from...

"Popular search site Google is being exploited by some net users to mount protests and play jokes on their friends."