Alcoholics have one, and so do drug abusers. Now people addicted to e-mail also have a 12-step program designed to tackle their obsession.

An executive coach in Pennsylvania has devised a plan to teach people how to manage the electronic tool, which some users say can be as much an intrusive waste of time as it [...]

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As teens spend more of their leisure time hanging out online, it stands to reason that when a loved one dies, they would turn to social networking sites to grieve,reports the Associated Press
“These are places where people in many ways lived their lives online,” said Amanda Lenhart, a senior researcher at the Pew Internet & [...]

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Mention the name YouTube around big media moguls and you’re sure to elicit a choice expletive or two. The Google-owned video-hosting site is growing exponentially and many media companies complain that their content is being illegally used to boost YouTube’s popularity. But now Viacom has announced a content licensing deal with Joost, the new online [...]

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Google Maps has made things a little spicier for users who are looking up information on cities like New York, London, and San Francisco: outlines to show the footprints of buildings, and subway stops. Public transportation map mashups have been around for a while—take subway stop site Hopstop, which uses Yahoo Maps, for example—but this [...]

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Normally I try to keep my blog reserved for internet-related topics (Social Networking, Google, Internet Marketing, etc), but this is a pretty major announcement that isn’t getting much attention. I spoke about this as a “what if” about a year ago at a seminar – people thought I was nuts. 

XM Satellite and Sirius [...]

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While people often use three, four and five forms of media simultaneously, it’s still possible to engage multi-taskers. In fact, they want you to. A new report released this week by Mediaedge:cia, the Group M agency, finds that 59 percent of those in a state of partial attention, or not fully engaged with one medium [...]

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A dear friend of mine is about to launch Coffee Bar in downtown Puyallup, Washington. If you’re in the area and looking for a cup of coffee, check them out. They’ll have a wide selection of coffee roasted in the area. He and I have had many discussions about this shop and I think he’s [...]

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After months of planning to kill off the Hotmail name, Microsoft has decided to keep the venerable brand, as it works to overhaul its free Web e-mail service.

Microsoft said on Thursday that the revamped service, still in beta testing phase, is being renamed “Windows Live Hotmail” rather than the originally planned “Windows Live Mail.” In [...]

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Viacom representatives have been quietly telling industry insiders this week that they plan to aggressively promote their revamped ComedyCentral.com Web site. Viacom executives here at the Media Summit Conference won’t say exactly what they intend to do, but it’s already apparent they plan to put some power behind the promotion.

The company recently began offering so-called [...]

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Google may be facing some news competition from a venerable technology source: Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.

Xerox PARC has agreed to license an array of patents and technology to a new start up, Powerset, which will focus on “natural language” search. Other companies have been working in the field as well, but Powerset is counting [...]

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