In what could be a precedent-setting case, recording companies are alleging that the Project Playlist Web site is guilty of infringement by enabling its own members to give other users access to unlicensed music files hosted by other sites.

The concept of Firefox add-ons, however silly this may sound to the experienced user, is still (and probably always will be) blurry to the majority of users. Simply put, people mostly install Firefox and browse the web. Period. They don’t want to meddle

SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Today Yahoo! Inc. announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com.

The untimely death of Yahoo's would-be networking site is a lesson for the industry. It just isn't enough to invite people to build a friends list anymore.

Pete Fields, an executive at Wachovia Corp., knows techies tend to view banks as staid. But he hopes his employer's multimillion-dollar overhaul of its intranet will help change that. Fields and the refurbished intranet, called Pulse, have been creating