...funding, Surfbuzz.com is the latest example of a slew of companies creating point systems to reward consumers for online activities. Most are designed to encourage loyalty to particular sites, much as frequent-flier miles do offline. The key...

...cybercafes that provide free or cheap Internet access in skid row neighborhoods. Anonymous chat is the most popular online activity among homeless people who use the 12 Internet terminals at a center in Montreal operated by the newspaper L'Itineraire...

...armadillos and walking around thinking, why isn't this life more like EverQuest?'' Some researchers believe that online activities could be having a more profound effect than simply adding a new dream show to the rotation every once in a while...

...Phonographic Industries, a recording industry group. Piracy in some countries is developing as fast as legitimate online activity. Dozens of sites offer illegally copied music, software, computer games and novels. The most problems are reported...

...young gang members as televisions, cars and beepers were to an earlier generation. So far, most of the gangs' online activity is perfectly legal. It isn't against the law to belong to a gang, nor is it illegal to discuss one's gang affiliations...

...Barbara, a 43-year-old sales and marketing executive, said she has mixed feelings about her daughter's online activities. On the one hand, she believes it's safer for Nay to flirt on the Internet than to go out to the movies or the...

...of links to information. And the filter did nothing to stop the three copies of a pitch for secretly monitoring online activities of spouses and children. It also let through three messages featuring "Sex pic of the day." Enter McAfee.com's...

...address queries are running about three times the number of phone calls made daily in the United States. Not only is online activity up; so, too, are sales of new Internet addresses, according to a report released last week by VeriSign. Some...

...MySpace, a similar social networking site, but I only use that to keep tabs on my 15-year-old daughter's online activities. She loves MySpace because it is more music- and teen-oriented. She joined Facebook to keep tabs on me, to...

...requiring computer users to pay taxes on their America Online accounts. It also would bar new taxes aimed specifically at online activity, such as the amount of time a user spends on the Internet or how much material a user downloads. The five-year...