Booming Broadband (Web promotion) Adds Another 24 Million Subscribers (TechWeb)TechWeb - At

Booming Broadband (Web promotion) Adds Another 24 Million Subscribers (TechWeb)TechWeb - At

Booming Broadband Adds Another 24 Million Subscribers (TechWeb)
TechWeb - At least 200 million people around the world will be subscribing to broadband by the end of this year, according to just published figures and estimates from the DSL Forum, with the market research conducted by Point Topic.

Opera Makes Its Browser Free, With No Ads (AP)
AP - Opera Software ASA is now giving away its Web browser and removing ads in an effort to broaden its user base and capture revenues by referring traffic to search engines and e-commerce sites.

Writers Guild Confident In Suing Google (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Despite contrary opinions from some legal experts, the Authors Guild says it can win its copyright-infringement lawsuit against search engine giant Google.

Pamela Anderson Dominates the Web (AP)
AP - In the decade since the Web's emergence, what have been people been looking for online? According to Lycos Inc., which offered one of the Web's earliest search engines, we've put this vast, powerful, revolutionary new communications medium to work in service of information about ... Pamela Anderson.

WellPoint Offers New Online Tools To Help Consumers Make Smarter Health-Care Decisions (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Consumers can research drug and treatment options, risks, and costs, and can evaluate hospital services.

As Fuel Costs Rise, Group Urges Federal Workforce to Telecommute (TechWeb)
TechWeb - An Internet-based pro-telecommuting group urges the federal government to take its own advice on energy conservation.

US arrests 17 in crackdown on'rogue'Internet pharmacies (AFP)

AFP - US drug agents arrested 17 people in a crackdown on what was described as a multimillion-dollar network of "rogue" Internet pharmacies selling a variety of controlled drugs.

AOL Unveils New Antispyware Tools (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - America Online is rolling out a new suite of antispyware tools that it claims will be faster, more effective and less confusing for its members.