Sony has a long and colorful history of failure on the Internet, but there has been a bright spot.

Several Internet companies, including Microsoft and eBay, are working on new ways to keep spammers from infiltrating their sites.

Retailers and manufacturers are setting up shop in Second Life, the three-dimensional online world, hoping that users will steer their avatars to real world stores.

A simple, cheap treatment using just oxygen could allow growers to store organic produce for longer and go a long way towards reducing the price of organic fruit and vegetables. One of the major contributing factors affecting the price is the short shelf life of organic produce. Losses can be high during storage. Conventional produce can be treated with inexpensive chemicals to aid preservation.