@Travelocity.com becomes the first Internet travel Web site to announce more than 20 million tickets sold.

@Expedia.com introduces easy-to-use visa and passport services.

@Travelocity.com has entered into an online marketing partnership with Continental Airlines. A rare alliance in the war between airlines and dot.coms

@Walmart.com, and Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise operator, enters into an exclusive marketing and sales agreement.

@The volume of e-mails sent each day is expected to double in the next four to five years. With 16 billion messages arriving worldwide each day already (184,000 per second) many workers are already feeling swamped. So what will it be like when the volume rises to more than 420,000 arrivals per second?

@EasyJet.com has said that it has achieved its internal target of selling around 90 percent of all tickets via the internet. No friend of the high street.

@Michigan will become the first U.S. state, and possibly the first place in the world where companies will be able to sue each other over the Internet. Click here to go to court.

@The Internet is a "wonderful instrument," says Pope John Paul II, but it needs to be regulated because of its degrading and damaging potential. Hmmm.

THE GEORGE ORWELL COLLECTION:
@Internet service providers in China are ordered to screen all e-mails, and they will be held accountable for all postings on their websites, according to the tightest governmental controls yet.