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Google captures market share from Yahoo, Microsoft
Sep. 19, 2008
Google further solidified its position as the top preferred search engine in the U.S. in August while Microsoft and Yahoo slipped.
AOL phisher gets seven-year sentence
Aug. 14, 2008
A West Haven, Conn., man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for masterminding a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users over a four-year period.
One bad apple in IT, 1M good Apple iPhones
Jul. 18, 2008
Jason and Keith talk about the San Francisco IT guy holding the city "hostage", how cybercrime is becoming like the Mafia, and of course our thoughts on the iPhone 3G now that we've touched one (sort of).
Microsoft in talks with AOL; Sprint, SK Telecom merger rumor
Jul. 17, 2008
Microsoft is meeting with AOL executives Wednesday to talk about the two companies combining AOL and Microsoft's online division, according to a news report; If it's the middle of July, then it must be time for more ...
AOL a less challenging buy than Yahoo for Microsoft
Jul. 17, 2008
While it still would present some integration challenges, AOL might be easier for Microsoft to absorb than Yahoo from a cultural and political perspective now that Microsoft's battle for Yahoo has gotten so ugly.
Report: Microsoft in talks for a deal with AOL
Jul. 16, 2008
Microsoft is meeting with AOL executives Wednesday to talk about the two companies combining AOL and Microsoft's online division, according to a news report.
Our plan for world domination
Jul. 11, 2008
Jason and Keith talk about how they can try to exploit the DNS flaw to get everyone to come to their Web site, and get ready for iPhone 3G madness.
AT&T, AOL join other ISPs to block child porn
Jul. 11, 2008
AT&T and AOL have joined three other major Internet service providers in eliminating access to child pornography newsgroups, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
AOL launching video portals in India, Canada, Taiwan
May. 22, 2008
AOL is launching a separate video portal in India to cater to the growing demand for online video in the country. The offering, to be available within a month, will feature video from Indian as well as international ...
AOL and Yahoo make IM VoIP moves
Apr. 29, 2008
AOL and Yahoo separately on Tuesday made changes to the Internet telephony features within their IM (instant message) services.
AOL buys search company
Apr. 15, 2008
AOL acquired contextual search company Sphere, the ISP and portal company said Tuesday.
AOL launches Taiwan portal
Apr. 14, 2008
AOL launched a Chinese-language portal focused on Taiwan Sunday, part of its bid to increase the number of international AOL portals to 30 by year-end.
AOL Xdrive Desktop Lite Online Storage
Mar. 24, 2008
AOL's new Xdrive Desktop Lite application makes accessing the files and folders in your Xdrive online data-storage account even easier. The app, still in beta, has some useful features--such as the ability to preview ...
Sources: AOL close to Essar India call center sale
Mar. 20, 2008
AOL is close to selling its call center in India to Aegis, a business-process-outsourcing company of India's Essar Group, according to informed sources.
Acquisition may not help AOL grow in Web 2.0 world
Mar. 15, 2008
AOL's planned acquisition of social networking site Bebo comes during AOL's quest to morph itself from an ISP into a media and content company. Some industry insiders say the move may be too late to help AOL reach that ...
AOL to buy Bebo for $850 million
Mar. 13, 2008
AOL will buy Bebo, a social networking site popular in the U.K., for $850 million in cash, the companies said Thursday.
AIM comes to the iPhone
Mar. 06, 2008
In a series of demos showing how applications can be made for the iPhone, Apple called on several companies to come on stage and show what they have done. One of those companies was America Online, showing off its ...
MWC - Yahoo shows off oneConnect social address book
Feb. 12, 2008
Yahoo is working on a mobile service called oneConnect designed to aggregate contacts and communications around what it calls a "socially connected address book."
AOL to launch mobile development platform
Feb. 12, 2008
Developers can add another mobile open-application development platform to the mix, this time from AOL.
Yahoo to support OpenID single sign-on
Jan. 17, 2008
People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different logon information ...
Five data leak nightmares
Jan. 07, 2008
When Home Depot lost a laptop containing personal information on 10,000 employees, it was just the latest in a string of high-profile data-leak incidents. The Veterans Administration, TJX, Monster.com, Fidelity National ...
Podcasting not a hot skill for 2008
Jan. 04, 2008
Jason and Keith mourn the end of the Netscape browser, discuss holiday e-tailing successes and failures, and chat about the hottest 8 IT skills for 2008.
Storm worm switches tactics; AOL ends Netscape browser
Jan. 02, 2008
The ongoing Storm Worm has changed tactics again by using different filenames and infected servers; and, AOL says it will end support for the venerable Netscape browser this February.
Parsons: Time Warner to hold on to AOL
Sep. 19, 2007
Time Warner wants AOL to complete successfully its transition to an ad-supported business, and isn't mulling "structural" changes to it, such as selling it or spinning it off, Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard ...
MSN puts ads on mobile phones
Dec. 11, 2007
Microsoft began displaying advertisements to mobile users of its MSN site in the U.S. on Monday.
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