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1. Vendors have their head in the clouds

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... questions. "Today, everything is virtual," he said. If your data was hosted in Sao Paolo Brazil and your enterprise was based in Manhattan or in Rome, the legal liabilities were far from clear.He also ...

2. Get in line: Netscape founder has $300 million to spend

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... of Netscape, former CTO of AOL (which acquired Netscape for $4.2 billion), as well as a founder of Loudcloud (which was acquired by HP for $1.6 billion), Andreesen has a clear idea of what he is looking ...

3. IAC aims for love match with Yahoo

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... So, we're very aggressive behind Match and any possibilities for increasing its future money in the world." IAC already has listings on MSN and AOL, and adding Yahoo would fill out the list rather nicely, ...

4. LG Versa: Unboxing the "iPhone Beater"

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... users will have to access their email accounts via the Web browser. Users are limited to specific webmail providers Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, Verizon.net, AIM, and Windows Live. Bluetooth support is available, ...

5. Microsoft: We will not buy Yahoo Search

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... the report.   The Sunday Times also reported that Microsoft had plans to usher in Jonathan Miller, the former CEO of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media to lead a ...

6. Google Chrome aims for Windows, Apple may help

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... overcome.  It no longer exists, because a package that could connect you to a large number of properties like AOL simply wasn’t needed once the Internet was established.  The market moved.   ...

7. AOL launches new radio offering

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   AOL has launched a new version of its AOL radio that features a redesigned online player, along with 150 CBS Radio stations. The new player is powered by CBS Radio, and allows users to skip songs, add ...

8. The future is now: Semantic search

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... search share dropped to 20.4%, Microsoft's Live Search share is down to 9.1% and AOL is down to 4.6%. So, what if companies such as Microsoft or Yahoo can't stop Google, what are the chances of Powerset? ...

9. Microsoft Messenger 7 for Mac: Screwed up again?

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... services offered by Yahoo or AOL gradually grew to become a centerpiece of Microsoft's unified communications strategy. The Messenger service was recently re-branded to become Windows Live Messenger (WLM) ...

10. Yahoo revenues, profits grow in wake of Microsoft bid

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... while Yahoo's stock price languishes." On the heels of the Microsoft/Yahoo acquisition debate, Yahoo was reportedly in talks to combine its online operations with AOL, bringing the two former Internet ...

11. Yahoo opens up as acquisition target

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Yahoo has created a strategic partnership with Google and is reportedly in talks with AOL, while Microsoft may team up with News Corp to launch a new bid to take over Yahoo.  The AP suggests Yahoo's ...

12. Yahoo intros social networking for cellphones, acquires Maven Networks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... oneConnect users, according to Yahoo. Yahoo said that widgets will open the platform to a variety of email providers such as Yahoo Mail, MSN Hotmail, Gmail, and AOL Mail. In separate news, Yahoo announced ...

13. AOL cancels active development on Netscape browser

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Dulles (VA) - America Online (AOL) is planning to stop all active development on the Netscape browser, once the most popular browser on the Internet, beginning February 1, 2008.  AOL's business ...

14. Google, Time Warner bring AOL Instant Messenger to Gmail

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... AOL back in 2004, and was supposed to have the deal complete by the end of last year. However, delays made it seem like the AIM integration promise would never actually come true.  It has finally ...

15. Patent suit seeks $360 million from Apple for iPhone voicemail

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... of several high-profile lawsuits, many of which are linked to patent infringement claims. Klausner is also seeking $300 million each from Skype, Comcast, and Cablevision.  AOL has paid the company ...

16. Microsoft refreshes Windows Live

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... users to combine multiple email accounts (such as Hotmail, Gmail and AOL mail) into one interface; “Live Writer” adds a more Windows-like look & feel to blog authoring and can be used to ...

17. AOL co-founder Case resurfaces, touts online music service

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... AOL, Yahoo!, Warner Music Group, EMI Music and Island Records music executives as the main investor of the service, which claims to already have attracted one million registered users and 120 million recorded ...

18. Yahoo upgrades messenger with multimedia features

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... numbers, putting it fairly close to the market leader AOL, which has 30.2 million users. ...

19. Security firm warns of AIM vulnerability risk

    (Security/Security Features)

    Core Security Technologies says that a critical flaw in AOL's instant messenger application has still not been fixed, despite the online company's remarks to the contrary. Boston (MA) - Core ...

20. AOL launches video search portal

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Dulles (VA) – Video creation and viewing has been one of the most significant developments on the Internet over the past two years. AOL is now reacting to this trend with the launch of a video portal ...

21. AOL merges e-mail with instant messenger

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    People still using an AOL e-mail account can now chat with AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) users from their inbox, thanks to a new Web-based beta application from the Time Warner-owned company. Dulles (VA) ...

22. Helio Ocean waves into the US

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... AOL, and MSN. Another new feature Helio says is new to the US market is advanced notification of contacts who are using IM services.  For example, when a user begins to type in a friend's name, ...

23. Teenager hacks AOL

    (Security/Security Brief)

    A 17-year-old boy is in custody after being arrested for hacking into AOL’s computer network. New York (NY) - A 17-year-old boy is in custody after being arrested for hacking into AOL’s computer ...

24. Helio announces new "Ocean" phone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... It also has advanced e-mail and messaging features, including a universal hub for six different e-mail programs (Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, Gmail, Earthlink, and Helio's proprietary e-mail application), ...

25. Veritas to pay $30 million for botched advertising deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Veritas has agreed to pay $30 million in fines over its improper advertising deal with AOL in 2000. Culver City (CA) - Veritas has agreed to pay $30 million in fines over its improper advertising deal ...

26. IBM abuses file format standardization process to limit choice - Microsoft

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Interoperability & XML Architecture initiatives, Tom Robertson and Jean Paoli, apparently as an answer to IBM's open client announcement earlier this week. In an article focusing on file format ...

27. Vista breaks 90% of games, says game publisher

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... on MSN, AOL, Yahoo and Real Arcade won't work with Vista PCs. Online games are estimated by about 70 million users around the globe. The reason, according to St. John, is the extensive reengineering ...

28. Consumer Electronics Show 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ... at HD DVD Sony hits one million shipped PS3s, hints at new features AOL Video to run on Sony's TVs Palm launches Treo 750 smartphone Samsung launches UMPC with flash hard drive JVC ...

29. Fox Sports to dabble in digital video content

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... for purchase from all the major sites, including iTunes and AOL Video, along with company-owned sites FoxSports.com and Fox Interactive. Users will be able to purchase condensed "previews" of games that ...

30. AOL releases AIM 6.0

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

      It has been nearly a year since AOL launched its next generation Triton AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) client. It has been nearly a year since AOL launched its next generation Triton AOL Instant Messenger ...

31. AOL opens new AIM tools to developers

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    AOL today announced the beta launch of AIM Whimsicals, a new set of Web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) that give Internet developers the tools to embed AIM services and features directly ...

32. Top AIM developer now with Google

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Justin Uberti announced Saturday that he has left AOL after nearly 10 years as a lead developer for the company's widely utilized AOL Instant Messenger software. He joins the Google development ...

33. Worm alert: AIM users at risk

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      FaceTime Communications said Monday the security firm's researchers have identified a new worm that could potentially affect 21.7 million AOL Instant Messenger users. FaceTime Communications said ...

34. 9/11 and the Internet: Limits and opportunities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... $15.8 billion. The damage affected Internet Service Providers as well. For example, AOL claimed that it had lost several hundred dial-up connections on 9/11 and the following days. However, the fact that ...

35. AOL calls developers on AIM phoneline

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

      A programming contest for the most innovative and useful applications on the AIM Phoneline platform will pay out $4500 in prizes. A programming contest for the most innovative and useful applications ...

36. Verizon launches PlayLinc in-game messaging to compete with Xfire

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... its own in-game messaging and advertising platform yesterday, in conjunction with a new team of developers called Super Computer International (SCI). PlayLinc will make use of AOL's open messaging platform ...

37. AOL's new Music Now service gears up for the Zune era

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Today, AOL is launching its Music Now service, which incorporates the streaming infrastructure it acquired last November from Circuit City, plus the core of music licenses it acquired from Spinner.com ...

38. Groups file FTC complaints against AOL

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... criticizing AOL's release of three-months of search data - totaling about 20 million queries - to its Web site. Read the complete story here. (Security Focus)  ...

39. AOL after spammer's buried gold

    (Security/Security Features)

      After threatening to get tough on serial junk emailers three years ago, AOL intends to show its conviction has not wavered by digging up the garden belonging to the parents of a convicted spammer ...

40. Why does AOL need another IM platform provider?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    In an agreement whose terms were undisclosed, AOL announced this morning it is acquiring an instant messaging platform developer, Userplane. But it isn't clear exactly what the acquisition will achieve, ...

41. Sony unveils "Mylo" Wi-Fi communicator

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... a new idea, we have seen several devices come and go especially in the past five years. Probably the most noteworthy is AOL's Mobile Communicator that tried to make AOL "Anywhere" a reality by merging ...

42. The AOL transition begins as e-mail, other premium services become free

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Today, AOL's new CEO, Jonathan Miller, joined his corporate parent's boss, Time Warner president Jeff Bewkes, in declaring that e-mail and other services for which AOL was among the last to charge a premium, ...

43. New AIM Pro includes Outlook integration and desktop sharing

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Do you use AOL Instant Messenger, but want something a little more professional? Now AOL is releasing AIM Pro aimed at businesses and professionals. Most people are familiar with AIM's buddy lists and ...

44. Microsoft and Yahoo marry their instant messaging clients

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... each other. The combination would, according to Microsoft, form the largest instant messaging community and eclipsing the current king of the hill, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Sunnyvale (CA) and Redmond ...

45. Microsoft to offer "bridge" to ODF in Office 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... choice and interoperability a more practical option for our customers," said Jean Paoli, general manager of interoperability and XML architecture at Microsoft, in a prepared statement. "We believe that ...

46. No net neutrality in Internet franchise bill passing Stevens' committee

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... AOL, MSN, and Google - could be granted higher-tier or "fast lane" access, which would not be available for lower-grade bandwidth users. In her speech introducing the amendment to committee on Monday, ...

47. Google approaches 50% share in search market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... over April 2005 and up 0.4 points over March 2006. All major competitors had to give up market shares year-over-year, with Yahoo dropping 2.7 points to 28.0%, MSN 3.2 points to 12.9%, AOL 2.1% to 6.9% ...

48. AOL to get a boost through free VoIP service

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

      Forget dial-up, AOL's dialing for dollars. Forget dial-up, AOL's dialing for dollars. With its days as an Internet service provider receding into the distance, America Online Chief Executive Jonathan ...

49. Can In2TV "broadband television" fuel new growth for AOL?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    With a waning subscriber base, especially for its traditional dial-up services, and ever diminishing prominence in the instant messaging and e-mail fields it once dominated, AOL is turning to a new - ...

50. Network neutrality "a phantom problem," says industry association

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... is nuts!" Another example is AOL's controversial plan to introduce a pay-to-send email system. According to the company, one of the main goals of the service would be a more efficient battle against spam; ...