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  • Microsoft backs down over surveillance guide

    Microsoft has given up its battle with anti-secrecy website Cryptome.org, after the controversy over publication of Redmond's internal surveillance guide for law enforcement agencies threatened to turn into a publicity own-goal.The company has…
  • Google creates Buzz over social networking

    Google has a history of being late to the game when it comes to social, and they often are hit and miss," Owyang said.With Buzz, Google is looking to build on users' webmail connections, a move similar to ones from Yahoo and AOL, with their…
  • Bing climbing up search rankings

    Microsoft's Bing continues to climb the search rankings Microsoft continues to gain share in the search market, growing slightly faster in December than any of its competitors, according to a report by comScore.Its share of searches in the US…
  • Delta Air Lines accused of hacking opponent's email

    Metron is also named in the suit.During the correspondence, AOL informed Hanni that her emails, spreadsheets and lists of donors were being redirected to an unknown destination. Delta Air Lines accused of hacking opponent's email Jeremy Kirk…
  • Google admits Gmail login details were leaked online

    Google admits Gmail login details were leaked online Gregg Keizer Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail users hit in massive phishing attack news Google has confirmed passwords for online email service Gmail had been harvested by hackers, but downplayed…
  • Huge phishing email attack affects Gmail, Yahoo: reports

    A massive phishing attack, which originally impacted Hotmail, could also have impacted Gmail, Yahoo and AOL users, according to a report on the BBC. A massive phishing attack, which originally impacted Hotmail, could also have impacted Gmail, Yahoo…

Latest Features

  • Facebook: the Google of social networks

    In fact, these numbers are looking more and more like a traffic listing for search engines.ComScore's search rankings for August 2009 put Google at the top with 64.7 percent of US search traffic, followed by Yahoo at 19.3 percent and Microsoft at…
  • MWC: Forget the Gphone - meet the Yphone

    It also retrieves messages from MSN, AOL, Googlemail and others, and is extensible via widgets - the company demo'd one which adds access to Microsoft Exchange email.It can connect to a wide variety of social networking services too, such as…
  • DNS: a tempting free lunch

    One early customer is system integrator InVision Networks.We decided to make the switch from using in-house recursive DNS services to using DNS Advantage because we were interested in enhancing the overall reliability and performance of the…
  • NetApp upgrades its SAN management

    A partial customer list includes AOL, CareGroup Healthcare System, JetBlue Airways, Priority Healthcare, State Street Global Advisors, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. NetApp aims to boost its SAN storage service management facilities through the Onaro…
  • The MAID just became more attractive

    Existing Copan customers include AOL, which is a Sun customer. Copan has added sub-file level de-dupe to its MAID arrays and can store data at 26 cents/GB. That is a sea-change in storage economics - but is it enough?
  • What search engines store about you

    AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo turned over some of the requested information, but Google resisted. AOL stores this data for just one month. If you have any question as to what collected search terms reveal about an individual -- accurate or not -- check…
 

How-Tos

  • Connect iPhones to your corporate email servers

    Consilient Technologies introduced a Push IMAP product a year before.The result was that huge numbers of comparatively dumb cell phones (sometimes called 'feature phones'), which ship with simple e-mail clients based on these standards, could now…
  • Case Study: Keeping AOL's files in order

    What did AOL do with 8PB of unstructured data spread across 1000 servers? Dan Pollack of AOL had a big data problem -- 8 petabytes of unstructured data to be exact -- data that his clients had to access and manage, and he had to make sure was…
  • Defining enterprise IM strategies

    Overall, "corporations are starting to see the benefits of IM through enhanced customer relations and substantial cost-savings," says Michael Jones, CEO of Userplane (now part of AOL) in Los Angeles.Given IM's advantages, "IM is going to be part…
  • Case Study: Talk Talk goes store store

    Overwhelmed by growthIt's no secret that the implementation of Talk Talk has - and is - problematical and Carphone Warehouse's IT infrastructure has to play its part in helping the company to be more efficient and effective.Over the past three…

Reviews

  • Palm Pre smartphone

    The conversations are threaded (as they are on current Palm OS-based phones), and they can represent ongoing conversations with one contact, across multiple systems (for example, you can start the conversation via text, and continue in AOL Instant…
  • Philips SPC1330NC Webcam Pro

    Its compatible with Skype, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messager and Windows Live Messenger. The Philips SPC1330NC Webcam Pro is a stylish little device. Small enough to fit in your hand, the webcam is mounted on a tiny glossy black plate that…
  • ZooBuh review

    Enter ZooBuh.That's why we're partial to ZooBuh.com, a web-based mail service designed with young users in mind.ZooBuh is easy to set up, it offers more and better controls than AOL or Microsoft do, and it requires no extra software.ZooBuh gives…
  • Flip Video Mino review

    When connected, the Mino can upload clips directly to YouTube, AOL Video, or MySpace; you also use the USB connector to charge the device's battery (it has no power cord).The Flip Mino holds some key advantages over the significantly cheaper…
  • T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 review

    The T-Mobile Sidekick 2008's features continue to evolve: for example, it's a snap to add more email accounts (AOL, Windows Live, Yahoo, and POP/IMAP email such as Gmail - but don't try to get the corporate-oriented Lotus Notes working).
  • Apple iPhone 3G review

    For example, downloading a 1MB MP3 file took 87 seconds on EDGE, 21 seconds on 3G, and only 8 seconds via Wi-Fi.More impressive than the raw download speeds is the fact that they enable internet features that simply weren't practical on the slower…

White Papers

  • Phishing and Pharming

    The term phishing first surfaced in 1996 when thieves stole America Online (AOL) accounts using email as a fishing hook to steal passwords from AOL users. Organizations face a complex challenge in securing their computing environment.
  • Symantec Security Response Top Five Instant Messaging Security Risks for 2006

    Global services such as AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Instant messaging (IM) continues to be the fastest growing communications medium, with an estimated 390 million consumer and enterprise IM users by the end of 2006.
 
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