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| Largest Audience for AOL Advertising |  | AOL's Advertising.com along with the other operators owned by the company have proven to be the most efficient Internet advertising platform as a whole, as it reached 89.7% of the total Internet audience in the U.S. in June 2008. A comScore study reveals that, as AOL claims, no other ad provider managed to touch such a large audience. Moreover, AOL says that this is the 50th month when Advertising.com and the other properties hold the ... [read more >>] | | 25 July 2008, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New York Spammer to Serve a 2.5-Year Sentence |  | A sentence has been issued in the case of the Brooklyn man who, for a period of seven days in 2005, from the 17th to the 23rd of August, managed to spam 1.2 million AOL users. The spammer's name is Adam Vitale, and he was handed 30 months of incarceration time, as well as having to pay AOL $180,000.
Judge Denny Chin had this to comment before issuing the sentence: "Spamming is serious criminal conduct; this is not a ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 10:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Top 10 Web Brands |  | America's top 10 web brands for June starts with Google and ends with Apple. The ranking was made according to the number of unique users in the U.S. that visited certain pages, and was disclosed by Nielsen Ratings. Google has all the reasons to show off in front of its competitors, since its properties attracted more than 120 million users in a single month.
Yahoo! doesn't have, overall, serious reasons for concern, because[ ... [read more >>] | | 15 July 2008, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Challenges Yahoo! and Google in Online Advertising |  | ADTECH, part of AOL’s online advertising business, has just attracted a top-notch partner. Gannett, an international company that operates 23 TV stations and publishes USA Today, along with other 84 newspapers, has chosen AOL's services to display ads on online properties. So far, the two partners have replaced all the online properties of the media giant from its server and moved them to ADTECH's Helios IQ ad serving solution.
... [read more >>] | | 14 July 2008, 07:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Back-to-School E-commerce Might Be Very Profitable |  | Families who have children know that, in the late summer, a large amount of the family's finances is already assigned to the return of the youngsters to school. While the back-to-school purchases are usually made via the traditional way, by going to a supermarket and picking out the necessary school supplies, researchers say that this happens only because the online ads are not striking enough.
"Eighty-three percent of all ba ... [read more >>] | | 11 July 2008, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Is ''Uber'' in Germany |  | Out of the 3.7 billion searches conducted in Germany in May 2008, an average of 80.5% was performed with Google sites. Google's supremacy puts to shame the rest of the top ten sites. eBay is second, with 6.2% of the market share, followed by a German property, ProSiebenSat1, whose sites account for 2.4% of the people who conduct searches. These results were made public after the Comscore team of researchers published today t ... [read more >>] | | 09 July 2008, 08:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Video Portal Grows Up, Reaches New Countries |  | AOL has always been a company focused on the evolution of its products, so new regional versions of its services are announced every once in a while. Today, the New York-based company has announced the availability of three new regional versions of AOL Video, namely the Canadian, Indian and Taiwanese video portals. Moreover, the company plans to debut three more portals in UK, France and Germany later this year.
"As the ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 17:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Desktop (1.0) for Mac Launched. Download Here. |  | For the first time in years, AOL is specifically targeting the Mac userbase with the first release of "a brand new, all-in-one web software, now available for download: AOL Desktop for Mac." A fresh web browser that works similarly to Safari, a new AOL IM client and tabbed view are just a few of the new features available with the free-to-download ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Free Mobile Games From Cellufun, on AOL's Portal |  | Cellufun announced that it will provide, from now on, free mobile games for AOL's new mobile gaming portal. This is great news for all mobile gamers, but also for Cellufun, fresh winner of the 2008 Global Mobile Award for the Best Mobile Game (received at MWC ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Netscape Offline |  | Old school Internet users cannot but sigh when reminiscing about the good times they had using the now-AOL-owned Netscape. As of the first of March, the legendary Netscape Navigator browser is no longer receiving any kind of support, and its faithful users have been once again asked to consider Firefox and Flock for their online browsing future.
Once the proud choice of over 90 percent of surfers, Navigator saw its market share slip dra ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Brings Xdrive to Macs |  | Yesterday AOL introduced Xdrive Desktop Lite, the Mac version for its online data storage service, Xdrive. This is the first time that Xdrive is ported to Mac. AOL says it ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Merger, the Solution to Yahoo!’s Problem? |  | Yahoo! turned down Microsoft and is heading to a world of pain, should their shares value start dropping again. The past week, the Sunnyvale-based company and the team of advisers from Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, that it hired for consultancy, have been trying hard to find an alternative that would set the ship’s sails in the wind’s direction once again.
One option that they have considered is that of a merger with Tim ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Splits in Half and Gives up on Subscriptions! |  | Time Warner’s yearly and fourth fiscal quarter made it decide without very much trouble that it was about time to give the subscription business a well-deserved rest. It was a dying business ever since the early 2000s, but it was dragged along and, in turn, it dragged heavily every year. The split between the growing advertising network and its moneymaker of the 20th century was foreseen for a long time, but surprisingly it did not happen ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Acquires Advertising Company – Desperation sign? |  | AOL is having serious problems over the possibility of Yahoo becoming an integrating part of Microsoft, ad platform included. The deal would give the two a stand in the fight against Google, seeming more powerful and because of that cutting out the smaller ad-serving companies, such as Time Warner’s AOL.
It must not fall behind and right now every employee must be praying that Yahoo! doesn’t accept the ‘generous’ (at least ac ... [read more >>] | | 06 February 2008, 17:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Buyout, Not Just Google’s Problem |  | Time Warner’s AOL was holding Yahoo!’s hand when it came to going down the profit slope, and joined the Sunnyvale-based company at about the same time it began its decline. Ever since it switched its strategy to advertising, it lost profit on a quarterly basis and the parent company isn’t very thrilled about it.
The hope Warner had was that either Yahoo! or Microsoft, among others, would make a bid for AOL and by that create ... [read more >>] | | 04 February 2008, 08:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Netscape People Changing Mind About Mozilla |  | The 28th of December came bearing ill news for the Netscape users. That was the day that AOL decided to discontinue support for the legendary browser. The actual date that Netscape will be left to age gracefully and die is the first of February 2008, and if you look at the calendar, it's just around the corner.
The reason they just gave it up was that "AOL's focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business ... [read more >>] | | 18 January 2008, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Joining the Travel Sites’ Fight? |  | Yahoo!’s recent change on its travel information (including pricing) site has pretty much shook that part of the industry. FareChase, the travel site promoted by the Sunnyvale based company, was forced on the market by its biggest competitor’s buying of Sidestep.
Probably seeing that there is room for one more big player at the table, AOL is currently considering buying the British Where Are You Now? (WAYN) site for the same ... [read more >>] | | 17 January 2008, 13:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Political Widget from AOL |  | The elections coming around have aroused an ocean of upheaval between the two big parties, so all the major Internet companies have decided to do something about it, in order to get some of the cash that has been and will be put in play for every candidate to have its share of publicity.
First came Google that brought a Mashup showing the contributors to the campaign, the amount they contributed and their locations. They decided that i ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 10:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Top Searches Strike Back! |  | The last of the big-time search engines has come clean with what its users searched for on the Internet. It’s not like they were holding it back or anything, but Yahoo, Google and Ask.com have done that a week or more ago, I almost thought they weren’t going to do it after all, especially because they said nothing on the topic.
If you recall, Britney was Yahoo’s top search and the iPhone was Google’s. What do you think people ... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Holidays’ Firing for Yahoo and AOL Employees |  | Do you happen to remember that Coca-Cola video advertisement that ran amidst the TV programs, showing the CC Caravan just going through a peaceful village all lit up for the holidays and with the calm song in the background? It’s quite old… Well, that’s the spirit that should dominate the spiritual landscape, starting from now and until January. Not for a big number of Yahoo and AOL employees it won’t, as they are bound to get fi ... [read more >>] | | 11 December 2007, 07:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AIM Says It's Secure, New Hack Proves It Isn't |  | A security flaw in the AIM instant messaging client, discovered a few months ago, has recently been patched, AOL proudly announced. But it seems like the users are still at risk, as some researchers managed to prove. It's pretty simple to show that AIM is still vulnerable: all you need to do is to find a way to exploit the glitch and to obtain complete control over an affected system. And according to Wired, somebody could e ... [read more >>] | | 06 December 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Radio? Bad Idea from Now On, Say Yahoo! and AOL |  | Get to work, put on your headphones and tune in to your favorite radio station. Does that sound right? It’s what more than 40% of the people who have an office job do every working morning according to a research conducted a couple of months ago. We'll just hope that the "favorite station" I mentioned isn’t Yahoo!’s or AOL’s because you’re in for a world of disappointment if that is your case.
Despite being announced near ... [read more >>] | | 29 November 2007, 06:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Optimizes Its Monetization Program |  | After the survey data released at the middle of November that had YouTube portrayed as a good and reliable advertising media, for only a fifth of the total number of all the advertisers that tried it, Google decided that it wanted its buck back at a much faster rate.
Although only rarely spotted and that after a looooong wait and an increased number of movies watched, the ads that run in the video window (as you can see on the left) are ... [read more >>] | | 27 November 2007, 08:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Sucks |  | Oh you know it… The micro-economy that Google has grown to be is grabbing more and more percentage from the old media advertising revenue and by "old media" I don’t mean the "Extra, extra, read all about it!" type of advertising that was being delivered at the beginning of last century and up to the ‘70’s. No, it’s about TV and such modern media… Pretty impressive for the Mountain View based mammoth, huh? Wait ... [read more >>] | | 21 November 2007, 10:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Brings Video Ticker Ads |  | A recent survey by TNS Research revealed that 78% of respondents agree that online video ads provide as good as -- if not more -- of an opportunity to learn about an advertiser than TV. And 64% said that they have taken some action after seeing an online video ad. In addition, 41% of those surveyed stated that after they see a brand featured in an online video ad, they are more likely to think of that brand as having a strong presence on t ... [read more >>] | | 20 November 2007, 03:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Haier AOL Becomes Ibiza Rhapsody PMP! |  | Every player on the market wants to be an iPod killer, the only difference is that only few of them can actually be one. Haier is one company that dreams of kicking Apple's a*s one day, therefore it comes natural to launch an item that features some cool specs like this one.
The player's design line resembles the one of the iPod, being probably a little bit thick and not that shinny and all, but revealing the same s ... [read more >>] | | 14 November 2007, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| And Here's AOL Rising More Than Google |  | Wow, we've seen so many acquisitions made by AOL that it seems the New York-based company really wants to conquer the market and compete with the two giants Google and Yahoo. Today, AOL announced the name of the next firm to join its offering which makes the company step into another side of the industry: the Q&A battle. Yedda is a company founded in 2006 by Avichay Nissenbaum and Yaniv Golan, having approximately 20 emp ... [read more >>] | | 12 November 2007, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Struggling to Buy DoubleClick, Rivals Overjoyed! |  | Since Google announced the agreement to buy DoubleClick, the entire online advertising market joined forces to fight against the Mountain View company because a potential deal could make the search giant the most powerful player in the industry. Many of the Google rivals already took attitude and made acquisitions or deals to bring new technologies to their clients. AOL, a company that didn't say a thing about the DoubleClic ... [read more >>] | | 08 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How About Spending 2 Years in Jail, Spammer? |  | Todd Moeller, a 28-year-old man from New Jersey, received a sentence of 27 months in prison after he was found guilty of sending spam messages to 1,2 million AOL consumers, Reuters reported. It seems like the man made a deal with a government informer to advertise a security software solution which could bring him no less than 50 percent of the revenues. But that's not all. Moeller talked with the informer through instant me ... [read more >>] | | 05 November 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hi, Google, I'm AOL. This Is How You Should Conquer The World! |  | Following the recent releases of the AOL portal in multiple European countries including Sweden, Italy or Spain, the parent company continued its expansion with some new improvements added to the Indian side of the firm. AOL announced today that it rolled out new languages for AOL India as well as the availability of Truveo, a video search engine, in eight new countries. Basically, AOL comes with some new content channels in Hind ... [read more >>] | | 31 October 2007, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Unlimited Storage Email Now in Sweden |  | Following AOL's recent efforts to increase its European presence, the company launched a new version of its portal, especially addressed to Swedish users. As usual, the new web portal comes with lots of features including an instant messaging client, news, video sharing service and what seems to be the most attractive thing, an email technology which bundles unlimited storage size. A few months ago, AOL rolled out the new portal[ADMAR ... [read more >>] | | 30 October 2007, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube's Killer Killed by Its Own Videos |  | Hulu is supposed to be the new YouTube killer, but it seems that this new threat for Google's video sharing service might face a pretty important problem. Hulu's videos are available on other similar services such as AOL, MSN and MySpace, obviously with the approval of the copyright holders. In case you missed the news, Hulu plans to compete with YouTube using only copyrighted content and famous traditional videos such ... [read more >>] | | 29 October 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Looking To Dismiss 2,000 Employees |  | AOL's CEO Randy Falco sent a letter to all the company's employees to inform them about the firm's latest plans which also includes a 20 percent slashing of the workforce. As far I can see, AOL plans to reduce the cost and to maximize the efficiency in order to reach all its goals which include the expansion in approximately 30 countries all over the world. It's a well-known fact that AOL started a powerful Eu ... [read more >>] | | 16 October 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Instant Messenger Available for Download |  | AOL updated AIM a few days ago and made the 6.5 version available for download for all the users. Just as before, this latest release of AIM can be installed without any charge and includes lots of new or improved features which might bring a new chatting experience for your own pleasure. For example, the new application comes with several new color themes which are supposed to modify the interface and allow you to communicate ea ... [read more >>] | | 10 October 2007, 07:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YM's Rivals Get Involved in Social Networking Services |  | AOL has always been regarded as one of the potential companies which can compete with Google and Yahoo in many aspects, the instant messaging competition being one of them. AOL's AIM always tried to challenge Yahoo Messenger but this time, it is a serious attempt. A few days ago, AOL signed a deal with Bebo, a famous social networking website, in order to promote its instant messaging client among the registered users and lu ... [read more >>] | | 09 October 2007, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Leopard-Ready Application Waiting For Your Download |  | AOL is not only a company which struggles to expand its offering into the European market but it also targets new consumers using special applications intended to run on multiple platforms. Today, AOL officially introduced a new version of AOL Desktop for Mac, a new technology which brings a handy toolbar for the Apple customers offering one-click access to AOL services. What's most interesting is that AOL sustains the progr ... [read more >>] | | 28 September 2007, 06:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Must-Have Patch to Secure Your Instant Messenger |  | A recently discovered vulnerability in AIM revealed that a hacker can harm a user's computer if he manages to exploit and take advantage of the flaw. Security researchers from Core Security Technologies confirmed the issue and sustained it affects AIM 6. ... [read more >>] | | 28 September 2007, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hercules Pimped Web Cams... Pops Out Deluxe Optical Glass! |  | If you want to accessorize your desk with something both cool and useful, it's time you checked on the Hercules Deluxe Optical Glass Webcam. This isn’t the sort of device you buy because it’s cute, it’s soft or does funny tricks, it's actually serious stuff.
The best thing about this cam is the fact it boasts a genuine glass lens for sharper images. Of course, it happens to have an included headphone with microphone ... [read more >>] | | 25 September 2007, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Web Just Like Real Life: Only the Small Crooks Get Caught! |  | Here is an intriguing piece of news that can make one wonder about fairness in life. I’m just going to give you the facts and you can decide for yourselves whether things are just or not. One AOL employee sold 92 million customers’ screen names to a Sean Dunaway. The buyer then sold the list to spammers and also used it to promote an Internet gambling operation, as the Orlando Sentinel informs.
The employee, by the name of Jas ... [read more >>] | | 24 September 2007, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Lost' Fight Against YouTube |  | YouTube is continuously threatened by its competitors which struggle to bring attractive content to their pages in order to challenge the Google video sharing platform. AOL Video is the last technology that started a campaign against YouTube and signed a deal with ABC, the owners of popular TV series such as Desperate Housewives, Lost, Dancing with the Stars or Ugly Betty. The AOL video service will become the exclusive publisher ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 08:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL – Incredible Expansion in Europe! Is Google in Danger? |  | After the company recently launched its Italian portal, AOL continues its expansion in Europe and rolls out the Spanish version of the website which offers the same functions as the main page. The company already announced that AOL wants to evolve into the European market, aiming to release no less than 14 versions of its portal in about 18 months. AOL Spain will come with several useful utilities such as email, instant messaging ... [read more >>] | | 19 September 2007, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Gets Powerful Competitor, The Search Giant in Danger! |  | AOL is one of the companies which always strove to catch the Internet giants and compete with them using powerful solutions and innovative technologies. But the truth is that it never managed to become as popular as Google and Yahoo and remained only an alternative for many of us. However, AOL's officials want to make the company one of the top brands on the Internet and today they make the first step to reach their goal.
... [read more >>] | | 18 September 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Upload and Share Any File You Want! How Cool Is That? |  | AOL has just revealed a new technology, codename BlueString, that is meant to host any multimedia file uploaded by the users, offering a 5GB storage size. The most interesting aspect of the service is that it combines several elements inspired by the other web solutions such as YouTube, Flickr and other file hosting products. If you still don't get it, BlueString is probably the best solution to host your files as it can sto ... [read more >>] | | 18 September 2007, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL to Install Its Software on HP Computers |  | AOL has recently announced that it will begin to install some software applications on HP's computer systems, both mobile and desktop models, as the two companies signed an agreement concerning this software bundle. Among the applications that will appear from now on all HP branded computer systems there are localized versions of its portal, toolbar and Internet search tool.
Under the same agreement, AOL will set the home ... [read more >>] | | 18 September 2007, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Unlimited Storage Email Comes in Europe |  | If there's a company which thinks it can compete with the Internet giants Google and Yahoo and which makes smart moves to challenge them, that's AOL. The famous web portal started the European expansion and it proudly released the Italian flavor of the service, offering the same functions as to the American users. For example, AOL Italy comes with an unlimited storage email technology which would surely compete with the ... [read more >>] | | 14 September 2007, 04:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One More Instant Messenger Makes You Vulnerable |  | Today's online instant messengers challenge one another with new functions and abilities that lure new users to their products and win the competition. SecurityFocus reports a new security flaw in AOL Instant Messenger which might allow an attacker execute malicious codes in order to take the control of the computer. Basically, a malicious person might try to exploit this vulnerability to open the system for new and more dan ... [read more >>] | | 14 September 2007, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Kaspersky Destroyed by McAfee! Somehow... |  | AOL Active Virus Shield is a security tool provided by AOL that offered the users the possibility of installing the famous Kaspersky solution. I talked about this feature using the Past Tense because it seems that AOL quietly replaced the Kaspersky antivirus solution with McAfee Virus Scan. What's most interesting is that the company didn't even send a notification to the consumers or at least, it wasn't reported y ... [read more >>] | | 10 September 2007, 10:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 18-Year-Old Hacked AOL |  | Michael Dolan was 18 years old in 2002 when he first hacked AOL. For 4 years, he had used all sorts of malicious software upon America Online users. He has been arrested in September 2006.
I read this piece of news on Sophos, and I have to say that the tactics he used were pretty much standard phish-and-cash-in schemes, nothing special about those. What shook me quite a bit was the age at which he did it – 18 years old! Just ... [read more >>] | | 23 August 2007, 08:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Joins The Google vs. Yahoo Battle |  | The battle between Google and Yahoo for the best mobile search technology is now involving a new contender: the less favorite to win the AOL competition. A few days ago, AOL rolled out an improved version of its mobile search function that allows the users connected to the Internet from a handheld device to search the web easier than before. According to Greg Sterling from Search Engine Land, the parent company focused on two ver ... [read more >>] | | 15 August 2007, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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