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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 loc...

18 September 2007
02:55 GMT

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...

14 September 2007
04:04 GMT

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 comp...

14 September 2007
03:41 GMT

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 interesti...

10 September 2007
10:47 GMT

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 schem...

23 August 2007
08:47 GMT

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 th...

15 August 2007
05:33 GMT

Google Looking For Competition, Gets a Tough One

If Google thought that it's already the king of the online advertising market and it remains the same for a long period of time, it was wrong. Because beside the main rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, AOL is now cooking a new advertising platform that might compete with the ones owned by the Mountain View giant. The f...

24 July 2007
09:37 GMT

AOL: No More Viruses, Hackers Or Spyware For FREE!

AOL has just rolled out a new version of the Internet Security Central, a special portal that allows you to use a freeware set of tools to protect your computer from viruses, hackers, spyware and other infections. The folks from AOL proudly announced that they managed to partner with McAfee in order to bundle McAfee ...

19 July 2007
04:10 GMT

Yahoo Is The Most Dangerous Search Engine!

Security company McAfee conducted a market research to find out the most dangerous search engine and to analyze the evolution of the malicious results since last year. The tests were made with McAfee's SiteAdvisor and targeted the most 5 popular search technologies: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask.com. According...

5 June 2007
16:51 GMT

Google's OLD Search Interface?!

Some of the users are quite disappointed by the new Google Search interface and they are demanding the old one back. That's impossible; but instead, I can offer you something else: a search engine powered by Google that still has the old appearance. Yes, I'm talking about AOL, the famous company that uses G...

18 May 2007
05:21 GMT

AOL Aquires Mobile Advertising Company Third Screen Media

AOL announced that it has acquired the mobile advertising solutions provider, Third Screen Media. Following the acquisition, Third Screen Media will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL's Advertising.com division and will expand its services to the mobile platforms.Randy Falco, Chairman and CEO of AOL, co...

16 May 2007
09:19 GMT

AOL Homepage Identical to Yahoo! Shocking!

Have a look at this site. This is the new beta for the upcoming design of the famous AOL. Now visit Yahoo's homepage. Please tell me the differences. None? Shocking or disgusting? You choose. However, the AOL homepage is a perfect copy of the current Yahoo layout with exactly the same elements. The button, the m...

27 April 2007
14:06 GMT

Shrek Tournament for Children and Parents

Three weeks before the release of the Shrek the Third movie, "Ye Olde Shrek the Third Royal Tournament" is announced with Shrek, Fiona, Donkey, Puss in Boots and many other old and new characters, greeting children as well as parents while having the chance to win valuable prizes. Ye Olde Shrek the Third Royal Tourna...

27 April 2007
04:45 GMT

AOL Extends Partnership for Further Gaming Tournaments

FUN Technologies' subsidiary, WorldWinner has announced the renewal of its agreement with AOL (formerly referred to fully as America Online) to provide skill-based cash and prize, and other tournaments on AOL Games. Good news for online gamers and especially those attending tournaments, as agreement terms say th...

6 April 2007
10:07 GMT

New Web Experience

AOL hugeness is well known in the American Web territory. Among the services they provide to the American public they have also released a couple of web tools for their users. I am talking about AIM, AOL Explorer, the spyware protection or the PC optimizing tool.To be frank, I am not too much of an AOL fan, but I lik...

6 March 2007
08:18 GMT




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