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AOL has released its popular IM client for Mac users. Currently at its first beta version for the Macintosh platform, the instant-messaging client boasts features like Friendly Names, multi-point file sharing, tabbed IM conversations, AIM Blast groups and more.Released shortly after the iPhone version kicked off, &ld... |
30 September 2008
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If you've been dying to use AOL Mail, AIM and ICQ on your BlackBerry smartphone (assuming you own one), you should be thrilled to find out that RIM has partnered with AOL in order to embed these features into the Canadian-made handsets. From now on, fans of AIM and ICQ, the popular instant messaging applica... |
10 September 2008
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AOL has announced the availability of the Platform-A mobile version of the ad-serving platform and network for iPhone. Offered through Third Screen Media, the solution detects and delivers optimized ads on iPhones browsing the Web.Third Screen Media is Platform-A’s mobile ad-serving platform and network that en... |
3 September 2008
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Socialthing!, a website that promises to offer social networking fans quite a revolutionary experience, announced that it had been acquired by AOL, although the transaction had not yet been completed. Socialthing! is a virtual place where people can stay in touch with their friends who are subscribers to other websit... |
15 August 2008
04:19 GMT |
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A 24-year-old man from Connecticut was convicted to seven years in prison for scamming AOL subscribers, which resulted in damages in excess of $400,000. Over 250 people are reported to have lost important amounts of money because of several phishing attacks coordinated by Dolan. The seven-year penalty was the maximum... |
14 August 2008
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People don't know much about Internet privacy, although they do claim to be very careful about what they divulge when registering to certain websites or answering questionnaires. A study conducted by AOL, which included research, questioning various managers and asking for the opinion of 1,000 respondents, led t... |
12 August 2008
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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... |
25 July 2008
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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 C... |
16 July 2008
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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 attracte... |
15 July 2008
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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 repl... |
14 July 2008
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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, re... |
11 July 2008
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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 p... |
9 July 2008
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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. M... |
22 May 2008
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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 avai... |
9 May 2008
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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 2008), with one of it latest titles: Call of the Phar... |
31 March 2008
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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 ... |
3 March 2008
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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 was possible only by switching to Adobe AIR technology. Xdrive Desktop Lite is currently being offered as a public beta.What Xdrive basically doe... |
26 February 2008
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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 shi... |
11 February 2008
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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 gr... |
7 February 2008
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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... |
6 February 2008
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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... |
4 February 2008
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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.T... |
18 January 2008
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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 m... |
17 January 2008
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Are you using Windows Live Messenger? Then, you might as well be aware of the fact that Microsoft's instant messaging client is the most attacked product among its peers. Windows Live Messenger manages to expose its users to greater risk compared to those running Yahoo Messenger, or AOL Messenger. According to M... |
11 January 2008
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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 brough... |
20 December 2007
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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... |
12 December 2007
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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 landscap... |
11 December 2007
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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 ... |
6 December 2007
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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&#... |
29 November 2007
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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 loooo... |
27 November 2007
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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... |
21 November 2007
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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 ... |
20 November 2007
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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 resembl... |
14 November 2007
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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&... |
12 November 2007
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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... |
8 November 2007
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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... |
5 November 2007
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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... |
31 October 2007
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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 attr... |
30 October 2007
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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 mis... |
29 October 2007
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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 exp... |
16 October 2007
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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 applica... |
10 October 2007
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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 f... |
9 October 2007
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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 App... |
28 September 2007
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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 6.1 as well as 6.2 beta, the latest release of the applicatio... |
28 September 2007
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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 t... |
25 September 2007
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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... |
24 September 2007
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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 Desperat... |
21 September 2007
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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 o... |
19 September 2007
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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 t... |
18 September 2007
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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 ... |
18 September 2007
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