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Microsoft advances testing of Hotmail replacement
News Microsoft is building Windows Live Mail from scratch, keeping Hotmail and its 215m active users on a separate system, Brooke Richardson, a lead product manager in Microsoft's MSN division, said. The new release also includes a faster email search...
[December 1, 2005, 9:40]
Spector Professional Edition
Downloads Spector Pro will record BOTH sides of the chat conversation for the following popular chat services: AOL Chat Rooms, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. Additional new features include: Internet Access Blocking, Search of...
[September 5, 2006, 8:00]
Steve Malone: 'IT's Like This...'
News And everyone these days from Yahoo to MSN is clambering aboard claiming to be a Portal site. Then the search engines twigged that, rather than allowing punters to pour in one door and then be hustled out the back to wherever they were looking for...
[June 23, 1998, 11:38]
Internet Explorer 8 beta: a first look review
Reviews Later we found that Microsoft has partnered with Facebook, eBay, StumbleUpon, Yahoo, Windows Live and MSN, and provides 'activities' associated with each. Change default search engine (we kept ours Google)
[March 7, 2008, 7:22]
Davis steps down as Lycos chief exec
News But over the past couple of years, the leaders such as Yahoo, America Online and MSN got bigger and distanced their lead. Davis's tenure was marked by his signature scrappiness that turned an obscure Web search engine developed at Carnegie Mellon...
[February 1, 2001, 16:13]
Microsoft plans branding assault
News Microsoft has also been building its own MSN-branded digital music store to compete with Apple's iTunes. However, a search of Network Solutions' Whois database shows that the company registered the "Playsforsure.com" domain name in June.
[August 26, 2004, 8:40]
US Report: Netscape's Netcenter fails to impress
News DePlanque added that the features integrated into the browser won't make much difference in the competition between Netscape and Microsoft which has recently converted its MSN offering into a portal site called start.
[June 2, 1998, 9:33]
Investigation confirms chatroom dangers
News MSN adheres to the industry's "notice and kick out" tactic. Jan Butter, reporter for the Western Mail, spent two hours in MSN chatrooms such as "younger girls for older guys" categorised under the heading "Teen chat".
[December 18, 2000, 10:41]
WebTV founder's next act unfolding
News WebTV is now part of MSN, Microsoft's sprawling online unit. Finding a successful formula for blending the television with the PC has been akin to the search for the Holy Grail. Consumer demand for interactive TV has yet to meet industry...
[January 2, 2002, 12:18]
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther review
Reviews The AIM-based chat app, iChat, gets audio and video capabilities (as in the latest MSN Messenger 6 beta release), which led to a flashy demo involving a video 'call' from former vice president and current Apple board member Al Gore.
[June 24, 2003, 7:42]
Pop-ups add new twist
News Worried about losing consumer loyalty, Internet service providers America Online, EarthLink and MSN recently have moved to snip the use of pop-ups served to visitors. The company regularly uses pop-unders to invite people to search for discount...
[December 23, 2002, 7:40]
Sun enters Google orbit
News MSN. And OpenOffice.org will be endowed with a Google search box -- assuming the open-source community that develops it can be persuaded -- Office productivity software such as Microsoft Office is very different from the tools used for Web services...
[October 5, 2005, 9:10]
AOL blocks AT&T's IM client
News Microsoft recently gave up attempting to connect to AOL after AOL repeatedly blocked its MSN Messenger service. ISP (AT&T) and AltaVista, one of the top five search sites, that classification changed.
[December 9, 1999, 16:12]
Spammers target IM accounts
News Other services including MSN Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger also have been growing. Meanwhile, a steady barrage of spam on ICQ is popularly credited to a $99 shareware application, called ICQ Interest Search (ICQIS), sold on several different...
[March 12, 2002, 12:37]
ICQ 2001b 5.18 review
Reviews Just one glance at Advanced mode will send IM novices running for a simpler messenger, such as MSN Messenger or Yahoo. When you have questions about 2001b, your only resource is ICQ's tech support site, a newly-reorganised set of FAQs, message...
[February 17, 2002, 23:00]
Networks evade VeriSign's SiteFinder
News It also shows that MSN's traffic dipped from 237 million to 218 million visitors per day after SiteFinder's launch -- reflecting less use of Internet Explorer's own domain-name-not-found redirection feature.
[October 7, 2003, 11:35]
Sizing up Microsoft's Aquantive deal
News The proposed Microsoft-Aquantive deal would bring together under one roof a media agency that buys ad spaces on behalf of advertisers, an ad-serving technology provider and a seller of inventory in MSN, which will result in the buying and selling...
[May 21, 2007, 9:43]
MSN Messenger flaw opens back door to hard drive
News Microsoft has revealed three new vulnerabilities in its software, including the first to affect MSN Messenger 6.0, and is urging customers to patch their systems now. Later, the software giant will also send notices about the Messenger patch...
[March 10, 2004, 7:20]
Renegade IE 6 postings have Microsoft on edge
News An Explorer Bar, which previous versions of IE have included, offers expanded choices, including links to Microsoft properties MSNBC News, MSN Search and Encarta Enquire. Another icon opens a search bar that delves into Microsoft's Expedia travel...
[January 30, 2001, 8:37]
Sorting out your desktop in the Blinkx of an eye
News America Online, MSN and Yahoo all plan to introduce a desktop-search application in the coming months, and Google recently began testing its own. Desktop search is seen as the next frontier in jointly navigating the Web and the operating system for...
[November 16, 2004, 8:15]
