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Stamping Down On Spam
Leader AOL and Yahoo's announcement that they were going to start to put a tariff on emails that would be guaranteed to arrive intact caused a lot of ominous rumblings. Will AOL and Yahoo users be showered with extra spam?
[February 6, 2006, 15:05]
MSN, Yahoo! And AOL Join To Fight Spam
News AOL, Yahoo! One of the most oppressive aspects of connecting to the Net, spam wreaks havoc for computer users and for Internet companies such as AOL, MSN, Yahoo! With individual filters routinely fooled by spammers, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo!
[April 28, 2003, 14:23]
Spam Campaigners Reject Email Payment Plan
Talkback This is just a way for AOL, Yahoo, and even Microsoft to make more money. As the article says, AOL and Yahoo already have spam filters. Of course, if you are AOL or Yahoo then you will not have this additional cost.
[February 6, 2006, 17:58]
Gmail Opens Up To Rivals
News Since the weekend, Google's free email service, called Gmail, has been letting its users transfer their address book contacts from Yahoo Mail, Microsoft's Hotmail and AOL Mail. Yahoo allows immediate exporting of its contact lists onto other...
[July 21, 2004, 10:10]
AOL Unveils Portal Plan
News AOL could start looking a lot more like Yahoo. The move will further transform AOL, the country's largest Internet service provider - primarily through dial-up - into a Yahoo-style media portal specialising in offering free content and communications.
[August 2, 2006, 17:10]
Merrill Lynch Bans Web-based Email
News Representatives from AOL, MSN and Yahoo declined to comment. Investment banks and brokerage houses have taken steps to control instant messaging applications from AOL, MSN and Yahoo as well. All three companies, including AOL, are trying to develop...
[August 11, 2003, 15:50]
Will IM Be The Focus Of Convergence?
News In the constellation of your rivals - Hotmail, Yahoo and Google - how do you see AOL? So on Thursday, AOL activated a free Web-based email account for every customer with an AIM screen name. We have the best spam and antivirus service for email...
[May 16, 2005, 12:00]
Star Wars Used As Hook For Phishers
News IMLogic has listed both the Yahoo and AOL issues as "medium" risk threats. In the case of the AOL worm, the text in the instant message is: "hehe, i found this funny movie", and the word "this" is a hyperlink, according to the IMLogic advisory.
[May 25, 2005, 9:15]
Broadband's Swept-up Features Fail To Fire
News AOL Time Warner's America Online unit, Microsoft's MSN, and Yahoo all have stakes in broadband content and have pinned the growth of their services on broadband adoption. AOL, MSN and Yahoo all want to partner with DSL and cable providers, but...
[June 24, 2003, 9:08]
AOL Filter Prevents Anonymous Email
News Yahoo, AOL and other online service providers have been driven to act against spam because of its mounting toll on one of the most popular activities on the Internet -- email. In addition, AOL last year forged an alliance with Yahoo, Microsoft and...
[January 22, 2004, 11:20]
Enterprise AIM Signs Up Lotus Sametime
News Because of this, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! Internet giants such as AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! America Online plans to test for the first time a business version of its AOL Instant Messenger software with another instant messaging program.
[February 3, 2003, 14:01]
AOL Dumps Microsoft's Sender ID
News One of the most reviled byproducts of the Internet, spam has become a problem that plagues consumers, corporate networks and email providers such as AOL, MSN and Yahoo. AOL has used SPF since 2003; Microsoft is pushing for Sender ID; and Yahoo is...
[September 17, 2004, 10:05]
Web Firms Scramble To Obey Privacy Law
News and AOL interpreted that by pushing notices out to their customers via email or pop-up Web pages. and AOL Time Warner, by contrast, have gone to greater lengths to promote their privacy policies. In a last-minute bid to comply with the law, online...
[July 2, 2001, 10:15]
The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal In Digits
Articles Yahoo is currently far and away the email leader, with 55.5 million unique users, and AOL is also still very much in this game, with almost 30 million unique users.million: The combined number of unique users of US instant-messaging services for...
[February 4, 2008, 11:52]
Microsoft Proposes ID Solution For Spam
News AOL and Yahoo have technologies in the works, and plan to implement them into their email systems by year's end. AOL also will test technology supported by Yahoo by the end of the year. This isn't an online medal race to see who gets the gold when...
[August 13, 2004, 8:40]
'Spim' Threat Hovers On Horizon
News AOL, MSN and Yahoo have already taken measures to limit the amount of unwanted messages their users receive. In June, AOL said it had added anti-spim capability to its latest version of code, AOL 9.0.
[April 2, 2004, 9:20]
Worms Find Fertile Ground In IM
News Security experts said they are as yet unaware of any virus attacks that might have targeted AOL Time Warner's AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and ICQ or Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger. Since email and instant messaging run on separate systems, AOL must...
[August 15, 2001, 9:12]
Google Talk Gets Upgrade For First Birthday
News Google Talk competes with popular chat applications from AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a $1bn Google investment for a 5 percent stake in AOL, Google and AOL will make their chat services interoperate.
[August 16, 2006, 9:55]
AIM: You've Got Email As Well
News AIM 4.8 also lets people manage their AOL Alerts, a feature that sends email updates about sports scores, news headlines, weather reports and stock performance. America Online has released an upgrade to its popular AOL Instant Messenger service.
[June 17, 2002, 10:49]
Frazzled Households Jam Anti-telemarketing Site
News Yahoo rivals MSN and AOL also commented on the problem. AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said some AOL members are not receiving their registration confirmations because AOL's spam-blocking filters are preventing the emails from reaching in-boxes.
[June 30, 2003, 10:00]
