Q&A (3): AOL's Bulkeley On MSN And Outages
News In the light of the much-publicised outages, what's the situation now with AOL's back-end services? So what should we be looking out for from AOL? MSN seems to go for much more of a TV-like 'programming' approach.
[May 16, 1997, 10:00]
New AOL 8.0 Smacks Down Pop-ups
News The release comes a little more than a week before Microsoft, a key online rival to AOL, is scheduled to launch the latest version of MSN, its US dialup Internet service. America Online on Tuesday said it will discontinue serving pop-up...
[October 16, 2002, 8:53]
Google's First Results Due
News That means that Google and Yahoo agree to grant as much as 80 percent of the fees from search ads to partners such as AOL and Microsoft's MSN. This week, it secured a deal to deliver search-related ads to America Online Europe, shutting out former...
[October 21, 2004, 10:10]
MSN Previews Next Net Service
News However, there are hints that the company is at least considering charging more for MSN 8 to compete with AOL's $23.90 a month. By charging for MSN 8, Microsoft mirrors a similar program by AOL that allows people using rival ISPs to also gain entry...
[July 17, 2002, 7:55]
AOL: We'll Block Tribal Voice, Too
News Tribal Voice said it will use protocols AOL had published earlier this year to let developers of Unix-based applications access its service. But in the wake of a very public battle with Microsoft over instant messaging, AOL has since removed links...
[September 8, 1999, 8:50]
Sources: AOL Not Bidding For Red Hat
News Like AOL, Microsoft already charges a monthly fee for MSN online access, something it is expected to do with MSN Web services leveraged off the desktop. AOL Time Warner responded by cutting separate deals with PC makers that ensured desktop...
[January 22, 2002, 9:13]
MSN Messenger Goes Wireless
News While Microsoft has signed up 2.5 million users since it released its software earlier this year, AOL has more than 80 million subscribers for its AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ programs. Microsoft said Tuesday that it will integrate the MSN...
[September 14, 1999, 15:50]
SurfControl Tool Blocks IM, P2P Networks
News As of January, AOL Time Warner's AOL unit had 62 million IM users, MSN had 20 million, and Yahoo! The company on Monday launched SurfControl Instant Message Filter, which lets companies thwart staff from installing and using IM applications from...
[April 15, 2003, 11:20]
Power Spy Software 2009
Downloads It records all keystrokes typed, MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, AIM/AOL, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Messenger and Skype's chat text, Web sites visited, e-mails read, documents opened, windows opened, clipboard activities, passwords...
[September 24, 2008, 12:01]
Social Networks - Future Portal Or Fad?
News What's more, MySpace's monthly traffic figures have trumped those of MSN and AOL, according to ComScore Media, and they comprise about 75 percent of Yahoo's, the No.site on the Web. After all, rudimentary social networks have always been around in...
[June 14, 2006, 15:10]
Google Searches For Euro Success
News Its popularity in these two countries, and profitability in the UK for two straight quarters, is largely due to deals with T-Online, Germany's largest destination site; UK ISP Freeserve; and AOL Europe, which it has a deal with until February 2005.
[August 30, 2002, 11:53]
Freeserve And Wanadoo Seize The Day
News Both Wanadoo and Freeserve have been seeking to expand beyond national boundaries as a way of enlarging their total audience and gaining momentum against giants such as AOL on the ISP front, as well as international portals such as Yahoo!
[December 6, 2000, 15:11]
Pop-ups Pushed Down At Ask Jeeves
News The ads, which spawn a new browser window when Web surfers visit a Web site, will not be sold by top Web property America Online, which this week described its new AOL 8.0 Web software as free of the intrusive commercials.
[October 21, 2002, 8:51]
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. We're not sure what AOL's going to do. US telecoms giant AT&T took on AOL Wednesday, releasing software that let users of its "IM Here...
[December 9, 1999, 16:12]
Billionaire Seeks To Derail AOL-Google Deal
News He cited a recent Goldman Sachs report that said eBay and InterActiveCorp would be the best partners to provide incremental benefits to AOL and that Microsoft's MSN and Google would be the worst. Time Warner and Google have secretly reached a...
[December 20, 2005, 9:25]
AOL 7.0 Tests Netscape Browser
News Microsoft and AOL have theoretically squared off in the browser market since AOL announced in November 1998 that it would acquire Netscape for $4.2bn. In an email to software testers, AOL said it is trying out Netscape's rendering engine, dubbed...
[March 15, 2002, 11:39]
AOL-Microsoft Deal Bodes Ill For Netscape
News That's one upshot of Thursday's settlement between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, according to industry analysts who predict that the Netscape browser -- currently at version 7.02 -- will now move from a neglected orphan of AOL Time Warner to a...
[May 30, 2003, 7:41]
How Google Changed The Rules
News few would doubt that a distinct top tier has emerged, occupied by Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN. There also are plenty of rumours that Time Warner is either looking for a partner or even interested in selling AOL.
[December 6, 2005, 16:50]
BT Unveils No-frills Budget Broadband
News According to reports, BT is in talks with AOL about forming a broadband partnership to promote the new package, although BT did not mention the deal in its announcement. The company did say that it has agreed content deals with several...
[April 24, 2002, 8:48]
British ISPs Admonished Over Cybercrime
News According to Gibson, 80 percent of global email traffic, including the majority of the spam scams which circulate, comes via the Webmail services of providers such as AOL, MSN and Yahoo, so finding a way to tap into the relevant data they could...
[January 25, 2005, 15:50]
