Unified Messaging Not So Unified
News Bill Kirkner, chief technology officer for Prodigy Communications - once one of its fiercest rivals in the US -- sent an open letter to AOL in July 1999 urging it to embrace interoperability. The IMUnified alliance consists of Prodigy, Microsoft...
[July 26, 2000, 12:04]
Date Set For BT Hyperlink Patent Case
News BT's court case against ISP Prodigy Communications over the hyperlink patent will begin on 11 February 2002 in New York. Prodigy was the first commercial ISP when it launched in 1984, the first consumer online service to offer World Wide Web access...
[November 23, 2001, 13:55]
BT Sues Over Hyperlink Claim
News The lawsuit, filed against Prodigy Communications Wednesday in a New York federal court, follows BT's claim in June that it owns the intellectual property rights to hyperlinks. BT contacted Prodigy and 16 other ISPs, including America Online, in...
[December 18, 2000, 12:41]
BT Suffers Blow In Hyperlink Patent Case
News BT suffered a blow in its bid to charge royalties for hyperlinks on Wednesday when the New York judge hearing the case brought against Prodigy Communications issued a ruling on the first phase of the proceedings.
[March 14, 2002, 16:57]
BT To Press Ahead On Hyperlink Case
News BT is suing US Internet Service Provider Prodigy Communications for unspecified damages, on the basis that it was issued with a patent for the hyperlink in 1989. BT first contacted 17 ISPs, including America Online and Prodigy, in June 2000, asking...
[February 7, 2002, 16:50]
The Day Ahead: DSL Woes Could Derail Telco Growth
News For EarthLink and players such as SBC partner Prodigy, broadband services may be the only way to compete with AOL. SBC Communications has been more aggressive and reported 301,000 DSL lines in the first quarter, up 75 percent from the fourth quarter.
[May 24, 2000, 11:34]
AOL Blocks MSN... Again
News Inc.and Prodigy. The standard is already there, it's just not one that's open," said analyst David Card of Jupiter Communications. Instant messaging is a fundamentally new communications technology, allowing users to make notes pop up in real time...
[July 30, 1999, 9:31]
BT Loses Hyperlink Patent Case
News BT has lost its controversial bid to sue Prodigy Communications over a patent that it claimed covered the use of hyperlinks. US District Judge Colleen McMahon awarded Prodigy its motion for summary judgement to have the case dismissed, saying that...
[August 23, 2002, 10:23]
Microsoft To Release Messenger Protocols
News At least three companies -- Prodigy Communications, Tribal Voice, and PeopleLink -- have backed the Microsoft move. Microsoft said Wednesday it would release the protocols for its MSN Messenger program to allow other instant messaging applications...
[August 18, 1999, 13:56]
New.net Finds Ally For Domain Effort
News Other partners include EarthLink, United Online's Juno and NetZero services, and Prodigy Communications. New.net on Thursday plans to announce a new partner in its long-shot challenge to the official domain system, adding Europe's Tiscali to a...
[December 20, 2001, 14:30]
Open Letter To Steve Case
News Bill Kirkner, Chief Technology Officer Prodigy Communications Corporation We are sure you are aware of the issue regarding interoperability between the instant messaging services of AOL and other vendors and of AOL's efforts to block instant...
[July 30, 1999, 14:50]
VoIP Eavesdropping Rules Face Mounting Challenge
News A House of Representatives committee report prepared in October 1994 says CALEA's requirements "do not apply to information services such as electronic-mail services; or online services such as CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online or Mead Data; or...
[October 25, 2005, 9:05]
Clock Ticking For ISP VoIP-tapping
News A House of Representatives committee report prepared in October 1994 emphatically says CALEA's requirements "do not apply to information services such as electronic-mail services; or online services such as CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online or...
[September 27, 2005, 10:35]
AOL-Novell: One Giant Leap For NDS?
News Prodigy Communications Corp. Unlike operating system rival Microsoft Corp. Novell did not have an instant messaging offering. As a result of the AOL deal signed on Wednesday, it does now. And the company has big plans for integrating AOL Instant...
[August 13, 1999, 12:08]
Why AOL Holds All The Keys
News Prodigy Internet Services, with 2.2 million users, has not yet joined any suit but has sent a formal demand to AOL for reimbursement of administrative and tech-support costs and for a "patch" to prevent disruption of its services.
[April 17, 2000, 16:07]
