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AOL has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weblogs, Inc. AOL said the acquisition gives it a cadre of online content that ranges from music to movies, travel to tech, food to fashion, medicine to mortgages and offers online consumers new micro-communities where they can connect, debate, edito...
Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's controversial mayor, was in the spotlight again this week as he and his staff contemplated which lucky company will get the rights to provide WiFi access around the city. The real question is, why is government making this choice rather than market forces? To many in t...
T-Mobile claims its Web'n'walk service, already available in Germany and now expanded to the UK, breaks down the walls of mobile Web surfing. Users are able to access almost any Web site -- with some exceptions -- and view it just as it would look on a computer, according to company representatives....
America Online this week announced new initiatives aimed at protecting its 20 million Internet service subscribers from phishing attacks. As a result, AOL said it is blocking roughly 8 million phishing attempts against its members each day. Phishing is the use of fraudulent e-mail and fake Web sites...
AOL today signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weblogs, Inc. AOL said the acquisition gives it a cadre of online content that ranges from music to movies, travel to tech, food to fashion, medicine to mortgages and offers online consumers new micro-communities where they can connect, debate, edi...
The battle over the mobile e-mail market will be heating up over the coming months, and it's a battle that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is destined to lose. Although RIM's leadership position remains strong in the short-term, analysts say that, in the long run, it will be toppled by the Redmo...
Sun Microsystems and Google Tuesday announced a multi-year deal to promote each other's software, a deal seen by many as the possible groundwork for a direct attack on Microsoft's market dominance in the desktop productivity software space. Under the terms, financial terms of which were not disclose...
It used to be that the Hollywood portrayal of a computer virus writer -- the teenage, late night pizza-eating, underachieving genius who gets a kick out of taking down the White House Web site -- was fairly accurate. But today's malicious code creator has a variety of ways to disrupt and trespass on...
EarthLink will attempt to make the City of Brotherly Love the city of brotherly wireless access as well, with a deal to cover America's fifth largest city with WiFi mesh connectivity over 135 square miles, the largest municipal wireless rollout to date. The undertaking, described as a lifesaver for ...
Dell yesterday began peddling its latest PC without an operating system. The computer is designed for consumers who plan to install open-source software instead of commercial tools and platforms. Dubbed the Dimension E510n PC, the computer comes with a blank hard drive and a copy of the FreeDOS oper...
AOL's Netscape browser won a huge distribution deal with HP this week, putting the challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer on the PC giant's North American notebook and desktop computers beginning next year. Yes, Netscape has emerged renewed from the browser wars, riding a wave of security, stab...
The image of teens, businessmen and virtually all kinds of consumers talking on cell phones has become common, if not ubiquitous in recent years. As the number of cell phone users in the United States has reached and passed the hundred-million mark, carriers have been hard pressed to find ways to co...
Motorola will tap Microsoft's platform to enhance its emergency services software applications, the company announced today. The Microsoft-Motorola alliance will provide marketing and development support to deliver a rapid incident management solution for law enforcement, first responder and crimina...
AOL's Netscape browser won a huge distribution deal with HP this week, putting the challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer on the PC giant's North American notebook and desktop computers beginning next year. Yes, Netscape has emerged renewed from the browser wars, riding a wave of security, stab...
Further honing its focus on video search and making a play to become a hub of Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), Blinkx has launched a service that lets users upload video blogs that can then be searched by the public and gives users the ability to control video they find through online searches. My Blink...