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Eight Internet Losers In 2006 Though the Internet had a breakout year 2006, it wasn't all birthday cakes and butterflies for everyone. Companies, institutions and philosophies came head to head every other day trying to exert some sort of control over it. And most of them failed miserably. Date: 2006-12-22 Court Tells Gov't 4th Amdt.Goes For Email Too A landmark court decision found that the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) violated Fourth Amendment protections from unreasonable search and seizure by allowing the government to search and seize email from email service providers. Date: 2006-12-01 Microsoft, MetroFi Team Up To Offer Free WiFi Resident of Portland, Oregon with a WiFi enabled PC or laptop will be able to access the broadband network that will deliver speeds up to 1 Mbps for downloads and up to 256 Kbps for uploads. Date: 2006-11-17 VoIP in a Box solutions for ISP's GoIP International, a leading provider of complete white label “VoIP in a Box” solutions now offers a complete Top Quality VoIP solution to extend your product portfolio to your existing broadband customers. Date: 2006-11-14 YouTube To Go On V Cast Subscribers to Verizon wireless services will soon be able to carry YouTube with them thanks to a deal to bring the popular website together with V Cast Date: 2006-11-10 Time Warner To AOL: See Ya? AOL may be ready to be sold or otherwise separated from the Time Warner corporate apparatus, and one potential purchaser springs to mind immediately (Hi Google.) Date: 2006-10-23 Time Warner Grumbling Over YouTube The billion-dollar deal Time Warner wrangled from Google for AOL in December 2005 looks like a distant memory, as CEO Dick Parsons wants Google's latest acquisition YouTube to pay up for copyright infringement. Date: 2006-10-13 AOL OpenRide Have you seen AOL's OpenRide? It isn't for everyone, but for a lot of users, OpenRide looks amazing. Date: 2006-10-06 AOL Delivers My EAddress The free option from AOL allows users to pick up a .com or .net and add up to 100 additional usernames to that domain. Date: 2006-09-15 AOL PlayLincs Gamers Through AIM The young male demographic may be found in concentration among the gamers in the world, and a new initiative by AOL and Super Computer International (SCI) makes features available to them via PlayLinc. Date: 2006-09-01 AOL To Dig For Spam King's Gold AOL's now in the mining business. Seeking to recoup losses from a notorious spammer, the company believes gold and platinum bars belonging to spam king Davis Wolfgang Hawke are buried in parents Massachusetts yard. And they want that gold. Yarr... Date: 2006-08-18 AOL Going Free To Broadband Users AOL's products that had been dedicated to subscribers only, like AOL.com email, have been freed from their walled garden; the company is betting on advertising revenue to replace subscription dollars with the move... Date: 2006-08-04 Time Compares Apples To Goodmail If a fish salesman's brother tells you his brother's fish is the best in town, do you take his word for it? Or would you think it, um, fishy? So when AOL's brother releases a report that use of Goodmail's Certified Email resulted in a 30% increase in response, shouldn't we subject it to the same scrutiny? Date: 2006-07-21 AOL Wants You Dead Or Alive You would think being dead would get you out of your AOL account. Not so, apparently, unless you can be a ghost in their machine and possess a customer service rep. The daughter of woman killed in a car accident tells Consumerist.com that an AOL rep requested her dead mother call in and cancel herself. Date: 2006-06-23 AOL Employees Don't Use AOL Search AOL has been consistently 4th place in terms of search share, and Jason Calacanis thinks he knows why - because AOL sucks to search with. Calacanis, who joined AOL after the company bought his blog network, Weblogs Inc., slammed his parent company's woeful search presentation on his weblog. Date: 2006-06-02 Strategic Site Migration: Planning For Success An analytical approach to moving an existing business web site from one Internet Service Provider (ISP) to another will increase the likelihood of a seamless transition. Date: 2006-04-25 Gonzales Targeting Online Child Predators US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spoke candidly about the growing threat of child porn and a need to take greater action against those who commit the acts and distribute them online. Date: 2006-04-21 AOL Much Ado About Mobile With the ubiquitous presence of mobile phones and their ever-expanding functionality, AOL has taken steps to make its services more available to mobile phone users. Date: 2006-04-07 Google Mows Down Snodgrass In Court A federal judge in Philadelphia tossed out copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google, where the plaintiff claimed the search engine's archive of his Usenet posts constituted republication. Date: 2006-03-17 Senator Proposes Net Neutrality Bill Ron Wyden (D-Or) has introduced legislation to prevent telecoms and cable companies from developing a two-tiered network where fees would be charged to content providers to prioritize their Internet traffic. Date: 2006-03-03 Outrage Over AOL Email Filtering Plans AOL's announcement last week that they are often deleting links and images from emails from those who aren't whitelisted has created a firestorm from their subscribers. Here are some of the comments I received in response to articles in WebProNews about AOL's partnership with Goodmail... Date: 2006-02-10 Truveo May Be Key To AOL Video Sales Time Warner's AOL recently purchased Truveo.com, a video search site that opened its virtual doors to the public in September 2005; only three months later the startup became part of AOL and may be the enabling mechanism behind its forthcoming video store. The big scoop came from senior... Date: 2006-01-20 |
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