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AOL Unveils Revamped IM Product
America Online is gearing up for a boom in the mobile market and has launched AIM Triton, a mobile-friendly next-generation instant messenger that combines email, voice chat, mobile texting and Plaxo, the web-based address book.
AOL Wins $13 Million Spammer Judgment
Only days after Microsoft claimed victory against a spammer to the tune of $7 million, another Internet giant, America Online, won a similar spam victory – this time against an established “spam gang” known to generate some of the highest volume spam on the Internet.
AOL Adds Video Search with Singingfish
America Online and its parent Time-Warner launched AOL Video, offering free access to Time-Warner’s catalog of original and licensed media, including movie trailers, music videos and news clips.
AOL Confirms AIM Trojan
AOL instant messenger users have been hit recently with a trojan, the company announced, and a select number of AIM screen names have been suspended as a result.
Ex-AOL Employee Guilty in Spam Case
A former America Online employee who allegedly stole 92 million screen names and sold them to spammers finally was able to plead guilty to conspiracy charges on Friday, after his original guilty plea was rejected in December.
New Santy Variants Learn to Use Yahoo, AOL
The Santy Internet worm, which was discovered last week and used the Google search engine to find vulnerable websites, has evolved to spread via other search engines following Google’s crackdown on the worm’s distribution mechanism.
AOL Dropping Broadband
America Online (AOL) is signaling its departure from the consumer broadband market - a market it only recently entered.
AOL Unveils 2-Factor Authentication Service
America Online unveiled a new two-tiered security system today that employs an electronic device which changes passwords every minute. Targeted at small business owners or users who pay their bills primarily through AOL accounts, the new service uses a pager-sized device created by RSA Security Inc. to display six-digit codes that change every minute.
AOL Announces AIM Business Services
America Online Inc. announced Thursday AIM Business Services, a new instant-messaging service that gives workplace users of AOL Instant Messenger the ability to launch conference calls and web meetings from their buddy lists.
AOL UK To Offer Cheaper Broadband
Following in the footsteps of other European Internet Service Providers, AOL UK announced plans Thursday to offer an entry-level broadband service for less money.
Static AOL Making Radical Changes
America Online announced that subscribers can check email using most third-party software. The announcement was made one day before its chief executive is scheduled to go before the board of Time Warner with an optimistic message aimed at persuading directors that the unit can be saved.
AOL Spam Sweepstakes Prize Is a Porsche Boxster
America Online is giving a 2002 Porsche Boxster in a sweepstakes that was launched Tuesday. AOL obtained the car in settling a lawsuit it filed last year against a California man over spam. The two-door, silver-gray metallic Porsche has 18,000 miles, a leather interior and retails for $47,000.
AOL, Earthlink Sue Spammers
Earthlink and America Online took an aggressive stand against spam this week by re-filing lawsuits against more than a dozen of the most notorious spammers and marketers in cyberspace
AOL Outraged By CBS
Only three days into the media hailstorm surrounding the Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake onstage fiasco at the Super Bowl, AOL is hopping mad and now demanding compensation
AOL Settles With Playboy
Barely a week after Playboy was given the greenlight by an appeals court to proceed in a trademark infringement suit against Netscape, the two companies have settled
Playboy Goes After AOL
Playboy sued Excite.com in 1999, along with Netscape, alleging that the two companies had infringed on the 'Playboy' and 'Playmate' trademarks in Internet searches and banner ads