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Update: Time Warner to hold onto AOL
Time Warner wants AOL to complete successfully its transition to an ad-supported business, and isn't mulling "structural" changes to it, such as selling it or spinning it off, Time Warner chairman and CEO Richard Parsons said Tuesday.

Can AOL keep Netscape.com from fading away?
AOL needs all the Internet traffic it can get, but it is struggling with the fading popularity of Netscape.com, for many years one of the Web's most popular destinations.
September 18, 11:16 a.m. PDT

AOL unveils unified ad platform, heads for NYC
AOL has integrated its various ad networks into a single platform that it hopes will jumpstart its online advertising business, whose weak growth in the second quarter has led to sharp criticism of this Time Warner subsidiary.
September 17, 11:48 a.m. PDT

Yahoo mistakenly blows the lid off new service
As if Yahoo didn't have enough trouble already in social networking, a company employee tipped a New York Times reporter by mistake about a new, unannounced service called Yahoo Mash.
September 13, 12:48 p.m. PDT

Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies
Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind.
September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT

AOL's Netscape.com reverts to being a portal
AOL's venerable Netscape.com site, given an extreme Web 2.0 makeover 15 months ago and transformed into a spiffy social news site, will revert to being a traditional portal again.
September 7, 9:03 a.m. PDT

Wikipedia blocked in China yet again
Wikipedia's English site is blocked again in China, after over two months of being accessible, continuing a saga of on-again, off-again availability.
September 6, 5:04 a.m. PDT

Yahoo buys ad firm BlueLithium for $300 million
Yahoo continued its pursuit of online ad rivals with a $300 million purchase of private online advertising firm BlueLithium, the Internet giant announced Wednesday.
September 5, 4:13 a.m. PDT

Update: Yahoo reorganizes ... again
Yahoo  has shaken up its top management ranks once again, as the struggling Internet giant continues tweaking its organizational structure to boost advertising sales, its main source of revenue.
August 30, 8:47 a.m. PDT

SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud
In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore.
August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores
The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time.
August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech
You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology.
August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist
A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.
August 6, 4:38 a.m. PDT

Ask.com to let users scrub search records
Search portal Ask.com plans to make it easier for Web searchers to cover their tracks. The company is introducing a new feature to its Web portal later this year called AskEraser, which will let users perform anonymous searches.
July 20, 4:26 a.m. PDT

Update: Yahoo sites hit by availability problems
Yahoo Inc. suffered availability problems on Friday that affected its home page as well as other of its Web sites and services for a sustained period of time.
July 6, 4:01 p.m. PDT

Yahoo improves mobile suite
Yahoo will upgrade its free software suite for mobile phones, improving such capabilities as search, mapping, e-mail, and photo management, the company announced on Tuesday.
June 19, 4:45 p.m. PDT

Europe launches portal for IT security standards
The web of IT security specifications and standards organizations in Europe may become a bit clearer with a new portal that provides a one-stop source for standards information.
June 7, 8:35 a.m. PDT

Update: FTC investigating Google-DoubleClick deal
Google confirmed on Tuesday that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating its proposed $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising seller DoubleClick
May 29, 8:29 a.m. PDT

Vodafone, RealNetworks partner as Sony exits
RealNetworks will provide music streaming and download services to European customers of mobile phone operator Vodafone Group as part of a deal linked to an acquisition.
May 16, 8:25 a.m. PDT

Google home page bug strikes again
Google renamed and upgraded its Personalized Home Page this week, but one thing the update couldn't shake was a bug that began upsetting many users last Thursday and persisted until Wednesday.
May 2, 2:30 p.m. PDT

Google: Personalized home page glitch solved
Google has finally solved a technical glitch on its Personalized Home Page service that rattled an undetermined number of users.
April 27, 11:29 a.m. PDT

This is definitely not Rupert Murdoch's MySpace
A beta version of News Corp.'s MySpace community site was launched this week in China, but users must be careful when typing the Chinese site's URL or may end up shopping for patio furniture.
April 27, 4:57 a.m. PDT

Yahoo's cofounder: Emerging markets critical
Yahoo intends to focus on emerging markets like India, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Brazil to attract more users, said company cofounder David Filo during a visit this week to India. In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with IDG News Service, Filo said that Yahoo will continue to expand in various countries, even those that do not have democratic governments, as it believes that the Internet and some of Yahoo's products could be agents of change. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview.
April 26, 3:17 p.m. PDT

Google 'frantic' about Personalized Home Page glitch
Google's Personalized Home Page service, which lets users turn Google.com into a customized portal, is suffering from an apparently significant technical problem that is reverting some of the home pages to old versions or to their original default settings.
April 26, 9:57 a.m. PDT

AOL takes on Yahoo, MSN with Indian Web portal
AOL has launched a Web portal in India, combining services such as instant messenging and e-mail with local content from India’s Bollywood film industry and other sources.
April 26, 4:56 a.m. PDT

Yahoo India launches new services ahead of AOL entry
Yahoo has launched new map services in India on Wednesday, a day before AOL is scheduled to launch its portal in the country.
April 25, 5:34 a.m. PDT

Europe considers network security portal for SMBs
The European Union is considering a system that would alert small and medium-size businesses to network and information security threats.
April 23, 5:43 a.m. PDT

MySpace launches beta of news aggregation site
MySpace.com has launched a beta of a news site it hopes will bring more advertising revenue to the popular social networking site.
April 20, 4:27 a.m. PDT

Enterprises seek social-network effect
Social bookmarking and IRC (Internet relay chat) top the list of must-have tools for organizations that want to leverage Web 2.0 technologies within the enterprise, according to a Web 2.0 Expo panel moderated by Rob Rueckert of Intel Capital.
April 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Britain spearheads European e-crime reporting portal
British computer security experts are designing a Web portal to gather more precise statistics on Europeans victimized by Internet crime, an area that remains difficult for collecting accurate data.
April 18, 9:39 a.m. PDT

Yahoo expands ad deal with newspaper partners
In a win for its online advertising strategy, Yahoo extended a deal on Monday that makes it the exclusive online distribution site for U.S. newspapers from a consortium of 12 newspaper companies, enabling the Web portal and search vendor to share and earn online advertising revenue with them.
April 16, 12:18 p.m. PDT

BEA pitches Web 2.0 theme for portals
With an upgrade to its portal software, BEA Systems on Monday is touting a Web 2.0 interactivity theme with the product able to expose portlets, which can be produced for use in mashup apps, to other applications. The company is set to announce BEA WebLogic Portal 10. Key to the product's new portlet capabilities is support for REST (Representational State Transfer) Web services.
April 16, 5:00 a.m. PDT

What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies
Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze.
April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT

Lycos jostles for position in Europe
Lycos Europe N.V. is quietly rolling out a service that wraps together several trendy functions it hopes will woo users for its convenience and simplicity.
April 2, 6:57 a.m. PDT

Yahoo given go-ahead to buy Taiwanese blog site
A purchase of popular Taiwanese blog site Wretch.cc by Yahoo Taiwan will not adversely affect competition in the local Internet market, Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission ruled Thursday, paving the way for the completion of the deal.
March 30, 5:26 a.m. PST

Startup applies P-to-P to calendar scheduling
Tungle Corp. will deliver on Friday a beta version of a plug-in application designed to let users create a peer-to-peer network of people for the sole purpose of simplifying the process of scheduling meetings.
March 22, 4:35 a.m. PST

Four former Livedoor executives sentenced
The former chief financial officer of Japanese Internet services firm Livedoor was found guilty of inflating earnings reports and sentenced to 20 months in jail on Thursday, while three other former executives were handed suspended sentences.
March 22, 4:14 a.m. PST

Salesforce.com readies its take on MySpace
Salesforce.com on Monday joined other corporate software players trying to take the concepts behind the highly successful social networking site MySpace and apply them to the business world.
March 19, 7:59 a.m. PST

Japanese Internet icon found guilty
The founder and former CEO of Japanese Internet portal Livedoor was found guilty of violating securities laws on Friday and sentenced to two and a half years in prison in one of the biggest cases of corporate abuse for Japan in recent years.
March 16, 4:50 a.m. PST

Microsoft confirms departure of search executive
A Microsoft executive has confirmed that the leader of its search team is leaving the company.
March 12, 10:25 a.m. PST

Yahoo apologizes to Indian housewife
Yahoo apologized on Thursday after recipes from the blog of an Indian housewife were used without permission on Yahoo India's new Malayalam-language Web portal.
March 8, 5:48 a.m. PST

Update: Cisco buys another social-networking firm
Cisco Systems is continuing to buy its way into social networking, acquiring some assets of the company that operates Tribe.net while letting the site remain independent.
March 6, 4:52 a.m. PST

Tech 101 for startups
“It’s not the old guard in manufacturing anymore. Now there is a new guard” that understands technology and can digest the information and knowledge that advanced business applications offer to young, growing companies.
March 6, 3:00 a.m. PST

More IT war stories
Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.”
March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST

YouTube to offer BBC news and entertainment videos
Users of YouTube's online video service will soon be able to view news, TV series, documentaries, and other programs from the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC).
March 2, 5:46 a.m. PST

New report: Congressional Web sites 'disappointing'
Many of the Web sites for members of the U.S. Congress lack basic information such as information on office hours or where to go if the reader has problems with a federal agency, according to a report released Monday.
February 26, 8:20 a.m. PST

Social networks key to '08 race
If Phillip Lamb's experience is any indication, the ability to leverage online social networking tools to organize campaigns may help make or break candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential race.
February 22, 8:16 a.m. PST

EBay to boost developer program
EBay plans to increase the programming tools it provides external developers so that they will be able to increase the volume and variety of applications they create for the company's marketplace.
February 14, 9:51 a.m. PST

Lycos adds video playlist service
Lycos was set to go after a portion of the popular online video and social networking spaces Thursday by launching a service that lets users create video playlists composed of footage from several Web sites.
February 8, 8:22 a.m. PST

MySpace reaches deal with Vodafone
Vodafone Group is counting on the MySpace.com social networking site to drive its U.K. customers to use their mobile phones for more than just talking. The two companies have struck a deal the to distribute software for updating a MySpace user profile from a mobile phone, the companies announced on Wednesday.
February 7, 7:54 a.m. PST

Today’s end-user: Hardly working
The U.S. workplace is the new dysfunctional family. I’ve reached that conclusion after stumbling on a string of statistics that make me wonder how American companies ever get anything done, much less show a profit.
February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST

Yahoo launches Indian-language portals
Yahoo has introduced portals in India in seven local languages, to cater to the hundreds of millions of Indians expected to come online in the next few years.
February 1, 8:07 a.m. PST

Women in technology: A call to action
A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology.
January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST

Back to school: Getting girls into IT
Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age.
January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST

Activism provides competitive advantage for IT
Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers.
January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST

Gender crisis in IT
You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look.
January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST

Google has big plans for Groups service
Online discussion forums date from the Internet's early days and are seen by many as passe in this Web 2.0 era of blogs, wikis, and social networks, but Google has no plan to put its Groups service out to pasture.
January 25, 5:04 a.m. PST

Oracle's 'Web 2.0' interface coming this month
Oracle plans to release WebCenter Suite before the end of the month, a product for building application interfaces that incorporate content from a variety of sources as well as "Web 2.0" tools such as blogs and wikis.
January 24, 8:55 a.m. PST

Community-run sites: Idealistic but not ideal
The debate surrounding the revelation that Microsoft offered to pay a developer to make changes to Wikipedia pages points to problems that can arise when a major Web site is managed by a community of people.
January 24, 8:37 a.m. PST

Portal aids development of identity-based apps
A new portal has been launched to help developers who are building applications using identity management technology.
January 23, 9:04 a.m. PST

MySpace files law suit against 'Spam King'
MySpace.com has filed a lawsuit against the self-proclaimed "Spam King" for allegedly blasting the portal with spam through the use of compromised user accounts, the Web site said on Monday.
January 22, 7:41 a.m. PST

The smart business of diversity
Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT.
January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST

Office SharePoint: The best reason to upgrade?
Far more flexible and powerful than the InfoWorld Test Center anticipated when we first took it into the lab, MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 oozes customization. With that name, you may be thinking basic Office extensions — some networked content, update control, and more advanced file sharing. Not so.
January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST

MySpace headed for murky legal ground
MySpace.com is facing pressure after a new round of lawsuits filed on Thursday that allege it failed to protect minors, and experts say the cases will enter murky legal territory.
January 19, 9:54 a.m. PST

Corporate catastrophe follows botched beta
Early in 2000 I signed on as an engineering associate with a West Coast software vendor I’ll call “Port Portal.” The guy who hired me, “Alan,” was CTO and VP of Engineering. As it happens, he had just been hired himself; before taking the job he’d been a divisional CIO at a local telecom company.
January 16, 3:00 a.m. PST

LinkedIn previews Q&A feature
LinkedIn Corp. has added a question-and-answer service to its business-oriented networking site, the latest Internet company to unveil this type of increasingly popular feature.
January 12, 8:54 a.m. PST

Capitalize on emerging collaboration options
Messaging vendors have long been packing their wares with features in hopes of providing an all-encompassing platform that fulfills every enterprise’s collaboration needs. Rather than shell out far too much again this year for seldom or inefficiently used capabilities, why not consider emerging alternatives as a way to assemble a collaboration environment suited to your particular budget and needs?
January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST

Clueless manager duped by product demo
My IT career began just as the Internet boom was ramping up. Not surprisingly, when my company's management team noticed our competitors moving onto the Web, it decided we needed to be there too. After several meetings, all the various divisions and departments came to an agreement on a simple promotional site. A couple of weeks later, we were online. Everything would have been peachy, except for "Stanley."
January 2, 3:00 a.m. PST

Technology of the Gods
January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007.
January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST

Yahoo delves into microeconomics
Yahoo Inc. is researching areas such as microeconomics to help it better understand the behavior of users, or of advertisers in areas such as keyword auctions.
December 28, 4:26 a.m. PST

Yahoo Japan begins offering WLAN service
Yahoo Japan has jumped into the Wi-Fi hotspot business and begun offering its 6.3 million registered users in Japan access to a nationwide wireless LAN network.
December 19, 7:17 a.m. PST

Falco memo confirms AOL senior exec departures
AOL on Monday confirmed to its employees the rumored departure of several senior executives and announced a reshuffling of top-tier management duties in a memo penned by Randy Falco, the new chief executive officer.
December 19, 4:49 a.m. PST

Review of reviews
It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.)
December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST

Update: Three senior AOL executives to leave
A month after Jonathan Miller was fired unexpectedly as AOL's chief executive officer, three of the senior executives who reported directly to him and who oversee key areas of AOL's business are on their way out, sources say.
December 15, 2:03 p.m. PST

Google to host e-mail, build portal for BSkyB
Broadcaster and Internet service provider British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) has asked Google to host e-mail and other services for its broadband customers in the U.K. Their collaboration could also lead to the creation of targeted TV ads.
December 7, 5:32 a.m. PST

Yahoo reorganizes, COO to leave
Yahoo will reorganize into three new units, as part of a shake-up that will see Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig leave the company, Yahoo said Tuesday.
December 6, 4:09 a.m. PST

MySpace tries to root out sex offenders
Stepping up efforts to keep sex offenders off MySpace.com, the popular social networking Web site has partnered with an online identity and background verification company to build a U.S. national sex offender database and dedicate staff to checking the database against MySpace profiles.
December 5, 7:08 a.m. PST

Yahoo China chief quits after six weeks
The top executive at Yahoo China resigned from his job for "personal reasons" after six weeks on the job, Yahoo's local partner Alibaba.com said in a statement Monday.
November 28, 4:51 a.m. PST

Experts agree: Yahoo is spread too thin
Industry observers are nodding in agreement at a scathing internal memo that calls for a major reorganization of Yahoo Inc. at a time when many say the Web portal has lost its edge and trails competitors large and small alike.
November 21, 11:32 a.m. PST

Update: AOL's CEO change raises eyebrows
Reactions to Time Warner Inc.'s decision to sack AOL LLC's chief executive officer (CEO) range from lukewarm endorsement to strident disapproval, as the industry tries to make sense of a move many observers find perplexing.
November 20, 2:24 p.m. PST

Yahoo makes online ad deal with newspapers
Yahoo and seven newspaper publishers in the U.S. are partnering to deliver local advertising and search services to online newspaper readers.
November 20, 5:39 a.m. PST

Calacanis to leave AOL after CEO change
Jason Calacanis, a major figure in the blogging world, has decided to leave AOL, the first major aftershock of Time Warner's surprising decision this week to replace AOL's CEO Jonathan Miller with a television industry veteran.
November 17, 9:13 a.m. PST

Yahoo 360 may do a 180 degree turn
Yahoo may remake its blogging and social networking service Yahoo 360, the company said Thursday.
November 10, 5:09 a.m. PST

MySpace launches Japanese version
News Corp. launched a Japanese version of its MySpace social networking service Monday.
November 6, 4:24 a.m. PST

Yahoo launches video sites in Europe
Yahoo on Thursday introduced video Web sites in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.  The sites are similar to the one that launched in the U.K. in early October and to Yahoo Video, which launched in the U.S. in June.
November 2, 8:18 a.m. PST

Yahoo China to be community-based portal
Alibaba.com plans to turn the Yahoo China Web site into a community-based portal that relies on users for the bulk of its content, the company's top executive said Wednesday.
November 2, 6:54 a.m. PST

UTube sues YouTube
A dealer of used tube and pipe equipment filed a lawsuit this week hoping to strip YouTube of its domain name.
November 2, 5:26 a.m. PST

Redefining innovation
Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub.
October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST

Bertelsmann plans MySpace rival
German media giant Bertelsmann has begun crafting plans to develop an entertainment-driven social networking Web site to compete with MySpace and other similar sites, a source familiar with the discussions said Monday.
October 16, 6:29 a.m. PDT

Orkut comes under fire in India
Google's Orkut social networking site has put it in the middle of a border dispute between India and Pakistan. A petition filed in an Indian court against an anti-India community hosted by Orkut could have implications for other portals operating in India.
October 12, 6:28 a.m. PDT

Yahoo China sues rival portal
Alibaba.com's Yahoo China unit has filed an unfair competition lawsuit against the company founded by its former general manager.
September 29, 8:33 a.m. PDT

Wallop says its social network packs a punch
It may seem like tilting at windmills, but Wallop Technologies expects to shake up the social networking market, currently dominated by entrenched players like News Corp.'s MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster.
September 26, 5:47 a.m. PDT

AOL reorganizes to focus on online advertising
Less than two years after its last major reorganization, AOL  is again redrawing its internal business architecture to better align it with its new strategy to focus on online advertising and retreat from the Internet access market.
September 22, 4:00 a.m. PDT

Yahoo warns on weakening Web ad sales
A slowing U.S. economy may already be impacting Yahoo's Web advertising sales growth, the head of the company said Tuesday, a trend that does not bode well for other ad-supported Internet sites.
September 20, 4:51 a.m. PDT

Technology with no past
To the extent that it’s possible, I’m declaring today the beginning of recorded history in information technology. On this day, the phrase “information technology,” abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content. Content? That’s anything you’re capable of holding in your brain for even a nanosecond. IT is not a department or a group of people. It’s a smart phone. It’s a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard? I don’t know. They’re new terms. We’ll work that out as we go. I do know that if we didn’t have such things, information technology would be inaccessible.
September 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT

AOL leader to scale back involvement
Ted Leonsis, one of AOL's top leaders in the past 13 years, will shed his day-to-day management duties in January, but will remain vice chairman of the Dulles, Virginia, Web portal and Internet services provider.
September 15, 8:29 a.m. PDT

Trial of Livedoor founder begins
The trial of Takafumi Horie, founder and former chief of Japanese Internet portal Livedoor Co., began Monday morning with Horie pleading not guilty to violations of Japan's securities law.
September 5, 3:24 a.m. PDT

Verizon plans Windows Live services
By early 2007, Verizon Communications Inc. will bundle a variety of Microsoft Corp. software services into its broadband Internet access package, the companies said Tuesday.
August 29, 7:04 a.m. PDT

Lycos revamps video search with Blinkx technology
Lycos has overhauled its video search engine by licensing technology from video search specialist Blinkx in an attempt to boost visits to its Web portal.
August 29, 5:13 a.m. PDT

IBM unveils slimmed-down portal software
IBM unveiled an addition to its WebSphere Portal product lineup, introducing an entry-level offering aimed at small and medium sized businesses.
August 24, 7:00 a.m. PDT


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