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News bought Right Media and Blue Lithium, and AOL purchased Tacoda and Quigo. For online advertising, the word is portals are out but search, entertainment and social network sites are in. Photo stories Check out silicon.com's latest photo stories here…
[25 Feb 2008]
Comment Her background is in retail and Turner originally trained as an accountant, but she has more than a decade's experience in the technology industry, becoming general manager UK and VP marketing Europe for AOL Bertelsmann/Compuserve Information...
[21 Feb 2008]
Comment They remember the ground-breaking merger of AOL and Time Warner, which resulted in a combined company worth a 10th of the firms' pre-merger values. Despite the rhetoric, most large firms are simply poor at innovating.
[20 Feb 2008]
News AOL Second Life creator Linden Lab admits it has been forced to increase security and change some of its policies to stamp out illegal and nuisance behaviour in the virtual world. Linden Lab's head of community, Robin Harper, told silicon.com that...
[12 Feb 2008]
Round-Up Ballmer: "OK, so there was the AOL-Time Warner thing. Once again, after one too many cinnamon cappuccinos, the Round-Up is transported behind the scenes of this week's momentous events in Redmond and Mountain View, California to see what might have...
[08 Feb 2008]
News AOL Time Warner, $164bn, 2000: Web giant AOL and entertainment company Time Warner joined forces in 2000 in a massive deal worth $164bn. Microsoft last week launched a hostile $44.6bn takeover bid to buy web giant Yahoo!
[04 Feb 2008]
News The Netscape web browser has long since been eclipsed by its Firefox offshoot but AOL has announced it's formally pulling the plug on its historic software. Netscape's Tom Drapeau wrote in a blog: "AOL's focus on transitioning to an ad-supported...
[02 Jan 2008]
News Steve Clarke, director of systems and operations, AOL Broadband, said: "Encrypted data still needs to be viewed, which means it must be unencrypted - giving rise to opportunities to store the data without its encryption.
[07 Dec 2007]
News Behind Tiscali comes Virgin Media with a score of 660, then Sky (657), AOL (646), Orange (636), Pipex (634), TalkTalk (630) and then BT. In the annual JD Power and Associates 2007 UK Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study, the...
[06 Dec 2007]
News AOL and others whose acquisitions in the highly competitive online advertising market have already been approved. European antitrust regulators will conduct a more extensive, second-phase review of Google's pending merger with DoubleClick, the EU...
[14 Nov 2007]
whitepaper But remember: people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and people who use Hotmail should be careful when making fun of AOL. Since few people use all of these email programs - unless, of course, they have too much time on their hands - one...
[17 Oct 2007]
AS Profile This year he has earned praise from the judges for offering a free laptop with AOL Broadband, another of his recent acquisitions. In the cut-throat world of mobile phones, Charles Dunstone's beaming boyish face stands out as the one consumers can...
[12 Oct 2007]
News Tim Pickett, a former technical security analyst at AOL, said ISPs should monitor their networks to mitigate DoS attacks, adding: "More should be done to tackle the problem on the ISP side. Denial of service attacks are growing faster than...
[26 Sep 2007]
Comment Past number ones include Ray Ozzie (now at Microsoft), Ashley Highfield (BBC), Eric Schmidt (Google), Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch, Chris Gent (Vodafone) and former AOL top dog Steve Case - remember him?
[13 Sep 2007]
News AOL Second Life creator, Linden Lab, is tightening security in its virtual world by introducing an identity verification (IDV) system for its residents. The IDV system is designed to stop people under the age of 18 accessing restricted areas which...
[30 Aug 2007]
News Top 20 UK websites by time spent online, April 2007 (million hours)* ebay.co.uk (19.3) bebo.com (9.1) bbc.co.uk (8.2) google.co.uk (8.2) myspace.com (8.1) msn.com (7.0) yahoo.co.uk (5.3) youtube.com (4.5) facebook.com (4.3) runescape.com (3.9...
[23 Aug 2007]
News Steve Clarke, head of internal computing at AOL UK, said: "Right now, my team are investigating data centre costs. Steve Clarke, head of internal computing, AOL UK Two-thirds of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said the proportion of...
[15 Aug 2007]
News Last month, AOL said it is buying Tacoda, while Yahoo! Microsoft has completed the largest purchase in its history, sealing its $6bn takeover of internet advertising firm aQuantive. The software maker closed the deal on Friday, according to a...
[15 Aug 2007]
whitepaper The small 400 KB applet indexes Outlook and Outlook Express mail, Microsoft Office formats and AOL chat logs, as well as plain text and HTML files on your hard drive. Google has launched its local search tool for Windows PCs.
[14 Aug 2007]
News AOL Companies need to think about security and risk management before they get too excited about virtual worlds, according to analyst group Gartner. The risks businesses face as a result of getting involved in virtual worlds can be significant...
[09 Aug 2007]
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