Stories about: Lycos

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    Sun is setting for Yahoo search 14/08/2009 00:25:00

    After a rollercoaster ride love/hate relationship between Microsoft and Yahoo over the past year, and various rumors and potential overtures between Yahoo and Google, the arrangement between Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing search engine is a nail in the coffin of Yahoo search.
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    Private P2P networks add trust to file sharing 11/07/2009 00:32:00

    Stephane Herry says that he founded his private file-sharing network GigaTribe out of frustration at not being able to share files with his friends on Kazaa. Every time he searched for a file that he knew a friend had uploaded, he saw only similar files uploaded by strangers.
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    Lycos offers OpenSocial Web-publishing tool 16/07/2008 08:21:48

    Lycos has released a new Web-publishing tool based on Google's OpenSocial API that allows users to create Web sites that take advantage of social networks, the company said Tuesday.
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    Office Live Small Business goes a la carte 15/02/2008 11:24:44

    Microsoft's Office Live Web service was designed for small businesses that needed an easy, low-cost solution for creating and hosting Web sites and business-branded e-mails. When it was first introduced in November 2006, there were three versions: Basics (free), Essentials (US$19.95 per month) and Premium (US$39.95 per month). The latest, reconfigured version -- now called Microsoft Office Live Small Business (MOLSB) -- simplifies things by offering a single service with a number of for-pay add-ons.
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    Tech's all-time top 25 flops 22/01/2008 11:20:32

    Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never have heard the name of Kildall's competitor, who eventually accepted the contract: a Mr. Bill Gates.
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    Details of hijacked 24/7 ad server emerge 23/10/2007 06:02:24

    Hackers have hijacked a server operated by Internet advertising company 24/7 Real Media and are using it to seed legitimate Web sites with ads carrying attack code, Symantec said Friday.
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    The 16 Greatest Moments in Web History 03/10/2007 06:33:36

    Depending on how you calculate it, the Web has been around for between 15 and 17 years--which makes it old enough to ask for the car keys, but still an awkward teenager growing toward maturity. Yet it already has a long and storied history (and some prehistory). We've decided to chronicle its 15 greatest moments here.
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    SAVVIS outage knocks Lycos offline 03/01/2007 09:23:57

    A network outage at hosting provider SAVVIS Communications has knocked a number of Web sites offline including Web portal Lycos.
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    The 15 Best Places to Waste Time on the Web 22/12/2006 08:00:33

    It's first thing in the morning and you're at the office. You're sipping your coffee and sifting through e-mail, but you're not quite ready to delve into the real work of the day. So what are you gonna do? Fire up your Web browser and distract yourself by wasting time on the Internet.
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    Lycos tries to mesh social networking and online video 14/11/2006 10:58:55

    Lycos has launched a movie streaming service that the company hopes will catch on with people by mixing elements from two of the web's most popular services: social networking and online video.
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    EU and Blinkx provide searchable European news 12/09/2006 12:05:57

    More online users may begin accessing video and audio content produced by the European Commission now that Blinkx, the video search engine, is including in its database content from the European Commission Audiovisual Service.
 
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