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Article | 9/04/2012 AOL to license patents to Microsoft in over $1B deal
AOL has entered into a definitive agreement to sell over 800 of its patents and their related patent applications to Microsoft, it said Monday.
Article | 3/04/2012 ACLU: Most US police don't seek warrants before tracking cell phones
Many law enforcement agencies across the U.S. track mobile phones as part of investigations, but only a minority ask for court-ordered warrants, accor...
Article | 29/03/2012 AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million
AOL decommissioned almost 10,000 servers and saved itself US$5 million along the way to winning a contest that highlights the cost of running ineffici...
Article | 23/03/2012 E-commerce trade group: Mobile geolocation privacy bill is 'awful'
U.S. Senate legislation that would require mobile apps to get permission to check the geolocation of a user is among the bills that make up trade grou...
Article | 15/03/2012 Google restores interoperability with AOL AIM
Google and AOL have restored the interoperability between their two instant messaging (IM) networks, a little over two weeks after it was temporarily ...
Article | 8/03/2012 Spam leads Google to disable interop of its IM network with AOL AIM
AOL hopes to roll out a fix soon to a spam surge in its AIM service targeting Google IM users, a situation that prompted Google to temporarily shut do...
Article | 23/02/2012 White House pushes for new privacy codes of conduct
The U.S. White House will push for online businesses to adopt new privacy codes of conduct, including consumer rights to control what information webs...
Article | 30/01/2012 Industry group makes fresh push to eliminate phishing
Companies such as Facebook, Google and PayPal are pushing for widespread use of a new technical specification, DMARC, that could make it harder for ph...
Article | 15/11/2011 AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo ad deal: 'The devil is in the details'
The partnership AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft announced last week to sell each other's "tier 2" display ad inventory could yield great benefits, but they n...
Article | 9/11/2011 AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft tie up for display advertising
Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft have partnered to pool their display ad inventories and integrate their sales platforms so that they can offer each other's a...
Article | 3/11/2011 AOL discontinues LISTSERV mailing list service
Ending a service it has offered for well over a decade, AOL is shutting down its free LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations, the company told...
Article | 26/08/2011 NoSQL offers users scalability, flexibility, speed
Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability a...
Article | 27/04/2011 Group: Google Buzz settlement a 'killer' for e-commerce
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's proposed settlement with Google over its bungled launch of the Buzz social-networking service could have disastrou...
Article | 11/03/2011 AOL CEO: Layoffs today, bright future ahead
Despite laying off 20 per cent of the AOL workforce Thursday, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong foresees 2011 as the year that AOL will start to grow again.
Article | 10/03/2011 Trade group: Do-not-track bill is 'awful'
A bill that would direct the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to create a mechanism to allow consumers to opt out of online tracking efforts tops a list ...

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