America Online Switching Spyware Vendors

1. America Online Switching Spyware Vendors

America Online Inc. is switching the vendor it uses to protect its Internet access subscribers from spyware and other malicious threats, a move the company says will mean more comprehensive scans.

For more details on AOL:
- read this story from Yahoo! News, Sept 21 2005


2. Tool Aims to Ease Academic File-Sharing

Researchers at Penn State and other universities have developed a tool to more easily share or search for large academic files — using the principles most associated with trading music and movies illegally.

For more details on the new file-sharing tools:
- read this story from Yahoo! News, Sept 21 2005


3. New Product: Invision Power Vectura

Invision Power Vectura is a brand new product from Invision Power Services that will finally allow you to offer a powerful yet intuitive webmail system to your users. Vectura features a cutting-edge interface that will, at last, make checking your webmail an enjoyable experience wherever you are!

For more information:
- read more details from invisionpower.com


4. VoIP Bloggers Gain Influence

Jeff Pulver, founder of the Voice Over Net (VON) conference, remembers the first VoIP blogging panel he assembled.
"It was two years ago during spring VON," said Pulver, himself an avid blogger. "No one came."

For more on VoIP:
- read this story from internetnews.com, Sept 21 2005


5. Hacker Spams Huge Quantities Of Trojans, Again

For the second day in a row, an unknown attacker spammed major quantities of a new Bagle-esque Trojan horse that turns off virtually every known security program and blocks access to security sites on the Internet.

For more on Hacker Spams:
- read this story from messagingpipeline.com, Sept 20 2005


6. Google Library Push Faces Lawsuit by US Authors

U.S. writers are suing Google Inc. in a federal court, alleging that the Web search leader's bid to digitize the book collections of major libraries infringes individual author's copyrights.

For more on Google library lawsuit:
- read this story from eweek.com, Sept 21 2005


7. Avinti Adds Virus Profiles To iSolation Server

Avinti, has today launched Avinti iSolation Server with Identified Threats Filter (ITF). Avinti ITF provides customers with the option of adding integrated protection against known viruses and unwanted email to the Avinti iSolation Server.

For more on Avinti:
- read this story from messagingpipeline.com, Sept 20 2005


8. Avidly Seeking Wireless Clues From Google

Google, with deep pockets and seemingly boundless ambition, keeps marching steadily beyond Internet searching into new markets like e-mail, advertising, book searches, a satellite map service, instant messaging and telephony. Where next?

For more on this:
- read this story from New York Times, Sept 21 2005