Agency Deploys IM Service For Emergency Response

1. Agency Deploys IM Service For Emergency Response

For secure instant messaging and to quickly locate personnel to respond to county emergencies, the state of Minnesota’s Ramsey County Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (EMHS)has implemented Ominpod's Professional Online Desktop (POD) hosted IM service to better deploy volunteers when disaster strikes.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Oct 7 2005


2. AOL Offers AIM License To Bloggers, Podcasters

America Online Inc. on Thursday started offering at no charge a license that allows non-commercial use of its popular instant messaging service, a move meant to attract bloggers, podcasters and other Web site operators.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Oct 6 2005


3. MSN Opens U.S. adCenter Pilot

MSN quietly put out a call for U.S. testers of adCenter, its new pay-per-click advertising platform, on Thursday.
The team sent private e-mail invitations to selected companies and asked them to spread the word.

For more on this:
- read full story from internetnews.com, Oct 7 2005


4. ISP should not identify blogger - court

In a victory for free speech on the internet, the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling that a council official, suing over remarks posted online by an unknown blogger, could force the blogger’s ISP to reveal his identity.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Oct 7 2005


5. Yahoo to launch podcast search site

Yahoo is expected to launch on Monday a podcast service that offers access to much of the streaming audio on the Web and features user reviews and other information about the programming.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET news.com, Oct 9 2005


6. Microsoft Revamps, Rebrands Sybari Anti-Virus

Less than a year after its acquisition of enterprise anti-virus vendor Sybari Software Inc., Microsoft Corp. is revamping and rebranding the flagship Antigen product line.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Oct 6 2005


7. Connection restored between feuding Net providers

Traffic resumed between two feuding Internet access providers on Friday, mending a rift that had blocked off portions of the Internet for thousands of users over the past two days.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Oct 7 2005


8. Hackers jailed over global virus

Two hackers have been jailed for helping to create a virus that infected thousands of computers worldwide.
Andrew Harvey, 24, of Sherburn Village, Co Durham, was jailed for six months, and Jordan Bradley, 22, of Darlington, was jailed for three months, on Friday.

For more on this:
- read full story from BBC News, Oct 7 2005