AOL Pushes Its AIM

1. AOL Pushes Its AIM

AOL wants more presence and presence partners
The instant messaging pioneer America Online hopes to get bloggers, pod casters, and small businesses to embed its presence into their offerings.

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


2. New Sober Slams Users, Quickly Slumps

A new version of the two-year-old Sober worm stormed the Internet late Wednesday and early Thursday, causing anti-virus vendors to issue the loudest alerts since the August appearance of Zobot.

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


3. Microsoft, Time Warner resume AOL-MSN talks-WSJ

Time Warner Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have restarted discussions about forming an alliance of their Internet units, America Online and MSN, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.

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


4. Blackout shows Net's fragility

Since early Wednesday, Phil Bradham, the network engineer at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, has been cut off from the parts of the Internet he needs the most.

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


5. AOL confirms Weblogs buyout

AOL has confirmed it is to acquire blog network outfit Weblogs, Inc as part of a plan to keep subscribers and advertisers locked into its content.
Financial details were not disclosed although earlier reports claim the US internet giant was prepared to shell out $25m for the company.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Oct 6 2005

6. US ISP sues for defamation

US-based Eagle Broadband Inc has filed a defamation lawsuit against 25 unnamed net users for allegedly posting misleading information about the company.

For more on this law sue:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Oct 6 2005


7. A Real Remedy for Phishers

Last week California became the first state to enact a law specifically addressing phishing. Phishing, for those of you who have been away from the internet for the past few years, is when an attacker sends you an e-mail falsely claiming to be a legitimate business in order to trick you into giving away your account info -- passwords, mostly. When this is done by hacking DNS, it's called pharming.

For more on this:
- read full story from wired news, Oct 6 2005


8. Spyware Purveyor in Cross Hairs

Government regulators are trying to shut down a company they say secretly downloaded spyware onto the computers of unwitting internet users, rendering them helpless to a flood of pop-up ads, computer crashes and other annoyances.

For more on this:
- read full story from wired news, Oct 5 2005