It's a bull market for stock spam, cNet News, August 4, 2005

“The Volume of stock scam spam has risen, posing a new threat to investors, warns a new study from network security firm Sophos.”

Full story at: http://news.com.com/Its+a+bull+market+for+stock+spam/2100-7349_3-5818416.html?part=rss&tag=5818416&subj=news



Bloggers blog about blogging, cNet News, August 4, 2005

“Bloggers love to talk. And one of the topics they love to talk about is blogging. Combine that with a blog search engine and a new study about blogging, and you get a bit of self-referentialism of almost epic proportions.”

Full story at: http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5818490.html?part=rss&tag=5818490&subj=news



AOL continues to lose punters, The Register, August 4, 2005

“Almost a million subscribers deserted AOL over the last three months as the giant ISP continues to lose customers. As of the end of June, AOL had 20.8m punters in the US – down 917,000 on Q1 and a massive slump of 2.6m compared to the same period last year.”

Full story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/04/aol_punters/



Advertising.com Settles FTC Adware Charges, Washington Post, August 3, 2005

“Advertising.com Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc.’s America Online, agreed to settle federal charges that the company offered free security software without adequately disclosing that it also came with adware.”

Full story at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/03/AR2005080301399.html?nav=rss_technology



Yahoo, Microsoft challenge Google’s ad success, InfoWorld, August 3, 2005

“Yahoo and Microsoft are both stepping up efforts to challenge Google;s success in selling online advertisements linked to user searches.”

Full story at: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/03/HNyahoomsads_1.html




Google, MSN legal battle spins search results, cNet News, August 4, 2005

“Raising a question of bias, Google and MSN search results for keywords related to the legal bettle between the companies appear to be weighted differently, according to a news report.

Full story at: http://news.com.com/2061-10803_3-5819343.html?part=rss&tag=5819343&subj=news



AOL buys online locker provider, cNet News, August 4, 2005

“America Online on Thursday announced the acquisition of Xdrive, a privately held company specializing in online storage and backup services.”

Full story at: http://news.com.com/AOL+buys+online+locker+provider/2100-1025_3-5818548.html?part=rss&tag=5818548&subj=news



Smartone-Vodafone Selects Openwave to Deliver Next Generation IP Voicemail and Video Voicemail to Subscribers, OpenWave, August 4, 2005

“Openwave Systems Inc., an open software products and services provider, announced that SmarTone-Vodafone has chosen Openwave IP Voicemail and Video Voicemail solutions to provide customers personalized communications services.”

Full story at: http://www.openwave.com/us/news_room/press_releases/2005/20050804_opwv_smartone_0804.htm


BlueTie Awarded Key Patent for Secure File Transfer, BlueTie, August 3, 2005

“Technology enables secure delivery of documents and files over the Web without softward – Simplifies HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance”
Full story at: http://www.bluetie.com/about/press/080305.html

Yahoo tests blog search in Korea, cNet News, August 3, 2005

“Yahoo has quietly begun testing blog-search technology in Korea, a sign of coming tools for the US market that will take on existing players such as Technorati.”

Full story at: http://news.com.com/Yahoo+tests+blog+search+in+Korea/2100-1032_3-5817646.html?part=rss&tag=5817646&subj=news



Yahoo unveils beta of blog ad network, cNet News, August 3, 2005

“Yahoo on Wednesday debuted the beta version of an advertising network tailored for small and medium-size Web publishers. The service is designed to let publishers access Yahoo’s ad products and content through a self-serve platform. The company said the beta offering will be available in the US only through invitation.”

Full story at: http://news.com.com/Yahoo+unveils+beta+of+blog+ad+network/2100-1024_3-5816886.html?part=rss&tag=5816886&subj=news



Time Warner’s Advertising.com Settles With FTC Over Adware, Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2005

“Advertising.com Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc.’s America Online, agreed to settle federal charges that the company allegedly offered free security software without adequately disclosing that it also came with adware.”

Full story at: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112309574347604093,00.html?mod=e%2Dcommerce%5Fprimary%5Fhs



Ask Jeeves Launches Keyword-Based Ads, Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2005

“Ask Jeeves Inc. launched a new keyword-based advertising program for its search service, in a move that could provide both additional advertising revenue and more independence from rival Google Inc., which currently provides ads for Jeeves search-results pages.”

Full story at: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112290177478001457,00.html?mod=e%2Dcommerce%5Fprimary%5Fhs



Actiontec Teams up with Skype, ExtremeTech, August 3, 2005

“Actiontec Electronics has entered the VoIP game with the Actiontec Internet Phone Wizard, a small gateway allowing a user to make VoIP calls using the Skype service.”

Full story: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1843318,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532



Vonage Confirms Site, Service Trouble, InternetNews, August 3, 2005

“Vonage’s Web site was temporarily down, and some customers reported being unable to dial out using the company’s Voice over IP service today.”

Full story at: http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3525071



Antiphishing group casts line at new threats, cNet News, August 3, 2005

“Faces with a rise in so-called pharming and crimeware attacks, the Anti-Phishing Working Group will expand its charter to include these emerging threats.

Full story at: http://news.com.com/Anti-phishing+group+casts+line+at+new+threats/2100-7349_3-5816919.html?part=rss&tag=5816919&subj=news



Court Oks Blocking of Unsolicited E-mails, Yahoo News, August 3, 2005

“The University of Texas didn’t violate the constitutional rights of an online dating service when it blocked thousands of unsolicited emails, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.”

Full story at: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050803/ap_on_hi_te/dating_spam



Net criminals’ customise’ attacks, BBC News, August 3, 2005

“Net criminals and hackers are increasingly targeting their attacks at specific organizations, research shows. Spam is becoming less attractive as criminals focus on fraud, identity theft and extortion. This has meant a decrease in the ratio of spam to legitimate email from 83% in January to 67% in June.”

Full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4739709.stm



Gartner: Bank card fraud too easy for phishers, InfoWorld, August 2, 2005

“US banks are putting customer convenience ahead of security and, in the process, making it much easier for online “phishers” to create counterfeit bank cards, according to a Gartner Inc. report released Tuesday. And with the Internet now a common source of stolen account information, phishers are accounting for a growing portion of the estimated US$2.75 billion in annual losses that bank card abuse is costing US banks, the Stamford, Connecticut, research firm said.”

Full story at: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/02/HNbankcardphishers_1.html

One blog created “every second”, BBC News, August 2, 2005

"The blogosphere is continuing to grow, with a weblog created every second, according to blog trackers Technorati. In its latest State of the Blogosphere report, it said the number of blogs it was tracking now stood at more than 14.2m blogs, up from 7.8m in March. It suggests, on average, the number of blogs is doubling every five months. "

Full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4737671.stm


Moore’s Law of Blogs, cNet News, August 2, 2005

"Popular blog search Web site Technorati posted a report on the growth of blogs that shows that, on average, the number of blogs is doubling every five-and-a-half month. As of last month, more than 80,000 blogs were created daily, with a new blog created every second, the report found. Technorati tracks more than 14.2 million blogs. About 55 percent of all new bloggers are considered active, or had a posting in the last 3 months and about 13 percent update at least weekly, according to the study "

Full story at: http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-5815787.html?part=rss&tag=5815787&subj=news



Yahoo to launch blog ad network, cNet news, August 2, 2005

"Yahoo is planning to launch on Wednesday an ad network for small Web publishers intended to strengthen its hand against rival Google. Like Google’s service, Yahoo’s self-serve product will display text ads deemed relevant to the content of specific Web pages. Advertisers pay only when a reader clicks on their ads. Yahoo and publishers will split the fees. "

Full story at: http://news.com.com/Yahoo+to+launch+blog+ad+network/2100-1024_3-5815551.html?part=rss&tag=5815551&subj=news



Yahoo to Start Tests of Ads on Blog Sites, NYTimes, August 3, 2005

"Call it the battle of the blogs. Yahoo is testing a system that will let it place ads on Web sites of bloggers and other small and medium-size publishers, a market that was created and is dominated by Google. Yahoo will invite 2000 sites to take part in the test, beginning today, and will open the system to blogs and other publishers by the end of the year. "

Full story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/technology/03yahoo.html?ex=1280721600&en=b3463ef2cae95496&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss



Vonage, WiMax provider team up, cNet news, August 2, 2005

"TowerStream, a provider of high-speed Internet services using cutting-edge WiMax technology, has teamed with Internet telephony giant Vonage in one of the first co-marketing agreements of its kind. "

Full story at: http://news.com.com/Vonage,+WiMax+provider+team+up/2100-1039_3-5815406.html?part=rss&tag=5815406&subj=news



Vonage, wireless carrier to sell together, InfoWorld, August 2, 2005

"A provider of high-speed wireless service to businesses in several U.S. cities is now selling Vonage Holdings Corp. VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service along with its data connections. A deal announced Tuesday between fixed-wireless provider TowerStream Corp. and Vonage Marketing, is intended to make it easier for businesses to completely bypass traditional carriers for both data and phone service. "

Full story at: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/08/02/HNvonagewireless_1.html



AOL ready to reinvent itself, cNet news, August 2, 2005

"The company plans to launch in mid-August a new portal that will make the services and content that were previously available only to AOL subscribers free to everyone. A beta version of the site has been public since early in the summer. "

Full story at: http://news.com.com/AOL+ready+to+reinvent+itself/2100-1025_3-5814373.html?part=rss&tag=5814373&subj=news



Internet Attacks Increase in Number, Severity, Yahoo News, August 2, 2005

"Virus-laden email and criminal-driven security attacks have increased 50 percent in the first half of 2005, according to a recent IBM report. Customized attacks on government, financial services, manufacturing and healthcare also have seen significant increases. "

Full story at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20050802/tc_nf/37597



Phishers cash in on ATM cards, cNet news, August 2, 2005

"Phishing attacks have led to an estimated $2.75 billion in losses related to ATM and debit cards over the past 12 months, according to a new Gartner report. Gartner estimates that 3 million Americans have lost an average of more than $900 each due to online scams over the past year. "

Full story at: http://news.com.com/Phishers+cash+in+on+ATM+cards/2100-7349_3-5815141.html?part=rss&tag=5815141&subj=news

ISP offers free trial of service, SCMP, August 2, 2005

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN), a subsidiary of City Telecom, is ratcheting up online protection for its subscribers through a new anti-spam service backed by information security giant Symantec. The Brightmail Anti-spam software form Symantec has been incorporated in the network operator’s bbGuard service, designed to tackle junk electronic mail for both residential and corporate HKBN users.

Full story at: http://technology.scmp.com/techmain/ZZZCI88MQBE.html


AOL Explorer 1.1, pcmag.com, August 1, 2005

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? That’s a question many America Online subscribers may ponder on downloading AOL Explorer, the company’s latest gratis offering. The feature-packed Web browser, which requires only a standard-issue Internet connection, not an AOL subscription, arrives on the heels of 2 other unbundled freebies: AIM mail and an updated AOL Instant Messenger.

Full story at: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1842398,00.asp



Avaya Launches Voice Portals for Web Services, InternetNews, August 1, 2005

Communications software giant Avaya is pushing its Voice over IP software to the next level with the ability to integrate within a Service Oriented Architecture. The company said its new Avaya Voice Portal significantly reduces the costs of deploying speech self-service by using a company’s existing Web services.

Full story at: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3524146



Wi-Fi Phone Options Expand, eWeek, August 1, 2005

Meru Networks Inc. and Zultys Technology, specializes in VoIP technology, have each unveiled plans for products that support voice services over a wireless LAN. Zultys announced plans for its first Wi-Fi phone last week – WIP 2, which runs on Linux and is compatible with any IP telephony system that uses SIP.

Full story at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1841404,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594



Legend unveils VoIP product, The Register, August 1, 2005

Legend Communications – formerly Business Serve PLC – has unveiled a new internet telephony product for homes and businesses. The company will launch fixed price unlimited packages – unlimited calls to UK landlines from GBP 4.99/mo for numbers with 01 and 02 prefixes, or, for GBP 16.99/mo, unlimited UK and international calls.

Full story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/01/legend_voip/



Portal Offers VoIP Downloads, eWeek, August 1, 2005

As voice-over-IP systems prove to be less easy to use than the technology’s champions suggest, vendors are responding to small and midsize businesses’ need for simpler, more intuitive IP telephony. Nimcat Networks Inc. is launching a Web portal where users can download new features for their VoIP handsets within minutes. The portal provides an array of features that can be purchased, installed and used without the need to add hardware to the network.

Full story at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1841616,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594



WiFi and VoIP in the sky, cnNews, August 1, 2005

Plane manufacturer Boeing announced today that it has certified that hotspots in certain plans to work with notebook containing Intel’s Centrino chip bundle and able to nake VoIP calls.

Full Story at: http://news.com.com/2061-10792_3-5813748.html?part=rss&tag=5813748&subj=news




MessageLabs to protect against Web pests, cnNews, August 1, 2005

MessageLabs in October plans to introduce new Web filtering services, the company’s first foray outside of email security. The new services will scan Web traffic for viruses, spayware and adward. Also, MessageLabs can filter based on Web addresses, allowing a customer to block access to specific Web sites. To use the services, customer would route Web traffic through a MessageLabs data center.

Full story at: http://news.com.com/MessageLabs+to+protect+against+Web+pests/2110-1032_3-5814384.html?part=rss&tag=5814384&subj=news



Yahoo to offer CNN, ABC video feeds, cnNews, August 1, 2005

Yahoo has signed deals with CNN.com and ABC News to expand the content it offers. Under the agreements, daily video feeds from the 2 media companies will be available on Yahoo, starting in September. The news feeds will be supported by advertising and will be free to consumers.

Full story at: http://news.com.com/Yahoo+to+offer+CNN%2C+ABC+video+feeds/2100-1025_3-5813499.html?part=rss&tag=5813499&subj=news

Net addresses come down to Earth, BBC News, July 29, 2005

One of the attractions of the internet is that it seems to make distance and location irrelevant. No matter where you are in the physical world as long as you are online you are the same place as everyone else in cyberspace, but lately that free-floating nature of the net has started to breakdown. Yahoo, MSN, Google and 192.com have started pushing local search services near where you are in the real world, they try to link the net address, or IP number to a physical location.

Full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4665351.stm



Scalix Takes Linux Messaging Mobile, eWeek, July 30, 2005

Messaging and Collaboration software vendor Scalix has extended its Linux-based enterprise email and calendaring platform to wireless devices. This allows users of the Scalix email server to wirelessly access and synchronize their email, calendar, address book and PIM (personal information manager) data on a variety of wireless devices, such as Blackberry, Treo smart phones, HP's windows mobile-based iPags.

Full story at: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1841971,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594



MSN shows off Forthcoming Search, Mail Deliverables, Microsoft Watch, July 28, 2005

At Microsoft's financial analyst meeting, MSN officials demonstrated several new products and technologies that the company is expecting to deliver in the next few months. MSN’s officials demonstrated a beta version of a new mail client, as well as the adCenter platform, also in beta, that Microsoft is hoping to use to attract potential MSN and Microsoft.com advertisers. They also have new units such as social-networking app tentatively called "Friends of Friends", as well as an MSN Virtual Earth search enhancement called "Eagle Eye".

Full story at: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1841517,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535




MSN's Enterprise Ambitions, InternetNews, July 30, 2005

Executives at Microsoft's Financial Analysts Meeting, held on Thursday, said that the company wants to extend Web-based services such as Hotmail to the enterprise. MSN services are getting enterprise-grade security and functionality. They have a new version of Web mail being tested internally by a few thousand people that looks more like Outlook, with a list of folders, previews and contact lists. The application includes built-in sender permissions (the user is alerted when receiving email from unknown sender and they can accept or block the email)....

Full story at: http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3524091



Skype Sets Video Bata Launch, InternetNews, July 29, 2005

VoIP Skype is slated to launch the public beta next month and that it has licensed compression codecs from On 2 Technologies, a video compression technology pioneer. Skype's video calling service is a video-enhanced PC to PC phone service and is expected to be free when it is offered commercially. The service offers broadcast quality viewing so callers can watch each other while talking on their PC-enabled Skype service. Compression techniques by the On2 codecs are key aspects that enable broadcast quality video calls.

Full story at: http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3523871



Phishing attacks soar as viral onslaught wanes, The Register, July 29, 2005

The volume of phishing attacks on UK businesses in July increased 45 per cent, accordingly to email security company BlackSpider Technologies. BlackSpider detected more than 360,000 emails carrying a phishing threat in July, compared to just under 250,000 in June 2005. Virus-laden emails dropped slightly from 2.9 percent to 2.6 percent in July.

Full story at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/29/blackspider_malware_report/



AOL dials up Web search for mobile phones, Zdnet, July 26, 2005

AOL is entering the mobile phone Internet search fray, testing a new service in the United States that will allow most cell phone users to search for Web content and local merchant information and do shopping comparisons all on their handsets. The new AOL Mobile Search Services will give mobile users access to the AOL Search service, Pinpoint Shopping Search and AOL Yellow Pages. It’s available on any Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phone, which is the majority of the mobile phones on the market.

Full story at: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5805754.html



Swisscom to Launch Series of New Services with Memova Messaging from Critical Path; New Services Designed to Improve the Consumer Experience as Fixed-Line and Mobile Increasingly Converge, Critical Path, July 28, 2005

Critical Path announced that Swisscom Fixnet Bluewin, a Multi-Service Provider, has singed an agreement with CP to deploy Momova Messaging with plans to launch a series of new consumer services for both broadband and mobile subscribers. The new services enabled by Memova Messaging create new opportunities for Swisscom and are designed to improve the consumer experience as fixed-line and mobile services increasingly converge.

Full story at: http://www.criticalpath.net/en/76/news/?news=736971