Everyone.net Selects Opt-Intelligence to Serve Opt-In Advertising on Its Sponsored Mail Network

1. Everyone.net Selects Opt-Intelligence to Serve Opt-In Advertising on Its Sponsored Mail Network

Everyone.net® has chosen Opt-Intelligence's lead generation ad serving platform for the websites using Everyone.net's Sponsored Mail™ services. With its Sponsored Mail™ services Everyone.net offers the technology and infrastructure to enable websites of all sizes to offer free email accounts to their users. Since its inception in 1998 Everyone.net has provisioned over 30 million mailboxes for more than 300,000 domains.

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- read full story from everyone.net, Nov 1 2005


2. Mailblocks Announces Service Discontinuation

Per the email sent to all current Mailblocks customers, the Mailblocks email service will be discontinued on November 16, 2005.

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- read full story from mailblocks.com


3. WatchGuard Introduces New Security Services Solidifying Its Leadership in Unified Threat Management

New software enables centralized management of appliances and security services that defend against spyware, spam, viruses and other intrusions.

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- read full story from commtouch.com, Oct 26 2005


4. Outspoken Chinese blog 'blocked'

A popular Chinese blog has been blocked by the Chinese authorities, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders.

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- read full story from BBC News, Nov 3 2005


5. Microsoft Acquires 2 Technology Companies

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it has acquired FolderShare, a service that helps computer users share and synchronize large files without needing to use e-mail, burn CDs or upload information to the Internet.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 3 2005


6. MySpace Launches Record Label

The social networking Web site MySpace.com has launched its own record label in a joint venture with Interscope Records hoping to capitalize on its broad reach among music-savvy consumers.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 3 2005


7. Microsoft Updates Web Services Tool

Microsoft will release the latest version of its Web Service Enhancements (WSE) tool to the general public Monday, just in time for the launch of Visual Studio 2005 (VS 2005).

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- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 3 2005


8. Congress, VoIPs Move to Delay E911

The race is on in both the courts and Congress to kill a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order that all Internet telephone companies provide E911 service by Nov. 28.

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- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 3 2005


9. MS buys Swiss VoIP outfit

Microsoft is to acquire a Swiss software outfit that develops applications for internet telephony. Financial details were not released but Zurich-based media-streams.com said it plans to work with the software giant to "accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision".

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- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Nov 3 2005


10. Google Offers Index of Public Domain Works

Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine on Thursday will begin serving up the entire contents of books and government documents that aren't entangled in a copyright battle over how much material can be scanned and indexed from five major libraries.

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- read full story from washingtonposts.com, Nov 3 2005

New Consumer Mobile Email Service Launched by SFR Quickly Reaches 150,000 Subscribers Using Critical Path's Memova Messaging Technology

1. New Consumer Mobile Email Service Launched by SFR Quickly Reaches 150,000 Subscribers Using Critical Path's Memova Messaging Technology

Critical Path, Inc. a leading provider of messaging software and services, today announced that SFR, Vodafone's French Network Operator, has reached 150,000 MMS Mail subscribers in just four months since the launch of the new consumer mobile email service this summer.

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- read full story from criticalpath.com, Nov 2 2005


2. Critical Path Announces 2005 Third Quarter Results; Record Results -- Cash Flow Positive; Continued Improvement in GAAP Results; Profitable on Adjusted EBITDA Basis

Critical Path, Inc. a leading provider of messaging software and services, today announced unaudited financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2005.

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- read full story from criticalpath.com, Oct 31 2005


3. Internet phone calls on the rise

Systems that allow you to use an existing telephone will win out
A third of people in the US and Europe will abandon phone lines in favour of wireless and broadband telephony come 2009, say analysts Gartner.

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- read full story from BBC News, Nov 3 2005


4. T-Systems Expands VoIP Network

Deutsche Telekom's (Quote, Chart) T-Systems division announced today that it is expanding its Voice over IP (define) network to attract new business customers.

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- read full story from theinternetnews.com, Nov 2 2005


5. Yahoo Redesigns Its Online Mapping Service

Yahoo Inc. has redesigned its online maps to make it easier to get driving directions to multiple destinations and find local merchants — the latest move in the company's duel with Internet powerhouse, Google Inc.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 3 2005


6. VoIP providers band together

A handful of voice over Internet providers will announce on Thursday that they are banding together to promote the use of Internet telephony. The group, called the Internet Voice Campaign, is a part of the VON Coalition, a group that aims to increase adoption and use of voice over IP. EarthLink, Google, Pulver.com, Sonus Networks and Skype, which was recently bought by eBay, are all founding members of the group.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 2 2005


7. Microsoft acquires Net-calling start-up

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a small company that specializes in voice communication over the Web, the second acquisition it's made in that market in recent months.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 2 2005


8. Early Skype backers rev for Revver

Several investors in Internet telephony provider Skype Technologies have reunited to offer an undisclosed amount of Series A financing to Revver, a peer-to-peer video-sharing service with an online presence.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 2 2005

MessageLabs to buy OmniPod for IM security

1. MessageLabs to buy OmniPod for IM security

Hosted e-mail and Web security specialist MessageLabs is expanding into instant messaging security by acquiring secure enterprise IM provider OmniPod.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 1 2005


2. Web hosted, ad-supported Windows: streaming to your PC

Microsoft patted itself on the back for completing .NET, while announcing 'live' Windows and Office offerings today. With these offerings, Microsoft hopes it can counter Google and tap into the trend for "software as a service."

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- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Nov 1 2005


3. Microsoft to Deliver Hosted Windows, Office

Microsoft announced Windows Live and Office Live, advertising-supported, online versions of its market-dominant operating system and desktop productivity software.

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- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 1 2005


4. Telefonica bids £18bn for UK's O2

Mobile phone group O2 has agreed a takeover offer from Spanish telecom company Telefonica.
Telefonica is to pay £17.7bn ($31.6bn) for the firm in order to get a foothold in two of Europe's largest mobile phone markets - the UK and Germany.

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- read full story from BBC News, Nov 1 2005


5. Microsoft Striving For Destination Status

Microsoft Corp. yesterday made its most forceful move so far to counter the success of Internet giants Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., unveiling a Web destination for computer users who want to create a home page of continuously updated information on any topic they choose.

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- read full story from washingtonpost.com, Nov 2 2005


6. Microsoft shifts to ad-backed Web software services

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said it will make a strategic shift by offering software with online services, a move analysts said was prompted by competition from Google and other rivals.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 2 2005


7. Top US Cable Co's Land Sprint Nextel Deal

Three top U.S. cable operators on Monday reached a deal to resell wireless phone services with Sprint Nextel to compete against telephone operators entering the video market, sources familiar with the situation said.

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- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 1 2005


8. FaceTime Issues Worm-Free Guarantee

FaceTime Communications, Foster City, Calif., is backing the new release of its IMAuditor instant messaging security software with guaranteed protection against worms propagating through all major public IM systems.

For more on this:
- read full story from messaginigpipeline.com, 31 Oct 2005


9. FaceTime Issues Worm-Free Guarantee

FaceTime Communications, Foster City, Calif., is backing the new release of its IMAuditor instant messaging security software with guaranteed protection against worms propagating through all major public IM systems.

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- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Oct 31 2005

AOL IM worm roots around Windows PCs

1. AOL IM worm roots around Windows PCs

A worm propagating through AOL's Instant Messenger network comes with rootkit technology designed to slip under anti-virus defences. The Sdbot-ADD worm is being passed through instant messages from members on a user’s Buddy List and within AOL chat rooms.
For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Oct 31 2005


2. AOL's AIMPro Revamps Business IM

Hoping to catch a ride on the software-as-a-service wave, America Online Inc. is working to integrate its popular instant messaging client with WebEx Communications Inc.'s Web meeting tool and Microsoft Corp.'s Outlook with the aim of offering a hosted, subscription-based service for businesses.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Oct 31 2005


3. BT buys up TNS

BT has snapped up LAN outfit Total Network Solutions Limited (TNS) for an undisclosed sum, the monster telco announced today. The UK's dominant telco said the move was part of its plans to gain more ground as a networked services provider and to expand into areas such as LAN, IP telephony, wireless networking and security.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Oct 31 2005


4. Hackers use bird flu emails to hijack computers

Computer hackers are exploiting fears over bird flu by releasing a computer virus attached to an email passing itself off as containing avian flu information, warned Spainish computer firm Panda Software.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 1 2005


5. SBC revises high-speed Internet prices

SBC Communications Inc. said on Monday it was revamping prices for its high-speed Internet services, cutting most regular monthly rates to lure more customers onto higher-speed lines.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 1 2005


6. How to put good VoIP security in place

With new research reports indicating big VoIP adoption and other indicators noting that security certainly isn't perfect with VoIP, it's never too early to get good VoIP security practices in place.

For more insight on good VoIP security:
- read this article at Networking Pipeline


7. Review: Blogging Tools Need Integration

First came words, then came photos. Now, many Web journals are incorporating moving images — and one blogging service aims to make producing and displaying such video easier.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Oct 31 2005


8. Fraud Meets Its Match on Internet

Several public and private organizations banded together to launch a new anti-Internet fraud initiative for consumers, officials announced Monday.

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- read full story from internetnews.com, Oct 31 2005


9. TelCove Steps Up Its Metro Ethernet Pace

For enterprises with multiple locations that require very high-capacity connections, such as hospitals and colleges, TelCove Inc. this week will ramp up its metropolitan Ethernet services to a capacity of 10G bps, 10 times faster than its current offering.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Oct 31 2005

eBay fraudsters sentenced to jail

1. eBay fraudsters sentenced to jail

Three Romanians who conned eBay customers out of thousands of pounds have been sentenced to a total of eight years' imprisonment.

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- read full story from BBC News, Oct 28 2005


2. Cingular Accelerates Its Pace To Improve Data Network Quality

Cingular's moving into high gear in its drive to catch up with rivals in wireless data speed, revenue and coverage. Boosting data speeds has been one of the carrier's big challenges since buying AT&T Wireless a year ago.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Oct 28 2005


3. Sprint Nextel to Launch High-Speed Network

Sprint Nextel Corp. is poised for a full-scale launch of its high-speed wireless network, a service that will include the first over-the-air music download store in the United States. The newly merged cell phone company was planning a series of major announcements for Monday morning.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Oct 28 2005


4. Qualcomm says allegations "meritless"

Wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc said on Friday that reported complaints that six technology firms made against it to the European Communications are "meritless."

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Oct 28 2005


5. Rootkit-Wom Hitting AOL's IM Network

FaceTime Security Labs today identified a new threat circulating through AOL's (Quote, Chart) Instant Messenger (AIM) network: a worm that leaves behind a nasty surprise for unsuspecting chatters.

For more on this:
- read full story from internetnews.com, Oct 28 2005


6. Anti-Spyware definitions finalised

The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), an alliance of software companies, security firms and consumer groups, finalised its definitions of spyware on Thursday.

For more on this:
- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Oct 28 2005


7. Microsoft threatens to withdraw Windows in S.Korea

Microsoft Corp. has threatened to withdraw its Windows software from South Korea if the country's antitrust agency orders it to unbundle its Instant Messenger and Media Player from the operating system

For more on this:
- read full story from reuters.com, Oct 28 2005


8. IBM signs up Neterion for server networking

IBM plans to begin selling Ethernet adapters from Neterion on Monday, the most significant partner thus far for a start-up whose products transfer data at 10 gigabits per second.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET news.com, Oct 30 2005


9. Yahoo Cozies Up to Bloggers

Yahoo announced a new feature for its My Web 2.0 "social search engine" on Friday that's meant to appeal to bloggers and Web site publishers.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Oct 28 2005