AIM Worm Linked To Middle East Group

1. AIM Worm Linked To Middle East Group

A recently discovered worm that spreads through America Online Inc.'s instant messaging network has been linked to additional malware sent by an unidentified group in the Middle East, a security firm said Thursday.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 17 2005


2. Google shares top $400 threshold

Shares in Google have risen above $400 each for the first time, capping a strong period of growth for the internet search firm.

For more on this:
- read full story from BBC News, Nov 18 2005


3. AOL forces friends on AIM customers

Users of instant messaging services have traditionally been allowed to act as sole gatekeeper of their buddy lists. But that may be changing, as American Online inserted two robotic buddies into AIM lists Thursday.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News, Nov 17 2005


4. Google buying online photo company Riya?

The latest Google buzz is that the search giant is buying or talking about acquiring Riya, a Redwood City, Calif.-based company that uses facial-recognition technology to enable users to search for people in photos. Pretty nifty idea if it works.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News, Nov 17 2005


5. Seven-Eleven in tie-up talks with Yahoo Japan

Seven-Eleven Japan, the convenience store unit of Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd., said on Friday it was in talks with Yahoo Japan Corp., the country's top Internet portal, on a comprehensive operational tie-up.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 18 2005


6. Kazaa File-Sharing Boss to Face Court

An Australian federal judge on Thursday ordered the chief executive of the company that owns file-swapping giant Kazaa to face cross-examination from recording industry lawyers about her assets pending a damages hearing in the landmark music piracy case.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 17 2005


7. Cingular Revamps 'The Daily Me'

Cingular Wireless is offering a new and improved version of "The Daily Me" for data-capable cell phones with even more personalized content such as weather, stock quotes and movie listings.

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- read full story from theinternetnews.com, Nov 17 2005


8. AOL: Pictures for Free

The picture of AOL's content strategy got a little clearer today when it launched a revamped, free photo-sharing Web site.

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- read full story from theregister.com, Nov 17 2005


9. Network Providers Fight FCC on VOIP Wiretapping

The government's stance on VOIP is creating uncertainty for many network providers heading into 2006. Protesting that new federal wiretapping rules will stifle innovation and require the re-engineering of private IP networks at a huge expense, universities, ISPs, libraries and privacy organizations, along with Sun Microsystems Inc., are going to court to overturn the rules.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 17 2005


10. AIM Rootkit Attack Traced to Middle East

Security researchers have traced October's W32/Sdbot-ADD worm attack against AOL's Instant Messenger network to a rootkit-powered botnet controlled by hackers in the Middle East.

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- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 17 2005

Intellisync Enters Into Definitive Agreement for All-Cash Transaction Valued at Approximately $430 Million

1. Intellisync Enters Into Definitive Agreement for All-Cash Transaction Valued at Approximately $430 Million

Intellisync Corporation (NASDAQ: SYNC), the leader in platform-independent wireless messaging, announced today that Intellisync has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nokia (NYSE: NOK), a world leader in mobile communications.

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- read full story from intellisync.com, Nov 16 2005


2. Nokia adds to e-mail with Intellisync buy

Mobile giant Nokia will buy wireless messaging and e-mail management firm Intellisync to boost its position in the corporate mobile e-mail market, it said on Wednesday.

For more on this:
- read full story from reuters, Nov 16 2005


3. Google Base: Toward a Walled Garden

Anyone can search the Web. Now, Google aims to create its own invisible Web (define), which will be invisible to anyone not using Google.

For more on this:
- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 16 2005


4. GoogleNet conquers Mountain View

Google's first foray into providing blanket wireless internet coverage has proved victorious, with its home town of Mountain View giving the local company a five-year monopoly on providing Wi-Fi access.

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- read full story from theregister.com, Nov 17 2005


5. Commtouch Reports Ninth Consecutive Quarter of Revenue Growth

Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH), the developer of ground breaking RPD™ technology for real time anti-spam and Zero-Hour™ virus protection, today announced its third quarter and year to date results for the period ending September 30, 2005.

For more on this:
- read full story from commtouch.com, Nov 16 2005


6. Chinese Internet star Alibaba.com vows to beat Google

Chinese Internet firm Alibaba.com has vowed to defeat US giant Google in the battle to become the dominant search engine for the potentially lucrative Chinese market.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 17 2005


7. Sony Unveils Internet-Based Phone Service

Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). on Wednesday announced a free Internet-based phone service similar to the popular computer-to-computer calling provided by Skype, but with an emphasis on video conferencing.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 16 2005


8. Skype hopes China will approve paid call service

Internet telephony firm Skype hopes to reach agreement soon with Chinese state-owned telecoms operators so it can launch its computer-to-telephone call service in China, the firm's chief executive said on Wednesday.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 16 2005


9. Cingular to Offer Phones For the 12-and-Under Set

Cingular Wireless stores today will start selling a small, brightly colored cell phone called the Firefly, becoming the first national carrier to offer a mobile phone tailor-made for children 12 years old and younger.

For more on this:
- read full story from washingtonposts.com, Nov 17 2005

IM Worms Mutating At An Alarming Rate

1. IM Worms Mutating At An Alarming Rate

Instant-messaging threats are mutating at an alarming rate, as virus writers attempt to bypass security-system updates that corporations use for protection, a security vendor said Tuesday.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 15 2005


2. Intradyn Adds Instant Messaging Support For ComplianceVault

Intradyn has teamed with Akonix Systems in order to offer customers of its ComplianceVault e-mail archiving and retrieval appliances a way to index, archive, and search instant messages to meet regulatory, e-discovery, and internal compliance requirements.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 15 2005


3. Google Base service goes live

Google's mysterious Google Base service went live late on Tuesday, allowing people to post any kind of information they want for free and to provide labels to describe it so others can easily find it.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 15 2005


4. Web Firms Take Stand Against Spyware

A coalition of major Internet companies today will announce a plan to weed out advertisers who infect computers with unwanted code that spies on users' activities or generates nuisance advertising.

For more on this:- read full story from washingtonpost.com, Nov 16 2005


5. eBay sets up Asia HQ in Korea

eBay Inc. will set up its Asian headquarters in South Korea, its fourth-largest market, from January to spearhead a drive into its fastest-growing region, executives said on Wednesday.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 16 2005


6. Project expands Google's reach - to nearly everything

An ambitious Google service lets anyone upload most anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising.

For more on this:
- read full story from scmp.com, Nov 16 2005


7. Website to blend journalism with blogs

A media website scheduled to debut on Wednesday will seek to blend traditional journalism with the freeform commentary developed through the emerging Web format known as blogs.

For more on this:
- read full story from scmp.com, Nov 16 2005


8. Google Aims for the Classified Ads Business

Google is poised to enter the highly competitive classified advertisement business, posing a threat to online and traditional businesses in that field.

For more on this:
- read full story from the new york times, Nov 16 2005


9. Court keeps Net phone rules for now

A federal appeals court on Tuesday decided not to put on hold a thorny set of rules about 911 requirements for Web phone providers.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 15 2005


10. Will VoIP Ante up For USF Dues?

Two lawmakers want the Universal Service Fund (USF) to help finance broadband deployment in rural and underserved areas.

For more on this:
- read full story from internetnews.com, Nov 15 2005

New CipherTrust Appliance Monitors Compliance Policies Across Multiple Messaging Protocols

1. New CipherTrust Appliance Monitors Compliance Policies Across Multiple Messaging Protocols

Atlanta messaging security vendor CipherTrust Inc. today rolled out its latest appliance for preventing compliance violations across multiple protocols, including e-mail, instant messaging, Webmail, blogs and FTP.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 14 2005


2. Juniper gets Funky

Juniper Networks has acquired network access security start-up Funk Software in a cash transaction valued at approximately $122m.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 14 2005


3. Zimbra readies open-source business e-mail

Zimbra on Tuesday will release a second beta test of its messaging and calendaring software and introduce a version targeted specifically to businesses.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 14 2005


4. Internet Phone Subscriptions Up by a Third in 3 Months

The number of subscribers for Internet phone services surged to about 3.6 million in the third quarter as providers aggressively signed up customers, according to an independent report released yesterday.

For more on this:
- read full story from washingtonpost.com, Nov 15 2005


5. US Internet powerhouse Google offers free online marketing data

Powerhouse Internet portal Google began offering free data about effective way to market things online. Access to the tips, research and insights at Google Analytics, which was formerly referred to as Urchin from Google, is being provided free of charge by the Silicon Valley company, according to engineering director Paul Muret.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 14 2005


6. O2 chief reassures on Telefónica aims

Peter Erskine, chief executive of O2, the UK mobile phone company, insisted on Monday that Telefónica would not repeat the mistakes made by France Telecom (NYSE:FTE - news)when it acquired Orange, if the Spanish telecoms group's £17.7bn ($30.8bn) bid for his company goes through.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 14 2005


7. Mercora offers radio service on Google Talk

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mercora Inc., an aggregator of over 500,000 individual Webcasters, on Monday began offering a version of its service to users of Google Inc.'s Google Talk instant messaging service.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 14 2005


8. Ebay Frees Its Developer API

Once upon a time, developers who needed to access eBay's application programming interfaces (define) in order to connect to the auction giant's selling platform had to pay.

For more on this:
- read full story from theinternetnews.com, Nov 14 2005


9. Microsoft to root out Sony spyware

Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. has joined a growing group of security software vendors who are treating Sony (Profile, Products, Articles) BMG Music Entertainment's controversial XCP (Extended Copy Protection) copy protection software as a threat.

For more on this:
- read full story from infoworld, Nov 14 2005

Security Vendors Increase Antiphishing Initiatives

1. Security Vendors Increase Antiphishing Initiatives

Two of the security sector's leading vendors have stepped up their efforts to educate partners and users about the rapidly growing threat of phishing.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 10 2005


2. Softchoice To Offer Cloudmark's E-mail Protection

Cloudmark Inc. and Softchoice Corp. have teamed up to launch the Exchange Attachment Program, which will protect Softchoice’s Microsoft Exchange Server customers by adding the Cloudmark Server Edition, anti-spam and anti-phishing protection.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 11 2005


3. Coalition Reports Wide Adoption Of E-mail Authentication

The E-mail Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) has revealed the results of an industry survey that demonstrates strong adoption of e-mail authentication protocols by the world's largest corporate brands, with more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100 companies using the protocols on outbound marketing e-mail to help protect against phishing exploits and spam.

For more on this:
- read full story from messagingpipeline.com, Nov 11 2005


4. Commtouch Reports October Spam Trends: Spam Accounts for 74% of Global Traffic, 86% of US Corporate Email

Commtouch® the developer of ground breaking RPD™ technology for real time anti-spam and Zero-Hour™ virus protection, today announced spam trends and statistics for the month of October.

For more on this:
- read full story from commtouch.com, Nov 13 2005


5. Google gets analytical

Google is set to launch on Monday a free Web analytics service that will let companies see exactly how visitors interact with their Web site and how their advertising campaigns are faring.

For more on this:
- read full story from CNET News.com, Nov 13 2005


6. Governments resume key talks on control of the Internet

About 170 countries kicked off a final round of negotiations on the controversial issue of control of the Internet and the core technical infrastructure that allows it to operate seamlessly worldwide.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 13 2005


7. Net2Phone says board to consider IDT offer

Internet telephone services company Net2Phone Inc. on Friday said an independent committee of its board of directors would consider IDT Corp.'s $2 per share offer for the 60 percent of the company's shares it does not already own.

For more on this:
- read full story from Yahoo! News, Nov 11 2005


8. Government Awards $18.6 Million to Share Health Information

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded four contracts to consortia that will figure out how doctors at different health care sites can share medical information. The four consortia are made of technology vendors and local healthcare groups.

For more on this:
- read full story from cioinsight.com, Nov 11 2005


9. Google Expects AdWords to Click with Advertisers

Google Inc. on Sunday added a free traffic-tracking feature to its advertising system, known as AdWords, as the Internet search giant tries to keep pace with advances by rivals.

For more on this:
- read full story from eweek.com, Nov 13 2005