Google tests hosting Gmail for other domains

1. Google tests hosting Gmail for other domains

Google is testing a service in which it will host Gmail accounts with different domain addresses. The first beta of this test will be for students at San Jose City College. The e-mail accounts will be offered to all of the college's 10,000 students. The service also offers a control panel to allow officials to manage user accounts, aliases, and mailing lists.

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- read full story from geek.com, Feb 13 2006


2. AOL tests Chinese US site, quiet on China market

America Online on Monday said it has launched a public test of a Chinese-language version of its U.S. Web site to court Chinese Americans, offering features that in some ways are more ambitious than its main U.S. site.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Feb 13 2006


3. Telecoms, Web firms jostle over location services

When U.S. regulators, responding to the September 11 attacks, required that mobile handsets carry an electronic beacon giving the user's whereabouts, they handed telecoms and technology companies a hot new business opportunity.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Feb 13 2006


4. VeriSign's VIP Protects Sign-On Ids

For most online consumers, a username and a password are the only two items used to identify and authenticate themselves with online services. But they're not necessarily always enough to secure an identity properly and are often the target of fraud and identity theft.

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- read full story from internetnews.com, Feb 13 2006

5. Google's ad sales tested in court

Another lawsuit is poised to challenge Google's lucrative advertising-based business model by arguing it encourages unlawful use of trademarks as keywords. The parent company of a payday loan provider called Check 'n Go has sued Google in federal court in Ohio, saying that the search engine permits other payday lenders to purchase ads that appear when the trademarked phrase "check n go" is typed in.

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- read full story from CNET news.com, Feb 13 2006


6. MySpace Rises As New Online Star

The Internet has a rising star whose name isn't Google. Just over 2 years old, MySpace now has 2 1/2 times the traffic of Google Inc., and it quickly eclipsed Friendster as the top social-networking site where users build larger and larger circles of friends.

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- read full story from washingtonpost.com, Feb 12 2006


7. Microsoft Office Live Beta To Go Live This Week

After weeks of speculation, Microsoft's latest subscription service for small-business users is set to enter wides-cale testing on February 15. On February 15, Microsoft will release to testers first beta releases of three Office Live small-business subscription services. Office Live is a family of add-on services designed to complement Microsoft Office, the same way that the growing stable of Windows Live services will extend Microsoft Windows.

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- read full story from Microsoft watch, Feb 13 2006


8. BearingPoint to Help Sell Google Technology

BearingPoint Inc., a McLean consulting firm that has been mired in accounting problems for the past year, has struck a deal with Google Inc. to sell and integrate technology the search-industry giant created for corporations. BearingPoint executives said they do not know how much revenue will result from the deal, which is expected to be announced today, but the firm is creating a 100-person unit dedicated to the venture.

For more on this:
- read full story from washingtonpost.com, Feb 14 2006