AT&T, Yahoo Jointly Offer VoIP

AT&T, Yahoo Jointly Offer VoIP

AT&T Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Wednesday officially rolled out integrated Internet-based voice services. The offering brings Yahoo Messenger with Voice to AT&T Yahoo high-speed Internet subscribers and Yahoo users in AT&T's 13-state local service area. Free voicemail and missed-call message retrieval are included.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 26 2006


US online search giant Yahoo adds text translation service

US Internet search engine Yahoo has added AltaVista's translation service Babble Fish to its menu of online services, the company announced.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 27 2006


Vonage Offers VoIP Mobile-Phone Calls in the UK

You've gotten rid of the wire that connects your phone to the world. Perhaps you're also paying a flat monthly fee for unlimited VoIP calls from your home or office. Now, if a move by Vonage UK becomes popular, you'll be able to make unlimited calls from your mobile phone as well.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 27 2006


Phishers try a phone hook

In a new twist on phishing, fraudsters are sending out e-mails that attempt to trick people into sharing personal information over the phone.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 27 2006


Is the Palm OS missing the multimedia boat?

It's been two years since the release of the last major upgrade to the Palm operating system for mobile devices, not counting the upgrade that never appeared in public.

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Online population hits new high in US

The United States online population has hit an all-time high: 73 per cent of adults, or 147 million, now use the internet.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, April 27 2006


Skype has over 100 million registered users

Skype, the Internet-based phone and video phone service, on Friday said it now serves over 100 million registered users.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 28, 2006


Google Offers Free Version Of 3D Modeling Software

Google Inc. on Thursday launched a free version of the 3D modeling software the search engine acquired when it bought @Last Software last month.

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Phishers Snare Victims With VoIP

Phishers Snare Victims With VoIP

Phishers Snare Victims With VoIPA security firm on Tuesday reported discovering a phishing scheme in which the scammers used Internet telephony to copy a bank's automated voice system in order to steal customers' passwords, account numbers and other personal information.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 25 2006


Internet2 Network Aims to Boost Capacity

By sending data using different colors of light, operators of the ultrahigh-speed Internet2 network are hoping to boost capacity by as much as 80-fold to enable researchers to connect telescopes around the world and perform other bandwidth-intensive tasks.

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Review: Webaroo Service Too Good to Be True

It sounds too good to be true: the highlights of the Web squeezed into a data file small enough to fit on your laptop or mobile phone, letting you browse even when you don't have a live Internet connection. After giving Webaroo a whirl, I found that it is, indeed, too good to be true.

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-read full review from Yahoo! News, April 26 2006


Hotmail's new address

After months of reworking the venerable Web mail program, Microsoft's team had made all the easy fixes: They'd added more colors and even offered a way to make the new Windows Live Mail look just like the old Hotmail.

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AT&T boosts DSL speeds, adds new services

AT&T has increased the speed of its broadband service and has struck deals with Starz Entertainment to offer a new video download service and with Yahoo to offer Internet telephony.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 26 2006


New Nokia Phones Make The Internet Connection

Nokia Corp. on Tuesday said it has sold 5 million Nseries multimedia phones since launching the product line last year, and plans to expand its offerings with three new devices.

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-read full story from InternetNews.com, April 25 2006


Google.com pushes Firefox browser

Mozilla's Firefox is getting promoted on one of the world's most popular Web pages, Google.com, as the open-source browser continues its David-vs.-Goliath battle against Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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Sphere prepping to sort out the blogosphere

With more than 35 million blogs and over 50,000 posts per hour, the need for really good blogosphere search tools is even more critical. Technorati, IceRocket, Google and Yahoo, among others, are plowing the blog search ground. They are now trying to bring more intelligent filtering to the blogosphere, allowing the “cream” to rise to the top.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 25 2006

Firefox backers aim to 'destroy' IE with campaign

Firefox backers aim to 'destroy' IE with campaign

A group of self-titled "political activists" in Massachusetts has started an aggressive campaign to get browser users to switch from Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer to Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox.

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-read full story from InfoWorld.com, April 25 2006


Skype Announces Music Ringtones Deal

Skype, eBay Inc.'s Internet telephone subsidiary, announced a deal Tuesday with music publishers that will make audio clips from artists like Madonna, Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers available to its users as ringtones.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 26 2006


Microsoft Makes Using Pirated Office Software More Difficult

Microsoft has introduced a new program that will test to see if customers have a genuine version of its Office productivity suite, according to the company.

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E-Mail Providers Look to New Spam-Fighting Techniques

E-mail providers are bolstering their defenses against the onslaught of spam and phishing attacks through the adoption of new e-mail-authentication technologies, according to information offered this week at a gathering of companies that focused on promoting safety and user trust in the e-mail ecosystem.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 20 2006


Spam Slayer: Biggest Spam Hassles Solved

Internal Revenue Service allows you to track your refund at its Get Refund Status site. Beware of any e-mail that claims you're due a refund or offers a way to check your refund status online.

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XIN - a Web OS that wants to be a platform

"It's basically Windows' entire concept - only online."
Recently Mikael Bergkvist has been showing me his "It's basically Windows' entire concept - only online." new web-based OS, called XIN.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 19 2006


WebOS market review

It wouldn't surprise me if one of the small startups I've mentioned here goes on to become the next Linux.

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-read full review from ZDNet.com, April 25 2006


Internet Explorer 7: New Public Beta

We're one step closer to a final Internet Explorer 7 with Microsoft's Monday night twin release of a new, more polished Internet Explorer 7 beta and an accompanying add-ons Web site.

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-read full story from PCWorld.com, April 26 2006

E-Mail's Popularity Swamps Storage Systems And Raises Corporate Security Issues

E-Mail's Popularity Swamps Storage Systems And Raises Corporate Security Issues

The increasing use of e-mail by consumers and businesspeople alike is making it a more attractive target for hackers and criminals, according to a study from IronPort Systems' Threat Operations Center that looks at the ancillary costs of dealing with spam.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 24 2006


AOL Preparing 'Something' In Social Networking

The blogosphere this week was abuzz on rumors that AOL was close to launching a social network that would take on the popular MySpace.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 20 2006


Microsoft developing next mobile OS

Microsoft, which has been carving a larger slice of the mobile device OS market, is developing a new product, code-named "Crossbow," which will incorporate features such as instant messaging, a Microsoft executive confirmed Monday.

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Take A Closer Look At Google's Corporate Search Technology

People love Google not just for finding information but also for presenting it in a way that's easy to understand. The company is banking on its deceptively simple-looking user interface as it pushes inside the corporate firewall.

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Net Neutrality: The Great Internet Divide

The debate over network neutrality is heating up as a congressional committee prepares to take the issue up next week.

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GoodLink 4.8 Tweaks Security, Compliance

Good Technology has released an upgrade of its GoodLink wireless messaging solution. The company said that its GoodLink 4.8 release, available Monday, will support up to 1,500 users on a singe server while at the same time offering several new features including improved security and reliability additions.

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PC losing Net battle to mobiles

Mobile phones may soon challenge personal computers as the dominant platform for accessing the internet, a recent study suggests. Research by Ipsos Insight released last week showed that 28 per cent of mobile phone owners worldwide had browsed the internet on a wireless handset, up from 25 per cent at the end of 2004.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, April 25 2006


EFF's sender pay email debate ends in draw

Last night Mitch Kapor, Esther Dyson and Danny O’Brien debated the pros and cons of sender-pay email at a fundraiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation held at the Roxie Film Center in the Mission district. Actually Mitch was the moderator, but the co-founder of EFF and Chair of the Open Source Applications Foundation got a few shots in.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 21 2006

Microsoft Patch 'Erases' Outlook Express Addresses; Users Irked

Microsoft Patch 'Erases' Outlook Express Addresses; Users Irked

Another Microsoft patch from the batch released last week is apparently causing problems, at least according to numerous Windows users on the Redmond, Wash. developer's official message boards.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 20 2006


Google and Yahoo results show more room for ad growth

The two top Internet search engine companies proved last week there is still plenty of room for advertising growth, though Google's dominance marks a major advantage over Yahoo, according to analysts.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 23 2006


With e-mail, Microsoft looks to hook students 'for life'

The decision to outsource the University of Texas-Pan American's 17,000 student e-mail accounts to Microsoft for free was a simple one for Gary Wiggins, the school's top IT administrator.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 21 2006


China close to being top spammer

Statistics from security firm Sophos show that China is fast catching up the US as a source of junk e-mail. According to Sophos, 23.1% of spam comes from computers in the US and 21.9% comes from China. The UK is tenth on the list of spam sources.

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-read full story from BBC News, April 23 2006


Pioneering Wi-Fi City Sees Startup Woes

Joe Lusardi's friends back in New York couldn't believe it when he told them he'd have free Internet access through this city's new Wi-Fi network. It's free all right, but residents are, to some extent, getting what they pay for.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 24 2006

Mobile phones gain on PCs for Internet

Mobile phones may soon challenge personal computers as the dominant platform for accessing the Internet, a recent survey suggests. A survey released this week by research firm Ipsos Insight showed that 28 percent of mobile phone owners worldwide have browsed the Internet on a wireless handset, up from 25 percent at the end 2004.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 21 2006


First Look: ThinkFree Web App Outshines

Microsoft OfficeIt sounds too good to be true: free word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation programs that are compatible with their Microsoft Office counterparts and that work in a browser. For more on this:-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 24 2006Database considered to stem phone theftA central database of mobile phone identification numbers is being considered to deter the sale of phones stolen in Hong Kong on the black market.

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New internet customers boost China Netcom sales

China Netcom Group (Hong Kong), the nation's second-largest operator of fixed-line telephones, said first-quarter sales rose 4.7 per cent from a year earlier after the company added internet users.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, April 23 2006