AOL Announces Open Mobile Platform
AOL today announced the Open Mobile Platform, which the company plans to release to developers this summer. AOL says the software development platform will help developers create applications across major mobile device operating systems including BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. The platform will consist of three parts: an XML-based scripting language, a [...]
Yahoo rejects Microsoft, report says it may buy AOL
Yahoo Inc., which rejected Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid Monday as too low, wants to restart merger talks with Time Warner Inc.’s AOL unit, according to a London newspaper. The Times said, without citing its sources, that the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company (NASDAQ: YHOO) is exploring merger talks with AOL, as well as deals with [...]
Possible Yahoo Sale Puts Focus On AOL
Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo on Friday revived debate about AOL’s plan to remake itself as an online advertising company and whether it might too become a target for acquisition. AOL has been on a tear assembling an advertising network called Platform A that is meant to be the basis for the company’s future [...]
AOL to End Netscape Support in March
Today, we would’ve been penning AOL’s Netscape’s orbituary had it not been for the last minute breather given to the browser on Wednesday this week. Tom Drapeau, director of Netscape, AOL, who famously stopped development on Netscape in December last year, and who set Feb 1, 2008 as the deadline for ending all support to [...]
4 Years Ago Today – Netscape Corporation Killed, Mozilla Foundation Born
4 years ago today, 15 July 2003, AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation – the company that sparked the Dot Com Internet boom in the mid-90′s with its 1995 IPO. Also 4 years ago today, The Mozilla Foundation was established. mozillaZine reported at the time: “It has been learned through public and private sources [...]
ILoveIM.com
ILoveIM.com is less sophisticated than many of the other Web-based IM apps I tested. From its advertising-heavy home page to its limited features, this service lacks broad appeal.You can login ILoveIM.comILoveIM provides the service for the following a/c’s, MSN OLD MSN Yahoo AOL GTalk When you log on to ILoveIM, the service informs you that [...]
