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Microsoft adds XMPP to Windows Messenger
Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) has made good on a promise made at the Build conference earlier this year, incorporating support for the open XMPP protocol into its Windows Messenger platform. This is a
Tributes to Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Steve Jobs died Wednesday at the age of 56. Apple, the company that he co-founded with Steve Wozniak in 1976, announced that it "has lost a visionary and a creative genius, and the world has lost an
New technologies and old frameworks
The iPad debut eclipsed all other IT news over the past couple days. Apple's shiny new gadget made the covers of both Time and Newsweek, and the blogosphere exploded with rave reviews, a handful of
AOL and Time Warner get a divorce
After years of chaos and stock erosion, Time Warner and AOL went their separate ways last week. AOL became a standalone company for the first time in a decade. AOL's stock dropped while Time Warner's
AOL to cut workforce by one-third
AOL, a titan in the Internet world, is about to shrink. As part of its spinoff from Time Warner, the company announced last week that it is cutting its workforce by eliminating 2,500 workers--one
Time Warner ditches AOL
Time Warner is finally unloading AOL after years of disappointing efforts to remake the online business. When they came together, the two companies said the deal would create "the world's first fully
Disaster hits when online storage sites close
Online storage sites, which emerged as a hot service just a few years ago, are shutting down in droves. The big question is: Can your data be saved before it is lost? In the last year, a number of
Former AOL chief raising money to buy Yahoo
If you thought you had heard it all about the fate of Yahoo, think again. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller, even in these tough economic times, is
Yahoo to cut workforce
Google may be sailing along, but it's another story for Yahoo. The company said this week that it will cut at least 10 percent of its workforce, or about 1,500 employees as a cost-cutting strategy.
Users says they are savvy online, but few actually practice their knowledge
An AOL survey has laid out the bare facts about general perceptions of online privacy: While Internet users might say that they take their online privacy seriously, the unfortunate truth is that most
