AOL's decision to dump Kaspersky for McAfee was not accepted very well by the tech community.

Some of you probably remember the controversy that came last Summer when Netscape launched a social news service which they hoped would compete with Digg.  They even went as far as "bribing" some of the top Digg and Reddit users at the time with $1,000 per month to come over to Netscape and submit at least 150 news stories each month to help build a community.  It's been just over a year now since the service launched, and Netscape is calling it quits.

Ever since a leaked copy of AOL’s Active Virus Shield software for Vista hit the web, I had been waiting for AOL’s official announcement.

It’s been almost a year since AOL released a list of 20 million search queries that came from 500,000 different users. Within that content was some extremely personal and questionable information which brought attention to search engine privacy and all that it entails. Finally, Search Engines are taking some necessary steps to ensure that personal information is kept safe.

AOL had a choice, either they could go to court and fight or they could settle.  The reason? They were accused of refusing  to let customers cancel. To anyone unfamiliar with AOL, this accusation seems absurd. What company in their right mind would refuse to allow a customer to cancel.  For those familiar with AOL, you know how plausible and true this actually is.

There is a new version of Active Virus Shield available that finally supports Vista. I had been saying for awhile that when a Vista-compatible version came around that I would be jumping all over it, and immediately after finding out about this I had it installed on my computer.

Soon AOL will be joining Yahoo on the list of web-based mail services that offer unlimited storage. Webware is reporting that in the coming weeks, we can expect both the unlimited storage as well as integrated chatting. The integrated chatting would make it easier for those who use AIM to chat with their contacts right from their mail, much like the integrated chat in Gmail.

One of the most popular articles on CyberNet is in regards to the best antivirus software. More than 160,000 people have read that article, and so I thought it is a good time to write a follow-up on it.

AOL isn’t exactly on the top of my list when it comes to my favorite companies, and they haven’t been ever since I was forced to use them as a dial-up Internet service provider several years ago. That’s probably a story in itself though.

Gaim has become a widely known instant messenger because it is not only cross-platform (meaning it works on multiple operating systems) but it is also cross-network.