When NBC Universal and News Corp announced that they were teaming up back in March, most people assumed that they were doing so to take on YouTube by launching a video sharing site. As it turns out, they had no intention of competing with YouTube and instead had their eyes set on creating a place where people would be able to view premium video content online. Eventually they named the service Hulu, and

When you move from one house to another, the Post Office will forward your mail to you so that you don't have to worry about not receiving an important piece of mail.  When you get a new phone number, the telephone company will forward your calls so that people know how to contact you.  With email becoming an extremely important form of

TechCrunch is reporting that AOL is finally going to put the domain wow.com (which they've owned since 1998) to good use. And no, they're not selling it to Microsoft to promote the "Wow" experience of Windows Vista.  Aside from Microsoft using "wow," there's another obvious thing that comes to mind ... World of Warcraft, the extremely popular online game usually

AOL's decision to dump Kaspersky for McAfee was not accepted very well by the tech community. There was no official Vista-compatible version of Active Virus Shield (AVS) released before the switch had been made, but I had assumed that they would continue to provide support for at least the next few months for the XP version.

That turned

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

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. Well, now I know why AOL never released a new Vista-compatible version of their Kaspersky-powered antivirus software...they were instead preparing for the switch to McAfee!

The screenshot above was taken from the current Active Virus Shield

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. Many are limiting how long Internet Search Engines keep the