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    Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials  Nov 12, 2009
    By The Associated Press. Wednesday, November 11, 2009. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    Melanie Fiona's Hotly Anticipated Debut CD, "The Bridge," in Stores November 10th  Nov 12, 2009
    "market" : {"NAME" : "U.S.", "ID" : "us_market", "TZ" : "ET", "TZOFFSET" : "-18000", "open" : "1258036214", "close" : "1258059614", "flags" : {}} , "STREAMER_SERVER" : "http://streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com","arrowAsChangeSign" : false,"throttleInterval": "1000". Search for share prices. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Modest gains for Bush at Summit of Americas / Sweeping promises, sharp divisions as 34-nation meeting ends  Nov 12, 2009
    Article:Modest gains for Bush at Summit of Americas / Sweeping :/c/a/2004/01/14/MNGS649LV91. DTL Article:Modest gains for Bush at Summit of Americas / Sweeping :/c/a/2004/01/14/MNGS649LV91. (Yahoo News -- Summit of the Americas)

    Teens' abuse of cough medications soaring  Nov 12, 2009
    Article:SAN FRANCISCO / Teens' abuse of cough medications soari:/c/a/2006/12/06/BAGK6MQA271. DTL Article:SAN FRANCISCO / Teens' abuse of cough medications soari:/c/a/2006/12/06/BAGK6MQA271. (Yahoo News -- Substance Use)

    AOL cuts another 100 jobs  Nov 12, 2009
    AOL has fired another 100 full-time employees. The cuts were made across the board, and did have some impact on Dulles employees, AOL spokeswoman Trish Primrose said ... The latest cuts come ahead of parent company s plans to spin off the AOL unit before the end of the year. (Washington Business Journal, DC)

    Affable, emotional TV host turned viewers on to late-night talk  Nov 12, 2009
    Article:JACK PAAR / 1918-2004 / Affable, emotional TV host turn:/c/a/2004/01/28/MNGQ04JDB91. DTL Article:JACK PAAR / 1918-2004 / Affable, emotional TV host turn:/c/a/2004/01/28/MNGQ04JDB91. (Yahoo News -- Jack Parr)

    Trucker's kin blame Caltrans for death plunge  Nov 12, 2009
    Trucker's kin blame Caltrans for death plunge. Article:Trucker's kin blame Caltrans for death plunge:/c/a/2009/11/10/BAEJ1AI6JD.DTL Article:Trucker's kin blame Caltrans for death plunge:/c/a/2009/11/10/BAEJ1AI6JD.DTL advertisement. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Jackson's latest troubles  Nov 12, 2009
    Jackson plays sparingly in loss at Indiana. Article:Jackson plays sparingly in loss at Indiana:/c/a/2009/11/11/SPN01AIOS9. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Jackson plays sparingly in loss at Indiana  Nov 12, 2009
    Thursday, November 12, 2009. (11-12) 04:00 PST INDIANAPOLIS -- Add another chapter to the Stephen Jackson chronicles. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Summer traffic up for Google, down for Microsoft  Nov 12, 2009
    That compares to almost 2 hours with Google; 2 hours and 16 minutes on Microsoft's network; and 3 hours and 28 minutes on Time Warner's sites, including AOL.. Google's time numbers are climbing, no doubt because of new products like. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)

    Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt Out of Custom Ads  Nov 12, 2009
    The company has three different services that serve up ads, including aol ... AOL "secures each registrant's affirmative consent" to its terms of service and privacy policy, it said ... Platform-A participants with targeted ads, meanwhile, must disclose cookie-related ad practices and provide opt-out links, said Jules Polonetsky, chief privacy officer for AOL. He estimated that the number of people who have opted out is in the tens of thousands. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)

    * Google snaps up mobile ad startup for US$750 million  Nov 11, 2009
    Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL all have made acquisitions in the field since 2007. Meanwhile, Google has been building a mobile operating system, Android, to make phones more Web-friendly, largely because it hopes to plumb a new advertising channel. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Google Buys Mobile Ad Firm AdMob for $750M  Nov 11, 2009
    "The deal is similar to mobile advertising acquisitions that AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo have made in the past two years.". TAGS. (SmallBusinessComputing)

    Adobe to cut about 680 full-time jobs  Nov 11, 2009
    AOL lays off 100 employees ahead of spinoff. Internet company AOL LLC, which will soon be spun off from parent Time Warner Inc., laid off about 100 full-time employees Tuesday ... AOL spokeswoman Tricia Primrose said the layoffs were spread across the company. (Fresno Bee -- Business)

    Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt Out of Custom Ads  Nov 10, 2009
    The company has three different services that serve up ads, including aol ... AOL "secures each registrant's affirmative consent" to its terms of service and privacy policy, it said ... Platform-A participants with targeted ads, meanwhile, must disclose cookie-related ad practices and provide opt-out links, said Jules Polonetsky, chief privacy officer for AOL. He estimated that the number of people who have opted out is in the tens of thousands. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)

    Falcons festive after win over Redskins  Nov 10, 2009
    go Falcons post game on TV Terrence Moore was on and my 12-gauge accidently went off at the TV glad he got a promotion to AOL Sports (huh never heard of that) oh well seriously, Turner has excelled think it is the 3-4 teams they are playing vs. the 4-3 teams. but accolades to him and the o-line. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    MEDIA CIRCUS: Deitsch's October Media Power Rankings  Nov 10, 2009
    Worth linking again is a by AOL FanHouse's Clay Travis, a lawyer-turned-sportswriter who briefly worked at Deadspin. 10. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)

    Renters: List an Apartment  Nov 10, 2009
    com, AOL, MySpace, Univision and hundreds of other leading Web Sites. Post up to 20 photos. (Pensacola News Journal)

    Adware Spreads Quickly on AOL IM  Nov 8, 2009
    A surreptitious program spreading Wednesday morning is turning AOL Instant Messenger users into advertising spammers. The problem starts when users receive an instant message that appears to come from someone on their Buddy List (a list of friends and co-workers who also use the AOL Instant Messenger service). (Yahoo News -- Instant Messaging)

    19 Recordings/Jive Records Taps AOL to Debut Exclusive Kris Allen Content Including Full Album Streaming, Video Premiere and Performance Footage  Nov 7, 2009
    One Winner of Allens Every Second Counts Contest Will Be Flown to New York to Attend AOL Music Sessions Taping ... NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--19 Recordings / Jive Records and AOL announced today that AOL will serve as the media hub to launch American Idol champion Kris Allens self-titled debut album ... AOL sites will debut a myriad of exclusive content offerings including AOL Music Sessions, CD listening party, video premiere and interview. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Saturday's Sentinel police log  Nov 7, 2009
    A Upper Frankford Township woman responded to an e-mail purporting to be an attempt to update her AOL account information, after which someone attempted to make a $400 Western Union transfer at 11:39 a.m. Nov. 4 using her information. The bank denied the transfer, and police are investigating who stole the womans information. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)

    Scam hits more e-mail accounts  Nov 7, 2009
    The list contains e-mail addresses and passwords from Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail and other service providers. The list was published on the same website as the original list of 10,000 Hotmail login details. (BBC News -- Technology)

    McBride: Now is Not the Time  Nov 7, 2009
    message boards and services like AOL and Prodigy, a small group of hard-core fans kept talking Browns, poking fun at the Ravens immediate failures, and debating the ethics of franchise theft with folks from the eastern seaboard. It was back then that I got sucked into a world that later came to consume my career, my free time, and a not inconsiderable portion of my income. (BerniesInsiders.com)

    Business briefs  Nov 7, 2009
    AOL named Susan Lyne, the former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, to its board as the Internet company prepares to be spun off from Time Warner ... AOL named Susan Lyne, the former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, to its board as the Internet company prepares to be spun off from Time Warner. (New York Post -- Business)

    A Cookbook for the Pennywise and Time-Crunched  Nov 7, 2009
    March 19, 2009 : Emails I had in my AOL account have vanished ... Sept. 7, 2006 : A security guard, Solomon Savea, badge number - 90187, at the Hawaii State Library, calls me a "ni - - er" twice" in the library foyer, in a loud voice. Aug. 10, 2006: I have been told by Sen. Barack Obama's office, where I sent this same correspondence, that someone from Sen. Akaka's office would contact me, because Sen. Obama's office forwarded the correspondence to them. I have yet to hear from Sen. Akaka's... (Epicurious.com)

    The Geekdom of Google  Nov 7, 2009
    () and AOL (), both of which alienated users with their sometimes annoying and ineffective ads. Google uses its mysterious mathematical formulas to give higher play on search results pages to ads that get lots of clicks. (BusinessWeek)

    Summer traffic up for Google, down for Microsoft  Nov 7, 2009
    That compares to almost 2 hours with Google; 2 hours and 16 minutes on Microsoft's network; and 3 hours and 28 minutes on Time Warner's sites, including AOL.. Google's time numbers are climbing, no doubt because of new products like. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)

    What to Eat After Getting Your Wisdom Teeth Removed?  Nov 6, 2009
    The Epi-Log on Epicurious. com: What to Eat After Getting Your Wisdom Teeth Removed. (Epicurious.com)

    Holiday III, Internet Shopper, Feature Releases  Nov 6, 2009
    Prior to TrialPay, Alex founded Always Online, a program that allowed frustrated AOL subscribers to acquire and maintain the ISPs overloaded dial-up lines and FraudEliminator, the first consumer anti-phishing company (later merged with SiteAdvisor and acquired by McAfee). He holds an AB in Applied Math and Computer Science, cum laude, from Harvard University. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Good luck, seriously! You have an extremely difficult challenge ahead, to make...  Nov 6, 2009
    AOL Names Time Warner Cable's Minson As CFO. Cable Operator's Deputy CFO Rejoins AOL, As Online Unit Prepares Spinoff ... AOL, which Time Warner Inc. is in the process of spinning off, has tapped Time Warner Cable deputy chief financial officer Arthur Minson as executive vice president and CFO.. (Multichannel News)

    Time Warner Looks Ahead to Future Without AOL  Nov 6, 2009
    With overall profits down, the media giant sees a brighter future ahead of its AOL spinoff and publishing restructuring ... Part of the drag on Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) balance sheet will be shed by the end of the year, as the company reaffirmed its intention to complete the spinoff of AOL in December, undoing the much-ballyhooed mega-merger that took effect in January 2001 ... The spinoff, he said, "will enable both AOL and Time Warner even more to focus on our core businesses.". (SmallBusinessComputing)

    PaulForresterInside The NBA At long last, Greg Oden has said good riddance to his softer side.  Nov 5, 2009
    I've been beat up so bad by being honest with the press, I'm going to be the [Bill] Belichick of the NBA." -- Warriors coach Don Nelson, via AOL FanHouse, offering his blunt assessment of his media responsibilities. "I really don't go out when I'm in Cleveland no more. I just stay in my room. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)

    Ad revenue keeps falling at AOL  Nov 5, 2009
    AOL advertising revenue continues to fall - Washington Business Journal ... AOL advertising revenue continues to fall ... Advertising sales fell 18 percent, led by lower paid-search and display advertising on AOL sites and by reduced sales of ads on third-party sites. (Washington Business Journal, DC)

    AOL advertising revenue continues to fall  Nov 5, 2009
    Advertising sales fell 18 percent, led by lower paid-search and display advertising on AOL sites and by reduced sales of ads on third-party sites ... The AOL division's operating income was cut in half from a year ago ... 1 billion, because of AOL, and declines in its publishing and film business. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)

    Time Warner upbeat despite decline in sales  Nov 5, 2009
    Chief executive Jeffrey Bewkes is pushing for higher affiliate fees for the company's cable channels and spinning off AOL by year-end to help drive profit. Advertising revenue continued to fall at AOL and the magazines. (Business Report, South Africa)

    AOL Peeved by Adware Outbreak  Nov 5, 2009
    Representatives for BuddyLinks, a sneaky program that turned unwary AOL Instant Messenger service users into instant spammers Wednesday, did not respond to repeated requests for comment ... But AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein says the company is considering taking legal action against BuddyLinks' distributor. (Yahoo News -- Instant Messaging)

    Time Warner Q3 Profits Falls 38%, Raises View  Nov 5, 2009
    With its eyes on being the top content provider across technologies, Time Warner has been shuffling its broad portfolio of media properties, including the spinoff of its cable business earlier this year and the planned spinoff of Web media unit AOL.. The company still expects to spin off AOL as a separate, publicly traded company by end of this year ... AOL revenue fell 23% as advertising sales slid 18. (SmartMoney)

    Companies race to offer instant Web search, including Twitter  Nov 5, 2009
    U.S. user share* for overall searches in. home, work and university users Source: ComScore. (USA Today -- Tech)

    Time Warner raises profit outlook  Nov 5, 2009
    Time Warner's third-quarter net income fell 40% to $661m from $1bn a year earlier, partly due to lower ad sales at AOL and its magazines business ... However, film studio Warner Bros, magazine publisher Time Inc and internet unit AOL all reported a fall in revenue ... In May this year, Time Warner said it would spin off AOL as a separate company. (BBC News -- Americas)

    MSN Offers Public Sneak Peek at New Look  Nov 4, 2009
    Today AOL, MSN, and Yahoo are among the handful of survivors that remain extremely popular. According to data provided by MSN, it receives 600 million monthly visitors, making it a top Internet destination. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Democrats Face Setbacks in Elections  Nov 4, 2009
    Firefox wasn't loading CBS, so I'm using aol today and my spelling (typing, really) is horrible. wonder if aol makes you stupid. (CBS News)

    A Single Sign-In for All Your Websites? Google Hopes So  Nov 4, 2009
    Google and other major online players, including AOL, Facebook, Microsoft Plaxo, MySpace, and Yahoo, are pitching a simpler alternative: A single password/username combo, such as your Google or Yahoo ID, for multiple sites. The concept, based on the industry standard isn't exactly new. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Sizing Up Murdoch, Redstone and Other Moguls  Nov 3, 2009
    Time Warner spun off Time Warner Cable and will spin off AOL. This is clearly the trend. So then, what do you think of the Comcast NBC-Universal Deal. (Time.com)

    Gadget Watch: Recipe Readers and Cooking Tablets Coming Soon?  Nov 3, 2009
    The Epi-Log on Epicurious. com: Gadget Watch: Recipe Readers and Cooking Tablets Coming Soon. (Epicurious.com)

    Welcome to the Thanksgiving Countdown  Nov 2, 2009
    The Epi-Log on Epicurious. To save, rate, and share recipes. (Epicurious.com)

    Tossing Pettitte’s name out there  Nov 2, 2009
    ESPN s Howard Bryant believes Pettitte is making quite a case for himself based on his big-game performances, while Ed Price of AOL Fanhouse says if he sticks to his guns on not voting for cheaters, Pettitte never will get his vote. If Price bases his vote on what Pettitte accomplished on the field, his postseason performance does carry a lot of weight. (Boston Globe)

    Should Web Search Data Be Stored?  Nov 1, 2009
    AOL's disclosure last week of the Web-search habits of more than 650,000 of its unwitting members has fanned privacy fears and rekindled the debate over the collection and storage of this often private information. The revived concerns that surfaced last year when AOL and other major search companies received subpoenas from the Justice Department for their search data ... Inc.'s AOL, Inc. and Corp. cooperated, while Inc. challenged the request. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)

    What Are Web Surfers Seeking? Well, It's Just What You'd Think  Nov 1, 2009
    Last week, AOL released a trove of what it thought were anonymous Web-search data from 650,000 of its customers. While intending to help researchers, AOL instead set off a privacy controversy because some of the users could, in fact, be tracked down ... But taking up AOL on its original intentions, I got hold of the data set -- 2. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)

    Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame  Nov 1, 2009
    Earlier this month AOL publicly released a data trove: 500,000 search queries culled from three months of user traffic on its search engine ... Apparently, AOL's anonymizing process didn't include removing names, addresses and Social Security numbers. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)

    Veronicas Single "4ever" Impacting Radio Now  Oct 31, 2009
    New Video Premiered on AOL Music October 26th; Aussie Twins Featured on Season Finale of MTVs Styld December 20th ... The band, fronted by 24-year-old twins Lisa and Jessica Origliasso, also shot a brand-new video for the track, which premiered on AOL Music on the impact date. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Facebook Awarded $711M in Spam Lawsuit  Oct 31, 2009
    Wallace has previously been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies such as AOL and Concentric Network. In May 2006, Wallace and his company Smartbot. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)

    8 Tech Trends for 2010  Oct 31, 2009
    AOL has provided this capability for eons (isn't that what chat boards are all about. but Omegle. (Fox News)

    BBQ, Wine, Chocolate, Pumpkins, and Sausage!  Oct 30, 2009
    The Epi-Log on Epicurious. com: BBQ, Wine, Chocolate, Pumpkins, and Sausage. (Epicurious.com)

    Local calendar Oct. 29 edition  Oct 30, 2009
    Entertainment Calendar. Thu Oct 29, 2009, 04:02 PM EDT. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)

    Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt Out of Custom Ads  Oct 30, 2009
    The company has three different services that serve up ads, including aol ... AOL "secures each registrant's affirmative consent" to its terms of service and privacy policy, it said ... Platform-A participants with targeted ads, meanwhile, must disclose cookie-related ad practices and provide opt-out links, said Jules Polonetsky, chief privacy officer for AOL. He estimated that the number of people who have opted out is in the tens of thousands. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)

    Hank Skorny Appointed Senior Vice President At RealNetworks  Oct 30, 2009
    Prior to founding Thumbspeed, Mr. Skorny held senior executive positions at Infospace Mobile and AOL Mobile. His career has included general management, senior product management and engineering positions at Adobe Systems, Microsoft and Apple Inc.. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Projection Man  Oct 29, 2009
    Clients that have used Obscura s technology include: 3M, Adobe, AOL, Audi, BMW, Canon, General Motors, Google, Heineken, Honda, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Levi Strauss, Lexus and Virgin. The company was founded in 2000 when co-founders Chris Lejeune and Travis Threlkel got together on their first project, a high-resolution video dome that Connolly called a planetarium on steroids. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)

    Renters: List an Apartment  Oct 29, 2009
    com, AOL, MySpace, Univision and hundreds of other leading Web Sites. Post up to 20 photos. (Florida Today)

    Change Passwords: Crooks Want Keys To Your E-mail  Oct 29, 2009
    Virgin mail accounts have become hot commodities; a valid log-on to a Windows Live, Gmail, YahooMail or AOL e-mail account can sell for as much as $2 -- more than double what a stolen credit card account number fetches, says Fred Rica, principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers' security practice. Cybercriminals are attuned to the fact that many people use their free Web mail account address to open financial, social network, travel and other online accounts. (W-USA News, DC)

    Chinese paper claims Google hampers searches  Oct 28, 2009
    The group's Web site says it is coordinated by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and supported by companies such as Google, PayPal, Mozilla, AOL and Trend Micro. Google, based in Mountain View, California, has faced other complaints about its operations in China, where the government uses an extensive filtering system to try to block access to material deemed lewd or subversive. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    Name That Halloween Candy! Answers  Oct 28, 2009
    The Epi-Log on Epicurious. com: Name That Halloween Candy. (Epicurious.com)

    Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame  Oct 28, 2009
    Earlier this month AOL publicly released a data trove: 500,000 search queries culled from three months of user traffic on its search engine ... Apparently, AOL's anonymizing process didn't include removing names, addresses and Social Security numbers. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)

    Mexican military finds tunnel 100 feet from US  Oct 28, 2009
    The AOL poll I saw seemed consistent with all the others I've seen. Some 73% of Americans, or more, oppose opening our borders to every Mexican national who wants a new and better life, without benefit of standing in line. (Fresno Bee -- State)

    Younger employees help senior executives unlock social media mystery  Oct 28, 2009
    "We spent eight hours every day on AOL IM.". The baby boomer executives who might have scolded these young people for that if they had been their parents are now turning to them for help. (Fresno Bee -- Business)

    Adware Spreads Quickly on AOL IM  Oct 28, 2009
    A surreptitious program spreading Wednesday morning is turning AOL Instant Messenger users into advertising spammers. The problem starts when users receive an instant message that appears to come from someone on their Buddy List (a list of friends and co-workers 00004000 who also use the AOL Instant Messenger service). (Yahoo News -- Instant Messaging)

    Summer traffic up for Google, down for Microsoft  Oct 28, 2009
    That compares to almost 2 hours with Google; 2 hours and 16 minutes on Microsoft's network; and 3 hours and 28 minutes on Time Warner's sites, including AOL.. Google's time numbers are climbing, no doubt because of new products like. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)

    Monopoly on power, profit  Oct 27, 2009
    Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)

    Low-cost entertainment for frugal travelers  Oct 27, 2009
    com (AOL's online video library) can provide free late night or rainy day entertainment when leaving the hotel is not convenient. Imeem. (Honolulu Advertiser)

    Savory or Sweet? Two Baking Cookbooks (Plus Recipes!)  Oct 27, 2009
    The Epi-Log on Epicurious. com: Savory or Sweet. (Epicurious.com)

    Time Warner strips AOL of luxe in spin-off  Oct 27, 2009
    Take a good look at AOL boss Tim Armstrong's face -- he might be the guy sitting next to you in economy class on your next flight to Silicon Valley. That's because Time Warner, which convinced Armstrong to give up the culinary wonders of the Google cafeteria for the brown-bag lunch that is AOL, is retaining the corporate jets when the struggling Internet service is spun off from the media giant, according to an amended Securities and Exchange Commission filing made yesterday ... In addition to a... (New York Post -- Business)

    Vintage Web-hosting site shutting down  Oct 27, 2009
    GeoCities was the third most-visited site on the Web in December 1998, behind AOL and Yahoo. with 19 million unique visitors, according to a CNNMoney report. (CNN)

    We were blessed to get a tip that our now deleted Ourstage fan page was still...  Oct 27, 2009
    The site allows users to rank the best new artists on the site using what the company calls a "game-proof judging engine." OurStage's other partners include ABC Radio, Radio One, AOL Music and Bonnaroo ... AOL's Ourstage has deleted the WinterBand fan page on behalf of a handful of people who didn't like what we teach and filed frivolous "complaints" ... AOL's Ourstage has deleted the WinterBand fan page on behalf of a handful of people who don't like what we teach and filed frivolous... (Multichannel News)

    What Are Web Surfers Seeking? Well, It's Just What You'd Think  Oct 25, 2009
    Last week, AOL released a trove of what it thought were anonymous Web-search data from 650,000 of its customers. While intending to help researchers, AOL instead set off a privacy controversy because some of the users could, in fact, be tracked down ... But taking up AOL on its original intentions, I got hold of the data set -- 2. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)

    Where Are They Now?  Oct 25, 2009
    In 2001, Borrelli became senior vice president of AOL Broadband. In 2005, mobile TV service provider NEP Broadcasting tapped him as CEO.. (Multichannel News)

    At Web 2.0 Summit, the Party's Back On  Oct 24, 2009
    AOL CEO Tim Armstrong seemed to want to , too, assuring that the company has been readying "a fairly substantial shift in our technology" but declined to say much more ... Two of the big companies with executives in the Summit lineup, MySpace and AOL, that their much-talked-about reinventions will actually be successful. (CBS News)

    AOL Peeved by Adware Outbreak  Oct 24, 2009
    Representatives for BuddyLinks, a sneaky program that turned unwary AOL Instant Messenge 00004000 r service users into instant spammers Wednesday, did not respond to repeated requests for comment ... But AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein says the company is considering taking legal action against BuddyLinks' distributor. (Yahoo News -- Instant Messaging)

    Buffett's Wrong: 3 Companies That Beat His  Oct 24, 2009
    But in that decade, it relegated competitors like AltaVista and Lycos (and in a less direct way, Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) AOL) to the dusty sections of our mental libraries. Just as Google went from zero to 60 in about a decade, so, too, could the mythical guy in his mother's basement. (MSNBC -- Business)

    Largest Web-Spinning Spider Discovered  Oct 23, 2009
    urn:x-aol:oid:mddn:b4652480-bf74-11de-bcc5-2f23288b52e6 AVG RATING: (3) ... urn:x-aol:oid:mddn:5859d55c-bf68-11de-b7a0-f78ddbeb6093 AVG RATING: (0) ... urn:x-aol:oid:mddn:7229ae0c-bf64-11de-b99f-7ffc00333d8f AVG RATING: (4). (Newsmax)

    AOL hard at work on 'content platform'  Oct 23, 2009
    AOL hard at work on 'content platform ... AOL hard at work on 'content platform ... (10-22) 17:22 PDT -- As it braces to be spun off and struggles with revenue, Time Warner's AOL Internet unit is busy crafting a new strategy focused around content creation that represents a shift in its focus, AOL's CEO Tim Armstrong said Thursday. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Foreclosures Up 5% from Summer to Fall  Oct 23, 2009
    If you feel I am that bigger fool let me know as well ,email bestsolutionsfl at aol dot com The "EVERYBODY WINS PLAN" A business plan that ENDS FORECLOSURES,short sales and all defaulting loans. Please PPIP participants (5) pay attention,you can convert that $3 billion collected and in your funds (Blackrock NYSE BLK $226 and 4 others ) into 20% to 30% PER YEAR as a ROI in the next 7 years. (CBS News -- US)

    Cellufun Launches Halloween Games for Mobile Phones  Oct 22, 2009
    Cellufun partners with mobile operators and media companies such as Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, MetroPCS, Virgin Mobile, AOL, and USA Today to deliver branded entertainment and custom-designed mobile marketing solutions. Cellufun garners over 200 million page views per month. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    UFC 104: Machida vs. Shogun Live Online  Oct 22, 2009
    with your AOL, Google, Yahoo. Windows Live, Facebook, Twitter, or other account to post a comment. (Multichannel News)

    Run a Business from Your iPhone: The Best Apps  Oct 22, 2009
    This AOL app gives you free access to real-time stock information and lets you track multiple portfolios. See how much money you're spending by the day, week, month, or year. (Datamation)

    Hispanic Television Update  Oct 22, 2009
    Former AOL executive Kevin Conroy joined Univision in January to buttress the media company's online and mobile content, no easy task given that the U.S. Spanish-language media leader can't tap content from partner Grupo Televisa. Conroy, in an email exchange, discusses the challenges and opportunities therein. (Multichannel News)

    Q&A: Kevin Conroy, President, Univision Interactive Media  Oct 21, 2009
    Former AOL Veteran Discusses Strategies To Bolster U.S. Spanish-Language Media Leader's Web Presence ... The former AOL executive joined Univision in January, and has since worked in beefing up Univision's online and mobile content -- a real challenge, considering his company is not allowed to use content from partner Grupo Televisa on its Web offering. (Multichannel News)

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