On the heels of protests last week from a group of activists led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), AOL has announced it will offer free e-mail deliverability services to qualifying not-for-profit organizations and not-for-profit advocacy groups.
Dulles, Va.-based AOL said that it will offer nonprofit organizations two new free e-mail options that possess many of the features, including images and Web links, of the company's premium service designed for commercial mass e-mail.
(more…)America Online is vowing to carry out its plans to institute fees for mass senders of e-mail, despite protests from groups representing 15 million people that claim the move will stifle communications instead of merely halting spam.
A plan by AOL and Yahoo to charge mass e-mailers a fee for guaranteed delivery of messages to subscribers has run into very vocal opposition from a consortium of nonprofit and public interest groups, including MoveOn.org Civic Action, the AFL-CIO, Gun Owners of America and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
(more…)America Online is vowing to carry out its plans to institute fees for mass senders of e-mail, despite protests from groups representing 15 million people that claim the move will stifle communications instead of merely halting spam.
A plan by AOL and Yahoo to charge mass e-mailers a fee for guaranteed delivery of messages to subscribers has run into very vocal opposition from a consortium of nonprofit and public interest groups, including MoveOn.org Civic Action, the AFL-CIO, Gun Owners of America and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
But against a backdrop of phony aid organizations and phishing attacks, every legitimate fundraising group loses when consumers are skeptical of anyone asking...
(more…)Time Warner's America Online division is preparing to sell programming on its Web site by the middle of this year, a top AOL executive said, hastening a move to secure a position in the market for video-on-demand over the Internet.
The expansion of AOL's video service, which will combine free and pay-per-download shows from established programmers and user-created video clips, aims to address complaints about the rigid pricing structure and the mix of available programming on iTunes.
(more…)America Online Inc. is soon rolling out upgrades to its Video Search Engine, expanding the index with 1.8 million videos from its recent acquisition of Truveo Inc., a company AOL acquired in December. The content joins 20,000 original and licensed videos, as well as 2.5 million videos indexed through AOL's Singingfish search product.
AOL bought Burlingame, Calif.-based, Truveo in order to expand the portal's ability to find video on the Web. AOL, a Dulles, Va., unit of Time Warner Inc., has made online video a key focus of its free Web portal. (more…)America Online said that it has launched a public test of a Chinese-language version of its U.S. website to court Chinese Americans, offering features that in some ways are more ambitious than its main U.S. site.
AOL Chinese-language Web portal, which brings together Web search, blogs, and e-mail features with news and entertainment from North America, Europe, and Asia.
(more…)America Online plans to roll out major new services over the next few months to help it compete in key Internet battlegrounds — taking on teen-networking site MySpace, voice powerhouse Skype and others, CEO Jonathan Miller said in an interview.
Some of the plans, such as building a MySpace-style network onto AOL's market-leading instant messaging service, have not been made public previously.
(more…)The loyal butler is gone.
After spending the last decade building its brand around a cartoon character named Jeeves, Ask.com wants everyone to forget the dainty butler and remember its long-overlooked Internet search engine as the next best thing to Google.
The new Ask.com features a slick, do-it-yourself toolbox that helps users refine more types of searches with the first click of their computer mouse for maps, images, dictionaries, weather, local info or documents stored on their computers.
(more…)European Research Hub to Foster Ask Jeeves' Continued Innovation in Search
Ask Jeeves, Inc., a leading provider of information retrieval technologies, brands and Internet advertising services, formally announced the opening of its research center in Pisa, Italy. The research center will serve as Ask Jeeves' European hub for search technology research and development, working directly with the company's U.S.-based research centers in Campbell, Calif. and Piscataway, N.J.
The formation of the research center furthers Ask Jeeves' presence in Europe. The company recently launched two European Web search sites, Ask Espana and Ask Deutschland, with additional European launches planned later this year.
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