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America Online Inc. co-founder Steve Case said Monday he is resigning from Time Warner Inc.s board of directors. Case, who co-founded America Online in the mid-1980s, later orchestrated AOLs $112 billion merger with Time Warner in January 2001. But as shareholder value plummeted in the wake of the merger, Case, in 2003, stepped down from […]

Blogging technology provider Six Apart Ltd. is aiming to make it easier for users to add video to their blogs. Six Apart is integrating VideoEgg Inc.s Web-based video publishing technology, VideoEgg Publisher, into its TypePad hosted blogging service, said officials this week. VideoEgg Publisher, which launched in September at the DEMOfall show in Huntington Beach, […]

The havoc that Hurricane Katrina wreaked on the Gulf Coast this summer brought national attention to the myriad challenges of coordinating local, state, federal, nonprofit and private disaster recovery efforts. Florida, the state that has known more hurricanes on a first-name basis than all other states combined, is all too familiar with the challenges these […]

NEW YORK—Attracted by the prospect of speaking directly to their customers and appealing to the key people who influence them, corporate marketers are embracing the blogosphere and pressing for ways to leverage “social media” in the enterprise. At the second annual BlogOn conference here last week, a number of business representatives shared their early experiences […]

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released to beta its Office Communicator Mobile client, which extends the instant messaging and presence awareness of its LCS to smart phones and PDAs based on the Windows Mobile operating system. Office Communicator Mobile will also allow Live Communications Server users to make voice over IP calls from Wi-Fi-enabled Windows Mobile […]

With the launch of its new e-mail security appliance and software, Tumbleweed Communications Corp. is aiming to make it easier for IT administrators to manage and secure e-mail traffic. The company last week released Version 3.0 of its MailGate Appliance, with the addition of two new modules: MailGate Edge, for blocking so-called dark traffic, such […]

Following years of talk about interoperability among public IM services, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. last week said they have finally teamed up to allow users of their consumer instant messaging networks to exchange messages. But some observers say the deal is of little consequence without the participation of America Online Inc. and could also […]

Yahoo Inc. has reportedly joined the party of technology companies looking to get a piece of Time Warner Inc.s America Online division, according to published reports today. In case youve been living in a cave this past week, reports have widely circulated the Web that Time Warner is in talks with Google Inc. and Comcast […]

WebEx Communications Corp. today released the first fruits of its recent $45 million acquisition of hosted collaboration services provider Intranets.com. Intranets.com, which like WebEx provided software-as-a-service, specialized in selling its collaboration tools into businesses with less than 100 employees. WebEx is hoping the addition of Intranets.com, and its 300,000 subscribers, will help propel WebEx into […]

MapQuests GPS-enabled application for wireless phones, MapQuest Find Me, now allows users not only to find nearby spots such as restaurants, hotels and ATMs on their handsets but also the location of others. With the service, which now works with Research In Motions BlackBerry 7520 handsets, users can set up personal networks to share their […]