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Blog Acquisitions Signal Tipping Point for User-Generated Content

The blogosphere was abuzz with surprise and cautious optimism Thursday with the news that a major blog network and a blog update notification service...

AOL Launches Grass Roots IM Presence Campaign

AOL (America Online Inc.) is enlisting prominent blogging, media and social networking Web companies to encourage the implementation of AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) presence...

Microsoft Acquires Unveil Technologies

With the goal of enhancing its call center application development capabilities, Microsoft announced Thursday a technology acquisition from Unveil Technologies. The terms of the deal...

Some Absences in Presence

AOL has embarked in a program to add "presence" features to as many blogging, media, and social networking sites as possible. People using these...

VeriSign Acquires Dave Winers Weblogs.com

Weblog pioneer Dave Winer has sold his Weblogs.com ping server to Internet and telecommunications services giant VeriSign Inc. News of the deal swirled around the...

U.K. Film Group, Government Push Widespread DRM

LONDON—A report prepared for and endorsed by the British Screen Advisory Council promotes widespread digital rights management programs to manage content, while advising shrinking...

Check Point Snaps Up Sourcefire

Check Point Software Technologies Inc. is snapping up intrusion prevention and real-time network awareness software maker Sourcefire for a $225 million mix of cash...

Lenovo Bundles StarOffice on ThinkPads

Sun Microsystems Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd. have announced an agreement to bundle the StarOffice 8 office suite in Lenovos latest ThinkPad R51e notebook.In...

Flock Promises More Social Web Browsing

At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, a California startup is set to announce on Thursday a new Web browser based on open-source...

Nematodes: The Making of Beneficial Network Worms

Convinced that businesses will use nonmalicious worms to cut down on network security costs, a high-profile security researcher is pushing ahead with a new...