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Happy 30th birthday, Compuserve

It rocked - in its day...I practically lived on Compuserve in the LATE 70's and early 80's, but to be honest they became pretty irrelevant years ago. In fact, I was surprised to see a headline about them.I still have my compuserve e-mail addressI first started using Compuserve in 1991....

Tags: E-mail, CompuServe

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Happy 30th birthday, Compuserve

On this day in 1979, CompuServe began offering its dial-up online information service to consumers. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: CompuServe, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues

Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continuesAOL?You mean they're still around? Weren't they big in the 20th century? You know, when all the new Internet companies earned money the "old fashion" way: They siphoned it directly from the customer's bank accounts.AOL is best suited for AppleIf Jobs tells the...

Tags: Operational accounting, America Online Inc., Time Warner Inc., revenue

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Botnet assault: Spammers launch DDoS offensive

Botnet assault: Spammers launch DDoS offensiveWant to eliminate BotNets and all this crap?It's really easy, it takes a router expert and the will to force ISPs to take control of their networks. It works, I have personally forced several ISPs to disable spammers from their networks, it just comes...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, distributed denial of service, CompuServe, spammer, Internet Service Provider, public email system, email system, network, e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-06-11

Senate ponders policing of Net neutrality offenses

Senate ponders policing of Net neutrality offensesRe: Senate ponders policing of Net neutrality offenses[i]"Others on the committee questioned the need for 'preemptive' action against a problem they're not convinced exists. If the discrimination that Net neutrality advocates fear does occur, such a public outcry will develop..."[/i]On the first part of...

Tags: Network technology, Net Neutrality, Enron Corp., CompuServe, Blockbuster Inc., U.S. Senate, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-14

For whom the tolls sound like alarm bells

Remember when, if you wanted to participate in CompuServe forum, you got a CompuServe account, even if you already had an AOL account and a WELL account? Those bad old days, when access fees for various services that gave you access to different communities totaled $100+ a month...

Tags: carrier

Blog posts 2006-01-30

VFSMail 3.0.9 (Mobile)

VFSMail enables files stored on a SD/MMC flashcard to be emailed directly from a Palm. Does your camera use a flash card? Have you ever been away and taken a great photo that you don't want to lose, or perhaps you'd like to send a holiday snap as an...

Tags: Mobile, CompuServe, Photograph, Camera, VFSMail, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2003-04-26

CompuServe 2000 5.0 (Mac)

CompuServe Interactive Services provides complete and comprehensive products and access for Internet online users at home, in the workplace and around the globe. With the launch of CompuServe 2000 in 1999, CompuServe reaches a new milestone by making the gathering of information and exploring the Internet faster, easier and more...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, CompuServe, CompuServe Interactive Services, Internet, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2000-11-29

Additional Resources

AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise

In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...

Tags: Facebook, America Online Inc., Shop Logic, Business World, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-18

10 technological changes in 10 technological years

retitle it15 Technological Changes in 15 Years... and even with that you'd be off. Pluto was reclassified... this is not a technological innovation, even its classification name already existed.15 years ago Forest Gump came out, and even it was talking about Apple being big then, when it was set......

Tags: DVD, floppy disk, hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

News to know: Verizon's Pre; Tornado; IDF; iPhone MMS; RedHat; Gmail outage

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Verizon says no to Palm Pre Andrew Mager: Tornado: The real-time web server from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, MMS, Red Hat Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., E-mail Providers, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Eurocrats face proprietary FUD attack

Maybe open, transparent standards are incompatible with free competition. Maybe open standards are just a tool by which open source aims to destroy innovation. Maybe the last 40 years of innovation within open standards like the Internet Protocol, the World Wide Web, the IEEE 802.11 standards, and the rest never...

Tags: Innovation, Open Standard, Standards, Attack, Quality, Leadership, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Barry Diller: The Internet ???Absolutely??? Will Become a ???Paid System.??? Time Projection: Within 5 Years

Barry Diller: The Internet ???Absolutely??? Will Become a ???Paid System.??? Time Projection: Within 5 YearsNews Flash: It has ALWAYS been a PAID systemSaying it will become a paid system in 5 years is basically living in a delusional bubble. It has been a paid system from the start.Everyone pays for...

Tags: Internet, pay model

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

Smart Protector - Internet Eraser 8.5 (Windows)

Smart Protector - Internet Eraser is designed to protect you and your privacy. It deletes all the tracks of your Internet activity. It completely erases your Internet Explorer history, AutoComplete, recent document list, recycle bin, cookies, temporary files cache, typed URLs the drop down address list . You can choose...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Cookie, Smart Soft, Internet, Web Browsers

Software downloads 2009-06-08

Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac

I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddance”...

Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Emailchemy 9.8.8 (Mac)

Emailchemy reads email files from the proprietary formats of most popular email applications and converts them to standard formats that any application can use. Emailchemy currently can read the email files and mailboxes from: AOL for WindowsClaris Emailer 1.x for Macintosh Claris Emailer 2.0 for Macintosh CompuServe Classic for Macintosh...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mailbox, Weird Kid Software, Emailchemy, E-mail, Desktops, Online Communications, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-05-26

Could Disney's investment in Hulu upset the iTunes applecart?

Could Disney's investment in Hulu upset the iTunes applecart?Ironic considering that Jobsis Disney's largest shareholder.I wonder how he missed this one getting by... ;)What about the rest of the worldYes, Disney is investing in Hulu and attempting to undermine Apple's iTunes. One thing you forget. iTunes is available to everyone...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Hulu, Apple iTunes, Disney Corp., iTunes applecart, applecart

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Yahoo swings to loss for Q4 but focuses on Bartz, 2009

Yahoo swings to loss for Q4 but focuses on Bartz, 2009Yahoo went down todayI can not download their browser.Their online feedback was discontinued to DSL customers.Typing to an ISP gets me nervous just like when NETZERO FREE INTERNET FOREVER went to pay for service.There is no way to cancel out...

Tags: Bartz, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Hey, Andy: Assault on the Battery Will Push Newspapers Over The Edge

Funny thing, how Sam Zell didn’t come hat in hand to Washington, D.C., this week, when his Tribune Co. hit the wall. He just filed for bankruptcy on his newspaper company and said: This is a pre-emptive action, to preserve assets. Too bad automakers can’t be as decisive. ...

Tags: Battery, Laptop Computer, Computer, Journal, Engineering, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-12-12

The old "install this codec to see free porn" trick works on Mac too!

The old "install this codec to see free porn" trick works on Mac too!We don't have enough information to make an informed conclusion.Unfortunately every time we here of malware infested Windows systems never is even the most basic of information provided. I have yet to see the name of the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, NOW IT, Dawson, malware, computer, operating system, codec, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-11-22