Craig Newell joined Ziff Davis Internet as Associate Editor in June 2003.Prior to that, he served as a freelance editor for Ziff Davis.Newell began his reporting at BetaNews, a site dedicated to news surrounding pre-release software.In 2001, he joined Ziff Davis' eWEEK as a freelance reporter covering America Online Inc. where he broke several important stories including unreleased details on America Online's software client. He has also served as an online community producer for CNN.com and worked on MSNBC's daytime news programming.
Users of AOL client and e-mail services and Windows XP are caught in the middle of a compatibility conflict between the two applications and their creators. Specifically, certain versions of AOL Time Warner Inc.s client do not work with Microsoft Corp.s newest operating system, Windows XP. AOL users who upgraded to XP and are still […]
America Online Inc. is currently beta testing a new version of its AOL.com portal that has a new look and feel, as well as new features. Currently on display on the companys Web site, the new design closely resembles the interface of the recently released America Online 7.0 client. Particularly similar is the toolbar with […]
Microsoft Corp. is readying a new, more .Net-enabled version of MSN that will showcase some of the first Web services the company is developing. A beta version of MSN 7 is visible on Microsofts MSN beta Web site, http://beta.msn.com. Microsoft officials did not return calls by press time regarding when the beta went live and […]
As the beta test of America Online 7.0 enters its fourth month, a clearer picture of what America Online Inc. intends for the final version of the browser/messaging software has begun to emerge. While retaining the same basic look and feel of its predecessor, Version 6.0, AOL 7.0 will offer some minor usability improvements and […]