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WASHINGTON—Time Warner Inc. moved Dec. 15 to resolve two federal investigations into its America Online unit, agreeing to pay $210 million to settle criminal securities fraud charges and disclosing it would pay $300 million to end an accounting probe. The settlements will free the media giant to proceed with proposed acquisitions in 2005—possibly including Adelphia […]

With MSN Desktop Search out the door, Microsoft is expected to continue ratcheting up its beta MSN offerings with “MOOL.” As first reported by BetaNews, MOOL, or Microsoft Office Outlook Live, extends MSN Outlook Connector and Hotmail integration beyond MSNs Premium service. Microsoft will also unveil its long-awaited Desktop Search as part of the new […]

AOL has unveiled a prototype of its revived Netscape Browser, which serves as a test bed for several new features. The new Netscape is based on Firefox, but with a twist—it includes support for switching to Microsofts IE engine. BetaNews has also learned that Netscapes development was not done in-house by AOL, but rather outsourced […]

Seven years have passed since the Israeli firm ICQ first invented instant messaging, and now, as our cell phones turn into our handheld computers, the software has arrived at a new turning point. Yosi Vardi, among the founders of ICQ and today a special adviser to America Online, addressed a panel Nov. 9 on the […]

Despite media reports and industry pundits over the years relegating Netscape to Internet history books, AOL has restarted the browsers development. The company plans to bring back a refreshed Netscape browser based on the Mozilla Foundations Firefox, which will incorporate an enhanced user interface and several new features. A prototype of the new Netscape will […]

The last members of the original Winamp team have said goodbye to AOL and the door has all but shut on the Nullsoft era, BetaNews has learned. Only a few employees remain to prop up the once-ubiquitous digital audio player with minor updates, but no further improvements to Winamp are expected. Winamps abandonment comes as […]

TORONTO (AP)—The operator of an automated marketplace for telecommunications services is paying Nortel Networks Corp. an undisclosed amount to settle a technology-infringement suit. The settlement with Arbinet-thexchange Inc. was announced Tuesday by Nortel. The lawsuit, filed in July in Alexandria, Va., claimed that Arbinet violated copyrights and misappropriated trade secrets by using Nortel software without […]

BetaNews has learned that originated not from Microsoft, but from long-time Redmond partner Mainsoft. The leaked code includes 30,915 files and was apparently removed from a Linux computer used by Mainsoft for development purposes. Dated July 25, 2000, the source code represents Windows 2000 Service Pack 1. Analysis indicates files within the leaked archive are […]

In a surprising turn of events, Microsoft has pushed back the release date for the second Windows XP service pack to the third quarter of 2004. SP2 was long expected to debut before the end of 2003, a year after SP1 made the rounds. The change in plans came to light by way of Microsofts […]

In a chaotic series of events Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. made available to MSDN subscribers the long awaited second beta of Office 11, and then pulled the release shortly thereafter. The Redmond, Wash., software developer was not expected to begin shipping Office 11 Beta 2 for at least another week, and official testers are normally given […]