Matthew Hicks

News feed aggregator NewsGator Technologies has struck new partnerships to expand its enterprise sales and tie its online service with other desktop newsreaders. NewsGator on Wednesday announced a co-marketing agreement with Six Apart Ltd., one of the leading makers of Weblog software, and integration of subscription information from its Web-based aggregation service with FeedDemon, a […]

As part of its site revamp launched on Tuesday, Yahoo Inc. further embraced XML syndication technology by mixing feeds from Weblogs and other sites more prominently into its My Yahoo service. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company unveiled a beta of the next generation of its personalized home-page service that includes RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom […]

A Weblog aggregation startup is partnering with some of the leading news reader applications to address the bandwidth consumption of XML syndication feeds. Bloglines announced on Tuesday that it has expanded its Web services program so that news readers can connect to its free online service for searching and subscribing to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) […]

Citing a rise in spam abuse, Microsoft Corp.s MSN division has ended free access to its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service through the Outlook and Outlook Express clients. MSN had offered its 187 million active Hotmail users the ability to read and send e-mail through the e-mail clients rather than a Web interface using a protocol […]

The company that is suing 42 major technology vendors over their use of technology in the JPEG image standard is preparing for its next patent targets. Forgent Networks Inc., the owner of a patent it says covers compression technology in JPEG, is working to expand its intellectual property licensing program to include some of the […]

First, there was Gmail. Is the Gbrowser next? A Google Web browser is the latest in the never-ending speculation about what search leader Google Inc. is going to do next after raising $1.7 billion from its public offering. The evidence: a spate of high-profile hires, Googles domain-name registration of the gbrowser.com name and a duo […]

Ask Jeeves Inc. is getting personal with Web search and trying to leapfrog its bigger competitors in the process. The Emeryville, Calif., company on Tuesday launched a series of personalization features for its search engine that let users store individual search results, organize them and share them through a new MyJeeves service. Ask Jeeves personal […]

Popularity comes with price, as Web publishers of XML syndication feeds are learning the hard way. According to feed publishers, as the use of Really Simple Syndication news feeds grows so too does the bandwidth they consume and the demands they put on Web servers. Some Weblogs and technology Web sites are rethinking the way […]

With intellectual property issues already causing defections from its Sender ID proposal, Microsoft Corp. is sparking fresh concerns that IP could even undermine alternatives. This time, a Microsoft patent made public Thursday appears to be broad enough to cover not only methods of the authentication algorithms for which Microsoft wants licensing but also the SPF […]

Amazon.com subsidiary A9.com may have officially entered the search wars on Wednesday, but its effort so far is drawing lukewarm user reviews and raising privacy concerns over its core personalization features. A9.com, now out of a beta begun in April, is taking a different approach from major search engines such as Google Inc. and Yahoo […]