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Portal drops MP3 search over copyright fears
News One of China's biggest Internet portals has shut down its MP3 search service over fears it may be held responsible for copyright violations incurred by file sharers offering music via the portal. The NetEase portal made the decision to shut down...
18 August 2005, 9:37
New Microsoft portal will help police
News Microsoft's new portal will offer a software tool to help detect botnets, LaMagna said. The 'Law Enforcement Portal' will also have contact details for people within Microsoft who deal with requests from the authorities, LaMagna said.
1 September 2005, 9:52
Verizon unlocks new videogame portal
News Verizon on Tuesday unveiled Verizon Game Services, a videogame portal that it hopes will appeal to a wide range of users. The company said that the site, which it will promote to its broadband customers across the US, offers a suite of game...
14 September 2005, 9:51
Apple launches iTunes Latino
News Apple has added a new portal to its iTunes store that highlights Latino entertainment. While the iTunes store previously featured Latino music and Spanish-language content, the new portal lists Latino music, playlists from Latino celebrities, and...
2 November 2006, 10:45
365 Corp founder quits
News The founder of 365 Corporation, Danny Kelly, has quit the company after its decision to ditch music and sports internet content and focus on voice portal services. The company's restructuring plans focus on its consumer division, which includes...
4 January 2002, 11:45
Do you Google?
News No matter what Google says, it is their foray into becoming a Web portal," said Gartner analyst Allen Weiner. She also denies that Google is building a portal. The latest, introduced on Thursday, is a feature that lets people set up personalised...
23 May 2005, 9:56
Yahoo CEO: 'We're designing the future of Internet content'
News As an early Internet portal, Yahoo began licensing and aggregating content from media partners, including news agencies and wire services. Noting that Google has a number of services in beta, such as Gmail, with fewer customers than competing Yahoo...
7 October 2005, 11:02
Google introduces personalised home pages
News The feature also helps Google fill in a missing piece in its drive to challenge Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online for Web portal dominance. The Google service, which is similar to rival offerings from Yahoo and MSN, is yet another indication of...
23 May 2005, 11:16
Chuck D sets the record straight on DRM
News He also expressed skepticism about the purchase this year of MySpace by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, indicating that it may eventually make the portal less effective in promoting new artists. The venture is not Chuck D's first into digital...
20 September 2006, 10:39
Google's grand ambition
News Joe Kraus, a founder of the Excite.com portal that merged with Internet service provider @Home before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001, agreed that Google executives are probably thinking big, although he acknowledged he "doesn't have the...
22 September 2005, 11:08
Microsoft reveals Office 2007 details
News Many of the new capabilities will be included in SharePoint Portal Server, which has been expanded from a tool for handling portals to one that also handles other Office tasks, including forms management, spreadsheet hosting and content rights...
16 February 2006, 10:30
Microsoft and Google duke it out for China
News Sina is the largest portal site in China and has a deal with Yahoo for an online auction house. Yahoo China president Zhou Hongyi resigned last month for personal reasons, leaving the future of the portal's unit in question.
22 July 2005, 10:25
Carphone Warehouse snaps up AOL UK
News The consultants concluded that the company should abandon being an Internet service provider (ISP) in the UK to concentrate on its portal services, which are benefiting from the online advertising boom.
12 October 2006, 8:02
News Corp in talks to buy unnamed search engine
News News Corp.is in talks to buy a stake in an unnamed search engine as part of its plan to create a major portal and expand on the Internet, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said this week. The company is embarking on a major expansion on the Internet...
15 August 2005, 10:34
MSN claims record figures for Live Earth
News The Microsoft-owned portal also claimed to have reached "the most simultaneous viewers of any online concert ever", but declined to specify a specific total. MSN declared itself the new record holder for the biggest online entertainment audience...
9 July 2007, 10:01
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