AOL, Microsoft Spar on Spam
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It wasn&#39;t long ago that competitive entities seemed to be joining together to combat Internet users&#39; common foe, spam. However, despite the fact that big Internet players
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Add America Online Inc. to the growing list of companies and organizations shunning a spam-fighting proposal from Microsoft Corp. AOL cited "tepid support" for Microsoft's so-called Sender ID technology, which seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses, a common technique for hiding their origins.
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In an escalating legal battle, Microsoft and Amazon.com are bringing their combined weight to bear on spammers and phishers. The Seattle-area companies disclosed Tuesday that they are collaborating
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Now that Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) two patent efforts regarding e-mail authentication are publicly available, anti-spam advocates are raising even more questions about how the patents might impact an industry-wide anti-spam protocol effort called Sender
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Microsoft, America Online (AOL), Yahoo and Earthlink have filed a handful of lawsuits against spammers, allegedly targeting some of the world&#39;s largest unsolicited mail offenders.
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For a year, Microsoft Corp. has extolled the virtues of the Can-Spam Act, which Congress passed in late 2003 to crack down on purveyors of unwanted bulk e-mail.  But some think the software giant is engaged in its own spamming.  -The Washington Post
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America Online disses Microsoft's SenderID.
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Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc., both influential companies, have joined hands in order to take legal action and persue spammers who are targetting these companies and their customers.
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MacCentral - America Online Inc. (AOL) has decided not to fully support Microsoft Corp.'s Sender ID spam-fighting plan after the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the open- source community expressed intellectual property concerns.
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AOL has taken a step back from an earlier stance and agreed to support the Microsoft-backed anti-spam technology Sender ID. The reconsideration followed Microsoft&#39;s retooling of the technology
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America Online Inc. said Monday it is once again supporting a Microsoft Corp. plan to combat unwanted bulk e-mail by verifying senders of messages, a move that could rekindle industry adoption of a new system for attacking spam. -The Washington Post
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America Online, Microsoft, EarthLink and Yahoo are teaming up again to turn up the heat on spammers. The four companies, which make up the Anti-Spam Alliance, announced on Thursday that they have each filed
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AOL is doing a decent job tackling spam, but it's also doing some spin doctoring in the process.
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AOL is announcing a major victory in the fight against spam. According to America Online&#39;s member spam reports, the ISP achieved a 75% decline in junk e-mail sent to its members in 2004.
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Amazon.com and Microsoft have joined to push what they described as a &quot;wake-up call&quot; to spammers, filing lawsuits against defendants they say sent millions of pieces of spam and who attempted
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BetaNews: After tackling Spam, AOL is now waging a two front offensive against spammers. America Online has taken the fight to &quot;Spim,&quot; which is crossing over the threshold of disruption.
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Amid news of America being the largest Spam sending country in the world with a whooping 42% of all Spam sent, AOL the world&#39;s largest Internet service provider is reporting a 75% decrease in Junk e-mail based on its internal member reports.