Yahoo and AOL's plans to charge trusted marketers a fee in order to allow their e-mail messages to bypass spam filters has been slammed by security experts and snubbed by Australia's largest online media company, ninemsn.
A leading antispam agency has struck back at moves to charge companies a fixed fee to ensure e-mails are delivered, saying it will erode freedoms.
After years of reluctantly treating music videos as free promotional tools, record label Universal Music Group is planning to charge Internet and satellite companies whenever they play.
Trials by Yahoo in the US to charge users US$1.99 per minute for phone support are unlikely to be implemented in Australia at this stage.
Yahoo said Monday that it has added more free video programming to its site, but the Web portal said it would start charging consumers for some streamed content by the end of the year.
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A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
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Move over Google, here comes Middle Earth. British-based Planet-Tolkien.com is the latest company to offer a Web-based e-mail product with 1 gigabyte of storage--a trend that kicked off in late March with the test release of Google's Gmail service.
Converting free consumer products into paid services tailored to a business clientele can be harder than it looks.
Telstra customers can now access their Yahoo Instant Messenger account on their mobile phones, via SMS.
Once as free as the air we breathe, most Web-based e-mail accounts now come with all kinds of strings attached. We test four different services to find out if these so-called free e-mailers are worth the hassle.
The Internet's governing technical body gives a stamp of approval to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging.
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