As some of you have noted on our forum, yesterday an important service announcement accidentally went out to a large audience of Windows Live Messenger users with the following message: "Important service... More...

Aimed at businesses that need to retain and store e-mail, Google has added 10 more years to its e-mail archiving service, Google Message Discover. "Regulations and guidelines like the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure put... More...

Sony is to release a wireless-enabled, handheld device aimed at young people who use instant messaging (IM). The pocked-sized gadget, called the mylo, will sell for about $350 (£183), according to the Associated Press. It... More...

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have agreed to make their two instant-messaging programs work together, a partnership that could threaten market leader America Online, people familiar with the situation said. The deal was... More...

At the start of last year, Bill Gates told the world's elite at an annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, that the problem of spam would be solved in two years. But if... More...

The closure of Dell's popular Customer Care message boards last week has some Dell users fuming that the company, once the darling of PC buyers for the quality of its service, is now whittling that... More...

Yahoo Inc. is rolling out a service that lets users in the United States tap the Internet media giant's Web search using text messaging, matching a service now offered by rival Google Inc. Yahoo also... More...

Instant messaging is both wildly popular and mostly profit-free, but America Online appears determined to change the second half of that description. On Thursday, AOL rolled out two new pay-per-minute services tied... More...

Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter provides server-side message filtering, heuristics-based message analysis, and support for per-message spam confidence level ratings. Note: Intelligent Message Filter can only be installed on a server running Exchange Server 2003... More...

Microsoft's chairman talks up the business benefits of blogging, RSS, online meetings and other user-empowerment technologies to 100 top CEOs. How do you explain Real Simple Syndication (RSS) to 100 CEOs, some... More...

Ed : GO Go-kart! From Go-Kart Records: We at Go-Kart Records want to make it perfectly clear that the RIAA does not represent the views of all record labels. So, we are... More...

Getting a quickie divorce has taken on a whole new meaning in Malaysia after it was decided that a man can divorce his wife with a text message. The government's adviser on religious affairs,... More...

A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise a computer running Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and gain control over it. To attempt an attack, the attacker would have to be able... More...

If AOL Time Warner and rival Microsoft agree to collaborate, instant messaging services could see a boom -- especially within businesses, analysts say. As part of last week's broad anti-trust litigation settlement, the two rivals... More...

To have any chance of making easy money on the Internet, computer geek Howard Carmack knew he had to send more than a million junk e-mails every day. And to avoid being detected by... More...

There is a flaw in the way the kernel passes error messages to a debugger. A vulnerability results because an attacker could write a program to exploit this flaw and run code of their choice.... More...

Attention Neowin members: I am writing to you as a member of the Counter-Strike Skinning community (CSS) in order to inform the Counter-Strike playing public of a great injustice that has been occurring... More...

According to activewin some users of hotmail (MSN's free email service) who send a lot of e-mail are now receiving messages that they have sent "the maximum number of messages in a 24 hour period."... More...

Quick Info File Name: Q328310i.EXE - Download Size: 2075 KB - Date Published: 2/6/2003 - Version: Q328310 Overview A security vulnerability has been identified that could allow an attacker to... More...

Thanks Yvo. A security vulnerability has been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise a Windows-based computer and gain complete control over it. The attacker would need the ability to log onto the computer... More...

Thanks Ryan D. for this. Easy Message 2.2 was released to the public this week after being tested by thousands of beta testers. It is also released as the upgrade for the thousands of users... More...

Researchers conducting the study of 1,000 mobile phone users for Woolworths, say that children's text messages could hold the key to their future careers. The study examined how different professions wrote... More...

Scott Howell has emailed us with the follow up to how Hotmail is deleting messages in teh Saved folder. "Unfortunately Hotmail users like myself with email addresses ending in '@msn.com' receive NO... More...

Thanks DJ Specs for this. Easy Message is an Instant Messenger that combines MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AOL, and POP3 Email notification. This is an ultra lightweight software package at only 520kb. This software is ultra... More...

This document will describe the installation process for the Message Queuing Service Application; both the C# and VB.Net versions. Scripts and the process will be defined for testing the application. The application consists... More...

Thanks bob.kahlon for the heads up :D When applying Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP3) on a debug version of Windows 2000 that has been upgraded to Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2),... More...

A quick up date on Merlin's relic thief from this weekend, and cheating in general. I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware that there was indeed a cheater on Merlin... More...

I found this at The Inquirer. Andre in Toronto, The Inquirer's reader recieve a message from hacker that hacked Playboy's site. Here goes the message.. dear user, since the... More...

Pope John Paul, who writes most of his speeches by hand and does not own a computer, will dedicate his message for World Communications Day to the Internet, the Vatican said Tuesday. ... More...

(You gotta laugh... wonder if this involves Boat Pictures... Ed) Police rescued a Blackburn man locked in a shed after receiving a tip-off from a Net user in the US. The man -... More...