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• Google, Yahoo, AOL Users Search for Michael Jackson The King of Pop topped the list of 2009 online search terms on Google, AOL and Yahoo.
• AOL Changes Its Logo, and More AOL changes logo as the most obvious part of a makeover to help the fading online giant regain some of its past glory.
• AOL Is a Real Steal at a Mere $4.2 Billion It may sound like a fortune, but $4.2 billion is a pittance compared with the $20 billion value that Google placed on AOL when it invested $1 billion in 2005.
• The New AIM: Less Clunky and Annoying, More Social The new AIM aims to be not only an IM client but also an aggregator of social networking info (aka your “lifestream”) from other services, too.
• 15 Tech T-Shirts We Love A T-shirt says a lot about the person wearing it. And when the wearer is a proud geek, the message comes through loud and clear.
• Google #1 in Search Engine Satisfaction, AOL in Last Place Google leads the pack, with an 86 percent satisfaction ranking, the same as it scored last year. Ranked number 2 is "all others" with 78 percent, up 2.6 percent from a year ago.
• 10 Companies We Love to Hate When it comes to the Hall of Fame of companies to hate, these tech firms top the list.
• Jackson News Spikes Chatter, AIM Goes Dark Instant messaging shifts to Twitter for instant communication on celebrity news.
• More Firms Banning IM Access to Enemy Nations Google and possibly AOL are jumping on Microsoft's bandwagon, banning IM services to citizens of hostile countries.
• AOL and Time Warner: A Sympathy Note Reflections on the downfall of an Internet star and failure of a record-breaking merger as Time Warner dumps AOL.
• Time Warner Separation Could Help AOL Find Its Way The media giant's split with AOL might be just the opportunity that AOL needs to be more like the cool, ground-breaking company it once was.
• Will Your Data Disappear When Your Online Storage Site Shuts Down? Dying storage dot-coms can make precious images or business data vanish overnight. Here's how to protect yourself.
• 20 Years of AOL Annoyances and Foul-Ups AOL floppies and CDs. Sharon Stone's fling with the Running Man icon. The death of Netscape. It's all part of AOL history we'd like to forget.
• AOL Closes China R&D Base as Economy Slides AOL will close its R&D office in Beijing less than a year after it launched a mainland Chinese Web portal.
• AOL Boosts Webmail Users can now preview messages sent to their Gmail and Yahoo Mail accounts.
• AOL Turns Bebo into One-Stop Inbox AOL's Bebo social network will now aggregate and update content from a variety of sources.
• AOL/Yahoo Merger: Remedy Worse Than the Disease? ANALYSIS: Yahoo's weak stock would get a boost from a merger, but it may create more problems than it solves.
• Annoying Software: Is Apple iTunes the New AOL? Remember back in 2000 when AOL was king--and incredibly irritating? Apple's iTunes seems to be catching up. Here are seven reasons why iTunes may be ready to don our Annoying Software crown.
• ISPs Join to Block Child Porn Five major ISPs have signed an agreement with the New York attorney general to block access to child pornography.
• Mergers are in the Air Economic gloom is not stopping tech companies' strategic mergers and acquisitions.
• Adobe AIR Moves Web Apps to the Next Level Here's a sampling of current and upcoming Adobe AIR applications that blur the line between online services and desktop programs.
• For Messaging Addicts: Two New Sidekicks A look at T-Mobile's Sidekick LX and Sidekick Slide smart phones.
• The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time These products are so bad, they belong in the high-tech hall of shame.