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MSN goes free with BT deal
News Demon, he suggested, cannot be far away from a 'free service' announcement while pressure is increasing on the two stalwarts of subscriber Internet services, AOL and CompuServe. We think there is a subscription opportunity in the future but not the...
[May 20, 1999, 8:00]
Jobs: Mac OS 9 is dead
News Windows users can use AIM for free but have to get a screen name from AOL. Although iChat is "blessed" by AOL, Jobs said it won't require an AOL subscription. It's the first time AOL has let anyone under the tent," Jobs said.
[May 7, 2002, 9:47]
AOL goes unmetered
News A little later than expected, AOL UK is at last moving to an unmetered offering with a flat-rate monthly fee of £14.99. Dubbed 'AOL Flat Rate' the ISP is expecting heavy demand for the service as consumers flee from collapsing unmetered models...
[September 19, 2000, 9:04]
News Burst: AOL goes unmetered
News A little later than expected, AOL UK is at last moving to an unmetered offering. The deal will be rolled out in stages, starting with AOL's longest-standing members. The ISP announced Tuesday that it is moving to a flat-rate monthly fee of £14.99.
[September 19, 2000, 8:13]
AOL says 'Yes' - sort of
News The hazy statement comes just over a month after David Phillips, managing director of AOL UK wrote exclusively for ZDNet News saying the free model was "not the solution". Speaking today Phillips said in a statement: "We are looking at a variety of...
[June 21, 1999, 15:55]
AOL quick to offer faster broadband
News AOL has become one of the first major UK Internet service providers to unveil a full commercial 1Mbps ADSL product. AOL says that it is launching the product to all its members, and new customers, after a successful trial run of the service this...
[December 1, 2003, 17:00]
Leader: AOL on the box? Erm... don't think so.
News I well remember when AOL announced plans to purchase CompuServe the babbling, then UK managing director Jonathan Bulkeley, was at pains to point out that AOL was not an ISP, or even an OSP, but a provider of content for distribution in any other...
[December 15, 1998, 14:01]
AOL and Google extend European alliance
News Under the deal, announced on Tuesday, AOL subscribers here in the UK, as well as those in France and Germany will receive targeted advertising from Google related to their search request. Google has already been providing Web search results for all...
[October 20, 2004, 9:45]
UPDATE: AOL Europe unclear on hack threat
News Asked if European users were at risk of having their IM service accounts hacked Director of Corporate Communications for AOL Europe, Matt Peacock, told ZDNet UK News: "I have no idea whether this is an issue [for European users].
[January 25, 2000, 12:20]
AOL Time Warner puts pressure on European ISPs
News James Eibisch, research manager at IDC in the UK, argues that the deal between AOL and Time Warner will give AOL the edge over other European ISPs. Should Europe's domestic ISPs be quaking in their boots at the prospect of AOL and Time Warner...
[January 10, 2000, 17:30]
AOL Europe's future under scrutiny
News AOL's European operation faces an uncertain time ahead, with parent company Time Warner hiring Citigroup to conduct a review of the ISP's future strategy. It is understood that AOL Europe told employees last week that a strategic review was under...
[May 8, 2006, 15:45]
AOL to enter security arena
News AOL is preparing to enter the security fray with a new software bundle that it plans to market to the general public, not just its subscribers, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. The software, dubbed "Total Care", is expected to be...
[June 7, 2006, 9:40]
AOL and Freeserve laywers in talks
News In January AOL disputed Freeserve's claims that it was the UK's number one ISP. However, lawyers for both sides are today in talks and an AOL spokeswoman says the company is hopeful of an "early resolution" of the dispute.
[April 19, 1999, 12:07]
Update: AOL denies unmetered -- but soon
News For the last 18 months AOL has been leading the fight to get unmetered access in the UK, supporting CUT (Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications) and losing no opportunity to point the finger of blame for high prices at BT.
[April 12, 2000, 15:41]
AOL vows to keep blocking Microsoft
News Primrose did not comment on the status of other AIM clients and AOL UK refused to do so. "We have people who are monitoring Microsoft and we will continue to block their program," said Tricia Primrose, an AOL spokeswoman in the U.S.
[July 27, 1999, 7:47]
AOL casts doubts on BT's child-porn protection
News But it's not clear that all the issues we care about are being addressed," said Jonathan Lambeth, AOL UK's director of communications. AOL says it is talking to BT about Cleanfeed, but claims that there are several problems that need to be overcome.
[July 20, 2004, 17:45]
Oftel may back local loop bid
News There's an urgent need for more competition in the telecoms sector, especially with broadband," said Matt Peacock, chief communications officer for AOL UK. AOL insisted that something had to be done to improve the speed of local loop unbundling...
[August 2, 2001, 17:22]
AOL tests standalone email product
News Called "AOL Communicator", the new software bundles a beefed-up version of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and an address book with an email client that mirrors Microsoft's popular Outlook application in appearance and features, according to a version...
[November 25, 2002, 8:41]
Industry says unmetered access too expensive
News One of BT's fiercest critics -- subscription-based ISP AOL -- has been campaigning for unmetered access for the last year. AOL is concerned that the Surftime offer will do little to encourage Internet use and may be anti-competitive.
[December 7, 1999, 13:40]
The Day Ahead: AOL Time Warner's $1tn dream
News Commentary: AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case has never been known for understatement. That's why he was only half-joking that AOL Time Warner could be a company with $100bn in revenue and a $1tn market capitalisation.
[February 1, 2001, 13:01]
