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The Day Ahead: Disney says GO brand a no-go, you DIG?
News Time Warner tried that great Pathfinder experiment only to find out its individual brands carried more weight with users. AOL was so good at the branding game, it acquired Time Warner. With the AOL-Time Warner merger almost official, multi-channel...
[August 3, 2000, 13:00]
IM archives raise security concerns
News Messenger and AOL Time Warner's ICQ have begun offering message archive features that essentially allow one person to record a conversation without the other's consent. Popularised by AOL Time Warner's America Online service, such services allow...
[June 21, 2001, 9:27]
Microsoft: Online ads 'on a monster roll'
News Advertisers spent $211m on AOL Time Warner's America Online division, $204m on Yahoo! But owners of major Web sites, such as AOL Time Warner and Yahoo! We're on a monster roll," said Yusuf Mehdi, the corporate vice president overseeing Microsoft's...
[October 24, 2002, 10:46]
Wi-Fi users warned of bandwidth bandits
News Time Warner Cable recently sent letters out to a dozen or so Wi-Fi subscribers who are sharing their bandwidth over a wireless network. Tim Pozar, of the Bay Area Wireless Users Group, still ruffles at Time Warner Cable's claims that somehow a Wi...
[August 1, 2002, 9:25]
Gnutella creator may quit AOL
News This is not the first time that AOL Time Warner corporate managers have acted to censor Frankel's work. The software sparked an immediate outcry from AOL executives worried about causing a stir with its AOL Time Warner cousin Warner Music Group.
[June 4, 2003, 7:42]
Bertelsmann: Making music with Napster
News And other major labels, ranging from Universal Music Group and AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group have openly voiced scepticism over Bertelsmann's participation terms. Even the comments that [Time Warner president] Dick Parsons made is much more...
[February 7, 2001, 13:57]
Promise of P3P stalls as backers regroup
News Next month, AOL Time Warner will host a meeting of the W3C -- a major Web standards group with authority over the privacy technology -- to debate what sorts of revisions may be required. The W3C released its P3P recommendation six months ago, and...
[October 29, 2002, 13:20]
Internet startups flock to AOL
News Moreover, its pending purchase of Time Warner will give AOL even more attractions to lure partners. In a recent hearing on the proposed AOL-Time Warner merger, Sen. America Online is emerging as one of the biggest stakeholders in the Internet...
[April 3, 2000, 13:23]
Vivendi exec shuffle raises Net questions
News AOL Time Warner chief executive Gerald Levin in May stepped down for personal reasons, but not before the company witnessed its stock price plummet to historic lows, as investors openly questioned Levin's wisdom in selling Time Warner to America...
[July 2, 2002, 8:25]
Worms find fertile ground in IM
News Security experts said they are as yet unaware of any virus attacks that might have targeted AOL Time Warner's AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and ICQ or Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger. MSN's service competes with the two largest IM services, AIM and ICQ...
[August 15, 2001, 9:12]
Harry Potter at the mercy of pirates
News According to one industry analyst, the move may have been nothing more than a short-term effort to save some money at a difficult time for Warner Bros.parent AOL Time Warner, which has seen disappointing earnings on the heels of the merger that...
[June 21, 2002, 10:41]
Dial IM from your mobile
News and AOL Time Warner to take part in the Genie service. AT&T and Excite@Home, lobbied federal regulators to force AOL to open its IM network as a condition of its merger with Time Warner. On a cell phone, messaging is even more limited: Customers...
[November 14, 2001, 16:15]
Yahoo! pitches promotion to IM users
News is struggling along with Microsoft to catch up to the IM leader, AOL Time Warner. AOL Time Warner, for example, has sold banner ads through its ICQ service. The notice can be turned off for a certain period of time by clicking on a box on the window.
[August 9, 2001, 15:12]
Subscription for content is new Net trend Pt II
News AOL Time Warner, for example, could sell Internet access at premium cost for access to several Time Warner publications, analysts predict. At the time [we launched] people wanted information for free.
[March 30, 2001, 13:54]
Mozilla release could trigger battle of the browsers
News The release comes as AOL Time Warner is testing Mozilla technology in versions of its America Online software, a move that could see Microsoft's Internet Explorer ousted as the default browser for some 35 million Web surfers.
[April 12, 2002, 17:30]
AOL not sold on IM interoperability
News It also required AOL to open its instant messaging network to a competitor if it decides to offer "advanced, IM-based high-speed services" (AIHS) through Time Warner Cable, both divisions of parent company AOL Time Warner.
[July 24, 2002, 9:26]
EMI enters the world of MP3
News EMI is currently proposing to link up with America Online and Time Warner in a merger that some argue would monopolise the online and offline music business. Will we really be creating a monopoly with the AOL/Time Warner merger, or will it simply...
[September 20, 2000, 9:41]
Ad-skipping feature found in TiVo
News The feature has been controversial from a legal standpoint, resulting in an ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit, which was filed against Sonicblue by media companies, including AOL Time Warner, Walt Disney, MGM and Vivendi Universal.
[January 16, 2003, 10:16]
The Day Ahead: AT&T has to deliver broadband promises
News Can these two compete with the soon-to-be-merged America Online Time Warner juggernaut? Excite@Home's two million cable Internet access subscribers are impressive, but AOL Time Warner will likely transition at least some of AOL's 22 million...
[August 29, 2000, 12:20]
US Report: Mixed verdict on Netscape's media moves
News One potential media partner for Netscape is Time Warner, which is providing some of the online advertising in Netscape's current promotional, as well as a good deal of Netcenter's content. Are more deals with Time Warner in the cards?
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