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America Online's IM System Under Investigation
News America Online's dominance of the Instant Messaging market is to be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission it emerges Wednesday. The investigation will form part of the FTC's ongoing review of America Online's buy-out of Time Warner.
[June 14, 2000, 17:01]
America Online (OS X)
Downloads America Online (AOL) is a communication service that provides users with access to both the Internet and special AOL content. With an AOL account, you can utilize a vast array of chat rooms, message boards, online stores, digital pictures, and AOL...
[April 18, 2003, 3:15]
America Online Silent On UK Subscribers
News America Online has rebuffed critics, saying it expects a profitable quarter and to jump from its current 6.2 million to reach 10 million subscribers by mid-1997. The US-based company made the statements in the light of analysts' claims that...
[July 22, 1996, 17:33]
Latin America's Printer Online Outperforms The Competition With WebEx
White Papers Founded in 1998, Printer Online is a leading provider of full-service printing solutions in Colombia. With five employees servicing customers across Colombia, Printer Online required an efficient way to address the needs of a geographically...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Irish Controversy Dogs America Online
News Those closures inadvertently landed the world's largest online service in the midst of the turbulent debate over Irish independence -- and left some AOL users and Irish nationalists crying discrimination.
[January 8, 1999, 9:44]
Internet Startups Flock To AOL
News America Online is emerging as one of the biggest stakeholders in the Internet economy, turning itself into the Web's most desirable partner for fledgling online companies. Moreover, its pending purchase of America Online is emerging as one of the...
[April 3, 2000, 13:23]
Rivals Agree On Web Buying Standard
News Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystems, America Online have all agreed to back the new standard, the Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML). America Online and Microsoft had both announced plans to ship wallets earlier this year.
[June 15, 1999, 7:36]
AOL Makes Interactive TV Move - Deal With TiVo
News Internet Goliath America Online took what analysts are calling a necessary step Tuesday when it inked a deal with personal TV appliance maker TiVo. That's a key to America Online's strategy, said Gerry Kaufhold, principal analyst with market...
[August 18, 1999, 8:31]
AOL: Faux Napster Release 'unauthorised'
News America Online on Wednesday said members of its Spinner/Winamp music software division were acting on their own when they made a program available that allows users to share digital music files easily.
[March 16, 2000, 9:26]
Job Ads Suggest Netscape Regeneration
News In an attempt to revitalise its mostly gutted Netscape division, America Online is seeking to hire product management and business development professionals. Also in 1998, America Online said it would buy Netscape in a deal then valued at $4.3bn.
[April 21, 2004, 12:00]
AOL Edges By 2Q Expectations
News America Online ended the second quarter with 23.8m subscribers. Among America Online's Web brands, the ICQ message service picked up 7.9 million users, bringing its total base to 53.1 million, including 17.9 million active users.
[January 20, 2000, 9:07]
AOL Quietly Shifts Staffing To India
News America Online is quietly laying the groundwork to hire software engineers in Bangalore, India -- a decision that is sparking some pointed criticism but also is becoming de rigueur among technology companies.
[December 23, 2003, 7:35]
Why AOL Holds All The Keys
News America Online may be dealing from a stacked deck in a bid to undermine rival Internet service providers (ISPs), say several AOL customers and ISPs. Galaxy Internet Services (GIS) filed suit against America Online on April 4, claiming version 5.0...
[April 17, 2000, 16:07]
AOL Targets Enterprises With AIM
News America Online may face a hard sell with its AOL Enterprise Federation Partner program, a new effort unveiled Thursday that's designed to link IM users at work. Since then, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has also been working with America...
[April 15, 2005, 10:00]
AOL Wants Games - On Your Phone?
News America Online sees online gaming -- and even gaming on your cell phone -- as a key to revenue growth in the future. That's the day that Sony PlayStation 2 invades the UK and America. Expanding online gaming from PCs and game consoles into cell...
[May 12, 2000, 9:34]
New Program Mimics Napster
News A group of software engineers who work for a unit of America Online (AOL) has released an early version of a program that mimics the operation of Napster, the popular Web software that allows for the free trading of music files, including pirated...
[March 15, 2000, 14:03]
AOL-Netscape Deal: The Death Of Open Standards?
News The director of a consumer advocacy group Tuesday slammed America Online Inc.s $4.2 billion deal to purchase Netscape Communications Corp.warning it could effectively mean the end of the open standards on which the Internet was founded.
[November 25, 1998, 9:41]
AOL And Time Warner To Merge
News America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider, and US media and entertainment colossus Time Warner Monday announced a stock-for-stock merger. America Online has the world's largest online audience; its flagship brand has more than...
[January 10, 2000, 10:10]
Suspected Phisher Arrested
News A California man who allegedly duped America Online customers into disclosing their credit card information over the Web was arrested on fraud and other charges Thursday. He allegedly tricked his victims, all America Online subscribers, by sending...
[January 27, 2006, 9:30]
ICQ Flaws Open PCs To Attack
News Two serious flaws in America Online's ICQ software could allow an online attacker to take control of a person's PC, a Boston security firm warned in an advisory released on Monday. The vulnerable ICQ Pro 2003a client is the latest version of...
[May 6, 2003, 7:21]
