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Experts - AOL will seek restraining order over chat
News Hostilities between AOL and Microsoft over instant messaging continued Monday and as the row enters its second week, legal experts reckon a court battle is imminent. Microsoft confirmed this morning that users of its MSN Messenger service, which...
[July 26, 1999, 15:15]
AOL updates IM and email to halt decline
News AOL has quietly begun testing the latest version of its Internet service, in the company's continuing effort to win back the hearts and minds of online consumers. Released earlier this week to beta testers, AOL 9.0 is designed to emphasise self...
[May 22, 2003, 16:06]
AOL names new chairman
News AOL Time Warner on Thursday said chief executive Richard Parsons will assume a newly created position of chairman and chief executive, following a unanimous vote by the company's board of directors, replacing outgoing chairman Steve Case.
[January 17, 2003, 8:19]
AOL 'warnings' boot MSN users
News America Online has allegedly stepped up its attacks against the Microsoft messaging service, kicking users of Microsoft's program off AOL's system entirely. Microsoft and AOL have been fighting for weeks over instant messaging.
[August 20, 1999, 10:15]
AOL cuts 300 jobs in US
News AOL today announced it has cut 300 jobs at its Virginia headquarters and Global Network Navigator division following its extensive restructuring program several weeks ago, but added it will not do the same in the UK.
[November 15, 1996, 14:10]
AOL aims for mobile dominance
News AOL Anywhere may have just landed with the World's largest ISP inking deals with Ericsson, Nokia and RTS Wireless, to spread the word according to Steve Case and Co. AOL will work with telecommunications giants Ericsson and Nokia in developing...
[February 8, 2000, 6:09]
AOL releases figures, Freeserve still on top
News AOL claimed Friday it has 1.2 million active users -- meaning growth is up but the world's biggest ISP, even with its two sister companies CompuServe and Netscape Online combined, is still trailing Freeserve in the UK.
[February 7, 2000, 11:24]
AOL readying free Net access device
News AOL is "working with National Semiconductor on an appliance device based on Geode for access," said Polacek. The AOL device will likely be designed for sending e-mail and browsing the Web. It will likely be distributed at little or no cost to...
[July 16, 1999, 9:32]
AOL blocks instant spam
News Online service AOL has changed its network to block pop-up spam from reaching its customers, the company said on Monday. In a move quickly discovered by spammers, the AOL Time Warner subsidiary made a few technical changes last week to stop a...
[November 26, 2002, 7:46]
News Burst: AOL goes free - targets Freeserve
News Dubbed Netscape Online, the service will go head to head with Freeserve, which has been a thorn in AOL's side since it launched in September last year. Despite assertions from UK boss David Phillips the free model was not the answer, rumours have...
[July 19, 1999, 9:13]
AOL launches version 3.0, passes 100,000 users
News AOL also calculated over 300,000 European subscribers, of which 200,000 are in Germany and 25,000 are in France. Separately, AOL announced content partnerships with The Economist, Thomas Cook, Nickelodeon and the Parents Information Network.
[December 12, 1996, 9:48]
AOL swaps Real for Dolby
News AOL will swap RealNetworks' audio streaming technology with Dolby AAC in its narrowband Radio@AOL product. AOL also will incorporate Dolby's audio encoding files in its Broadband Radio@AOL service, which streams MP3 files to its high-speed Internet...
[March 25, 2003, 12:47]
AOL saga opens old dot-com wounds
News Unconventional business arrangements are coming home to roost for erstwhile Internet stars such as AOL Time Warner, which this month joined the lengthening list of companies under investigation for alleged accounting fraud.
[August 13, 2002, 14:25]
AOL suffers another outage outrage
News Trouble with FTP and credit card logging functions in the US meant the European branches of the network went down, said a spokeswoman for AOL: "Unfortunately we can't section [the UK] out and we are very apologetic.
[December 19, 1996, 15:35]
AOL free service targets Loaded generation
News Dubbed Netscape Online, the service will go head to head with Freeserve, which has been a thorn in AOL's side since it launched in September last year. Despite considered assertions from UK boss David Phillips that the free model was no panacea in...
[July 19, 1999, 12:04]
AOL delivers again
News In the quarter, AOL added 755,000 new members, bringing its new customer total for the year to more than 5.1 million users. AOL now has more than 17.6 million subscribers. For the year, AOL made $396m, or 34 cents a share, on sales of $4.8bn...
[July 22, 1999, 9:15]
AOL may eject CD division
News AOL Time Warner is considering selling its CD and DVD manufacturing business in an effort to level off its mountain of debt, according to published reports. During an earnings call in January, AOL Time Warner chief executive Richard Parsons said he...
[March 7, 2003, 15:11]
AOL beefs up Winamp
News AOL Time Warner has released version 3.0 of its Winamp MP3 player, adding video capabilities that bring the program into direct competition with products from Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks. So it opens up new potential markets for AOL.
[August 12, 2002, 10:24]
AOL wants games - on your phone?
News With gaming consistently among the top three channels on AOL, AOL President and Chief Operating Officer Robert Pittman said Thursday that the company is focused on providing users with access to games from almost any device.
[May 12, 2000, 9:34]
AOL said to be eyeing CompuServe buy
News AOL is rumoured to be preparing a bid for rival online service CompuServe, sending shares of both skywards yesterday. Shares of AOL were up seven per cent yesterday while those of CompuServe were up 17 per cent in total for Monday and Tuesday.
[April 2, 1997, 10:37]
