AOL Testing 'Light' Version of AIM
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Responding to the requests of its more advanced users, AOL has begun developing a new lightweight AIM client that includes just the basic instant messaging functionality without all the frills. Called AIM ET, the software is available from AOL's Greenhouse site that offers previews of new products.
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An article at eWeek is saying that AOL plans to launch it&#39;s own web browser sometime soon. The &quot;AOL Browser&quot; will be based off of Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer and not AOL&#39;s dead Netscape Browser.
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com. America Online Inc. on Wednesday launched new features in its Singingfish search site for audio and video on the Web. AOL, a division of Time Warner Inc.
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America Online has had quite a bit of success with its AIM Robot (AIMBot) technology, including one that feeds users news headlines or on-demand news from the Wall Street
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A vulnerability in AOL's instant messenger could allow attacks. Also: A new Bagle variant rumbles across the Net.
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AOL Monday is launching a program to promote and facilitate the creation of what it calls AIM Robots for its AIM instant messaging system.
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WebEx Communications Inc is to announce AIM Pro Business Edition, a paid-for version of the enterprise IM service on top of a free client it launched with AOL Inc in February.
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AOL LLC has said it would make available its AIM Phoneline VoIP service, which is part of its instant messaging client, to developers in a bid to spur new hardware and functionality for the service.
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America Online will have a desktop search capability in a new browser the company is now beta-testing, an AOL spokeswoman said Friday.
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America Online is putting out a call to developers to bring its instant-messaging software to more cell phones. The AOL Mobile Developer program, announced Monday, is meant to reduce the time manufacturers
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In a play to grab the attention of more Internet users, America Online (Quote, Chart) began testing a Web-based e-mail service that the company hopes will compete with similar services by Yahoo (Quote, Chart), MSN (Quote, Chart) and Google (Quote, Chart).
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AOL will be adding a host of new features designed to combat spam, virii and spyware to version 9.0 of its browser. The package, known as &#39;AOL 9.0 Security Edition&#39; is a free download which was available from Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - AOL has developed a new version of its PC software designed to simplify and enhance how broadband users access online content and services. The product, called OpenRide, consolidates in a single screen with four panes access to a variety of AOL and non-AOL services, with a focus on e-mail, instant messaging, Web search, multimedia and browsing, AOL said Wednesday. OpenRide lets users access AOL and non-AOL e-mail accounts, links up with the company's AIM instant messaging service, and has an integrated Web browser and a media center for viewing videos, calling up photos and playing songs. Until now, AOL took a one-size-fits-all approach with its PC software, but OpenRide represents a departure from this model with a more modular, flexible architecture. Previously, applications design supported AOL's dial-up Internet access business, which AOL has decided to exit. With its focus on broadband users, OpenRide is in sync with AOL's strategy of attracting visitors to its free services andÂ selling online ads, AOL said. As such, OpenRide is the first AOL PC software that is freely available to anyone. Although AOL is to be commended for developing a more customizable version of its PC software, OpenRide still has an entry-level feel to it that will likely turn off sophisticated users, said Joe Laszlo, a Jupiter Research analyst. "OpenRide aims towards the mainstream, not very advanced end user, which is the classic, stereotypical AOL user," he said. Still, the potential exists for building features into OpenRide that will attract more advanced users, because AOL seems to have given the application an open, modular architecture, Laszlo said. Much is riding on OpenRide's adoption, as AOL battles for visitors and advertisers with mighty competitors like Yahoo, Google, Microsoft's MSN and many other players that make money from online ads. The PC software is a key weapon in AOL's arsenal. AOL members make up 36 percent of U.S. monthly unique visitors to the AOL network. But they generate a disproportionate 80 percent of the page views. Central to retaining these people's positive effect on the consumption of AOL online ads is their use of the AOL PC software, which subscribers used to lose access to when they canceled their dial-up accounts, although not anymore. About half the size of the previous, AOL 9.0 version, OpenRide can beÂ downloaded here. It doesn't require any log-in procedure except when users need to access password-protected services.
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New developer program invites closer integration with search AOL functions.
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(InfoWorld) - AOL launched a significant upgrade of AOL News on Tuesday, but it had to turn off some new features so that the site could handle a heavy flow of users. AOL News, a news aggregation site, became slow and unavailable in the afternoon for what an AOL spokeswoman said was a "brief period of time." At mid-afternoon, the site either didn't load or loaded very slowly for several IDG News Service staffers located in different parts of the U.S. AOL expects to reinstate the removed features progressively this evening and during the day Wednesday, the spokeswoman said. At press time, AOL News didn't seem to be experiencing any performance problems. The redesign gave AOL News a blog format that combines traditional news sources, AOL programming, and social news features, such as giving readers the ability to rate and share articles and post comments. Some of the social news features had to be pulled off the site at different points in the morning and afternoon to accommodate heavy traffic, said Lewis D'Vorkin, senior vice president of AOL News & Sports. He stressed that the revamped AOL News is in a beta phase, during which AOL is closely monitoring usage of all sections and features of the site and making the necessary adjustments. "We had large traffic today, some big stories, so we removed some of those [social news] features to better the performance of the site," D'Vorkin said. The site currently does have a feed from the company's Netscape social news site, which offers users a wide variety of interactive features. Having a hot new Web site crushed by a flood of Web traffic is almost a point of pride with the Web 2.0 set, but a company the size of AOL should be able to do better, said Rich Miller, an analyst with Web analysis firm Netcraft. "They've got so much infrastructure and have launched large services before, so if they're having trouble, I wouldn't be bowled over by their reliability," he said. Asked if AOL was caught by surprise by the intensity of Tuesday's traffic, D'Vorkin replied that it was not. "Nothing surprises me and nothing catches me off guard," he said. The AOL News redesign is groundbreaking as a "mass market" news site that adopts a blog format with a broad set of interactive, Web 2.0, social news features, he said. It brings together features that AOL has been testing and providing for several years, he said. "We have developed a very unique site," he said. "It's exciting to learn and present news in a vastly different way." Robert McMillan in San Francisco contributed to this story.
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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America Online Inc. on Thursday launched a version of its proprietary online service that includes additional security features. AOL 9.0 Security Edition is the first version of the service