Will AOL Finally Go Free?
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Long chained to dial-up subscriptions, the company could open its doors wide to compete
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The networkâs charge for access to content over the Internet has been troubling.
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AOL's Spanish-language portal is now available for free as the company completes its plans to give away most of its services to boost traffic to its ad-supported Web sites.
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UPDATED America Online has begun to notify customers in nine Southern states that it will cease its broadband Internet service on January 17, 2005. The change affects members who have been receiving a bundle of DSL connectivity and AOL. Current customers must find a new broadband carrier by the cutoff date, or they will automatically become standard AOL dial-up members.
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Time Warner Inc.&#039;s  AOL unit is  considering offering its services, except for Internet access,  free of charge to anyone with a high-speed connection, a source  familiar with the plans said on Thursday.
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In a move both risky and essential, AOL is abandoning its strategy of exclusivity and will free much of its music, sports and other programming to nonsubscribers in hopes of increasing ad sales.
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Time Warner company America Online is entering the free web email fray, though it would be available to people who are not currently its subscribers only by late next year.
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IT has never been able to prove it's true value to the business, and as such it is treated as a cost center, which is the first thing to get cut in poorly run companies. But with Web 2.0 booming, all the assumptions that you hold about IT should be put on notice: change is in the air. Web 2.0 companies have had to grow their own technology for economic functionality. Free means crap right? Wrong. How many of you keep Yahoo! Mail running on your BlackBerry's along with Exchange because you know Exchange will be down sooner or later?
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Giving high-speed Internet users its services for free may help AOL stop an erosion of customers, but analysts say that alone won't be enough to draw new visitors and break into the Web's top three.
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America Online will have a desktop search capability in a new browser the company is now beta-testing, an AOL spokesperson says. The spokeswoman declined to provide more details about the desktop searching
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Americaâs largest Internet Service Provider has good news for the web users. They say that AOL subscribers are getting fewer spam mails than in recent times.
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AOL is announcing a major victory in the fight against spam. According to America Online&#39;s member spam reports, the ISP achieved a 75% decline in junk e-mail sent to its members in 2004.
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Time Warner Inc.  said on Thursday it will make a decision on AOL's future by the end of the year, addressing rampant speculation the online unit could be spun off or merged with another company.
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Time Warner Inc.  said on  Thursday it will make a decision on AOL&#39;s future by the end of  the year, addressing rampant speculation the online unit could  be spun off or merged with another company.
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The message coming from America Online could not be any clearer: &quot;We will keep our customers safe online.&quot; Even though the market is awash with security software, AOL has stepped in for its members and delivered a fortified version of AOL 9.0, dubbed
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AOL is being accused of using malware-like tactics to install software unbeknownst to users when they install AOL 9.0, the company's latest version of its online service software. The charge was made by industry coalition StopBadware.org.
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NEW YORK America Online says spammers may be giving up on sending junk e-mail to its subscribers. A spokesman for Dulles-based AOL says the number of spam messages they delete is down from last year.