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In May, Time Warner decided to spin-off AOL from the otherwise healthy content businesses of the company by the end of this year.

AOL bought ICQ in 1998 for $287 million, but the company has been trying to sell ICQ for quite a while.

Time Warner has yet to determine how much Time Warner debt AOL will carry.

AOL IMAP servers do not permit folders to be created in the root folder or to be removed from the root folder.

If AOL can get a server up in eight seconds, and the IT organization takes two weeks, it "s going to be seen as hopelessly ineffective. "

As a mess of businesses is slowly untangled, however, it is at least becoming clear what AOL thinks its purpose in life ought to be.

"If all this works, it will look like AOL got a real bargain, " says Laura Martin of Needham & Company, an investment bank.

I would add: is such a swerve really 'unexpected, ' as the title of his AOL Defense column indicates?

AOL said the data was only a very small sample of its customer base.

As you know, Time Warner eventually spun off AOL for peanuts.

It's an incredibly expensive, highly uncertain undertaking, but Armstrong still seems determined to make it a cornerstone of AOL's strategy.

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The company he founded, America Online, was one of thenation's most admired.

The company's most recent quarterly earnings report was dismal, and many in the industry are anxious to see positive results.

When the second accuser was reached on her mobile phone today by AOL News, she said simply, "I have nothing to say on the matter. "

We believe that this problem only affects people connected to the Internet using AOL, and that it is caused by the AOL software.

Captain Seru, "he began. " It's important. Look at those numbers carefully. The AOL is beginning to.

Doing not have those who think of is, be less than two years of time, AOL " repeat the story yesterday again " exit China cloudily .

She was co-founder of ICQ, which had 12m users in 1998 when the internet was much smaller and before the company was bought by AOL.

Current Time Warner shareholders are expected to be holders of the new AOL shares once the company is separated.

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

"The Emmys are trying to serve two masters right now. It is a tough balancing act, " said Scott Robson, editor in chief of AOL Television.

But the marriage of old and new dramatically failed to live up to expectations and AOL has proved a drag on Time Warner ever since.

With AOL lost to the enemy, what of a deal between Microsoft and either Yahoo! or eBay?

It's actually not coming from Yahoo and AOL, and Microsoft, and MSN, whose consumer traffic is sort of largely stable.

The problem was that most of AOL's page views were being generated by the firm's subscribers rather than by random internet surfers.

Don't forget, only a decade or two ago, AOL and Microsoft were theGoogles of their day. They were inspiring and seemingly unstoppable.

David Liu, an executive at AOL, calls it replacing the in-box with 'a river that continues to flow as you dip into it. '

Meanwhile, Yahoo's months-long discussions with Time Warner about combining its AOL unit, have not led to a deal so far.

Is a strong second in search and MSN a poor third, whereas AOL does not compete in search at all .

"There is going to be a very broad content economy in the future and we'd like AOL to be at the centre of it, " Mr Armstrong says.

"Consumers are being exposed to BPA at the point of sale once they're handed a receipt, " senior scientist Dr. Anila Jacob told AOL News.

People said that e-mail was dead when AOL came out with instant messaging years ago.

"We were not looking to sell the company, " Ms Huffington says. "But when [AOL chief executive] Tim Armstrong came forward, it made sense. "

At AOL, original text, graphic and video have been a main focus since Mr Armstrong took over.

But Google pre-empted them, just as it denied them access to AOL, another portal, in which it bought a defensive stake last winter.

Yet AOL is already one of the biggest creators of online content, with 70 websites that are within the top five in their categories.

But far from being the next Royal Bank of Scotland-ABN AMRO, or even Time Warner-AOL, the deal looks reasonable in many respects.

the AOL. 'He began to write the numbers in the book on his table.

AOL's Chinese-language version, which was one of its 18 gateways around the world, started just six months ago.

The device was a throwback to the early days of AOL and its walled garden alternative to the internet, he lamented.

AOL, then the third-largest online service provider, had gone public only a year earlier, after some fairly rocky beginnings.

Your captain, Seru, was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL.

The company counts two tech celebrities on its board of directors, AOL co-founder Steve Case and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman.

Still, if Yahoo and AOL were to partner in some way, Armstrong could come out on top.

But it is unlikely that Yahoo would be interested in a deal right now, sources added, due to AOL's declining revenue.

Mr Icahn proposed Jonathan Miller, a former head of rival internet service AOL, as one of his nominees.

Yes and probably more effective if utilized faithfully. AoL is like the "Diet Coke" of breathing techniques. . . Just one calorie.

Mr Armstrong aims to build on this by investing in key niche areas to establish AOL as the leader in online content within two years.

Maintaining existing traffic numbers to its sites should therefore be considered a victory, Mr. Armstrong said.

It held on to its lucrative but diminishing dial-up business and only dismantled the wall around its content in 2006.

The turning point of the last cycle, he believes, was the merger of AOL and Time Warner.

Mr Semel was at one point talking to his old-media friends at Time Warner about buying AOL, its web portal and a natural fit.

'You were right, Captain, 'Kiah said. 'Gog sent us to prison because we told him about the holes in the AOL. '

But some of that gain is from shifting traffic from established AOL sites that were closed.

"I feel like I just found out my partner cheated on me (and with someone much uglier like AOL), " wrote a distraught reader.

The only question is whether HuffPo and its new corporate owner, AOL, can afford that transition.

AOL, which has been consistently losing users and revenue, is being spun off from Time Warner back into a standalone company in December.

Out of college, I worked for AOL as a product manager, then moved to Revolution Health and ran the consumer product team.

This week Time Warner's new boss, Jeff Bewkes, said he planned to spin off AOL's shrinking internet-access business.

The firm is already looking into a possible sale of parts of AOL Europe.

AOL Inc. started laying off employees Monday and said it would close some European offices, AP reported.

It would look even more desperate if it were just Yahoo and AOL, both of which are faltering.

To optimize the performance of the AOL service on Microsoft's operating systems, the two companies have made several additional commitments.

AOL estimates that just over half of its unique monthly visitors are subscribers, rather than surfers with no other connection to the firm.

The poll, conducted to mark Mother's Day in the United States on Sunday, was carried out on AOL's parenting site ParentDish.

On Wednesday, AOL's employees received an email announcing the plan, part of AOL's reaction to the U. S. economic crisis.

AOL, one of largest online trackers, recently ramped up promotion of privacy services that it sells.

Changing the system, Mr Armstrong says, could more than double the number of clients AOL serves.

A lot of people still preferred the warm and cozy confines of AOL, and it continued to exist until it was clear that its growth was over.

In the second quarter, AOL said, its own members made up 36% of unique visitors to its network of websites, but generated 80% of page views.

Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft were the darlings of the valley back in the late nineties.

The two former AOL executives had a sense of where they wanted to end up, but no clear idea of how to get there.

Time Warner's video, music and print, and especially its cable company, could have and should have rallied around AOL as the solution.

The first item that came across my desk was a blog entry about AOL and how it has built a completely unmanned data center.

'By uniting AOL and The Huffington Post, we are creating one of the largest destinations for smart content and community on the Internet. '

But e-mail is still around, and AOL, well, lets just say they are not doing quite as well.

But AOL's further investment in display advertising appears to be an attractive maneuver to Yahoo, said that source.

The early services, such as CompuServe, Prodigy or AOL, began as "walled gardens" before they opened up to become websites.

A customer named Vincent Ferrari called AOL to cancel his subscription to its internet-access service.

Today only AOL survives, and in a very different form: as an open web portal supported by advertising.

For the moment, Time Warner's plan is to do as much as it can to encourage AOL's renewal.

"This was a screw-up and we're angry and upset about it, " AOL said in an e- mailed statement.

Time Warner has divorced AOL and is now dedicated to the production of content.

I talk to Gog about rain, I talk to him about the AOL, but he never listens.

An unplugged phone sits next to a copy of AOL's "Standards of Business Conduct" sitting haphazardly on a modern coffee table.

'The folks that helped bring AOL to life were out to change the world, ' she said.

Ms Huffington will be in charge of a new unit at AOL that integrates its news, entertainment and social-media content.

With the worldwide attention Olivia's work has drawn, the Boulers and AOL have put together a print edition of her work.

After several rounds of lay-offs, many at AOL are fed up with the old boss, Randy Falco, a former television man, and his deputy, Ron Grant.

But it was Mr Levin's on-screen discussion with Steve Case, AOL's co-founder and his partner in the merger, that was most illuminating.

The trick email promises that Microsoft and AOL are merging and that the new mega-corporation is conducting an experiment.

Tim Armstrong, AOL's chief executive, is confident that his company can regain some of its former glory.

The fallout of the Microsoft bid is seen making AOL a more attractive partner for either Yahoo or Microsoft, analysts say.

It's reassuring to have prejudices confirmed; politicians are corrupt, blondes have more fun, and AOL is hopeless.

In contrast to its big rivals, which are hiring, AOL laid off 7% of its workforce this month.

I was in my freshman year of college, and one day my best friend called me on the phone and told me to download "AOL instant messenger" .

So imagine if Arianna took the money AOL is currently investing in Patch and hired ~500 international journalists instead?

Hendrix's controversial argument is the subject of my first piece for AOL's new military website.

Free office space at AOL's Palo Alto headquarters will be given to one of the YC startups.

One of AOL's biggest problems, competitors say, is recruiting the best people in the technology industry and keeping them.

A joint venture with AOL (owned by TimeWarner) is plausible, were it possible to agree terms for the two internet groups' respective assets.

AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad.

In fact, AOL signed a landmark deal with a Chinese station at the end of October.

Admittedly, back in 1999, there were plenty of skeptics among senior media executives about the AOL deal.

AOL Page Test. AOL Page Test is an open source tool for measuring and analyzing web page performance using Internet Explorer.

One potential scenario under consideration is AOL being acquired by Yahoo, with Armstrong becoming the CEO of the new conglomerate.

Closing Patch, which operates in 850 towns around the country, would make AOL instantly profitable.

"It has tremendous loyalty and passion among employees, customers and partners. "

From your AOL menu, click on the "Settings" menu, scroll down and highlight the "Preferences" menu item.

You cannot view the status of a sent e-mail message or of a retrieved unopened e-mail message from AOL members.

Every time you browse Internet, your activities are recorded by your own computer with programs like Internet Explorer, AOL and Netscape.

"He's innocent, that I can tell you, " Bjorn Hurtig, Assange's Stockholm-based lawyer, told AOL News today.

Tim Armstrong, AOL's chief executive since March, would prefer that visitors based their initial impressions by starting with his office.

AOL has now been cut adrift, but not before Time Warner bled content and money all over the web.

AOL earlier this month began laying off the 700 people it promised in January to cut from its workforce .

Eliminating the money-losing service would free $160 million and lift AOL into profitability.

That leads to a whole lot of really, really crappy content being highlighted right on the massive AOL home page.

AOL thinks of itself as a strong brand on the internet.

Google, along with Yahoo! and AOL, have tried to provide sites for user-generated material but those efforts have largely failed.

He was once a considered for the top Yahoo job, but was blocked by Time Warner, former owner of AOL, because of a noncompete clause.

Some people estimate that up to 20% of the e-mail at AOL is junk e-mail.

With the acquisition, AOL is buying into the new publishing model that the Huffington Post represents.

AOL estimates that the newly combined business will boast about 270m unique users each month from around the world.

AOL's response is to try to increase its revenues from internet advertising.

She concedes editing AOL is not what she expected she might do when she was at Cambridge.

Phishing can be avoided by not clicking on suspect web links and not giving out personal details to unknown online sources, AOL said.

Responsible for strategy, financing, business development. She's also held some other positions at AOL, two senior vice president roles.

AOL uses the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) protocol for incoming mail and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) for outgoing mail.

Likewise, shareholders are getting restless about Tim Armstrong's turnaround strategy for flagging digital brand AOL (AOL).

Barriers to entry remain low, yet AOL's existing large audience should be an advantage in promotion.

Innumerable challenges had given AOL a heart-rending rollercoaster ride all along the way.

Granted, it wasn't a totally run-of-the-mill day: AOL set up a game room and even had the "Naked Brothers Band" perform.

That could include striking a deal with another partner like Time Warner Inc. 's AOL or divesting of smaller business units.

Given that massive investment, the next question is whether AOL is deploying these 1, 300 folks in the best way possible.

However, AOL's fortunes in advertising are worryingly dependent on its declining access business.

Big media is least likely; the ghosts of the AOL and MySpace deals still haunt the corridors of Time Warner and News Corp.

In the outside world there are literally thousands of service providers - from the big daddy's like AOL to smaller local providers.

Local & Classified Listings including Google Local, Bing Local, Yellow Pages, AOL Classified etc. . .

This includes AOL's technology blogs TechCrunch and Engadget as well as its music and Patch local media sites.

But job hunting with an AOL address? Leave that back in 1998.

AOL, you will recall, was a popular but proprietary online service of the early 1990s.

To land this deal, Google extended to "AOL a very large financial guarantee" , including stock options.

Still, AOL executives conceded that they could have done a better job with search and domestic display ads.

And yet, it's not clear AOL will make the economics work before its legacy cash cow finally dies.

AOL took the information off it's website. The company apologized and called the release a screw up .

Message personage week is shown, yahoo is undertaking negotiating with respect to as amalgamative as AOL coetaneous Wanner.

As a result, AOL has languished for the past decade and made a number of strategic missteps.

AOL, meanwhile, has also been holding talks with Microsoft, a person close to the situation said at the weekend.

Merging Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft's online operations would draw the inevitable comparisons to tying three bricks together.

E-mail was being driven by the rapidly expanding consumer portals like AOL, CompuServe.

While government force may keep companies like AOL alive, consumers will surely be worse off and ultimately pay the price.

For a long time, for instance, AOL and CompuServe would not even exchange e-mails.

And Google and Motorola Mobility seem a much better fit than AOL and Time Warner, given their common interest in phones and televisions.

A combination of Yahoo! and AOL, by contrast, would be much less impressive.

If a tie-up with AOL remains in prospect then an experienced cost cutter might be desirable.

Should your problems persist, you may wish to contact AOL Technical Support.

Arrington issued a stark ultimatum, that AOL restore "editorial independence" or sell the blog back to him.

At AOL-Time Warner, the vision was the fusion of content and delivery.

Use AOL proxy server instead of direct connections. If you're behind a router that you don't control, you'll probably want this.

After the acquisition Dave Feldman, Director Consumer Experience at AOL, took over and brought in additional resources.

AOL will start giving away its software, e-mail and security products free to all broadband internet users.

If Microsoft does manage to swallow Yahoo! , it risks a severe bout of post-merger indigestion, as happened with AOL and Time Warner.

AOL also plans to spend heavily on content management systems, the publishing technology behind websites.

Prior to the Xfire service, there were clearly a number of pre-existing IM services (Yahoo, AOL, MSN).

AOL has to swim against a strong tide to keep its position in internet advertising.

AOL News - Breaking news from around the world and in-depth coverage of current issues.

Most mergers fail: from AOL Time Warner to DaimlerChrysler, the corporate landscape of the past decade is littered with wrecks.

DURING the 1990s AOL helped millions of people get online for the first time, with its dial-up service and friendly e-mail system.

A new AP- AOL News poll finds most Americans don't think the Republican president and the Democratic Congress can solve problems together.

Now, however, AOL is at last busy launching new services.

Despite the recent setback, he says he remains committed to rebuilding AOL and using The Huffington Post as the foundation.

Use the AOL proxy server for things that would normally need a direct connection, like file transfers.

Companies with a relatively reliable stream of cash but a stale business model, such as AOL, have a little bit more leeway.

E-mail messages only appear in these folders when an e-mail message is received or sent by the AOL IMAP server.

Even if you're not job hunting, I only slightly kid when I say that people are suspicious of address ending in @aol. com.

So, next time you log on, remember it's really AOL with a different layout.

AOL also just announced two-way syncing with Twitter when it launched its AIM Lifestream service last week.

Rilla stood up. 'How do you do? 'she said. 'We want to talk to Earth Commander about the AOL. We have new numbers from the satellite. '

"Think big" and listening to people are the messages of the new AOL, he says.

But these people may make more effort to switch to broadband once they see other people paying nothing for AOL's services.

Facebook is actually the logical end-point of what AOL should have become.

There also are plenty of rumors that Time Warner is either looking for a partner or even interested in selling AOL.

2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

Ms. Hunt tells recruiters the AOL job changed shortly after she arrived, the informed individual says.

Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL all collect behavioural data and use that sum of knowledge about someone to target ads.

Indeed. But steering a combined HuffPo-AOL to success will not be easy.

Yahoo, AOL and MSN each has tens of millions of regular users and is adding a voice service and, in some cases, free video conferencing.

First , Microsoft (MSFT) founder Paul G. Allen started accumulating AOL shares.

It makes money not by advertising, but by powering searches on top sites including Yaho, Sony and AOL'S Netscape.

On the Mail tab, click the AOL account that you added, and then click Properties.

You cannot access the Voicemail folder unless you subscribe to the AOL Voicemail product.

It may be time, finally, to re-examine those prejudices.

A combined Microsoft-Yahoo-AOL would still have a hard time fighting its way back to the innovative center of the web.

Subscribers to these services tend to visit or stay on other AOL properties for longer than average.

The upshot of a possible partnership or merger is that people will stop picking on AOL for copying Yahoo! 's homepage design.

AOL's news and content operation now has three main parts: Huffington Post, Patch, and the legacy AOL brands and sites.

Until recently, AOL's e-mail technology was not compatible with Outlook Express.

AOL Inc's ICQ instant messaging service has received binding bids from 2 Russian companies and China's Tencent, Reuters reported Tuesday.

The division continues to contribute significant traffic to AOL's free properties.

To make things worst, some e-mail clients (including the popular AOL 4. 0 to 5. 0) do not support HTML at all.

People AOL's little man has some company, with others creating buddies to include in their Logos.

Swisher excels in relating the chronology of AOL's endless perils and occasional triumphs.

Most curious of all is AOL's acquisition of Bebo, an up-and-coming social network, earlier this month.

The recording industry including Warner Music, which like CNN is owned by a AOL-Time Warner, couldn't be happier.

Her birthday is September 19 (AOL) and for a birthday present in 1993 she bought herself a large ginger cat named Crookshanks (PA4).

Yahoo and AOL are in self-supporting ad business and the strategy on tripartite ad network are basic and same.

The value of AOL as a whole can't be calculated from the transaction because the purchase price included other, unspecified payments.

Prior to becoming president of advertising. com, Lynda was vice president of AOL's IE business.

And that crappy content is given a massive audience on the AOL portal.

The first password stealing Trojans appeared in 1997: the aim was to gain access to AOL.

While still a prominent media company today, AOL is hardly the dominant online portal it once was.

AOL is introducing international editions for Canada and Britain.

Users in AOL are women between age of 35-64 with obesity. They are high school graduates with spiritual faith but not religionists.

To configure Outlook Express to connect to an AOL e-mail account, follow these steps.

Portals like Yahoo, AOL, and MSN are vast and offer advertisers a diverse array of ways to reach users.

Uploading photos, videos and text to AOL sites requires three separate systems.

AOL, still in existence today, later on made the Internet popular amongst the average internet users .

"How do you do? " she said. "We want to talk to Earth Commander about the AOL. "

Lynda is president of advertising. com, advertising American On Line.

The transaction was completed on July 8, according to a document filed Monday by AOL in preparation for its spinoff from Time Warner.

This caught the attention of Time Warner, a media giant which merged with AOL in 2001, at which point AOL began a rapid decline.

Merging Yahoo with AOL (market cap $3bn) makes no sense, whatever the management skills of AOL head Tim Armstrong.

Yet there are few obvious targets that would give it the boost that Yahoo! offers, although AOL is a possibility.

"I'm not going anywhere, " Ms. Huffington said. "I'm having a great time. "

You can tune in to AOL Radio, Bloomberg, BBC, or search for more stations manually or by your location.

Most recently, the Loews Hotel chain opted to replace its existing toilets with these high-performance johns, according to AOL News.

Multi - gigabit line, closed-circuit surveillance equipment, etc. . . super flow, and AOL Time Warner with the room, a very high cost. . .

Google won a search advertising deal with AOL in 2005 that the Post said Microsoft wanted.

Tomorrow AOL will announce the acquisition of San Francisco-based Sphere, a blog content engine that launched in 2006.

By doing this, AOL is giving up many hundreds of millions of dollars ( which will be offset by lower marketing and other expenses ).

In July, it purchased MMAFighting. com, tapping into the growing interest in mixed martial arts.

AOL's newsroom is now bigger than the New York Times'.

A Squared and Xing Xing have struck similar deals for two other animated AOL Kids Web series.

Other recent discussions with AOL and MySpace could lead to alternative deals to boost Microsoft's presence online.

As part of the settlement, Microsoft will pay $750 million to AOL Time Warner.

Bing's market-share gains are more likely to come at the expense of other rivals, such as IAC's Ask and AOL.

In return, Gates agrees to place AOL's icon prominently on his Windows 95 operating system.

This article describes how to configure Microsoft Outlook Express to connect to an America Online (AOL) e-mail account.

AOL disclosed that it is considering either selling or shutting down Bebo, a social-networking website it bought for $850m in 2008.

Steve Case, Larry, Sergey -- they've done a lot already. It could be NBC. It could be ABC.

Mark Ramirez, a senior executive at AOL, could work in the cushiest leather chair, if he wanted.

If you forward this presentation to your friends, AOL will pay 10 cents for each email you send.

In 2002, it took just weeks to negotiate a complicated advertising revenue-sharing agreement with AOL.

Its other option is a merger with Time Warner's AOL, where talks are continuing.

A possible solution offered by Yahoo and AOL ise-mail "postage stamps. "

More than 2. 4 million Americans cast their vote by phone, text or e-mail in the poll, organised by the Discovery Channel and AOL.

Warner, a media conglomerate. But Google pre-empted its rivals last winter and bought a defensive stake in AOL.

It still has its search and advertising technology stationed on AOL's site.

Amazon, AOL and Yahoo all score high, with MSN and MySpace trailing behind.