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AOL Allies With Sony For PS2 Services

Posted by simoniker on from the gmr95210-at-myaolps2-dot-com dept.

AEton writes "America Online has announced that it will merge some of AOL Instant Messenger's features with the Playstation 2. Through the 'AIM Talk' service which they plan to offer, any PS2 user with a headset will be capable of voice messaging with any other PS2 or PC user. AOL will also offer PS2 users streaming music and video clips and a new gaming AOL Players Club service. These services will require more hardware: a 40GB drive for the PS2 (new in the United States) will be required to use AOL's software when it is released in early 2004."

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  1. Average Joe Doesn't? by noitalever · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your average Joe hates Aol and Microsoft the same. They get frustrated at it because they don't know how to use it. I find that a little education and most people are happy with a PC running XP connected with AOL to the internet.

    Would I choose that combo? NO Way. But for people that aren't tech savy, MS, MSN and AOL have done a fairly good job of keeping it simple for the end user to accomplish what they think a computer is used for. I run web editing, photo editing, video editing, and a TON of games on my run of the mill PC with XP on it. Microsoft has finally gotten some things right.

    (zzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiip!)

    Shawn