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AOL Updates: Standalone Browser, Search, VoIP
Eric writes "In the face of increasing pressure from the likes of Google and MSN, America Online has opened beta testing for its standalone AOL Browser and Desktop Search to anyone with an AOL or AIM screen name. The AOL Browser beta utilizes Microsoft's Internet Explorer engine (not Firefox's, like Netscape) and integrates the company's Desktop Search client. Unlike Netscape it looks decent from the screenshots and also includes some nifty features like tear-off tabs and zooming." And prostoalex writes "In what could be the biggest VOIP push into US households, AOL will start offering VOIP services, as reported by Light Reading. 28% of online Americans subscribe to dial-up or broadband version of AOL, AOL has 4 million broadband users, and beta testers in the Light Reading article seemed to be pretty happy with the service."
Me too!
Every time I see how AOL's browser is based on Internet Explorer, I can't help but imagine the meeting in a few years where AOL will have to license the technonogy again.
The meeting ends with a line from Microsoft sounding somthing like "One Trilllion Dollars," then maniaical super villan laugh.
Notice how there's an ad for Vonage right underneath the article? Priceless.
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In the middle of your call... "Goodbye"
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Do all those features sound like they are designed to make management and enjoyment of porn easier?
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
I wonder how many people AOL will get to subscribe to VoIP services using their 56K dial-up connection?
I haven't gotten any of those funky multicolored coasters in the mail for a while, I hope this means that AOL will start sending them out again!
a giant chunk of "Netizens" ... switching to Firefox all at once...
And Bill Gates would halt in his tracks, breathing sibilantly, and say, "I sense a great disturbance in the force..."
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
September in VOIPland. And no, it'll never end. (Sorry;)
put the what in the where?
What else do you use the internet for?????
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