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AOL Updates: Standalone Browser, Search, VoIP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-building-time-machine-for-stock-purchase dept.

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."

7 of 125 comments (clear)

  1. Ob:AOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Me too!

  2. Based on Internet Explorer by JWW · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. I love Google by Jesus+IS+the+Devil · · Score: 4, Funny

    Notice how there's an ad for Vonage right underneath the article? Priceless.

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  4. Any news on... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    when they'll be done testing and start mailing out the new CDs?

    I'm building a roof for my cubicle.

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    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  5. Re:More Info Regarding Its Features by EvilAlien · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do all those features sound like they are designed to make management and enjoyment of porn easier?

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  6. VoIP and dial-up? by SaDan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder how many people AOL will get to subscribe to VoIP services using their 56K dial-up connection?

  7. free coasters by mottie · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!