Time Warner Confirms AOL Spin-Off

Media conglomerate Time Warner has confirmed that it will spin off its AOL division, after buying the 5% share owned by Google in order to regain 100 percent ownership."Time Warner Inc. will spin off the entire AOL Internet unit by the end of the year, reversing a failed $124...

When the Tweets Go Out: Downtime and User Expectations

Last weekend's Twitter downtime has prompted the expected bout of hand-wringing... (I didn't even notice, but evidently many, many others sure did)"•  The difference between way AOL grew and some services...

AOL Needs To Be Run Out Of Business

Last week a robbery happened. It was a very clever crime, committed by a very devious and vile organized crime group. I didn’t discover the crime until three days later. It was too late to undo the...

The seven ways that people search the Web.

"AOL researchers recently published the search logs of about 650,000 members—a total of 36,389,629 individual searches. AOL's search nerds intended the files to be an academic resource but didn't consider that...

AOL, Yahoo wide open to bulk e-mail, for a fee

"America Online and Yahoo are about to give special treatment to messages from companies that pay 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered. On AOL they will not have to pass spam filters that could...

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