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- iPhone OS 3.0 disables purchases for AIM logins
- It seems that in iPhone OS 3.0, you can no longer make purchases from the iPhone when using an AOL screen name as your store account. In iTunes when entering a password for a purchase, you can use either an AOL screen name or Apple...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AOL Instant Messenger, America Online Inc., Screen Name, Apple Inc., iPhone OS 3.0, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- AOL sees future in local; announces two acquisitions
- AOL said today that it will acquire two companies that focus on local: Patch Media Corp. and Going Inc. Patch is a news and information platform that's targets individual towns and communities. Going is also a platform that offers people a place to share and find new information about a...
- Tags: Acquisition, America Online Inc., Going Inc., Borrell Associates, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Tweet This: IAC Might Be Interested in AOL (Says Barry Diller)
- Well, maybe the founders of Twitter and the CEO of Yahoo aren’t interested in acquiring AOL. But IAC chairman Barry Diller might be. The Time Warner online service, which is openly for sale, still is a “tremendously valuable property,’’ Diller...
- Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., America Online Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- News to know: Google Wave; Bing; Palm webOS; Verizon Wireless CEO; AOL
- News to know: Google Wave; Bing; Palm webOS; Verizon Wireless CEO; AOLNice one.Read my post for more indepth analysishttp://sashayz.wordpress.comRE: News to know: Google Wave; Bing; Palm webOS; Verizon Wireless CEO; AOLhttp://sashayz.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/google-bings-and-microsoft-rides-on-high-waves/
- Tags: Palm webOS, Verizon Wireless, Palm Inc., America Online Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-07
- News to know: Google Wave; Bing; Palm webOS; Verizon Wireless CEO; AOL
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Meet Google Wave: a new way to communicate and collaborate Google Wave: It's still a work in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Palm Inc., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Verizon Wireless, Semiconductors, Social Networking, H-1B, Strategy, Hardware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Time Warner sets AOL spin-off; Separation 'best outcome'; Worth $5 billion?
- Time Warner sets AOL spin-off; Separation 'best outcome'; Worth $5 billion?$5 Billion??? Are They Crazy??AOL isn't worth $5, let alone $5 billion. It has been a millstone around the neck of Time Warner for almost a decade. After the spin off we should soon see AOL's well deserved demise.Good Bye...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), America Online Inc., Worth $5, Time Warner Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Time Warner sets AOL spin-off; Separation 'best outcome'; Worth $5 billion?
- AOL will be an independent publicly traded company again as Time Warner solidified plans to spin off the ailing unit, which some analysts estimate to be worth about $5 billion. In a statement Thursday, Time Warner put more meat on its plans to spin off AOL. Executives...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) 6.9.15.1 (Windows)
- AIM 6 is the next generation of instant messaging software. We listened to your requests and added lots of new features. Plus, we streamlined the software to make sure it's fast enough to keep up with you.Version 6.9 provides status updates from Twitter and introduces better Buddy lookup tools. ...
- Tags: AOL Instant Messenger, Instant Messenger, America Online Inc., AIM 6, Instant Messaging, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Internet, Online Communications, Management, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-05-27
- Analyst: Google will start walking away from bad AdSense deals like MySpace
- Are the days of silly AdSense deals with the likes of MySpace and AOL over for Google? Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so. The analyst upped his price target to $600 for Google shares on the theory that the economy is rebounding and the search giant's revenue per...
- Tags: Paid Search, Google Inc., America Online Inc., Google AdSense, MySpace, Lindsay, Search, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- News to know: AOL; Palm; SAP; Facebook; Oprah
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake Andrew Nusca: Would...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., Palm Inc., Oprah Winfrey, SAP AG, Matthew Miller, Flu, Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues; We plan to buy Google's 5% AOL stake
- Updated: Time Warner's first quarter was weighed down by its AOL unit, which saw revenue fall 23 percent. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes reiterated that the company is looking for "the right ownership structure for AOL" and the company plans to buy back a 5 percent stake owned by Google. ...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Company, IPO, Investment, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continues
- Time Warner: AOL's revenue slide continuesAOL?You mean they're still around? Weren't they big in the 20th century? You know, when all the new Internet companies earned money the "old fashion" way: They siphoned it directly from the customer's bank accounts.AOL is best suited for AppleIf Jobs tells the...
- Tags: Operational accounting, America Online Inc., Time Warner Inc., revenue
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- AOL Top 100 Videos 1.1 (Windows)
- Download the latest desktop widget from AOL Music featuring the top 100 hottest music videos, related artist videos and special features. This widget currently works on both Mac and PC computers. If you do not currently have the "Adobe AIR" plugin then you will be prompted automatically to install it...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-04-29
- AOL Radio for iPhone 1.2.3 (Mobile)
- AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio features over 200 stations spanning more than 25 genres of music plus 150+ CBS Radio stations from across the U.S. iPhone and iPod touch users can access hundreds of free music stations plus a variety of popular terrestrial news/sports/talk programming, including WFAN-AM and 1010...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Station, Mobile, America Online Inc., Radio, CBS Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-04-22
- Top search engines in February 2009
- Expanded Search Entity Jan-09 Feb-09 Growth, MTM Total Expanded Search 19,979 19,176 -4% Google Sites 11,714 11,250 -4% Google 8,731 8,541 -2% YouTube/All Other 2,983 2,709 -9% Yahoo! Sites 2,979 2,828 -5% Yahoo! 2,952 2,804 -5% ...
- Tags: Search Engine, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Site, Search, Networking, NB
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Top video sites by unique viewers in December 2008
- Property Audience, 000 Videos per Viewer Total Internet 149,587 95.7 Google Sites 100,092 59.0 Fox Interactive Media 56,895 7.8 Yahoo! Sites 42,761 7.7 AOL LLC 31,522 6.3 Microsoft Sites 29,534 8.4 Viacom Digital 27,370 10.6 ...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Video, Site, Corporate Communications, Marketing, NB
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Your ISP's customer service: Just ok is the best you'll get; Many stink
- AOL was the top Internet service provider when it came to customer service in 2008, according to a Forrester Research report. The rub: AOL's top rating based on Forrester's "customer experience index" translates into a "just ok" mark. As a group, ISPs grade out with a "poor"...
- Tags: Customer Service, America Online Inc., Internet Service Provider, Customer Experience, Forrester Research Inc., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Tim Armstrong's fine risk-reward setup at AOL
- Tim Armstrong's fine risk-reward setup at AOLgiven a free reign one can keep adding star quality to ones resume even if "He joined Compaq in 1998 as their chief information officer and was named chairman and CEO in July 1999. After the merger with HP, Capellas served as president of...
- Tags: fine risk-reward setup, risk-reward setup, Tim Armstrong, America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- Tim Armstrong's fine risk-reward setup at AOL
- AOL's new soon-to-be CEO Tim Armstrong will be in for quite a sea change from his previous gig at Google. The lingering question: Why would you leave Google for AOL? It's an interesting question raised by Sam Diaz offline. For all the talk Techmeme about Armstrong's enthusiasm...
- Tags: MCI Inc., Michael Capellas, America Online Inc., Tim Armstrong, Leadership, Channel Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Professional Development, Management, Marketing, Investment, Finance, Career, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- News to know: AOL's new CEO; Windows 7; Cloud computing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Is Windows 7 reliable enough to release now? Brian Sommer: A U.S. Version of the Satyam Scandal? Washington D.C. IT Fraud? ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, America Online Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Operational Planning, Social Networking, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Business Operations, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet
- Blog posts 2009-03-13

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