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| Thread ID: 71501 | 2006-08-07 18:06:00 | AOL's Free...Don't Fall For It! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 476904 | 2006-08-07 18:06:00 | AOL (might be olde news!) has gone FREE for all DSL users . It is still just Internet Explorer with silicon implants . . . nice to look at and roll around with . . . . . . it is dangerous and is prone to all the ills and malware of Internet Explorer . AOL Dial-Up is not free though . . . . same ol' price and IE to boot . (Malware with a price tag) Don't get sucked in! :mad: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 476905 | 2006-08-07 23:55:00 | I don't really know what America Online is. I have a vague impression you pay a subscription and only subscribed members can use the forums and linked sites. Apparently it is losing subscribers hand over fist. | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 476906 | 2006-08-08 00:18:00 | America Online, or AOL for short, is a corporate online service provider and Internet service provider. Based in Dulles, Virginia, with regional headquarters installations in many cities around the world, it is by far the most successful proprietary online service, with more than 22 million subscribers at one point. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL |
pctek (84) | ||
| 476907 | 2006-08-08 01:58:00 | and apparently harder to get rid of than your mother-in-law (even after the divorce they still hound you!) | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 476908 | 2006-08-08 02:30:00 | AOL is a bit like Xtra :p LOL | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 476909 | 2006-08-08 02:55:00 | See AOL has just released enormouse amounts of users' information for the world to read..... www.gregsadetsky.com Quote: AOL Research released the search queries of hundreds of thousands of its users over a three month period. While user IDs are not included in the data set, all the search terms have been left untouched. Needless to say, lots of searches could include all sorts of private information that could identify a user. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 476910 | 2006-08-09 00:20:00 | AOL is a bit like Xtra :p LOL But I thought the point of AOL was that it was a sort of net within the internet. As a subscriber you could access other AOL sites, forums, etc which weren't available to the rest of the world. I remember trying once years ago and being bounced as a non-subscriber. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 476911 | 2006-08-09 11:22:00 | AOL gives out free .com domains to anyone who asks: news.com.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 476912 | 2006-08-09 12:54:00 | But I thought the point of AOL was that it was a sort of net within the internet. As a subscriber you could access other AOL sites, forums, etc which weren't available to the rest of the world. I remember trying once years ago and being bounced as a non-subscriber. They are a portal as well as an ISP. From what I can make out, they make your average ISP, including Xtra, look like clueless amateurs when it comes to screwing their customers and anything else within reach, which is fairly long. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 476913 | 2006-08-10 09:25:00 | I was listening to the podcast "Buzz Out Loud" from C/Net this morning and Tom and Molly were saying that 5,000 employees, which is one-quarter of the AOL workforce will be laid off as a result. On looking at Businessweek.com they say AOL, a unit of Time Warner (TWX), also plans to sell existing premium educational content through its StudyBuddy site such as an algebra tutor, an extended family library, and an essay checker with more features than AOL's free version. The content subscriptions are $4.95 a month for various services. "Now that AOL is going to be free to broadband users, more folks who have never been on AOL before will start to see all of these things that we have had for years behind firewall that has made sharing information easy Personally, I can't see AOL pulling it off ! Big change for the yanks, they are going through change just like us - just a bit different in nature, impact and effect. Misty :cool: |
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