AOL’s New Direction
p2pnet.net News:- Back in the Dark Ages of the Net, AOL was widely despised. One of the reasons for this was the fact its ‘consumers’ could only go where AOL wanted them to go, which wasn’t very far, speaking in CyberSpace-relative terms.
It’s still widely despised but now it’s a Big Deal and for a time, was one with Time Warner. Then the latter dropped the former from the corporate name. The web site url is still http://www.aoltimewarner.com/flash.adp. Could that be the result of an oversight?
Be that as it may, these days, instead of being part of the Time Warner Inc overview, AOL is listed separately.
In short, it isn’t quite what it once was and as "part of a broad strategy at the recovering online service, which watched 2.2 million members abandon its service," says a Reuters story here, "plans to sell a low-priced PC targeting low-income and minority households who agree to sign up for a year of dialup Internet service".
Interesting.
Executives said it hoped to attract the 27% of US households comprised of seniors, African Americans and Hispanics who do not yet own a PC, says Reuters.
August 13th, 2004 at 2:52 am
GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more P2P fileshares on the Net. The Riaa ’s worst nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More Pirates than you can shake a stick(or lawsuit) At!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 17th, 2004 at 8:21 am
Dial up is worthless for p2p or any app these days short of limited surfing or e-mail. AOL is probably just tryint to milk some more money out of their dial up modem banks before broadband completely takes over.