As part of their major truce announced Thursday, AOL Time Warner and Microsoft pledged to discuss making their instant messenger products talk to each other.
America Online is expected to launch an Internet-phone service in the United States next month, leapfrogging rivals in a fast-growing market as it seeks to evolve from an also-ran provider of dial-up Internet access to a broadband services powerhouse.
Listening to Don Logan, it's easy to forget that barely a year ago, investors were ready to storm the gates of AOL Time Warner's Rockefeller Center headquarters to protest one of the greatest corporate failures in history.
America Online moved aggressively on Thursday to improve its ad prospects, announcing its acquisition of interactive marketing specialist Advertising.com for US$435m.
In addition to laying off 50 Netscape browser staff, AOL Time Warner has moved nearly all its developers onto other projects, staffers say.
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Netscape these days survives as a desolate outpost in the vast AOL Time Warner empire, something akin to banishment to Irkutsk. But what if history had a different twist?
AOL Time Warner has updated its popular Winamp MP3 player, adding video capabilities that bring the program into direct competition with Microsoft, Apple and RealNetworks.
So much for Netscape 8.0. That's one upshot of Thursday's settlement between Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, according to industry analysts.
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AOL Time Warner has released a version of its Netscape browser that lets Web surfers suppress pop-up ads, a further sign of declining fortunes for a widely hated marketing format.
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