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more about #aol more comments → ripfire: AOL? Don't you mean AOHell! *snort* *snicker* #gizmodoremainders more » G-Ram: Jesus Google, you're top 3 in Email... maybe you can give us fucking push now? The lowest one on the damn chart offers one of the most superior featur... more » OCEntertainment: "What's AOL doing anywhere but at the bottom?" Who let the riffraff in? Look, just....just give them one of the leftover hamburgers and tell them to ... more » Curves: I use Yahoo and Hotmail just because they are web based and my credit score is higher than this chart even goes. Once again, I screw up the "norm". #... more » phunnyballs: Whats the low end of a credit score? I don't know since I dont worry about mine being low (and I dont want to find out the low the hard way), but the ... more » OMG! Ponies!: Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. more » gzumwalt: Where's Barak when you really need him? Sigh. more » (Starman) Mudkip [Happy 40th, Sesame Street!]: I really, really hated those crappy CDs back in the day. Nightmares... >_< more » something_unique_and_descriptive: I was just wondering if AOL was still around, sounds like they're still up to their same old tricks. more » Anrkist: I didn't realize AOL was still around. Have they moved to "high-speed" yet? more » -
#remainders
Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Verizon's Android Lineup Gets an Addition With HTC Sense...Yahoo Starts News Blog, Contributes to Death of Legitimate Journalism...Vuzix New Video Glasses Look Like Oakleys, Not as Hip as Wayfarers...AOL Hints at Some Mysterious Surprise, I'm Surprised AOL Still Exists... More »
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#imagecache
Let's Look At Credit Score Rankings by Email Domains
Ranking the highest according to a sample of 20,000 credit scores and their corresponding email addresses are BellSouth and Comcast, with Gmail trailing right behind. Reasonable enough, but what's AOL doing anywhere but at the bottom? [Mashable] -
#extortion
AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer
AOL tried to squeeze a little over $100 in fees from a customer for upgrades he hadn't asked for, hadn't approved, hadn't used and of which he hadn't even been notified. Unluckily for AOL, that customer is a professional writer. More » -
#iphoneapps
iPhone AIM and Beejive IM Apps With Push Notifications Are Live
There are two versions of the AIM app in the App Store right now. The free one, with ads, and the $2.99 one, with no ads. They both have push notifications. More » -
#business
AOL and Time Warner to Break Up
AOL and Time Warner will split into two distinct entities by the end of the year. What AOL will do out in the cold without Time Warner's blanket, only time will tell. [NYT] -
#usausa
Six Technologies That Passed America By
With America's status as a technological superpower comes a tendency to occasionally straight ignore the rest of the world. For better or for worse, here are technologies we've all but completely missed out on.
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#rim
RIM Bringing AOL Mail, AIM and ICQ to All BlackBerry Smartphones
I know all of you BlackBerry fans have been waiting forever for the true AOL Mail experience on your cellphone right? Right? Yeahhhhhh! Seriously though, if you would prefer true AIM and ICQ as opposed to third-party IM clients, now is your chance to get a deeply integrated, feature-rich AOL experience on the go. Hit up the BlackBerry website to grab the new software. [BlackBerry via CrunchGear] -
#aim
AIM Finally Released for Windows Mobile
It's been in beta for the last few months, but for Windows Mobile users who'd rather not risk their phone to be a lab rat in a suit, AIM for Windows Mobile is now in final release form. If you are on your mobile now, just go to this link and hit "products" to make the download. If you are on a Windows Mobile device and you don't want AIM, then we are truly, truly sorry for wasting your time. Feel free to drop by Brian Lam's place for a personal apology via back rub any time. No, it won't be strange at all. [AOL via MobileBurn] -
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#privacy
Google to Mask Data Before Handover, YouTubers Now Safe From Viacom
In the ongoing legal kerfuffle between Viacom and Google, it was beginning to look like Youtube users were going to take the fall for the Goog. Privacy advocates cried foul when a judge ruled that Google had to turn over the IP addresses and user IDs of the viewers for every YouTube video to Viacom, but in a document filed yesterday both companies agreed to mask the user data, assigning arbitrary identifiers to users in lieu of actual info. The masking system will likely be similar to AOL's hilarious botched search dataset experiment two years ago, but I'd say a public release of this data is unlikely. [Ars] -
#aol
AOL Raises Dial-up Prices For Luddites
Going through our logs we can tell that nearly a dozen of you are still using AOL via dial-up. For lots of people in remote locales it's their only choice, and starting at the end of the month their bills are going to be going up a whopping $2 a month from $9.99 to $11.99. That's about 20%, but they don't have to pay it; AOL is offering users the chance to keep their $9.99 plans if they pinky swear to not call technical support if its not a connection-related issue. How exactly does this work? More » -
#blackberry
Blackberry OS 4.5 Not Officially Arriving Until September
The Blackberry Internet Services 2.5 upgrade (and subsequent downtime) is still go for a June 29 launch, but there's a catch. According to the Boy Genius Report, some of the "sexiest" 2.5 features won't be available until Blackberry OS 4.5 arrives—in September. From the looks of the BIS 2.5 presentation they got their boy-sized mitts on, at least one of those features is push AOL email and Hotmail/MSN accounts. Of course, if you have a newer Blackberry handset, or plan on buying one before September, it will come with 4.5 OS already installed. [Boy Genius Report] -
#windowsmobile
AOL Blesses Windows Mobile With New AIM Client
After years of neglect, AOL has apparently remembered that Windows Mobile exists and just released a new official AIM client. Though still in beta, it's supposedly compatible with all WinMo 5 and 6 devices. It looks pretty swank, at least as far as WinMo apps go, and more than satisfying for a mobile AIM client. Hopefully this means they're cooking up one for the iPhone too. [AOL via XDA Developers via BGR] -
#software
AOL Desktop 1.0 Comes to Mac
Things I'd do before installing AOL Desktop software onto my Mac: More » -
#yahoo
Yahoo Flirting With AOL Something Fierce, Microsoft Still On Doorstep With Flowers
An unnamed source (aren't they all?) confirmed a rumor that had been floating before: that Yahoo, in order to escape being grabbed by Microsoft, would hurl itself at the second-ugliest suitor in the room, AOL. The new details say that Time Warner would pay some cash up front for a 20% stake in a joint AOL-Yahoo program. The AOL side, valued at $10 billion, would include all properties (such as our worthy competitor Engadget) but not the dial-up service that your grandma and pretty much no one else still has. Microsoft still may get its way, though: Word is that it's teaming with MySpace-owner News Corp for some kind of a three-way proposition. [Reuters] -
#gadgets
ICQ, the Toothpaste
Everyone remembers ICQ, the first widely-used instant messaging application that's all but dead in most of the world now. The Israeli software company that developed the suite before it was purchased by AOL has just partnered with a big Israeli pharmacy company called CTS to release this ICQ toothpaste, which our tipster claims will "help P2P communication (person to person) while reducing bad breath." Weird, yet really really cool. On a related note, I've got a low six-digit ICQ number. How long is yours? [Thanks Nir!] -
#software
Yahoo Flees Microsoft, Runs to Time Warner's AOL?
Microsoft hating is something of a national pastime, but Yahoo's desire to avoid a Redmond takeover has apparently driven them to seek a cozy relationship with Time Warner. Yes, some geniuses out there are actually concocting "a deal that would fold Time Warner's AOL Internet unit into Yahoo." I'm sorry, but hasn't history proven that working with Time Warner on internet stuff is the business equivalent of trying to conquer Russia in the winter? The joke is, we were actually relieved to hear that the same unnamed people familiar with this deal still think Microsoft's Yahoo buyout will happen. [Reuters] -
#cellphones
AOL Launching 'Open Mobile Platform,' Allows Homebrewed Programs on Any Phone
AOL, the company you haven't patronized since 1996, has announced that it's launching an "Open Mobile Platform" to help developers get mobile programs across multiple platforms. Despite the name, it's not a full mobile OS like Android, rather a protocol for building and distributing applications across multiple mobile OSes. Think of it like Android's API, but for all phone platforms rather than just for one. More » -
#roundup
Afternoon News: Goodbye Netscape, Hello Kitty For Men and More
• A new law in New Jersey willl ban internet sex offenders from the web. But then who will read Gizmodo? [The Register] More » -
#homeentertainment
Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor
The equivalent of the 1992 US Men's Olympic basketball team has just gotten together to develop a competitor to GooTube. That's right, NBC, Fox, AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! have united Captain Planet style and formed a web video site not made up of crappy clips people don't want to watch. Broken by CNBC—with snide commentary about Fox and Google thrown in —this site has already secured advertisers and will theoretically reach 90 percent of US Internet users. More » -
#homeentertainment
AOL Sniffing Around Movie Downloads
You know the movie download market is heating up when AOL decides to get into the act. A tipster showed us this site where the ancient AOL walled garden for noobs is beta testing the downloads, offering such gems as Eight Crazy Nights, Can't Hardly Wait, Easy Rider, Flat Liners, and Muppets Take Manhattan. Could they have found any older or shittier movies than this? Not unless they rummaged around my uncle Harry's bottom drawer. More » -
#portablemedia
AOL, Haier Partner for Wi-Fi Media Player
Continuing with the trend seen at CES this year, AOL and Haier have teamed to release another Wi-Fi player. This player, currently named the Smartscreens Media Device, will include Wi-Fi (obviously), Bluetooth, 30GB hard drive and support MPEG4 and WMV for video on its Linux-based operating system. More » -
#homeentertainment
Sonos Now Supports Zune, Napster, Yahoo!, AOL, and MTV
Sonos is spending like Web 2.0 Bubble money is going out of style, and announcing they've bought support for almost all the major internet music stores. Along with Zune, there's Napster, Yahoo, AOL and MTV support, which makes streaming pretty simple. More » -
#portablemedia
Apple Store Robbed, AOL Rubs It In Contextually
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#cellphones
AOL Goes Mobile
No longer will your mobile love for AOL be limited to constant IM on your sidekick. AOL Germany CEO, Charles Frankle, announced that AOL will be launching a mobile phone service in Germany later this year. This is becoming the latest trends among mobile giants. Apparently combining social web interaction and mobile telephony becoming this year's hot trend—re: Helio. No word if AOL will be launching the service in the States. More » -
#gadgets
World's Worst Tech Products. Ever.
Since Memorial Day is right around the corner, let's let PCWorld help us remember the 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. A lot of the products on the list are software-related—in fact, we have to wait until number 13 before we see the first item that might have felt at home on shiny-techno-obsessed Gizmodo: the IBM PC Jr. from 1984 with its roundly-hated "Chiclet" keyboard. Another notable hardware flop was number 15, the Iomega Zip drive from 1998, which victimized countless users with the click, click, click of its dying drives. And before you Mac snobs start getting all uppity, holding down spot number 17 is the worthless, anvil-like 16-pound Macintosh "Portable" from 1989.
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#gadgets
AOL, Dodo Soon To Be Roommates (??)
An irate tipster notified us that the AOL call center in Jacksonville, Florida is shutting down and the company is cutting 1,200 employees this week. Why? Because the company has lost 3 million subscribers in the past year—a mere 800,000 in the past three months—and isn't quite making the numbers, you know, to pay people.
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#software
AOL to Launch VOIP Service
There's not a lot of detail on this, but AOL will be launching some sort of VOIP service linked with AIM. The service will offer a unique, free phone number where your friends and relations can leave messages. We doubt very much that this is a unique phone number and that instead they've created a call center to accept voice messages via an 800-number and PIN combo.
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#software
AOL/Yahoo Email Tax to Stop Spam: Why It Won't Work
There's been quite a bit of media play about AOL and Yahoo's plans to adopt a quarter-cent "email tax" or "stamp" or whatever you want to call it, and we're here to tell you it's horseshit. While this utopian vision of data exchange for pennies a day—the price of a cup of coffee—makes for nice Business Section copy, this will fail in practice. And by "fail in practice" we mean "never, ever get off the ground."
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#music
AOL Embraces its Gay Side
The gay community has so much of its own culture at this point, so why not a music channel on AOL? No reason at all, it seems. Looks like AOL has launched a site called "G-Sides, Music for the GLBT Community," which features all the "gay and lesbian artists we love." Obviously, lots of Boy George and Melissa Etheridge, and today's launch also includes an interview and DJ session from Cyndi Lauper and videos of the Strokes. So there's that. More » -
#cellphones
Mobile Internet Search With AOL
If you've been dying to perform Web searches on your cell or PDA, AOL believes it has the magic bullet. The recently announced AOL Mobile Search Service actually adapts your search to the smaller LCD screens using content-analysis and transcoding tech from a company called InfoGin. The differences between this and other mobile services, if you're wondering, is that before, you could only download full web pages that were WAP-enabled. This works like any search would on a desktop computer. More »
