Word: aol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slip rumors that he might have somehow been involved. And indeed he was--but not in the way the police were suggesting. Brown and Harris had had an argument back in 1998, and Harris had threatened Brown; Klebold also told him that he should read Harris' website on AOL, and he gave Brooks the Web address...
Gates: The case involves one competitor, Netscape, that got the government to act on its behalf. The irony is that Netscape was bought for $10 billion by the dominant online provider [AOL]. Netscape shareholders did super well, consumers did super well, and what we did with Windows is what we should be doing, because people want Internet support in the operating system. It's a commonsense thing that has been lost in all the rhetoric...
...West Side. They also have Gooey, an innovative Web application that allows visitors to any website to chat with other Gooey users at the same site. Zilberman and Blachman will tell you it's a killer app, one that will turn the whole Internet into a billion-voice AOL chat room. So how much is Hypernix, their company, charging for this product...
...edict is that "Microsoft effectively eliminated Netscape as a platform threat." But the charge holds up only in virtual reality, at best. Netscape still enjoys a comfortable 42 percent of the browser market and that figure will increase to a snugly hegemonic 58 percent after its acquisition by AOL is complete. Then again, Jackson's understanding of the word "eliminate" could just be more rich and nuanced than Webster...
...line when it correlated that ID number with each user's e-mail address and matched it to the user's offline listening habits. Even this might have been O.K. if it had disclosed the practice and given users the option to block it, as America Online does (see AOL's explicit privacy guidelines at keyword privacy...