Word: aol
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...spin-offs have consistently beaten the market since the government split that company. Forcing Microsoft to make its Windows source code available, opening it to competition from software writers would sting. But it would also produce incremental licensing revenue. Forcing Microsoft to design Windows to boot up AOL or another Web address would erode its dominance. But PC makers are starting to win that kind of flexibility on their own. It comes down to a bet on Bill. He's had the answers so far, but he'll need to be nimbler from here...
...efforts to stay out of Internet regulation have led to some community battles that have gone AOL's way. That means at least some parties want Congress to act to avoid piecemeal, local rulemaking
...fact, I ought to save a lot of people embarrassment right now by stating the following: there is no "Good Times" virus. Microsoft and AOL are not "teaming up" to conduct any kind of survey. The Postal Service is not about to charge 5[cents] for every e-mail. Deodorants do not cause breast cancer. M&M's will not give you free candy, nor will the Gap send you a free pair of jeans, nor will Honda drive a brand-new Civic to your front door if you pass on "their" messages...
Take the case of Joanne Holderman, a smart, fiftysomething community volunteer and AOL user in Santa Barbara, Calif. Last month she received mail from an official-looking AOL address offering a month's free service to make up for recent difficulties with her phone line. All she had to do was "log on"--that is, reply with her username and password. She duly did so. The next weekend she started getting angry notes from strangers, demanding that she stop sending them pornography...
...first e-mail, of course, had not come from AOL HQ. Some enterprising (and cowardly) porn-site operator had been looking for an AOL account to "bounce" his spam mailings out of--in this case, 1,700 of them. Once someone has your password, it's child's play for him to pass out, under your name, anything he wants. Sending a fake e-mail to elicit the necessary information is called password fishing, and Holderman is by no means the first to fall for it. Remember, the Melissa virus was first sent from an unsuspecting AOL user's account...