Word: aol
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...companies that most Americans have never heard of--Mannesmann, a giant German telecommunications firm, and Vodafone, a British wireless provider. But the $190 billion merger of the two firms, which was inked last week after nearly five months of run-and-gun takeover negotiations, easily surpassed last month's AOL-Time Warner deal as the largest ever. And it was also proof, in some minds, that European business had finally arrived--albeit late--in the 20th century, complete with hostile bids, Wall Street sharks and Internet-worthy stock prices...
...that Vodafone has won, the company seems intent on growing even larger. High on the agenda may be a deal with the German publisher Bertelsmann, which owns a 50% stake in AOL's European Internet operations. That would give the company access to Bertelsmann's and AOL's content. And though Mannesman CEO Chris Gent said last week that the current deal is so complicated that it is too early to talk in detail about other possible linkups, no one doubted that they are coming. Europe, it seems, is finally ready to do business at Net speed...
...against America Online on behalf of certain users who upgraded to Windows version 5.0 and found they were then unable to connect to any other Internet-service provider. Apparently some of these folks got confused during the installation process when asked via a pop-up window, "Would you like AOL to be your default Internet connection for Web pages, newsgroups and e-mail?" The right answer for them--and probably for most people who use a Net-service provider in addition to AOL--would have been no. Indeed, the default is no, and if they had just ignored the question...
Despite frequent phone calls, e-mails and chats on AOL Instant Messenger, the absence is often hard to take...
...into this situation in the first place? When I set up accounts for my daughters last year, I put strict controls in place: e-mail only from people on their buddy lists, no chat rooms and no wandering around the Web. These things were automatically blocked under AOL's pre-set Kids settings. After a while, however, I upped their ratings to Young Teens because adding people to the buddy list every time they got an e-mail address from a friend was a pain. A few months ago, the girls started clamoring for Instant Messaging privileges--all their friends...