Word: aol
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...that kind of power to squeeze out the competition. If Xbox 360 were to take over your media cabinet, would it play DVDs with Sony Pictures movies on them? Of course. But would it play songs from a Sony-owned online music store? Would it accept messages from AOL Instant Messenger? Would it network with a computer running Mac OSX and not Windows? If a platform is too open, you can't make money off it. Too closed, and nobody else uses it, and it withers away and dies...
...lost and alone in a violent onscreen world? Or a sad-sack Peter Pan type, the geek who never grew up? Sorry, you lose. The average American gamer is starting to look, well, pretty much like the average American. For the first time, according to a poll commissioned by AOL Games and obtained exclusively by TIME, roughly half of Americans ages 12 to 55 are tapping away at some kind of electronic game--whether on a console, a PC, a cell phone or another handheld device--for an average of three hours every week...
This is less a matter of good manners than of practicality. If your picture has been seen on the front page of every major newspaper in the country, plus the AOL welcome screen and telephone poles and shop windows in your community, then, Missy, taking your husband's name is just not going to help...
...average price for a gallon of gas exceeds $2 in every state; California has the highest average at $2.48 and New Jersey the lowest at $2.02 ? The Supreme Court ruled that individual retirement accounts, like 401(k)s, are exempt from creditors in bankruptcy ? AOL launched an Internet phone service, for members only at first; monthly fees start...
...President Bush, whom he sees as plunging down the conservative trail blazed by Ronald Reagan two decades ago: “He’s not the founder of something really terrible like Reagan is. He’s like the next degraded installment—like AOL...