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Consultants, investment bankers and press conference--calling executives like to call them "transforming transactions." Shareholders usually come to think of them as blunders of epic proportions. They are the multibillion-dollar megamergers, like AT&T's purchase of cable powerhouse TCI or AOL's marriage with Time Warner (the parent company of this magazine), that are borne on the winds of "synergy" and often find their roots in the weaknesses of the parties' core operations. The reality is that while small, incremental deals can be a key to success, very few megadeals ever deliver on their much hyped promise...
Having spent the summer navigating a sea of programming code, Wirehog’s creators said they were confident the program would be able to connect any two computers, even those behind firewalls, which can hinder access and typically prohibit file-transfers on programs like AOL Instant Messenger...
Decades before AOL came on the scene, I had an e-mail account (I still use virtually the same e-mail address I had in 1975), and in 1980 I wired my home terminal to the Internet (at 300 baud) by shoving my phone receiver into something that looked like twin toilet plungers. I hooked up full-motion desktop videoconferencing and video mail in 1988 and, four years later, started using a pen-based electronic whiteboard and drafting table...
...Americans balk at typing them out on a tiny numeric keypad. AT&T Wireless's Ogo ($99, plus $17.99 a month) offers a solution. It has a wide keyboard, sharp screen and slim profile. You can send not only SMS text messages but also email and instant messages using AOL, MSN or Yahoo...
...travel industry is cashing in on the trend too. For a one-time deposit of $375,000 and annual fees of up to $25,000, Exclusive Resorts--launched in 2002 and 50% owned by former AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case--invites members to vacation in multimillion-dollar homes in more than 25 destinations around the world. The response has been tremendous: in the past year, the number of members has gone from fewer than 100 to more than...