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...stockholder and employee of the fabulous company known as AOL Time Warner, parent company of TIME, I wanted to see this corporation strike an accord with mighty Microsoft last week. But as a citizen of the global village and all-around guy of the people, I was thrilled when the deal dropped dead. The company stooge in me drooled at the prospect of the two biggest players in Computerville divvying up the market. AOL would get premium distribution and placement in the October release of Windows XP, helping it add gazillions of new users to its rolls. In exchange, Microsoft...
...easy to see how that kind of detente could lay the footing for future joint projects. If AOL kept the legal heat off, maybe Microsoft would integrate AOL's Instant Messenger into the upcoming rethink of Windows and abandon its own anemic instant-messaging program. That might finally persuade AOL to kill off its Netscape browser, which everyone knows hasn't really worked for a few generations. Then AOL could officially adopt Microsoft's Internet Explorer. See how easy it is to play ball together...
Perhaps, if things went really well, Microsoft might decide to pull the plug on MSN, its rival online service. The trade-off: Microsoft could provide all the software that people use on AOL, everything from its Passport program for storing credit-card info to its Media Player, which--let's just speculate here--could be the only one licensed to play Warner Bros. movies and Warner Music on demand...
...code name for their "Bizarro Comics" project, it should have been "Faust." This deluxe, hardcover book brings together many of alterna-comix best talents to write and draw stories using the many superheroes, like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, owned by mainstream behemoth DC (owned by AOL Time Warner, the same parent company as this website.) Would there be a price to pay for playing with the big, bad money? Sure enough, a whiff of sulfur may fill your nostrils as you plunk down your...
...deal ratchets up the pressure for China's struggling former Internet darlings such as Sohu, Netease and Sina to find powerful foreign partners of their own. Even as they cope with serious internal troubles, executives from Sina and Netease shared a table at the AOL-Legend celebratory banquet in Beijing, which struck some as a symbolic wake for China's early homegrown Internet businesses. Now all will be watching to see if this new venture can figure out what those ventures never could: how to make money...