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...year 2004, you heard 'N SYNC was playing Bat Mitzvahs, you'd probably think things were right on schedule. But last weekend the boys gigged at Temple Beth Sholom in Potomac, Md., to honor Rachel Colburn, whose father happens to be a high-ranking AOL exec with connections to the band. Three hundred surprised guests were treated to a 40-minute set of hits, including Bye Bye Bye and Tearin' Up My Heart. Hava Nagila remixes should be bootlegged...
...DIGITAL? WILL WE STILL TURN PAGES? WILL WE CLOSE THE BOOK ON BOOKS? WILL TINY ROBOTS BUILD DIAMONDS ONE ATOM AT A TIME? WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY? WHAT WILL REPLACE SILICON? WILL MOORE'S LAW BE REPEALED? WHAT WILL REPLACE THE INTERNET? WILL CYBERCRIMINALS RUN THE WORLD? WILL MICROSOFT AOL OWN EVERYTHING? IS MONOPOLY INEVITABLE? IS TECHNOLOGY MOVING TOO FAST? WILL LOW TECH REPLACE HIGH TECH? CALEB CARR: KILLING TIME...
America Online is America's largest Internet service provider. Twenty-two million members get to the Internet through AOL. If it were a state, AOL would rank second in the nation in population, behind California. The company has a market capitalization of $125 billion--a bit less than the GDP of Denmark. And with its proposed purchase of one of the largest and most powerful media giants, Time Warner, many are beginning to ask, Should we worry about AOL the way the government worries about Microsoft...
...AOL has benefited from this neutrality. Because regulators breaking up AT&T forced the telephone company to respect e2e neutrality, consumers of telephone service have always had the right to choose the Internet service provider they want, not the ISP the telephone company is pushing. This built an architecture of extraordinary competition among ISPs. AOL, by delivering what consumers want, has prevailed in this competition...
...AOL has some justification for dragging its feet. Open access, it argues, could lead to hacking and - gasp! - spamming, and it rightly assumes that one of the things its 90 million registered users (who exchange 651 million messages a day) cherish about IM is that it's unadulterated by the viral threats and cybercrap that litter their traditional e-mail accounts. AOL's proposal, besides being in the play-nice-with-Washington mold that Microsoft eschewed to its peril, has the added advantage of being utterly theoretical for the foreseeable future. Said IETF co-chairman Vijay Saraswat, whose group...