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...DirecTV would deliver the U.S. in a bold way. The addition of DirecTV's 10 million households would make Murdoch No. 1 in satellite TV in the U.S., and No. 3 in pay TV, behind only AT&T's cable operations, with more than 14 million cable subscribers, and AOL Time Warner, with almost 13 million. (AOL Time Warner is the parent of TIME...
...immediately got on my Mac and tried to catch it. I figured if I could infect my computer so badly that it broke, I wouldn't have to do the little bit of work expected of me. If the affliction went well, I might bring down all of AOL Time Warner. I have a real problem with the company since it took away our Snapple. That, and I had to sit through part of that last Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan movie...
...manufacturer of antivirus software. By "creating," I mean writing about it and hoping a reader makes it for me. The Stein Virus Variant A will find Web users over 60 and e-mail them my column every week. Stein Virus Variant B will infiltrate the AOL home page and jam it with a big story about what Erik Estrada is up to now. You can imagine how disheartened I was to discover that that's exactly what is already on the AOL home page...
...task of reinventing the music industry has fallen heavily on the shoulders of German media executive Hilbers. Last month he left BMG, the music branch at Bertelsmann AG, to run the lawsuit-plagued music site Napster. Before joining BMG, Hilbers, 38, spent four years managing AOL Europe, a property of TIME's parent company. Now he will try to transform Napster from industry rogue to copyright-respecting subscription service...
LIGHT FANTASTIC Even as most Internet service providers are hiking their monthly rate--Earthlink bumped its rate $2 in June, and AOL did the same in July--one service is bucking the trend. BlueLight www.bluelight.com has announced that it's cutting prices from $9.95 to $8.95 a month, making it the cheapest national unlimited-use ISP. It's all relative, however. This time last year BlueLight was free...