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...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...
...mail is not a primary mode of daily communication. I don't know anyone who hasn't bought something on-line. (And, yes, I'm probably not the average American in this regard; I'm the editor of TIME.com, an Internet publication, owned by a little company called AOL Time Warner...
...firm was merely doing what it always does: matching those who need capital (dreamy dotcom start-ups) with those eager to supply it (dreamier market neophytes, as well as a large number of institutional investors). Sometimes the dreams come true. After all, Morgan floated Microsoft and AOL, speculative plays in their early days...
Microsoft Outlook, for example, can trash any mail not sent directly to your address. But that ends up junking a lot of useful stuff--such as the discussions on my journalism-school alumni e-mail list. AOL can turn away mail from anyone not flagged as a friend, but part of my job is to accept correspondence from strangers--like you, dear reader...
...Would the regulators go for it? Bush?s FCC is willing to listen to reasons why cable dominance could be good for bringing more customers into the world of broadband, an industry that desperately needs them, and AOL could certainly promise that. But the prospect of a far-and-away dominant cable company - and one that already owns a hefty share of the all content under the sun - could be daunting to any regulator worried about the possibility of monopolistic pricing in a deregulated industry. And the way the Bush trustbusters haven?t quite let go of the Microsoft case...