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...chunky with debt ($13 billion at least), gets some of the lowest profit margins in the business, and her cable lines are a little on the immature side - only 70 percent upgraded to carry Internet, phone and digital-TV services, as opposed to 94 percent at No. 2 AOL Time Warner (parent company of this writer...
...First there was AOL, the rich friend of Father?s (the two already share in the Time Warner Entertainment partnership) swooping in on the heels of the Comcast offer to discuss a glorious scenario in which AOL and AT&T form anything from a semi-monogamous dating arrangement to a full-blown marriage...
...does anyone really want to take this plunge? AOL, for one, is salivating over a combination (minority-owned for tax purposes but effectively controlled by the Dulles boys) that would create a cable behemoth with some 25 million subscribers, 3 million high-speed Internet-access customers, and a hell of a lot of train tracks for all that content (yours truly included). How big a behemoth? Comcast?s 8.5 million subs would be a very distant second...
...technology; but the way Gnutella works means you're largely limited to rifling through the collections of 25,000 virtual neighbors. Close but no cigar, as Thomas Dolby sang (and you'd have little chance of finding that track, for one). Aimster had the neat idea of piggybacking on AOL's instant messenger service, but it turned out to be plagued by bugs. And if anyone without a computer science degree has managed to master FreeNet's baffling interface, I'd like to hear from them...
...commission's co-chairmen, former New York Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and AOL-Time Warner executive Richard Parsons, painted a dire picture in their draft report. Unless repaired, Social Security will need tax increases or "massive" deficit spending by Congress to keep it afloat, their report warns. By 2020, Social Security's shortfall will equal the combined budgets of Head Start, the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, the Environmental Protection Agency, plus the Education and Commerce departments. Baby boomers will be shortchanged. Women, minorities and the poor will suffer...