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...largest Internet service provider (ISP), controlling nearly 50% of the eyeballs on the Net. AOL's contention--and the government's--is that Microsoft is comparing apples and oranges. True, AOL's 18 million online customers easily outnumber Microsoft's 2 million. On the other hand, Microsoft's Web browser now commands a 60% share of the U.S. office market against 40% and falling for AOL's, according to the latest figures from Zona Research (the release of which could not have come at a worse time for Gates...
...wars are over; the browser battle is winding down. For all Microsoft's muttering about how its rival wants to create a direct competitor to Windows--the so-called AOL PC--Case would admit to no area in which the two firms are in danger of butting heads on equal terms...
...that's not entirely true. That sound you hear in the distance is two gigantic war machines rumbling into position for a battle over the future of the Internet, a turf war that's going to make the browser rivalry look like a schoolyard spat. The name of the game is broadband, the technical term for high-speed Internet access. It's complex stuff, so much so that even the big players sometimes get confused. (When asked a convoluted broadband question at his deposition, Case did a double take. "Am I in the wrong room?" he asked, to peals...
...both should also understand that there are tools that can make the task easier and more effective, chiefly filters that bar access to offensive or dangerous content and monitors that tell you where the browser has been browsing. America Online, despite all the odious get-rich-quick or get-horny-quick e-mail that it can't seem to keep out of my own mailbox, has been particularly effective in helping parents give their children an online experience under the firm guidance of its editors: a "kids-only" AOL account blocks young users from all but full-time-monitored chat...
Many parents don't realize that a simple click on the "history" tab on a browser tool bar will produce a list of links to every site the computer has visited recently. It's true that any canny 13-year-old knows how to delete potentially incriminating evidence from the history files. Already, though, there are several programs available, such as Cyber Snoop (at least the manufacturer doesn't euphemize), that create a tamperproof database--a trail of bread crumbs, as it were--so parents can examine every Web address the computer has visited since the last time Dad checked...