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During his interview with TIME, Parsons, a New York City native and former corporate lawyer, seemed at once sober and cheerful. He described 2003 as "a reset year," in which the AOL division will be reorganized and streamlined to better serve its traditional dial-up customers while it seeks to win more broadband subscribers. If all goes well, Parsons says, the online division could return to earnings growth in 2004, at double digits in following years. If results fall short of that goal--as some industry analysts predict they will--insiders say the division will at least be dressed...
...dial-up, the meeting proved relatively uneventful. Lay seemed composed but genuinely concerned and said he would have attorneys look into the questionable deals. Though Watkins counseled against it, Lay suggested--and eventually selected--Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, to conduct the inquiry. Nevertheless, Watkins left feeling buoyed. "I felt, 'Oh, good, now he knows,'" she says. "There was a feeling that I had done the hardest thing in my life, but I had carried the torch and dropped it off." For the first time that week, she slept through the night. In late September, even after netting...
...being used in live discussions, not just by the name of the chat room. I like the idea but had mixed results with the searches I tried. A new MusicShare feature lets you send your buddies links to song clips right through the instant-message window. And if your dial-up connection gets dropped, a handy new Auto-Reconnect feature gets you back online in seconds...
...surf the Internet exposes the current limitations of wireless data transfer. The xda works on GSM and GPRS mobile networks; I tried it on a GPRS system in Hong Kong, and even though I was supposed to be able to get data at rates comparable with dial-up services, I found Web access frustratingly slow. Not only that, the Web doesn't have a lot of content that is optimized to fit the small screens of handheld devices...
...dial-up modem speeds, however, it's more like Click-N-Crawl. Lindows tries its best to act friendly and look Windows-like, but right now it's hard to use for half an hour without a lot of jargon about the root directory and other comp-sci stuff appearing on the screen. It will run a lot of Windows programs--games being the major exception. (Robertson has backed off earlier claims that his system is entirely Windows compatible.) Basically, Lindows is a work in progress. Stand by for the final release...