Word: serveral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Action acceptances were issued, many of us immediately began to get to know one another digitally. By instinctively (proudly? pretentiously?) adding "Harvard 2003" to our America Online profiles, 20 or so first-years got in touch via e-mail. As the group grew, we set up an automated list-server using the eGroups.com service...
...software giants' previous disputes. Microsoft launched MSN Messenger in mid-July. Besides providing a free hotmail account, it allowed AOL buddy-list users to sign in too--if they entered their password. That set off alarm bells at AOL, which promptly blocked Microsoft's access to its server. Microsoft came up with a fix, which AOL also jammed. A terse exchange of snail mail followed. Late last week AOL customers were greeted at login by an ominous new start-up screen warning of the dangers of giving passwords to strangers...
...side looks paranoid, the other snooty. Neither is backing down. "Microsoft is using hacker tactics," says AOL vice president Barry Schuler. "This is what happens when they decide to own a market. It's shocking behavior." Microsoft's response: passwords are required only for access to AOL's IM server and aren't recorded by the software. "AOL just isn't educated on what our service does," says Microsoft Network product manager Rob Bennett...
...they'd market sushi as cold, dead fish," says Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milonovich. "Right now they just don't have much of an Internet aura." Company officials admit they've been a little bit late to the I-party, losing critical market share to Sun in the server business and playing catch-up with its highly touted e-services offerings. "Clearly, we need to reinvigorate things here," said Fiorina upon taking the reins from outgoing CEO Lewis Platt, who nevertheless drove HP's sales to $47 billion and its stock price to a record high of $118 a share...
...Monday a company called Bright Light Technologies launched Bright Mail, a free service that automatically keeps your inbox all but spam-free. Once you register with Bright Mail, you can allow your e-mail to pass through its special server, which maintains a list of known spammers and stops any mail originating from them. If you're comfortable having your mail pass through somebody else's computer, Bright Mail should stop 80 percent of your spam or more, free or charge.MORE...