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...Microsoft, Tribal Voice and Odigo (blocked, Odigo says, six times in the past two weeks) access to its teeming Instant Messaging network, the online giant floated a proposal that would throw open the doors. Politically, the proposal is perfect for softening the scowl of trustbusters eyeing the AOL-Time Warner merger, and it's also very handy technically in that it doesn't offer any details whatsoever on how outside linkups would be allowed. That, according to AOL, is a security issue, and the company left it to the Internet Engineering Task Force to work out how standards would someday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL Dangles an IM Solution Before Trustbusters | 6/16/2000 | See Source »

Until now, America Online has escaped the kind of scrutiny that has left its nemesis, Microsoft, writhing in the clutches of the courts. That could be about to change, as the Internet giant finds itself under the microscopes of the ounce-of-prevention trustbusters over its purchase of Time Warner. And the feds are giving Steve Case some hints as to how a tech behemoth should act. Lesson 1, according to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: Instant Messaging, the real-time, buddy-listed way to chat online that's more popular with teenagers than 'N Sync and is widely expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Merge, AOL May Have to Play Nice Over IM | 6/14/2000 | See Source »

...specifically is not a strong antitrust case, because AOL doesn't own any exclusive means of transmitting the messages, or leverage its service against anything else. It's just overwhelmingly popular," he says. "But if the feds are going to allow AOL to own Time Warner's cable lines, they want assurances that AOL won't turn them into an exclusive carrier of AOL content. And the company's use of its IM domination isn't very reassuring." AOL isn't a monopolist now, and AOL-Time Warner would be no more of a cable monopoly than Time Warner (corporate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Merge, AOL May Have to Play Nice Over IM | 6/14/2000 | See Source »

...mailed my boss that afternoon. "I was offered a job at an Internet company whose name I forget but was something like knifeinthehead.com It's an exciting position with lots of new challenges, a six-figure salary and oodles of equity. I look forward to hearing what AOL Time Warner is prepared to offer me. Your humble but much coveted employee, Joel Stein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Leverage | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...download the contents free; Mp3.com was more of a free-music clearinghouse, but really wanted to be its own little label. It wasn't happening. Now Mp3.com's revolutionary days look to be over - "The digital music space is still in its infancy. We look forward to working with Warner to expand its boundaries," said CEO Michael Robertson - and its days as a dot-com advance guard for the Big Five are about to begin. Napster, here they come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mp3.com Finds Out: If You Can't Beat 'Em... | 6/9/2000 | See Source »

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