Maybe it's AOL's Steve Case or Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst Mary Meeker (the "Queen of the Internet").
That's when AOL's spin-off from Time Warner -- also the parent company of CNN -- was to become official.
At startup XP displays an icon for Windows Messenger, Microsoft's knockoff of AOL's market-leading Instant Messenger.
AOL's share of AOL Japan is expected to fall to about 39%, effectively giving DoCoMo a controlling stake in the company, a report in the Asian Wall Street Journal said.
"In terms of the vision for where we're headed, it's dramatically different than where AOL has been in the past, " said Jeff Levick, AOL's president for global advertising and strategy.
But Armstrong's big coup could also be AOL's eventual undoing.
It also renewed a partnership with Google to provide search on AOL's sites, while Google will feature AOL content on YouTube.
By infusing HuffPo's people and processes into all of AOL's content properties, including Patch, and with help from a promising new ad format called Devil, Armstrong believes he can attract new readers and charge advertisers premium rates to reach them.
Odigo made its software interoperable with AOL's AIM and ICQ messaging services last year only to have AOL block Odigo users after a couple of weeks.
DoCoMo's I-Mode service has twelve million subscribers, compared with AOL's 440, 000 subscribers.
MessageVine's server supports interaction via its own PC client or those of AOL's ICQ or Microsoft's MSN Messenger, and also from mobile phones using WAP, SMS, or Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo's I-mode system.
Cutts cited AOL's information leak in August of last year, in which the company gave the U.S. Department of Justice access to the search terms of 650, 000 AOL users, totaling 20 million Web searches.
AOL's dominance in instant messaging has been a major concern of regulators looking at the planned merger of AOL and Time Warner.
AOL's move marks a change of direction, as Advertising.com runs ads across the internet, whereas AOL has previously focused mainly on its own websites.
In January AOL Brazil's parent, AOL Latin America, announced it would fuel its expansion with a public stock offering.
It's presumed that most EarthLink subscribers are looking for simpler and cheaper online access as alternatives to the in-your-face consumerism proffered to Microsoft's 8 million MSN subscribers and AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) 33.2 million America Online and Roadrunner subscribers.
When this study first came out, I actually wrote a piece about it for AOL's Black Voices website.
AOL's AIM client is compatible with CompuServe, Netscape, IBM's Lotus Notes and Sametime, and RealNetworks.
The proliferation of information technology makes AOL's 35 million customers and instant messaging feature valuable.
AOL's deals with other businesses like Ebay, for instance, have helped its revenue in trying times.
And despite declines, AOL's main page remains one of the most-visited sites on the Internet.
Other Web sites, including Coupons.com or AOL's shortcuts.com, offer free, downloadable coupons as well.
"GPRS is going to make this kind of thing more attractive to consumers, " AOL's Bylin said.
As for AOL's security and privacy claims, "I think those are red herrings, " Ferris said.
AOL's subscribers focused on its own offerings instead of defecting to the Internet at large.
AOL's subscribers from drifting away from its own content towards the Internet's other riches.
Already 9 million accounts, over one-third of AOL's subscriber base, have been opened for free surfing.
It does e-mail, up to three separate accounts, as well as SMS and AOL's instant messaging.
The improvements are hardly akin to a blowout buyout like AOL's acquisition of Time Warner.
AOL's sudden vulnerability provides an opening for Microsoft as it wages a new assault online.
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