In an interview with CNET News.com on the eve of the AOL Instant Messenger Mail launch this week, Chamath Palihapitiya, vice president and general manager of AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ, talked of AIM as a communication portal with tools for everything from short message service to blogging and now e-mail.
"IM is so promising because it's the doorway for all the other forms of communication," he said. "People don't give us credit for this, but AIM is really part of popular culture--it's something we should all celebrate." Click here for the full interview.
Maybe for the 'newbies' and 'aol-ers'. But all the serious internet users I know have long ago abandoned the garbage pile called AOL. And AIM isn't even considered - too many other and better options. Even ICQ has faded into the background. Try Skype for a modern approach - it's IM and free phone calls too.
Maybe for the 'newbies' and 'aol-ers'. But all the serious internet users I know have long ago abandoned the garbage pile called AOL. And AIM isn't even considered - too many other and better options. Even ICQ has faded into the background. Try Skype for a modern approach - it's IM and free phone calls too.
The two telecom carriers will carry a next-generation iPad running on the fast, next-generation wireless technology, sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
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The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
Chamtech's spray-on antenna uses a nano material to provide a low-power boost to antenna range. The wireless-in-a-can product may some day bring an end to unsightly cell towers.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
users I know have long ago abandoned the garbage pile called AOL.
And AIM isn't even considered - too many other and better options.
Even ICQ has faded into the background. Try Skype for a modern
approach - it's IM and free phone calls too.
users I know have long ago abandoned the garbage pile called AOL.
And AIM isn't even considered - too many other and better options.
Even ICQ has faded into the background. Try Skype for a modern
approach - it's IM and free phone calls too.
And AIM isnt heling with its own little spys running amuck the mess.
And AIM isnt heling with its own little spys running amuck the mess.