tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349082692011-04-21T22:38:59.681-04:00In an effort to present a picture of all that goes on in key markets and provide you with what you need to know, without the noise, the editors of Northern Light's Market Intelligence Centers distill the data of daily news into timely information. In Analyst Views the editor of the technology focused Intelligence Centers presents a clear and concise commentary and analysis on a relevant issue each week.dmartelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16232032542497580506noreply@blogger.comBlogger621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34908269.post-4765103094040412252007-11-01T10:25:00.000-04:002007-11-01T15:21:16.576-04:00

Big news for online media came on Monday with the launch of Hulu. Couched early on as a response to YouTube and an effort to grab the attention of online media viewers, Hulu represents a joint effort of NBC and Fox. According to Wired, "Hardly impressed with YouTube's attempts to placate copyright owners like themselves, the two media giants set out to create their own online distribution

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Originally published October 25, 2007 It may be that the visual definition of Apple at the moment is the iPhone or perhaps the new iPod Touch, gadgets with touchscreens, but Apple is at its core a computer company. And while the company's other products have taken the spotlight, Apple's core business is doing more than well. According to reports, sales of the Apple Macintosh are growing at more

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Originally published October 17, 2007Last week Oracle made a $6.7 billion $17 per share bid for BEA. If the deal were to go through it would be Oracle's 35th acquisition since 2005 and bring the total of those acquisitions in that three year period to over $31 billion. It is clear why Oracle is interested. As BusinessWeek puts it, " BEA brings valuable assets, including a huge customer base, a

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Originally published October 11, 2007In an effort to further expand its advertising empire, or to defend it from encroaching competition, Google intends to acquire DoubleClick, for $3.1 billion. The move is similar to that of Microsoft's acquisition of aQuantive, a DoubleClick competitor, for $6.1 billion in May. (Microsoft was forced to take aQuantive when it lost out to Google on DoubleClick.)

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Originally published October 4, 2007 A blow to Microsoft usually garners a wide round of applause. However, the upholding of an earlier antitrust verdict against Microsoft by the European Union's (EU) second-highest court, handed out on September 17, has instead raised questions and skepticism. Many feel the premise that such legal action was called for in order to encourage competition and

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Originally published September 6, 2007 "As the world has flattened, we've seen a significant amount of emerging threats from increasingly sophisticated groups attacking organizations around the world," CEO of anti-virus vendor McAfee David DeWalt said. DeWalt also stated that cybercrime is now a $105 billion business and is more lucrative than the illegal drug trade. DeWalt's latter comment was

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Originally published September 20, 2007 Not so long ago the idea of municipal WiFi services delivering wireless broadband to the masses was all the rage. Leading the charge was Internet service provider EarthLink, which partnered with numerous cities to deliver the future. That future is now not nearly as certain as it appeared. At the end of August EarthLink stated it would be laying off 900

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Originally published September 13, 2007According to a report released this month by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) online content has trumped communications and now takes up more of users' online time than anything else. Communications, via email and instant messaging, is still the second most popular online activity, but time spent doing it has dropped significantly. Coincidentally,

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A piece this week in the New York Times stated that Microsoft plans on, " making available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet, a practice increasingly referred to as 'cloud' computing." Some see this as Microsoft trying to head-off Google, which has a similar product in it Web Apps, in a race they are losing, others question

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Acer announced on Monday that it will acquire Gateway for $710 million. By most accounts the purchase will place Acer third in global PC market, behind Hewlett Packard and Dell. Of the deal Acer chairman J.T. Wang, said "The acquisition of Gateway and its strong brand immediately completes Acer's global footprint, by strengthening our U.S. presence. This will be an excellent addition to Acer's

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A month after the Pew Internet & American Life Project released its Report on Home Broadband Adoption, it released a memo entitled, U.S. Lags Behind: Why It Will Be Hard to Close the Broadband Divide. Jim Horrigan, the report's author cuts through the politicking and points out that despite the efforts of those with much invested in the effort to sell broadband, time may be the best salesman."

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Another landmark Linux case seems to be nearing its end.The history of the case goes something like this: In 1993 Novell acquired the Unix intellectual property from AT&T, two years later it licensed Unix source code to Santa Cruz Operation, which later became The SCO Group Inc. (SCO is a business software developer that earns money licensing Unix software for corporate servers.) In 2003 SCO

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In response to a request from Congress the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed a report which, "assesses current trends in energy use and energy costs of data centers and servers in the U.S. and outlines existing and emerging opportunities for improved energy efficiency." The report was released on August 2 and suggests there is both room and need for drastic

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Analysts expected there to be slowdown in IT spending this year, and while that has held true, spending is down from what it was a year ago, indicators show that the worst may be over and that it might not be as bad as was anticipated. These conclusions were recently published in independent research by both Forrester and IDC Research. Forrester sums up there findings thusly, "Growth in U.S.

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Last week Google announced that it would enter the FCC's upcoming wireless auction to the tune of $4.6 billion. There is a catch however; the FCC led by Chairman Kevin Martin, must abide by four conditions set forth by Google. These conditions, or as some may see them demands, revolve around the idea of open access to the wireless spectrum. The amount Google has said it will spend is large, it

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Earlier this month, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released the report, Home Broadband Adoption 2007; the study is based on "a survey of 2,200 adult Americans conducted in February and March of 2007. While indicating an increase in across-the-board adoption rates, the report shows some sectors fairing better than others. Also, though rates are increasing overall, they are doing so at

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As familiarity and confidence in the Web grows within the enterprise some are looking back to the technology and business models of earlier times on the Web. This reinvestigation is leading to new growth for the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. A SaaS model is defined by Business Communications Review as follows: “Customers access SaaS applications and data via the Web and essentially rent the

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According to IDC Research the worldwide market for software deployment and support services will be increasing steadily over the next four years; the latter will lead the two in revenue generation. In 2006 the global, "support and deployment services market was $60 billion," by 2011 that amount will increase to $76 billion, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.9 percent. Last year most of

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According to a recent report from Forrester Research, "Worldwide PC Adoption Forecast, 2007-2015," the world is looking at a new wave of growth in the distribution of computers. At the forefront of this wave are the emerging markets, areas which were largely absent during the first quarter century of the PC. Expanding into these markets will present the PC vendor industry, as a whole as well as

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As people try to determine a definition of Web 2.0 there is already mention of Web 3.0. Meanwhile, organizations such as the McKinsey Quarterly and the Pew Internet & American Life project report that technologies, with the exception of blogs and some collaboration tools, associated with these 'versions' of the Web are not moving into the corporate environment. However, the Web, in any version,

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Last month Fortune published an article entitled, "Microsoft Takes on the Free World," in which Microsoft claimed that no less than 235 patents of theirs are being infringed by open source offerings. While it is not specific as to which patents are being violated it does state that almost half are by the Linux kernel and associated elements. The Fortune article was called a "patent assertion

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Reuters recently reported on a panel discussion at the 56th annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference. The piece, entitled "Old Media Turns Combative against New Media," opens: "Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Google Inc. to be more foe than

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According to Yankee Group, "Ever since Shawn Fanning released the original Napster in June 1999, consumers have had a love affair with free, unrestricted music. On the other hand, record labels, artists and publishers expect to—and should—be paid for their efforts. This put the music industry and consumers on a collision course, resulting in lawsuits, restrictive formats, hard feelings and

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When IBM, in January, announced it had found a way to drastically cut electricity leakage in chips BusinessWeek noted, "That announcement—made alongside a similar but separate one by Intel Corp.—was hailed as the biggest advances in transistor technology in four decades." It appears now, that IBM has done it again; on May 3 it announced it had developed a self-assembly process which brings, "the

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When Microsoft reported its earnings last month it drew some surprises; Vista, the company's new operating system, is selling well. Until the announcement, most of the news about Vista, and Microsoft in general, reported its problems and predicted its negative impact. It seems that in this Microsoft has had the last laugh. But as with any empire, there is a dark side. Microsoft trails its online

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A lot is happening with Apple right now; the New York Times put it succinctly, "After nearly three decades, Apple is finally being taken seriously not just by the true believers, but by just about everybody." That 'just about everybody' includes IT departments and enterprises, areas where Apple, though far from taking over, is breaking new ground. Meanwhile, Apple continues to sew seeds and reap

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When the age of analog television draws to a close, in February of 2009, the 700 MHz band of spectrum which channels 52-69 have used to broadcast will become free, or at least available. Under the Digital Television and Public Safety Act of 2005, signed into law last year, the FCC is required to auction off that piece of the spectrum no later than January 28, 2008. While there are officially 108

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Last August when Sprint, the third-largest mobile operator in the U.S., announced it would spend $3 billion over the next two years on WiMAX, people noticed. While still a relatively nascent technology, WiMAX is picking up steam; analysts report increased investing and adoption. However, WiMAX, while receiving much attention for its ability to provide wireless data over long distances, is not the

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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), the technology which allows the transmission of voice over the Internet, was pushed into the spotlight last month when Vonage, one of the industry's big names, lost a patent violation case to Verizon. Penalties in patent suits in the tech arena have not been kind to the losers of late, recall the billion dollar plus suit lost by Microsoft two months ago, and

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The term 'Web 2.0' has been a catch-word in the Internet arena world for a while, yet its definition remains elusive. In the end Web 2.0 is perhaps self-defined by applications which it has popularized; among these are blogs, social networking, RSS, podcasts, wikis, and content tagging. And while the public face of Web 2.0 may be generated by sites such as MySpace which seem to be about as far

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Last week, to much fanfare, Apple released Apple TV; but if it weren't from the company that changed digital music with the iPod and which more recently shook things up with news of the iPhone, most people would likely never have heard of the product. The reason: there are already numerous other systems which actually do what most people think that Apple TV does. It may be the sexiest, but it is

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Broadband over Power Line (BPL), an emerging technology that utilizes existing power lines to transport data at broadband speeds, is in the process of redefining itself. Though this action may be seen as a way to meet the needs of an evolving market, it is also necessary for the technology's survival. BPL has had a difficult time breaking into a space that pits it against the large telecom and

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When computer maker Dell responded to a high volume of requests for open source solutions on its products by saying, "We are listening," speculation was raised that the company had plans to release consumer-level desktop PCs with Linux. Unfortunately for those whose hopes were raised, it was a misunderstanding; the note referred to certifying the hardware for being ready to work with Novell SUSE

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Two weeks ago a U.S. federal jury in San Diego California found Microsoft guilty of infringing on two patents held by equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent; the verdict brings with it damages of $1.52 billion. Some see this as Microsoft finally getting what it deserves, however, many more, thinking about the precedent that could be set are expressing their concern and raising questions about the

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Last week Google released Google Apps Premier Edition, an 'industrial strength' version of its free hosted applications suite. The earlier version, which is free, included Gmail accounts, a shared calendar, Google Talk instant messaging, access to Google Docs & Spreadsheets and a Web page creator. The new product, which is aimed at the enterprise, costs $50 a year per user and adds a 99.9

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Intel revealed its latest creation at the International Solid States Circuit Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco on February 12; an 80 core chip. Apart from the fact that the chip has 20 times the processors of any introduced so far, it is remarkable for a few other reasons. It is capable of a teraflop or trillion floating operations per second, and its required 63 watts of power is less than

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Though it never really went away, the debate over Net Neutrality has resurfaced recently in the press. There are two main reasons for the reappearance. One is the change of power in Congress; with control now in the hands of Democrats who are seen as more accepting of the idea of regulation, proponents of Net Neutrality are preparing to reintroduce legislation that stalled under Republican

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According to an article on BPM from NewsFactor.com the acronym, "stands for Business Process Management, as well as Business Performance Management, depending on whom you ask. Either way, BPM can be defined as a tactic that combines software and policies with the aim of streamlining process flow among departments in order to improve communication and efficiency." In the increasingly complex

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Microsoft is the company everyone, with notable exceptions such as CEO Steve Ballmer, loves to hate. Therefore it is no surprise that the joint release of Vista, its most recent operating system, and its accompanying Office productivity suite is seeing its share of bad press and reviews. Reviews with snippets such as this one from CNET, "Windows Vista Home Premium is essentially warmed-over

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In the U.S., for better or worse, the name associated with search is Google; but in China its Baidu by a landslide. But it is not only the largest Chinese-language search engine, according to Web traffic ranking site Alexa it is also the fourth most visited site on the Web. Its 60 percent share of the China search market puts Baidu roughly four times ahead of its nearest challengers, Google and

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Apple's announcement of the iPhone may have topped the list of tech news stories last week but the fact that they were immediately sued by Cisco has followed close behind. On January 10th , the day after Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPhone by name, Cisco filed suit in U.S. District Court, and asked for an injunction that would prevent Apple from using the name iPhone in connection with its

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The New York Times recently ran an article addressing the issue of high-speed Internet access in the United States. The article examined the often slippery language used by those with a vested interest in winning customers, and stated that such language obfuscates true connection speeds, making it difficult for consumers to determine which option may best suit their needs. As true as it is that

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Non-volatile memory (NVM), memory that can hold data without the need of a constant power supply, has been critical to the explosion of devices such as cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, and media players. Its consistently shrinking size and price has married non-volatile memory to the devices it serves; the desire for smaller devices driving the design of smaller chips, and smaller chips

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According to most sources, anyone making a suggestion similar to that made by Bill Gates in January 2004, that the problem of junk e-mail would be solved within three years, is as wrong now as Mr. Gates was when he made his prediction almost three years ago. Many more are likely to agree with Forbes' assessment of the situation, " Spam is filling up the Internet, and it's not going away anytime

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At the end of October Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a leading microprocessor manufacturer, completed its acquisition of ATI Technologies for $5.4 billion. The New York Times says that at the time, "The move was seen as a strategic blow to AMD's larger rival, Intel Corp., and one that would allow AMD to broaden its product portfolio and shed its image as a boutique player that sells only

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Following news that Oracle will distribute and support Red Hat Linux, and that Novell and Microsoft are teaming up on Suse Linux, Sun Microsystems put the lid on a hat trick of open-source news with the announcement that they will be open-sourcing their Java platform. The move with Java is not Sun's first foray into open-source; in an effort to regain the place it held before the dot.com bust,

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It has been said that the universe, though known to be expanding, is not doing so in the way in which it was once thought to be, that is outward from a single point. The same can now be easily said of the universe of information. As the need for more and better information is met head on with the tools and desire to create it, the Information Age has generated Information Overload and Data

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The day after the October 26 announcement that Oracle would distribute and support Red Hat Linux Linux Magazine had this to say, “Oracle was predicted to make a big Linux announcement this week and you would be hard pressed to make a bigger one than this.” If that is the case this week’s announcement by Microsoft and Novell that they would be working together on Linux must run a close second.

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Last week at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Oracle announced that it will be distributing and offering support for Red Hat Linux as well as offering its own Linux distribution based on Red Hat's source code; Oracle’s distribution will be named Unbreakable Linux 2.0. This move may have broad implications for both companies, the future of Linux, and the software world in general. The

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The last Analyst Views Weekly examined several reports on IT spending from Forrester Research. In brief the findings of those reports indicated a slowdown in current and upcoming IT investment; six percent growth in 2006 and only 3 percent growth in 2007. The number of IT decision makers anticipating increased budgets in 2007 was 32 percent, a ten percent drop from the previous year. This week,

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Last week Forrester Research released a report entitled, U.S. IT Spending Summary: Q2 2006, in which the company adjusts its previous projections on U.S. investment in IT. The reason for the changes is newly released and revised data from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Data from the Department of Commerce is one of two sources that Forrester relies heavily on when making its projections, the

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Last month after six weeks and 161 rounds of bidding, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wrapped up its 66th wireless spectrum auction. The auction, which FCC Chairman Kevin Martin called the, “the biggest, most successful wireless auction in the Commission's history,” sold 1,087 radio spectrum licenses to 104 bidders; it also netted the U.S. Treasury just under $14 billion. Though

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The Economist quotes “an outside adviser to Yahoo! who has sat in on executive meetings,” as saying, that the company is, “not an entrepreneurial culture” and that it has a “relatively constipated process of reviewing anything.” This may seems a bit abrasive, but Wall Street has not been kind either, it has dumped Yahoo! stock heavily twice in the past three months. However, Yahoo! recently made

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Technorati, a top blog tracking site which currently tracks 55.2 million blogs, says that, “there are about 75,000 new blogs a day . . . there are about 1.2 million posts daily, or about 50,000 blog updates an hour.” Along with the explosion of content, readership is also increasing, according to a July report from comScore the number of blog visitors has increased 56 percent over last year. A

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Recent research indicates that overall growth of the worldwide server market has slowed. According to IDC, “Market demand for volume servers waned somewhat in 4Q05, with spending growth of 6.1 percent and midrange enterprise servers posting a revenue decline of 11.5 percent in year-over-year comparisons.” This slowdown, coupled with the, “potential negative affects from increases in server

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Like Microsoft or not, one thing must be admitted about the company: they are big. So big in fact that they are currently seen by some as a threat to the economic plans of the European Union. The perceived threat stems from word that Microsoft, in response to antitrust allegations, may delay the release of its new operating system, Windows Vista, in Europe. The delay depending on whom one

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The challenges associated with delivering products and services at the right time and at the lowest cost are increasing as companies face tighter pressure from their competitors and work to expand their global reach. In an effort to maximize revenue amidst competition and globalization in the 1990s, companies delivering products and services began looking at supply chain management (SCM) as a

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Porter Erisman, VP for Chinese trading website Alibaba (China’s version of eBay) said recently, “The Internet is at the core of community. If you look at online communities in the West... in China it's like that but on steroids.” Numbers from a recent survey conducted by the research firm China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) reinforce his thought; the Internet in China is growing

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When News Corp. bought MySpace last year for $580 million, the social networking site had 17 million unique monthly visitors; this June that number more than tripled to 54 million. MySpace now boasts 100 million members worldwide and is adding new members at the rate of 250,000 a day; Facebook, the number two site for social networking averages 14 million users and number three, MSN Spaces, 8.7

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The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executives from160 of the largest U.S. companies, is clearly concerned with the strategic security of the Internet. The group’s Security Taskforce recently published a report entitled Essential Steps to Strengthen America’s Cyber Terrorism Preparedness, in which it is stated, “The Internet and its communications infrastructure serve as the

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Microsoft has decided to counter stalling PC sales and stiff competition from Internet-based services such as Google and iTunes by making a move into the digital media player market. The company recently announced that by this holiday season it intends to release a digital entertainment device to rival Apple’s iPod; the device is the first in “a family of hardware and software products,”

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AOL announced yesterday that it would begin to offer its online services free to all Internet users. In this shift AOL anticipates that it will lose half of its 17.7 million subscribers over the next three years. However, it believes that by cutting $1 billion from its expenses and increasing advertising sales it will still come out ahead in the long run. The company intends to cut costs by

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