30 ordspråk av Joe Laszlo
Joe Laszlo
AOL's (customer) base has been with AOL for a long time and has long-established relationships with people. Your online identity is defined by your e-mail address and online or screen name. AOL does community very well.
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Clearly it is a really different world than we were living in 1996.
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E-mail addresses inherently are tied to the provider in the way that a phone number is not tied to a wireless carrier or phone company.
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For all the new-fangled things people like to talk about, the phone has been the phone for 100 years now,
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For all the new-fangled things people like to talk about, the phone has been the phone for 100 years now.
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Holy mackerel. ... That's not small beans in these jaded times.
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I think all (the IM companies) think that this is an idea whose time has finally come, ... All of them realize that while voice chatting between IM users is a nice thing, what they really need to do longer term in order to make the platform more viable is make that connection out to the phone networks.
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I think all (the IM companies) think that this is an idea whose time has finally come. All of them realize that while voice chatting between IM users is a nice thing, what they really need to do longer term in order to make the platform more viable is make that connection out to the phone networks.
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I think there is room for some new communications application to come out of left field and surprise everybody.
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I'm sure one of the clauses in AOL's deal with broadband partners was a fairly hefty commitment as far as how many customers would make the switch. Two dollars removes any sort of price-related inertia that their dial-up customers might feel.
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ISPs' rhetoric is increasingly strident about content from outside providers raising the costs of their networks. But I haven't seen hard data that suggests the volume of legitimate video is coming close to swamping ISP networks yet.
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It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.
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It's interesting this announcement comes so soon on the heels of the Time Warner deal,
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It's interesting this announcement comes so soon on the heels of the Time Warner deal. One of the synergies we see between AOL and Time Warner is TW giving AOL access to their cable.
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It's that performance improvement that content distributors have as their key value. By distributing content throughout the Internet, they can improve performance from an end-user's perspective.
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