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AOL readies amped-up Web portal

AOL readies amped-up Web portal 06/17/2005 03:46 PM

America Online will take a decisive step next week to compete in the Web portal market against Yahoo  and Microsoft's MSN division when it unveils a preliminary version of the new AOL.com site.

On Tuesday, AOL will roll back the curtains on a test, or beta, version of its revamped portal. There will be a prominent link to the new portal displayed at http://www.aol.com.

The new test portal will be the most visible reflection of AOL's months-long strategy of liberating content and communication features from within the confines of the company's fee-based subscription service.

By moving content and services that were previously only available to paying subscribers and making them available for free to any Web user, AOL is trying to beef up its portal so that it will attract more visitors and advertisers, a model Yahoo and MSN have had for years.

AOL's subscription service, which also includes Internet access and security services, has been losing members at a steady pace for the past couple of years. Meanwhile, the online advertising market has been growing robustly, a trend that has benefited providers of Web content and services, such as Yahoo, MSN and Google.

As of March 31, 2005, AOL had 21.7 million U.S. subscribers in its fee-based service, down 2.3 million from the same period in 2004 and down 4.5 million from the first quarter of 2003.

Consequently, AOL is shifting its strategy toward boosting online advertising, the business that is growing. Online advertising grew 26 percent to $2.8 billion in 2005's first quarter, compared with the same period last year, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2005's first quarter, AOL's advertising revenue increased 45 percent, while its subscription revenue fell 8 percent.

AOL, a Time Warner subsidiary, also learned through subscriber research that the services they consider essential to paid membership are Internet access, customer service and security features, such as Web-surfing parental controls and antivirus protection for the user's entire PC, not just e-mail, said Gerry Campbell, AOL's vice president and general manager of search and directional media.

"The content is peripheral to the access customer. It's not perceived to be part of the dial-up, paid package," Campbell said.

Consequently, AOL has no plans to modify its subscription prices now that most of the content and communication services can be obtained for free, Campbell said.

Although AOL has been improving its portal in the past few months, the beta site's unveiling next week represents a major step forward, Campbell said.

The new AOL.com will bring together a broad palette of free content and services, in the long-standing tradition of Web portals, and it will be optimized for broadband content, particularly video, Campbell said. AOL.com will have a new "video hub" section where users will find music videos, movie trailers, news clips and live feeds. The video will be delivered via a new AOL Video Player.

AOL.com will act as a hub where users have access to communication services and news and information about myriad topics, such as sports, music and personal finance from a variety of sources, including Time Warner publications. That portfolio includes People, Real Simple and InStyle. Time Warner further owns the television channels HBO and CNN. AOL Instant Messenger and Web mail services, the AOL Picture service for organizing and storing photos and AOL Journals blogging and social networking service are part of AOL.com's communications package.

Content will be updated continuously throughout the day, Campbell said. Users will also be able to receive AOL.com content via RSS feeds, he said.

A central part of AOL.com will continue to be the company's various search services, including general Web search, powered by Google Inc.'s search engine; video search, fueled by AOL's Singingfish multimedia engine; local business-listing search, which includes the AOL Yellow Pages service, and AOL's inStore shopping search engine.

AOL.com will also point to AOL Web sites such as the movie-ticket seller Moviefone, the mapping service MapQuest and the travel search engine Pinpoint Travel.

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News: AOL readies revamped Web portal

News: AOL readies revamped Web portal 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
America Online Inc. will take a decisive step next week to compete in the Web portal market against Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN division when it unveils a preliminary version of the new AOL.com site.

MSN Readies Revamped Shopping Portal

MSN Readies Revamped Shopping Portal 06/17/2005 04:48 PM
Expected this summer, the new MSN shopping site will go head-to-head with offerings from Google, Yahoo, eBay and Amazon.com.

Oracle readies portal-building tools

Oracle readies portal-building tools 11/19/2003 12:51 PM
The company releases an early version of a toolkit to speed up the process of building standards-based portal applications, or portlets.

E-Government Portal to Be Ready Soon -
KSA

E-Government Portal to Be Ready Soon -
KSA 09/13/2004 01:40 AM
MENAFN Sep 13 2004 4:29AM GMT

Webb launches e-Government portal

Webb launches e-Government portal 11/14/2003 01:44 PM
Royal Gazette Nov 14 2003 12:04PM ET

To Portal or not To Portal? Wrong
question.

To Portal or not To Portal? Wrong
question. 03/14/2005 04:55 PM
It seems that the portalization of Google comes up now and then. I just ran across a this quote on Technosailor: It seems Google is trying to experiment with elements of portal sites like My Yahoo! but still trying to remain in the business of purely search and rejecting the elements of portalhood that it doesn’t like. I’m not so sure you can be on both sides of the fence. Yeah, I'd agree with that. You can't be on the...

Is Google turning evil? Next up: webmail
from Google, the non-portal portal
company

Is Google turning evil? Next up: webmail
from Google, the non-portal portal
company 01/17/2004 11:01 PM
Google is reportedly looking into a way to tie their AdWords advertising service into e-mail.

NetXposure Ships Version 3.0 of Image
Portal, Image Portal X and Hexafoo

NetXposure Ships Version 3.0 of Image
Portal, Image Portal X and Hexafoo 08/16/2004 02:37 AM
Digital Asset Management software for Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X and Linux platforms provides accelerated workflows and reduced operational costs for any size organization [PRWEB Aug 16, 2004]

Dubai School of Government launches
first Executive Education Program on
E-Government Leadership

Dubai School of Government launches
first Executive Education Program on
E-Government Leadership 02/07/2005 01:08 AM
AME Info Feb 6 2005 9:47AM GMT

Government of Egypt hosts Microsoft's
Government Leadership Forum for the
region

Government of Egypt hosts Microsoft's
Government Leadership Forum for the
region 01/25/2004 01:52 AM
AME Info Jan 25 2004 5:33AM GMT

74% of government services e-enabled
says Cabinet Office e-Government Unit

74% of government services e-enabled
says Cabinet Office e-Government Unit 08/05/2004 08:47 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 5 2004 1:01PM GMT

Linux in Government: The Government Open
Code Collaborative

Linux in Government: The Government Open
Code Collaborative 12/19/2004 03:17 PM
Can a 'gated Open Source community' really work?

Mozambique government successfully
implements e-Government pilot

Mozambique government successfully
implements e-Government pilot 06/22/2005 02:08 AM
Africa Leader Jun 21 2005 8:33PM GMT

InformationWeek > E-Government >
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-Government
Rankings > May 6, 2004

InformationWeek > E-Government >
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-Government
Rankings > May 6, 2004 05/09/2004 12:19 AM
Canada Is Still No. 1 In E-GovernmentRanking

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What is the A Great Portal website
about, what is so Great and what is a
Portal?

What is the A Great Portal website
about, what is so Great and what is a
Portal? 05/31/2004 01:51 PM
A Great Portal, Great Links to Great websites has moved to a new website address, of http://www.agreatportal.com This is part of on-going improvements. The website has lots of links to various and interesting subjects as well as a Multi-search, a news headlines search and free website promotion. Is it a Portal and is it Great? See what you think. [PRWEB May 30, 2004]

"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy"

"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy" 02/10/2004 02:52 AM

30% of all government transactions are
e-government in Canada

30% of all government transactions are
e-government in Canada 04/05/2005 02:19 AM
ZDNet Apr 5 2005 4:39AM GMT

KPN Readies 3G

KPN Readies 3G 06/30/2004 11:25 AM
3G Jun 30 2004 2:31PM GMT

AOL readies Netscape ISP

AOL readies Netscape ISP 01/08/2004 08:26 PM
As previously reported, Netscape will charge $9.95 a month for unlimited dial-up access and a few additional perks, such as an e-mail account, a Google search ...

MSN Readies 9.1; AOL Goes For the
'Fanfare'

MSN Readies 9.1; AOL Goes For the
'Fanfare' 05/21/2004 09:44 AM
MSN seems to have decided shorter betas with fewer new features are better than big-bang releases. The company is readying MSN 9.1. AOL has bigger plans on tap with "Fanfare," its digital media platform.

AWS readies for 3G launch

AWS readies for 3G launch 07/17/2004 01:31 AM
Telecoms.com Jul 17 2004 5:13AM GMT

MGM Readies for Close-Up

MGM Readies for Close-Up 04/29/2004 01:27 PM
Pretty first-quarter results have the firm looking good.

Microsoft readies new Mac Office

Microsoft readies new Mac Office 01/06/2004 02:26 PM
ZDNet Jan 6 2004 1:41PM ET

Software AG readies ESB play

Software AG readies ESB play 04/29/2004 07:43 AM
Software AG plans to join the ESB (enterprise service bus) fray next month with the introduction of software to manage distributed Web services in the enterprise.

Microsoft Readies New Mac Office

Microsoft Readies New Mac Office 01/06/2004 02:26 PM
In a sign that Microsoft plans to be in the Apple market for some time, the software giant said Tuesday that a new version of Office for the Mac is on its way and that another is already in the works. By Ina Fried (CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu)

MS Readies Web-Based Communicator

MS Readies Web-Based Communicator 06/22/2005 02:02 AM
Microsoft is extending Office Communicator 2005 to the Web beginning with a private beta of a Web-based client that is expected to enter testing on July 15th. The online client will increase the portability of Communicator, which is the successor to Windows Messenger.

Novell readies for LinuxWorld

Novell readies for LinuxWorld 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
Novell Inc. Chairman and CEO Jack Messman is the opening keynote speaker at this year's LinuxWorld Expo & Conference in New York.

Hitachi Readies 100GB No

Hitachi Readies 100GB No 09/15/2004 02:59 PM
Techzonez Sep 15 2004 6:45PM GMT

AOL Readies Web E-Mail Contender

AOL Readies Web E-Mail Contender 12/24/2004 12:17 PM
Extreme Tech Dec 24 2004 3:28PM GMT

Cisco readies XML device

Cisco readies XML device 03/29/2005 09:03 AM
ZDNet UK Mar 29 2005 1:00PM GMT

Intel Readies First 64-Bit Chip

Intel Readies First 64-Bit Chip 06/22/2004 06:49 PM

SUNDAY Readies for 3G Launch

SUNDAY Readies for 3G Launch 03/30/2005 09:24 PM
3G Mar 30 2005 11:19PM GMT

Systemax readies books

Systemax readies books 03/17/2005 03:38 AM
Delayed accounts nearly finished...

Sun readies scripting for NetBeans IDE

Sun readies scripting for NetBeans IDE 03/17/2005 03:10 AM
Sun Microsystems Inc. has released the first, early fruits of a project to let developers use scripting languages from inside its NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment), a move that could improve productivity for NetBeans users and, Sun hopes, draw additional developers to the tools platform.

Sun readies J2EE 1.4, app server

Sun readies J2EE 1.4, app server 11/14/2003 05:14 PM
New version will enable the use of Web services in Java applications.

Cypress Readies for 3G Evolution

Cypress Readies for 3G Evolution 06/09/2004 02:00 PM
3G Jun 9 2004 3:49PM GMT

ICANN readies for next-generation Net

ICANN readies for next-generation Net 07/23/2004 05:58 PM
CNET Jul 23 2004 10:36PM GMT

AMD Readies New PGA939 Processor

AMD Readies New PGA939 Processor 07/29/2004 09:42 AM
Advanced Micro Devices may be preparing a new microprocessor in PGA939 packaging to broaden the lineup of offerings for the emerging infrastructure. The new chip will have 1MB of cache and 1000MHz HyperTransport bus, representing a lower-speed bin of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 microprocessor. Mainboard maker ECS has updated the list of supporting chips for latest mainboard based on VIA K8T800 Pro chipset for Socket 939 processors with AMD Athlon 64 3600+ product name. The SKU with 1MB of cache and 1000MHz HT bus has not been announced yet, but a mentioning by a mainboard maker may indicate a short release of the processor.

Additional details about the AMD Athlon 64 3600+ are not clear, but X-bit labs’ analyst Ilya Gavrichenkov suggested that the product may be a cut-down version of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 with core-clock reduced to 2.20GHz. Specifications of the AMD Athlon 64 3600+ look similar compared to those of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 product, with exception of 1000MHz HT bus, that is currently not been supplied by AMD.

News source: X-bit labs

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