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America Online, Inc., a division of AOL Time Warner, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. With its hallmark focus on providing convenient easy-to-use services for mass market consumers, America Online has played a major role in creating the consumer online experience worldwide, and is leading the development of the next generation Internet. With this focus on consumers, AOL seeks to build a global medium as central to people's lives as the telephone or television …and even more valuable.
Founded in 1985, AOL initially offered limited online services for then miniscule market of personal computer users. Today, it serves more than 31 million members of its flagship AOL service, along with more than 2.8 million CompuServe members, 80 million registered users of ICQ, and more than 40 million registered users of the Netscape.com service. AOL also operates some of the most popular services on the World Wide Web, including MapQuest, AOL Instant Messenger, AOL Moviefone, Spinner.com and NullSoft's Winamp, and Digital City, Inc. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy. The AOL International division operates localized online services in 16 countries in 8 different languages.
Convenient and Easy to Use
AOL has always been known for providing the most convenient and easiest-to-use interactive service available. The Company pioneered technologies like Keywords for simple navigation, and the Buddy List to enable instant messaging by showing which of a members' contacts are online.
The flagship service offers members a complete package of online features, including the popular My Calendar to organize busy schedules, You've Got Pictures to view and share family photographs online, a built-in multimedia player to enjoy the Web's growing trove of rich audio and video content; and much more. The service can be accessed using any high-speed connection, or by dial-up connections from virtually anywhere in the world.
AOL has also lead the way in protecting members' online privacy and security. The service's built-in Parental Controls offers the best available tools for parents to protect their children from inappropriate online content, choose who they may or may not receive e-mail from, and even limit the amount of time they spend online. Our cutting-edge privacy protections give online shoppers the highest degree of protection for their credit card and other personal information.
AOL is also the only truly global interactive services provider, offering AOL services in 16 countries in 8 languages. At the same time, AOL offers the leading local services on the World Wide Web. The Company's Digital Cities, MapQuest, and MovieFone brands help consumers keep track conveniently of what's happening in their own hometowns.
Leading the Next Revolution With "AOL Anywhere"
As the Internet has become more and more central to consumers' daily lives, people are increasingly demanding ways to access the features and content they rely on in new ways in addition to the PC -- any time, any place. Through its "AOL Anywhere" initiative, the Company is working to provide that new level of service, bringing the medium to the next stage of its development.
AOL members can now access their e-mail, instant messages, news headlines, stock portfolios, and other key features while watching television through the AOLTV service; over any telephone using simple, spoken commands and AOL By Phone; on wireless devices such as Sprint PCS and AT&T Digital wireless phones, Palm Pilots and other personal digital assistants, and the new AOL Mobile Communicator; and on any PC with the personalizable AOL Anywhere Web site.