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AOL's Great White North R&D Lab
By Mark Evans | February 10, 2005
AOL Canada is looking increasingly like it is becoming a testing facility for parent, Time-Warner Inc. Earlier this year, AOL Canada rolled out a VOIP service called TotalTalk, while Time-Warner apparently plans to launch a similar service in the U.S. next month. Yesterday, AOL Canada unveiled the Netscape Nitro Web Accelerator, which purportedly increases the speed of a dial-up connection by six times, and a high-speed lite connection by two to six times.
AOL Canada figures there is a large and lucrative market for Nitro given 50% of Canadians - for reasons that seem antiquated to me - access the Web using a dial-up or high-speed lite connection. Fortunately, their online experience can now be improved significantly by spending $5.95 a month for Nitro. Look for AOL Canada to set the strategic tone for its parent when it comes to an online music service.
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February 11th, 2005 at 6:47 pm
do you mean “north” or “nortel” either way it's funny intentionally or not
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