NEW YORK – America Online Inc., seeking to encourage its subscribers to sign up for high-speed connections, is raising the price of its main dial-up plan to equal that of its new broadband offerings.
That means most subscribers will pay $25.90 a month for either dial-up or broadband beginning March 9, although AOL is offering discounts to dial-up subscribers who commit to a year. AOL currently charges $23.90 a month for unlimited dial-up access.
So at 12:45 a.m., Mr. Ostrovsky’s phone rang. It was an Apple employee, telling him that in addition to the song, Apple was giving him a 20-inch iMac, 10 iPods and a $10,000 gift card for the iTunes store. It is even establishing a scholarship at the Juilliard School in his name.
“We believe Apple will take the opportunity to round out its Intel Mac portfolio 6 – 9 months ahead of plan with a new widescreen consumer notebook (likely called “MacBook”) and entry-level Mac mini, both of which will include a remote control and Front Row software,” analyst Shaw Wu wrote in a research note released to clients early Wednesday morning.
When you reply to a message that was sent to an email address other than your gmail.com one, it is now smart enough to use that address as the “from” when replying.
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