America Online 5.0 Software Slated for Release.
America Online See AOL. Inc has promised users a new version of its
software, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. 5.0. Beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the will being in the next few weeks ahead
of a general rollout later this year. New features include a revamped
Welcome Screen, a photo exchange facility developed with Eastman Kodak,
an interactive calendar, personalization capabilities and a new search
engine based on technology from Inktomi Corp. AOL 5.0 will also support
broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. and will enable Palm users to pick up their email on
their handheld device.
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