HARDWARE COMPANIES TO PROVIDE AOL WITH ITS OWN WIRELESS ACCESS DEVICES.America Online See AOL. , Inc. has moved aggressively to expand the availability of its services from PCs to Web-enabled phones which will send and receive 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. e-mail and use its instant messenger AOL's instant messaging service. See AIM and instant messaging. chat network and receive AOL content. Motorola (Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL, www.motorola.com) A leading manufacturer of semiconductor devices, electronics, telecommunications and satellite systems. Founded in Chicago in 1928 by Paul V. , Inc. and Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. pager company, Research and Motion, Ltd., indicated they would manufacture special two-way pagers with the AOL logo which will permit access to AOL e-mail and chat networks. The pagers will be supported by carriers Arch Communications Group, Inc. and Bell South Corp. and will be identified as AOL mobile messengers on their networks. At the same time, AOL has announced that Nokia Corp. has indicated that its cell phones would support the AOL communications service. Under AOL's arrangements with the wireless companies, their 100 million registered users of Instant Messenger (a service which allows users to exchange private text messages in real time), will be able to exchange text messages with personal computer users. |
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