Monthly Archives August 2006

AOL to offer free email

On the cutting edge, as always: AOL LLC said today it will offer e-mail and other online services for free to all broadband customers and it will end its efforts to recruit new dial-up subscribers, as part of a major strategy shift to build its business around online advertising. The Dulles company said it expects [...]

Last night at about 7:30

A play in one act. I am sitting in my car, which is behind another one at a red light. We are both waiting for a left-turn arrow at a busy intersection. I am alone in the car, except for an envelope on the seat next to me. It holds more than $3,000, some of [...]