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06/07/2006 - Sophos: Mac più sicuro, scelta migliore per gli utenti - Pronto il rapporto semestrale di Sophos per quanto riguarda le minacce della prima metà del 2006. La top ten completamente occupata da malware per Windows. |
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06/07/2006 - Microsoft annuncia supporto al formato Opendocument - Microsoft supporta un progetto opensource per la conversione dei propri file in formato ODF |
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06/07/2006 - Nintendo Wii prima del previsto? - Un articolo pubblicato su CNN/Money prospetta una situazione per la quale Nintendo Wii sarebbe già in commercio tra settembre e ottobre. |
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06/07/2006 - Dischi Seagate e lubrificazione a nanotubi: ecco le capienze - Stando ad alcune voci circolanti in rete, le capienze ottenibili sfruttando la tecnologia di lubrificazione a nanotubi porterà ad avere oltre 1TB di capienza nel nostro futuro PC portatile |
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06/07/2006 - Finalmente un foglio di calcolo nel prossimo iWork? - La prossima edizione di iWork, la suite di produttività personale di Apple, dovrebbe includere un foglio di calcolo chiamato Charts |
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06/07/2006 - Comando vocale in Gears of War - Emersa una nuova caratteristica per il promettente sparatutto tattico destinato a XBox 360. |
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06/07/2006 - Radeon e nForce 4: problemi risolti - Un nuovo set di driver ATI risolve alcuni problemi di incompatibilità verificatisi con alcune schede Radeon X1000 e certe piattaforme nForce 4 |
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06/07/2006 - Arriva la versione Educational dell'iMac - La casa di Cupertino mette a disposizione una apposita configurazione dell'iMac per il segmento educational, ad un prezzo molto concorrenziale |
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06/07/2006 - Il ritorno del creatore di Monkey Island - Ron Gilbert, creatore degli indimenticabili Monkey Island, ha svelato alcuni dettagli sul suo attuale progetto. |
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06/07/2006 - Samsung avvia la produzione in volumi di memoria GDDR4 - Il colosso Coreano da il via alla produzione di massa della quarta generazione di memorie grafiche. La prima ad adottarle sarà ATI, con R580+ |
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06/07/2006 - I primi dettagli sul futuro Socket AMD per cpu Desktop - Le prossime generazioni di processore AMD Athlon 64, indicate con a sigla AM3, potranno essere montate su schede madri Socket AM2 |
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06/07/2006 - Assassin's Creed confermato su PC e XBox 360 - Arriva la conferma ufficiosa dell'esistenza delle edizioni PC e XBox 360 dell'attesissimo nuovo action/adventure di Ubisoft Montreal. |
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06/07/2006 - CAS 3 a DDR2-800 per le nuove memorie Geil - Anche la taiwanese Geil ha presentato nuovi moduli memoria DDR2 ad elevate prestazioni, sviluppati cercando di ottenere latenze di accesso che siano particolarmente contenute. |
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06/07/2006 - UbiSoft si espande in Bulgaria, Rayman 4 anche su PC - UbiSoft ha annunciato l'apertura di un nuovo studio interno in Bulgaria. Il nuovo arrivato si occuperà della conversione su PC di Rayman Raving Rabbids. |
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05/07/2006 - Finjan: "le societá devono rivalutare la sicurezza dei propri pc" - Nel 2007 si prevede un'incremento pericoloso delle minacce degli spyware, sopratutto per le societá. Finjan avverte: rivalutare i piani di sicurezza. |
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05/07/2006 - Sony: da prima a terza con PlayStation 3? - Secondo l'organo di ricerca commerciale DFC Intelligence, Sony è destinata a perdere posizioni all'interno del mercato console. |
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05/07/2006 - Gartner: "evitate Symantec per la sicurezza delle reti" - Bollettino lanciato dalla societá Gartner, secondo la quale le applicazioni per la sicurezza delle reti di Symantec non sarebbero piú convenienti per le societá, le quali rischierebbero di trovarsi un prodotto non piú supportato. |
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05/07/2006 - Tom Tom acquisita da Microsoft? - Tom Tom potrebbe essere acquisita da Microsoft. Questa la notizia presente in rete che però viene smentita dalla società olandese. |
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05/07/2006 - Prossimo update di World of Warcraft focalizzato sulla classe Rogue - Blizzard svela che con la patch 1.12 di World of Warcraft ci si focalizzerà soprattutto sulla classe Rogue. |
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05/07/2006 - Basta DVI e spazio alla Unified Display Interface (UDI)? - Silicon Image rilascia qualche indicazione riguardante lo standard UDI, Unified Display Interface, ovvero quello che potrebbe costituire il dopo-DVI in un futuro prossimo |
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05/07/2006 - Dalla Svezia le assicurazioni per il P2P - La protesta passa anche per questo: un ragazzo svedese ha istituito una sorta di compagnia assicurativa che si propone di coprire le sanzioni applicate a chi scarica materiale protetto da copyright |
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05/07/2006 - Memorie DDR2: prezzi in salita ad Agosto - I prezzi delle memorie DDR2 saranno destinati a salire a partire dalla seconda metà di Luglio e via via fino alla fase finale dell'anno |
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05/07/2006 - McAfee e Symbian Signed - McAfee mette a disposizione la scansione antivirus per il programma di certificazione delle applicazioni mobile Symbian Signed |
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05/07/2006 - 3 Slot PCI Express per Jetway - Presto in commercio una nuova scheda madre Socket 775 LGA della taiwanese Jetway, dotata di 3 Slot PCI Express e di chipset NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI |
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07/07/2006 - Microsoft apre le porte a OpenDocument - Con mossa del tutto inattesa, il big di Redmond ha annunciato la creazione di un progetto open source che portera' in Office il supporto al formato dei documenti OpenDocument, noto rivale del formato made in Redmond Open XML |
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07/07/2006 - Italia, prima condanna per phishing - Due truffatori avevano predisposto una rete di conti bancari e di complici residenti in Italia, spesso vittime a loro volta, per riciclare all'estero il frutto di numerose frodi. Per loro una sentenza pesante |
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07/07/2006 - Wales, da Wikipedia a Wikipolitica - Il creatore della celebre enciclopedia lancia un nuovo ambiente dove discutere dei temi politici piu' caldi. L'obiettivo e' creare una comunita' di dibattito alternativo a quello dei media tradizionali |
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07/07/2006 - Download/ Barre, cartelle, il Nulla - Nada de nada tra barre per sviluppatori, cartelle facili e statistiche sulle fotografie scattate al mare |
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07/07/2006 - Display LCD rimpiazzati dall'e-paper - Lo propone Epson, che presenta un prototipo di carta elettronica con dimensioni e risoluzione tali da poter rimpiazzare presto i tradizionali display LCD in dispositivi come i notebook |
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07/07/2006 - VIA svela un chipset per i PC ultra-mobili - Il chipmaker taiwanese ha annunciato quello che definisce il primo chipset integrato progettato espressamente per gli Ultra-Mobile PC, un tipo di PC in miniatura portato alla ribalta dalla piattaforma Origami di Microsoft |
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07/07/2006 - Microsoft correra` in Formula 1 - L'azienda si assicura un contratto esclusivo insieme a Bridgestone, produttore leader di pneumatici da competizione per il campionato di Formula 1. Microsoft fornira' hardware e software fino al 2010 |
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07/07/2006 - Skype? No, OpenWengo - di Simone Brunozzi - Chi teme che Skype possa finire per essere uno strumento in mano all'intelligence o di chi non si fida di tecnologie proprietarie puo' affidarsi ad un potente software di comunicazione aperto |
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07/07/2006 - WiMax italiano entro il 2006? - Il dicastero delle Comunicazioni sollecita la Difesa per una soluzione al problema delle frequenze. La svolta potrebbe arrivare entro l'anno |
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07/07/2006 - Un pannello orbitante oscurera` le stelle - Potrebbe entrare in funzione entro pochi anni assieme al successore di Hubble. Il suo compito sara' consentire agli scienziati di individuare pianeti simili alla Terra anche se molto distanti |
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07/07/2006 - Internet per monitorare gli anziani - Nuova iniziativa nell'Oregon per tranquillizzare le famiglie che trasferiscono in strutture dedicate i propri membri meno giovani ma che vogliono comunque seguirli. Da lontano |
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07/07/2006 - Lo spam? Lo secernono gli zombie - Nuove conferme sull'andamento dello spam internazionale arrivano da uno studio di Trend Micro: i PC compromessi con trojan sempre piu' sofisticati sono la prima causa della circolazione di email non richieste, truffe comprese |
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07/07/2006 - USA, controllo antiterrore sui blog - Il Dipartimento della Difesa vara un misterioso sistema di analisi semantica della blogosfera, per estrapolare informazioni d'intelligence da usare nella lotta al terrorismo. Un progetto da 450mila dollari |
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07/07/2006 - Cancellate le liste nere dei nazisti web - Succede in Polonia dove, grazie alla collaborazione americana, le autorita' di Varsavia ottengono la chiusura di un sito che incitava all'odio e spingeva all'aggressione contro ebrei, omosessuali e militanti di sinistra |
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07/07/2006 - Singapore, censurato il blogger piu` famoso - Il piu' seguito blogger della ricca citta' stato asiatica e' nel mirino del Governo. Singapore non desidera commenti politici che remino contro l'amministrazione pubblica. Blogofobia alla cinese? |
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07/07/2006 - Kazakhstan: c'e` troppa liberta` in rete - Varata dal Governo una nuova legislazione per rendere piu' facile il controllo delle informazioni pubblicate sul web. Altola' al giornalismo online che critica l'operato di chi siede nella stanza dei bottoni |
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07/07/2006 - Piace la musica legale sui player mobili - Lo sostiene uno studio che dimostra come sui dispositivi mobili circoli piu' che altro musica acquistata regolarmente. Non decolla invece il video mobile |
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07/07/2006 - Frodi sui click? 1,3 miliardi di danni - Uno studio di settore lancia l'allarme: i click fraudolenti costano troppo agli inserzionisti. Il 14% di tutti i click sarebbero fasulli. La fine del modello Pay-Per-Click? |
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07/07/2006 - Pechino blocca le scommesse web - Le autorita' cinesi hanno scoperto un giro di scommesse clandestino sugli incontri del Mondiale di calcio, nonostante la Repubblica Popolare vieti esplicitamente qualsiasi tipo di gioco d'azzardo organizzato |
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07/07/2006 - BREIN fa strage di P2P in Olanda - Prosegue l'avanzata delle major contro BitTorrent in Olanda. Perquisizioni nelle scorse ore seguite da sequestro di un server. Salgono a quota 71 i siti torrentizi fatti chiudere dai discografici olandesi |
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07/07/2006 - Email marketing, cresce il mercato - Stime |
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07/07/2006 - Creative and Apple Battle Could End in Peace - Apple and Creative Technology may find an out-of-court settlement to their current dispute regarding the way iPods allow users to navigate stored content.
The two companies are currently pursuing a litigation paper trail, with Creative suing Apple over claimed abuse of a patent it holds for user interface, while Apple has hit back with patent claims of its own. Apple claimed seven abuses relating to the use of icons, and the display and editing of data.
Bloomberg reports that recent filings with the courts reveal both firms to be "open to the possibility" of ending their battle. The two companies had been in discussion for six months before Creative filed its lawsuit.
Despite this stated willingness to negotiate, no settlement schedule has been confirmed by the two sides, indicating the legal lawsuit warfare will continue, for the time being.
 News source: Macworld UK
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07/07/2006 - Double the Number of Wild Viruses in Two Years - Although widespread virus outbreaks may be a thing of the past, the total amount of malicious software being written is on the rise, according to McAfee.
On Tuesday, McAfee vendor added the 200,000th definition to its threat database, and the security vendor expects the total number of identified threats to double in another two years. McAfee's antivirus products use these definitions as digital fingerprints to determine which software should not be allowed to run on a user's PC.
Virus writers turn up the heat
After a bit of a lull in their efforts, virus writers have spent the past few years creating more of this software than ever before, said Jimmy Kuo, a research fellow with McAfee's Avert Labs. Between 1999 and 2002, when McAfee's database held steady at around 50,000 definitions, but since then, the number of different worms and viruses being created has jumped, he said.
At the same time, the number of serious outbreaks has dropped dramatically. In 2004, McAfee counted 48 virus outbreaks of at least medium severity. In 2005, that number dropped to 12. This year there haven't been any.
When the going gets tough, the hackers turn pro
These trends reflect the growth and increasing professionalisation of hacker culture that no longer seeks the fame that accompanies a worldwide virus outbreak. Instead of fame, hackers want money, Kuo said.
"There are now hackers for hire in spamming and phishing campaigns and they're in it to work," he said. "When you create a big incident... the police react and they go searching for you," he added. "So the bad guys don't create these incidents anymore."
McAfee may be bragging that it has discovered a large number of virus definitions, but there's a down side to all of this good work: sluggish computers. There are now more antivirus signatures than there are files on a typical PC, according to Andrew Jaquith, a senior analyst at the Yankee Group. "Collectively the industry is creaking under the load of all of it," he said.
Viruses age PCs
With its 200,000 definitions, McAfee's software is going to cause some trouble on some PCs, Kuo admitted. "For those companies that still have really old machines, they basically stop updating their dat [virus definition] files after a while," he said. "If you run it on a 1998-style machine, it's not going to run very well at all."
But even if newer "behaviour-based" antivirus techniques begin to take a front seat in identifying viruses, definitions will not go away because they serve an important role in cleaning up systems that have already been compromised, Kuo said. "In terms of preventing, you might lean more upon behaviour-based [techniques]" he said. "But after you've been hit by something you're going to want to go to definitions."
News source: Macworld UK
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06/07/2006 - UK agrees extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon - The US request to extradite the British hacker accused of the "biggest military hack of all time" has been granted by the UK Home Secretary John Reid.
Gary McKinnon, accused of breaking into US government computers, has been fighting extradition since his arrest in November 2002. He has told the BBC that he feels "very worried and let down by my own government".
The US, in its case for extradition, said Mr McKinnon caused more than $700,000 (£375,235) of damage while exploring the computer networks at various US military institutions.
Mr McKinnon has admitted that he spent almost two years exploring these networks but said he was motivated by a search for "suppressed technology". His family have 14 days to appeal against the ruling.
News source: BBC News
 Video: Interview with Gary McKinnon
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06/07/2006 - Google fixes security flaw in Reader - Google said it fixed a security flaw in Google Reader on Wednesday that could have allowed a hacker to steal sensitive information from Web surfers.
A Google RSS feed addition tool was vulnerable to a cross-site scripting attack, a poster to the Ha.ckers.org blog wrote on Tuesday. Such attacks involve an attacker embedding HTML scripts in Web postings or input fields on a Web site.
"What are the implications of this attack for Google?" the blog posting asked. "Well, for starters, I can put a phishing site on Google. 'Sign up for Google World Beta.' I can steal cookies to log in as the user in question...I can steal your phone number from the /sendtophone application...get your address because maps.google.com is mirrored....The list of potential vulnerabilities goes on and on. The vulnerabilities only grow as Google builds out their portal experience."
News source: ZDNet
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06/07/2006 - Microsoft "super excited" as Office Live passes 100,000 user - According to Internet statistics company, Ipwalk, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft's web hosting, email and collaboration service for small businesses has accumulated more than 100,000 users since its beta launched in February this year, despite several factors limiting the amount of users that have been able to join.
Microsoft is very pleased with the demand for the service and has plans to take it out of beta at the end of 2006. "We are super excited about the positive reaction and demand from our customers," said Baris Cetinok, director of product management and marketing for Office Live at Microsoft, in an interview with Ipwalk.
Ipwalk, which has tracked the growth of Office Live since the start of the beta in February, said that Microsoft had initially used a wait list to restrict the influx of new users, only sending out a limited amount of product keys every week. Another factor that had limited user numbers was that the Office Live beta was only available to US residents.
News source: iTWire
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06/07/2006 - Vista gets DVD movie burning - Microsoft's previous efforts in creative software have been, well, lukewarm.
XP had Movie Maker and Photostory (the latter a free download from Microsoft's web site), which both allow you to take personal media and do a reasonable amount of editing and authoring.
But when it came to outputting your project, Microsoft only really gave you one choice. Windows Media Video.
People inevitably ask, "so can my friends play this on their DVD player?", and as a guy who supports Windows, I have to explain that these apps don't actually have the capacity to author DVDs. The response is always a disappointed "OhÂ…".
News source: APC Magazine
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06/07/2006 - Firefox architect: IE 7 'looks pretty good' - The latest update to Microsoft's much-maligned Internet Explorer is getting a plug from an unlikely source.
The third beta version of IE 7 debuted last week. Updates to the software, due for final release at the end of this year, include tabbed browsing, RSS support, a search box on a more streamlined toolbar and improved security.
Critics of the browser remain legion. But one person from outside the Microsoft campus who's got some good things to say is Blake Ross, one of the original developers of Firefox, the browser that's had IE looking over its shoulder for quite a while now. In an interview with Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Ross said this of the test version: "The truth is that it actually looks pretty good."
News source: c|net News.com
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06/07/2006 - BPI Sues AllofMP3 Download Service - The British Phonographic Industry has sued the Russian MP3 download site, AllofMP3. The British Phonographic Industry is an organization much like the Recording Industry Association of America. The UK High Court has also given the BPI approval to pursue AllofMP3 in court. AllofMP3 is currently the second most popular online music download service in the United Kingdom behind only Apple's iTunes, market watcher XTN Data reports. Just like in the United States, it is illegal for users in Britain to download songs through the controversial music service, but the BPI is not currently interested in pursuing music downloaders.
The legitimacy of the Russian MP3 download service has been debated in several nations over the past year. Russian, American and UK authorities have long questioned whether or not legal action should be taken against the site. In the company's defense, AllofMP3.com claims that it has operated within Russia legally for the past six years. The music service is licensed by the the Rightholders Federation for Collective Copyright Management of Works Used Interactively (FAIR) and the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society (Roms).
Music artists nor the record companies are making money through AllofMP3.com, according to BPI representatives. It is unknown what affect a win in the lawsuit would have on the site.
News source: DailyTech
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06/07/2006 - It's not just Windows, OS X phones home too - A few Mac users are concerned about a feature in the latest update to Mac OS that directs their computers to check in with Apple Computer's servers on a regular basis without the user's knowledge or permission.
Apple released an update to Mac OS last week that fixed a few bugs and added some features. One feature Apple added was described as the ability to verify that a widget was an authentic program. Widgets are small software programs that provide Mac users with little bits of useful information, like the weather report or stock tickers.
Some bloggers have become concerned that Apple is collecting information without their authorization, after the recent furor caused by Microsoft's WGA Notification program, which checks Windows PCs to make sure they are running a genuine copy of the operating system.
A Mac with the latest version of Mac OS, version 10.4.7, sends a HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) GET command to Apple's servers to verify that the widget is authentic, an Apple representative said. There is no way to turn off the transmission, which takes place about every eight hours, and the user is not prompted before the transmission is made.
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06/07/2006 - Broadband users may get free AOL - Time Warner's AOL unit may offer its full menu of services, including e-mail, free of charge to anyone with a high-speed Internet connection, according to a published report.
AOL could give up as much as $2 billion in subscription revenue if a gambit aimed at boosting the Internet service's advertising revenue goes ahead, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Under the plan, AOL would stop charging subscription fees for users with high-speed Internet access or a dial-up service from another provider, the newspaper said. The company is losing subscribers to high-speed Internet providers at a quick pace, losing about 850,000 in the first quarter, the Journal said. Total U.S. subscribers at the end of 2002 was 26.5 million, the newspaper said.
AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller presented the proposal to top Time Warner executives in New York last week, the newspaper said.
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